Making Agriculture Sustainable in the Hazeltons

08/21/2026

🎉 The 2026 Apple Pressing Event schedule is now live on our website!

A huge thank you to the volunteers and community partners who make these events happen each year. Want to help us reach more communities and save more apples? We'd love to have you join our volunteer team! 🍎🥤

Celebrate the Harvest with MASH’s Apple Pressing Events! Join us for our annual apple pressing events, where you can turn your fresh apples into delicious, homemade apple juice. Our community-focused events are designed to bring people together, promote sustainability, and celebrate the bounty of ...

08/19/2026

Hello everybody! We have reopened our office and yesterday had some meetings to start planning out the Apple pressing season. We will be announcing dates and locations by the end of the week for old Hazelton, New Hazelton, and Telkwa. Volunteers are always welcome and increased capacity means we can do more events.

07/27/2026

And the results are in from Kispiox Valley Music Festival Society! This year we collected 130.13 kg of food scraps from hospitaliy - that's a big jump from 2024 total of 90 kg. A big thanks to the Hospitality Coordinator Hammer Rilys Amarylis who was an amazing composting champion!

07/23/2026

NOTICE TO MEMBERS and COMPOSTING CLIENTS: Our partnership with Bulkley Canyon Ranch is coming to an end as CN Rail has purchased their farm to support critical infrastructure work beside their property. As a result, MASH HQ as well as the two people who make everything happen, Laurie and Bill, will be moving as of July 31. We appreciate your understanding during this time of transition. To support the complex logistics, it is necessary to put all programs on pause until August 10 effectively immediately. Apologies for the inconvenience and we look forward to re-opening in two weeks.

07/23/2026

What's happening the last weekend in July? Kispiox Valley Music Festival! MASH will be collecting food scraps from the Hospitality zone once again! In 2024, we collected 90 kg of food scraps (2025 there was no festival).

07/23/2026

We just delivered our Members August Newsletter - if you didn't see it, here's a link to our website page with all the most recent newsletters.

We put all our news into a tidy package several times per year. If you are a member, these info bombs are dropped directly into your mailbox. Please contact us if you are missing any editions and we’ll hook you up. Summer 2026 – See below. February 2026 December 2025 August 2025 July 2025

07/16/2026

Who needs potatoes? Get yours this Friday!

07/09/2026

Managing Forage in Dry Times - educational event Thursday July 16. No registration necessary.

07/07/2026

Time to celebrate the addition of new poultry processing capacity! Starting today you can book with Selah Farmstead by phoning 250-643-6464

Local, sustainable, forest raised pork, pasture raised chicken, free range eggs

07/01/2026

An agricultural and trust is being established in British Columbia.  if there’s interest in learning more, we can organize an information session. Let us know!

BC Agriculture Council (BCAC) is advancing its plans to establish a Farmland Trust model that would provide a long-term mechanism to preserve agricultural land, support farm succession and help ensure productive farmland remains available for farming rather than being lost to non-agricultural uses. The work comes at a time when farmland affordability pressures, rising land values and a significant wave of farm transitions are making it increasingly difficult for new and next-generation farmers to access land.

BCAC will immediately begin incorporating the society and applying for charitable status. This will enable the Farmland Trust to accept cash donations to support its operations and receive gifts of farmland and financial contributions to, over time, support land acquisition.

Read the full news release here: https://bcac.ca/2026/06/26/bc-agriculture-council-announces-plans-to-establish-a-provincial-farmland-trust/

Read the white paper here:https://bcac.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/BC_Farmland_Trust_White_Paper.pdf