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In 2009, frustrations with apartment living led Vancouverite Camil Dumont to get creative. Camil grew up in Ontario farmland, surrounded by lots of open space and many family members involved in agriculture. When he moved to BC, he missed that aspect of life, and found that many of his friends did too. So they asked around, found a few neighbours willing to loan them their yards, and started planting gardens. The idea began as a way to work around the restrictions of urban life, but soon their gardens were producing more food than the friends could consume themselves, and Cam...

Here in Canada, a love of coffee involves you in a long-distance relationship; all the coffee we consume comes from far away. That distance leads to a fundamental question for our company: if what we do is so much about connecting people, how are we to connect to the people who produce coffee if they work halfway around the world? Members of our community may have considered the origin of their grain or milk as they drive past a dairy farm in nearby Abbotsford or a grain mill in Chilliwack, but they're less likely to have stepped foot anywhere near...