Christopher Brown — aka “Farmer Brown” — participates in a locally owned and operated growers co-operative that delivers food to Nanaimo’s Farmer’s Markets
A little over a year ago a group of local farmers just south of Nanaimo formed a partnership called the Farmship Growers Co-operative. As reported in the Nanaimo Daily News, “the group worked out a deal in which they would lease nine acres of the Wyndlow Farm…along with Chris Brown, a new farmer who just wrapped up his first year growing food in the Cowichan Valley.” Chris is one of a burgeoning new generation of urban farmers reimagining and reinventing farming for a new century.
When a men’s rights group working against “bigotry that is routinely practiced against men and boys in this culture” planned its first major conference this year, protesters were fighting for the event to be cancelled (see 
