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Laurel Street location opened. She will be the first HACCP- certified bone broth producer in BC. “It’s literally bones and


vegetables,” she says of her broth. “There was just nothing available to meet our needs that would be HACCP- certified. Now we’re truly moving in a direction that I never thought we would.” The Laurel Street kitchen is


undergoing HACCP certification so that the four businesses working out of the location applying for HACCP need only file paperwork on their business procedures, not the kitchen itself. Even though she’s been


offered bones at a cheaper price from livestock out of New Zealand, Rogerson sources her beef and chicken bones from BC farms because she knows the farmers and their practices. “You want to be using the absolute best proteins, otherwise it’s just stock,” she says. “There is just nothing like BC beef.”


She sees herself working with others in the Commissary Connect kitchens to source the vegetables she needs from local farmers. They take advantage of the economy of scale of an aggregate shipment to the kitchen for multiple businesses instead of several small pickups by each individual company. Investment Agriculture Foundation of BC is funding the move towards a collated purchase of local ingredients. In addition to the kitchens


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and their education and technology opportunities, the innovation centre will open at UBC in 2020 to develop ideas that fill gaps in the marketplace. “British Columbia has the


opportunity now to come onto the scene and look at what may not be in the market right now,” says Popham, who says it exemplifies food innovation. “We’ll be able to not just support our own food entrepreneurs but we would attract business from outside of British Columbia.” Additionally, through the technology of Commissary Connect and the innovation centre, expertise and innovations learned by businesses around the province can be shared to others looking to grow. “That specific Food


Innovation Centre will also be connected to our food hub network,” Popham explains. “So if you have a food entrepreneur, say, up in the Peace River, and they really need to do some trials somewhere, they can be networked through the food hub up there to get support from the Food Innovation Centre and UBC.” Commissary Connect is the cornerstone of 10 other hubs envisioned as part of the BC Food Hub Network. Feasibility studies for locations in Quesnel, Salmon Arm, Summerland and the Kootenays as well as Deep bay are underway, with funding for another five announced this summer.


COUNTRY LIFE IN BC • OCTOBER 2019


Egg-splaining


BC Egg Marketing Board director Matt Vane, left, and organic egg producer Jeff Bisschop of Chilliwack explain the BC egg production system to an interested consumer at the Pacific National Exhibition. Producers took turns staffing the egg producers’ display during the 15-day fair which attracts over 700,000 visitors, many of whom know very little about BC’s agriculture sector. DAVID SCHMIDT PHOTO


Dunn leaps to dairy sector


by DAVID SCHMIDT BURNABY—The BC Dairy


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sustainable farm-raised salmon. Dunn led community and Indigenous relations for Mowi Canada as part of the company’s executive leadership team. Prior to joining Mowi, Dunn


was executive director of the BC Salmon Farmers Association, helping to grow BC’s salmon aquaculture sector and bring ocean and


land-based salmon farmers closer to BC’s traditional agriculture community. During his tenure, he shepherded the process of making salmon farmers members of the BC Agriculture Council. Dunn has “a proven track record of strategic


communications planning, building public trust, and government advocacy,” BCDA said in a media release announcing his appointment. Dunn will lead all aspects of


BCDA operations, including development of innovative marketing and nutrition education strategies to further market growth, and serving the interests of BC dairy producers through policy development and effective public and government relations.


“I am thrilled to welcome


Jeremy as our general manager,” says BCDA chair Holger Schwichtenberg. “Jeremy brings a wealth of management experience. We are confident that our organization will benefit from his demonstrated ability to implement strategic vision and build relationships with stakeholders.” Dunn will begin his new job


October 21, replacing interim general manager Ken Miller. Miller had been a non-


producer member of the BCDA board of directors, but stepped down from the board to become its interim general manager after the BCDA parted ways with former general manager Paul Hargreaves this past spring.


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