Can marginal areas help grain farmers contribute to sustainability and preserve farm profits? Are you interested in talking about how you manage marginal areas within crop fields, and what information influences your decisions to create natural habitat for wildlife such as pollinators? We are welcoming all views on this topic and will compensate you for your time with a $100 gift card.

We want to identify a practice that is practical for farmers and at the same time helps meet sustainability goals. And we want to know how to financially and practically support farmers to adopt this practice and benefit from it. We will use the results from this study to design on-farm research that uses profit mapping information to implement an alternative land use best management practice on marginal areas and measures its economic and ecological impacts.

If you are willing to have a chat, contact Josephine Gantois by phone or text at +1 (672) 515-2931, or by email at josephine.gantois@ires.ubc.ca .  Dr. Josephine Gantois is working with the principal investigator for this study, Dr. Claire Kremen, from the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability at UBC.