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Back to the Farm Research Foundation

  • Pessoa coletiva
  • 1973-2016

The Back to the Farm Research Foundation (BFRF) was created in 1973, with the sponsorship of the National Farmers Union, its goals were to encourage organic farming, to lobby government to create new policies that support chemical-free agriculture, and to conduct research and share information. Elmer Laird was instrumental in creating this organization, and was its first president. In 2001 Laird retired as a farmer and donated the use of his land (640 acres) to the BFRF whereupon it was established as an organic research and demonstration farm, the first of its kind in Canada. Research plots were planted for the purpose of demonstrating the benefits of farming without pesticides, and other aspects of organic farming. The Foundation also offers, without charge, consultations and advise on all aspects of organic agriculture.

In 1983 the Foundation formed the first certified organic farmers co-operative, and in 1985 established a plant with a grain cleaner and a stone ground flour mill at Girvin, Saskatchewan, the first in Canada. The Canadian Organic Producers' Marketing Co-operative milled flour and marketed organic grains and oil seeds in North America and abroad, and had accumulated 192 members before going bankrupt in 1992.

The Back to the Farm Research Foundation was dissolved on December 31, 2016.

Babcock, Howard Albert, 1916-1996

  • PA 48
  • Pessoa singular
  • 1916-1996

Howard Albert Babcock was born March 18, 1916, the son of Albert Leslie and Sarah (Sadie) Elizabeth Babcock. He was raised in the Francis/Creelman area. He joined the RCAF as a cook in 1940 and attained the rank of Corporal. After the war, he worked in the cooking trade at the Banff Springs Hotel, the Hotel Saskatchewan, the National Systems of Baking, and at the RCMP Training Academy in Regina. Babcock, whose involvement in organized labour spanned 53 years, was a member and executive member (Secretary Treasurer) of the Saskatchewan Association of Cooks, the Canadian Brotherhood of Railway Employees and of the Canadian Union of Public Employees. He served for many years as the workers' representative on the Unemployment Insurance Commission Board of Referees and was a spokesman for the rights of the unemployed. He was Secretary Treasurer of the Regina Labour Temple Company Limited. In later years he acted as manager of the Regina Union Centre (created in 1969 through an amalgamation of the Regina Labour Temple Company Limited and the Regina Labour Building Association.)

Babcock married Annie Rohatyn in 1941 and had one daughter, Shirley Anne. He died in 1996.

Ángel, Eduardo Zuleta, 1899-1973

  • Pessoa singular
  • 1899-1973

Eduardo Zuleta Angel was born on September 12, 1899 in Barcelona, Spain to Eduardo Zuleta Gaviria and Josefa Ángel de Zuleta. For much of his life he was a lawyer and politician; serving as minister of several portfolios in the national government of Colombia including Minister of Education, Minister of War, and Minister of Foreign Affairs. He also represented Colombia as ambassador to Peru and at the San Francisco conference that led to the formation of the United Nations in 1946. Angel became a professor and rector of the Universidad de los Andes (Colombia) from 1952 to 1953 and this was followed by an appointment as ambassador to the United States from August 3, 1953 until November 10, 1955.

Eduardo Zuleta Angel died on September 12, 1973 in Miami, Florida.

Axworthy, Chris

  • Pessoa singular
  • 1947-2023
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