Canada: Alberta teens reap business and life lessons in first garden
‘It’s hard to find a job here, so we decided to grow our own,’ says Kiera Lang
By Adrienne Lamb, David Bajer
CBC News
September 20, 2026
Excerpt:
Harvest time has taken on a whole new meaning for 16-year-old Kiera Lang, who has been spending time at the Beaumont and District Agricultural Society — or, as she says, “BADAS for short.”
Lang is the president of the BADAS youth club, which formed this spring to grow veggies and flowers in a couple of plots and sell them at the Beaumont Farmers Market.
“It’s hard to find a job here in Beaumont. So we decided to grow our own,” said Lang who worked alongside five other teens in their garden harvesting everything from beans and peas to root vegetables like carrots, beets and potatoes.
At a time when “a lot of farmers are aging, Alberta needs young people thinking about this type of growing as a career path,” said BADAS youth co-ordinator Terra Pombert.
“They think of agriculture as like cows and tractors, which are sort of the dominant commodities,” she said.
But there are real opportunities in growing vegetables and local food, added Pombert, owner of Sunflowers Urban Farm.
As part of the local ag society, she secured the seed money for the pilot project with a $16,000 grant from the Canada Post Community Foundation to develop the youth committee — including mentorship, entrepreneur and leadership programs — in Beaumont, a city on the outskirts of south Edmonton.
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Source: https://cityfarmer.info/canada-alberta-teens-reap-business-and-life-lessons-in-first-garden/
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