Building Greenhouses in BC to Fight Food Inflation
Every winter, BC families pay a US-dollar premium on tomatoes, cucumbers, and peppers shipped 2,000 km from California and Mexico.
Why can't BC grow its own food throughout the entire year.
The Netherlands sits closer to the Arctic Circle than the Mediterranean, gets little sunlight for much of the year, has virtually no spare land, and somehow became the world's second largest food exporter, behind only the United States, a country 270 times its size. BC is 23 times larger than the Netherlands. We have cheap hydroelectric power the Dutch would envy, untapped geothermal energy, and a climate that with greenhouse infrastructure could produce food twelve months a year. Dutch growers cut water use by 90% and nearly eliminated pesticides entirely through decades of deliberate investment. If a small, cold, overcrowded country with expensive land figured this out, the question isn't whether BC could do it, it's why we haven't started.
Posted Apr 28, 2026, 7:04 PM UTC