Meet Paul Neufeld, Farm Manager, A Rocha Canada

Paul loves compost, worms and bees, and watching seedlings grow. He also loves to see people excited about weeding, harvesting and enjoying fresh organic food. Meet him in our A Rocha People video:

Paul runs the farm at the A Rocha Centre in British Columbia, where during April the team will be tilling the ground; setting up irrigation; seeding broccoli, cabbage, squash and melons in the greenhouse; transplanting onions and leeks in the field; potting up pepper plants and aubergines and sowing parsley, parsnip, chard, beets and turnips.

April is also the busy, busy field season for conservation! Christy Juteau, Environmental Stewardship Coordinator at the centre, writes, ‘Everything has awakened early this year because of the warmer than normal temperatures. We usually survey the threatened Red-legged Frog Rana aurora from mid-March, but after finding our first egg mass on 10 February, we began our surveys early. On rainy days, along with our committed volunteers, we’re searching suitable habitat for the endangered Oregon Forestsnail Allogona townsendiana and we’ll begin fish trapping during the first week of April, targeting the endangered Salish Sucker Catostomus catostomus. All our findings will be used to improve decision-making in the Little Campbell River watershed so that important habitat is conserved, restored and protected into the future.’