Brittany Hopkins

Aug 29, 2024 | thenarwhal.ca | Eva Holland |Brittany Hopkins |Zoë Yunker |Fatima Syed |Sarah Cox

Last Thursday, reporter Matt Simmons spotted a series of social media posts that caught his attention. Indigenous leaders and community members were gathering on a remote road in northwest B.C., with some important legal paperwork — and pocket lighters. Matt, who lives in Smithers, B.C., grabbed his camera gear and drove for two hours.

Aug 28, 2024 | thenarwhal.ca | Eva Holland |Brittany Hopkins

“Mommy, I want to go outside!” my four-year-old whined as she cannonballed into my lap. “Outside now!” my two-year-old echoed from his perch on my shoulders. With two children under age five, our family wasn’t known for lounging around on a Sunday morning — let alone in the middle of summer. But the view outside our window didn’t look anything like summer. Smoke from West Kelowna’s McDougall Creek wildfire had settled over Vancouver, filling the August skies with a deep, ominous, brown haze.

Apr 28, 2023 | modernfarmer.com | Brittany Hopkins

Alexandre Ferrari-Roy, founder and CEO of the urban agriculture firm MicroHabitat, isn’t looking to squat on vacant lots or commandeer forgotten patches of land to make more room for urban farming—not anymore, at least. “We got into trouble a little bit about it,” he admits of his guerrilla-style foray into the industry, using overlooked spaces on McGill University’s Macdonald Campus—the largest green space on the island of Montreal in Canada. But that’s all in the past.

Apr 28, 2023 | cityfarmer.info | Brittany Hopkins |Michael Levenston

Alexandre Ferrari-Roy’s business model helps corporate property owners and managers turn rooftops and other underutilized spaces into productive farms. By Brittany HopkinsModern FarmerApr 28, 2023Excerpt:Alexandre Ferrari-Roy, founder and CEO of the urban agriculture firm MicroHabitat, isn’t looking to squat on vacant lots or commandeer forgotten patches of land to make more room for urban farming—not anymore, at least.

Mar 29, 2023 | thetyee.ca | Brittany Hopkins

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