Every Saturday this summer, Kareno Hawbolt and Kimi Hendess have set up a small stand for their produce company, Sweet Digz, outside the Nirvana food mart at the south end of No. 2 Road.
There, they sell the organic produce harvested, largely by hand, from a four-acre plot up the road, behind a new mansion owned by their landlord. Slightly further up the road, a 6.2-acre plot in the provincial Agricultural Land Reserve is for sale, listed for $8.2 million. Half of the property is designated for residential or business use.
The sale would work out to about $1.3 million per acre, a rate that effectively prices out anyone such as Hawbolt or Hendess from owning the land they farm.
Graeme Wood – Richmond News – August 14, 2015.
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