Key Sustainability Features Teaching An 800 m agroforestry trail A medicinal plant garden The Land, Food, and Community garden, used by elementary schools and featuring a cob arch and shed A taxonomy garden used by Botany classes A restored vineyard Research An arboretum containing many unusual tree specimens An allelopathy research trial A free-range poultry run used for integrated pest control research 6-10 honeybee hives A hedgerow establishment project Hybrid poplar archival plantings Conifer plantings for pine beetle resistance research A plot prepared for Agriculture Canada research on metarhizum (soil fungus) as a natural pesticide Wood preservative testing plots, riparian ecosystem research, and habitat and biodiversity sampling areas Community The Mayan society garden Musqueam garden The Downtown Eastside Aboriginal Community Kitchen Garden Project As the last working farm within the City of Vancouver, the UBC Farm is an urban agrarian gem that features a landscape of unique beauty.  The Farm’s primary steward is the Centre for Sustainable Food Systems (CSFS), an interdisciplinary program of UBC’s Faculty of Land and Food Systems.  The 24-hectare teaching, research, and community farm is located on the University of British Columbia’s Point Grey Campus in Vancouver. It is a student-driven model farm that integrates sustainable land management and food production practices with basic and applied research, innovation, education, and community outreach. There are currently more than 100 academic initiatives that take place on the farm in which 2500 students participate. READ MORE