Dennis Scanland's guest appearances

Dennis Scanland

The Explore84 Podcast

Farm Talk Radio Podcast

Doug Vermeeren

Michael Ward

Keith Robinson

Matt Boudreau

Matt Phillips

Jesse Ferguson

Brooke Taylor

Greg Long

Michael Roberts

Nick Bell

Robert Price

Hans Doef

Bob Sutton

Owen Hart

Jamie Smith

OwlTail

Tim Kitchen

This episode Let’s Meet For A Beer becomes Let’s Meet For A Cider when Sunny Cider cofounders Tim Kitchen and Dennis Scanland join the show. We discuss how an urban farming company and a home cidery project evolved into a community centred Cidery making traditional 100% fruit cider using apples grown in communities across Calgary.Tim and Dennis first got to know each other as neighbours, living just down the block from each other in Calgary’s community of Sunnyside. Dennis had an urban farming company called Dirty Boys, which later morphed into YYC growers. For those who aren’t familiar, urban farming is the practice of growing vegetables in other people’s “donated land,” which in this case meant a quarter acre of land spread across many front and back yards in Calgary. These vegetables would then be sold to restaurants or farmer’s markets, with the owners of the land being compensated with a share of the harvest, or “the rent was mostly vegetables” as Dennis put it.As part of the urban farming business Dennis got his hands on literal tonnes of apples and he and Tim would start out making cider in Tim’s garage as a hobby, and they tell us that their first couple batches of cider didn’t turn out all that great, but with after friendly advice they learned the trick to making that cider better, patience. By 2017 they’d be collectively harvesting 20,000kg of apples around the city and thought if there was this much fruit available they might as well make a go of it and turn this into a proper cidery. After two years and a surprise visit from the AGLC, they’d open the doors of Sunny Cider in May of 2019.Regular listeners of the show and supporters of Calgary’s brewing industry will already be familiar with community being a common focus in the space, but Sunny Cider is unique in that their community project came first, and they built the cidery from there. While Sunny Cider may not be located in it’s namesake community of Sunnyside, they continue to source a huge portion of their fruit from communities across Calgary, working with community centres to create fruit drop offs so they can get their hands on the amazing apples, pears, and other local fruits that make for great cider. Tim sums up their approach perfectly: “I didn’t set out to make great cider, it came as a result of working to make a strong community"—Let’s Meet For A Beer!Alberta Beer Festivals: website | twitter | instagramTim Kitchen &amp; Dennis Scanland - Sunny Cider: website | twitter | instagram

This episode Let’s Meet For A Beer becomes Let’s Meet For A Cider when <a href="https://www.sunnycider.ca" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sunny Cider</a> cofounders Tim Kitchen and Dennis Scanland join the show. We discuss how an urban farming company and a home cidery project evolved into a community centred Cidery making traditional 100% fruit cider using apples grown in communities across Calgary.Tim and Dennis first got to know each other as neighbours, living just down the block from each other in Calgary’s community of Sunnyside. Dennis had an urban farming company called Dirty Boys, which later morphed into YYC growers. For those who aren’t familiar, urban farming is the practice of growing vegetables in other people’s “donated land,” which in this case meant a quarter acre of land spread across many front and back yards in Calgary. These vegetables would then be sold to restaurants or farmer’s markets, with the owners of the land being compensated with a share of the harvest, or “the rent was mostly vegetables” as Dennis put it.As part of the urban farming business Dennis got his hands on literal tonnes of apples and he and Tim would start out making cider in Tim’s garage as a hobby, and they tell us that their first couple batches of cider didn’t turn out all that great, but with after friendly advice they learned the trick to making that cider better, patience. By 2017 they’d be collectively harvesting 20,000kg of apples around the city and thought if there was this much fruit available they might as well make a go of it and turn this into a proper cidery. After two years and a surprise visit from the AGLC, they’d open the doors of Sunny Cider in May of 2019.Regular listeners of the show and supporters of Calgary’s brewing industry will already be familiar with community being a common focus in the space, but Sunny Cider is unique in that their community project came first, and they built the cidery from there. While Sunny Cider may not be located in it’s namesake community of Sunnyside, they continue to source a huge portion of their fruit from communities across Calgary, working with community centres to create fruit drop offs so they can get their hands on the amazing apples, pears, and other local fruits that make for great cider. Tim sums up their approach perfectly: “I didn’t set out to make great cider, it came as a result of working to make a strong community" —<a href="http://letsmeetforabeer.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Let’s Meet For A Beer!</a>Alberta Beer Festivals: <a href="https://albertabeerfestivals.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">website</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/ABBeerfestivals" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">twitter</a> | <a href="https://www.instagram.com/abbeerfestivals/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">instagram</a>Tim Kitchen &amp; Dennis Scanland - Sunny Cider: <a href="https://www.sunnycider.ca" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">website</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/sunnycider_ca" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">twitter</a> | <a href="https://www.instagram.com/sunnycider_ca/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">instagram</a>

56 - Tim Kitchen, Dennis Scanland

On today’s episode I sit down with Dennis Scanland of YYC Growers in Calgary, Alberta. We talk about Community Shared Agriculture, the changing face of the local food scene in the city, and the benefits of being a co-operative of urban and rural farmers. We also spend some time talking about his journey to farming and his own urban farm, Dirt Boys. We have booked a meeting room in the beautiful new central public library building and we are sipping on strong coffees from their café. Keep your shovel in the ground and stay tuned for more farm talk!Coming up: Episode with John Bach of Bach Biodynamics on biodynamic beekeeping!www.yycgrowers.com www.dirtboys.ca www.bachbiodynamics.com

On today’s episode I sit down with Dennis Scanland of YYC Growers in Calgary, Alberta. We talk about Community Shared Agriculture, the changing face of the local food scene in the city, and the benefits of being a co-operative of urban and rural farmers. We also spend some time talking about his journey to farming and his own urban farm, Dirt Boys. We have booked a meeting room in the beautiful new central public library building and we are sipping on strong coffees from their café. Keep your shovel in the ground and stay tuned for more farm talk! Coming up: Episode with John Bach of Bach Biodynamics on biodynamic beekeeping! <a href="http://www.yycgrowers.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.yycgrowers.com</a> <a href="http://www.dirtboys.ca" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.dirtboys.ca</a> <a href="http://www.bachbiodynamics.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.bachbiodynamics.com</a>

Ep11 - Dennis Scanland of YYC Growers