Rebecca Ellis

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  • Sessional Instructor, Geography, Geology and Land Stewardship Program, Algoma University
Staff members sharing their harvest at Urban Roots, an urban farm in London, Ontario. Urban agriculture can improve access to fresh food, especially for low-income communities, immigrants and seniors. (Urban Roots London)

Growing pains: An Ontario city’s urban agriculture efforts show good policy requires real capacity

Richard Bloomfield, Western University; Kassie Miedema, Western University, and Rebecca Ellis, Algoma University

London, Ont., adopted Canada’s first stand-alone Urban Agriculture Strategy in 2017. Yet, almost eight years later, many of the strategy’s goals remain unrealized.
Urban beekeepers trained in native bee stewardship and pollinator gardening can help fight the decline of native bees. (Shutterstock)

Urban bee keepers can help save wild bees

Rebecca Ellis, Western University

Urban beekeeping is growing in popularity, but so is the backlash against honey bees.

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