Growing trees in the Shuswap
One of a million cedar tree seedlings in this Sorrento greenhouse grown in plugs, photo by Jim Cooperman While the two facilities in the Shuswap …
Cannabis – from underground to mainstream
Cannabis production has been a fixture in the local economy for nearly four decades, although until recently the benefits were largely underground. Much like alcohol …
How best to boost the local economy
It is a tall order. Other than by providing loan, tax, land or re-zoning incentives, it is a major challenge for local governments to improve …
Crunching the census numbers
The complete data from the 2016 census is now available and the numbers provide opportunities to better understand the Shuswap region’s economy. Overall, the Shuswap …
Back to the land in the 21st century
There is a slowly growing movement back to the land, as more twenty and thirty year-olds move to the country and take up farming. I …