Welcome to Elk Root Conservation

Feeding Body Mind & Spirit

Our not-for-profit mission is to demonstrate how feeding community and protecting the planet go hand-in hand. To alleviate food insecurity, support food sovereignty for Indigenous Peoples, and inspire ecological stewardship by growing certified organic food for those in need. At ERC we continually research and innovate to advance organic farming. We call our innovations ERC’S ORAA (Organic Regenerative Agriculture Advancements). We strive to not just meet organic standards, but to find creative ways to adapt to meet the challenges of the day, to support food security & sovereignty for generations to come. We also lead innovative environmental conservation restoration initiatives, and offer inclusionary and empowering learning opportunities through research, innovation, online learning and hands-on education at Elk Root Conservation’s Educational Demonstration Farm.

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ERC’s certified organic Educational Demonstration Farm (the ‘Farm’) is located in what has become known as Vallican, BC on the unceded traditional territory of the Sinixt Peoples. We also acknowledge the deep connection and significance of the land and waterways where ERC is located to the Syilx (Okanagan), the Ktunaxa and the Secwépemc (Shuswap) Peoples whose unceded traditional territories are also within what has come to be known as the Kootenay Region.

ERC’s Farm is a living lab that feeds body, mind, and spirit through its Regenerative Educational Community Food Garden, an heirloom fruit & nut food forest orchard, ERC’s one-of-a-kind certified organic sustainable apiary model and pollinator gardens, a BC native plant nursery and garden to propagate local ecotype native plants and collect seed from for Indigenous food sovereignty and habitat restoration, all of which together provides the ultimate outdoor classroom to share ERC’s biodiverse ORAA and ecological stewardship education with children and youth, diverse community members, organic growers and producers province-wide and beyond.

We apply ‘outside-the-box’ approaches to support ALL members of our community be they winged, web-footed, finned, or human alike! We aspire to create an inclusionary space at Elk Root Conservation where all members of our community are supported to grow.