{"id":5479,"date":"2015-11-02T12:14:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-02T19:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsundergrads\/?p=5479"},"modified":"2015-11-02T12:14:00","modified_gmt":"2015-11-02T19:14:00","slug":"mfre-speaker-series-kirk-homenick-naturally-homegrown-foods-ltd-nov-6-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsundergrads\/2015\/11\/02\/mfre-speaker-series-kirk-homenick-naturally-homegrown-foods-ltd-nov-6-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"MFRE Speaker Series: Kirk Homenick, Naturally Homegrown Foods Ltd. &#8211; Nov 6, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>MFRE Speaker Series:\u00a0Kirk Homenick, Naturally Homegrown Foods Ltd.<\/h2>\n<h3>\n<strong>Friday, November 6 | 3:30 &#8211; 4:30 pm<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<strong>Lecture Theatre 102, Michael Smith Labs (2185 East Mall)<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Naturally Homegrown Foods Ltd. is a Maple Ridge, BC based premium snack food company.\u00a0 It produces a line of hand cooked chips under the <em>Hardbite<\/em> brand name.\u00a0 Kirk has over 16 years\u2019 experience in the consumer food and agri-food marketplace having previously worked at Houweling\u2019s Nurseries, Forbes Medi-Tech, and BC Hot House Foods.\u00a0 Throughout his career he has held roles in many different areas including sales, marketing, operations, general management, strategic planning, and corporate development.\u00a0\u00a0 Kirk holds a Masters of Business Administration from Simon Fraser University, and an undergraduate degree in Business Administration from the University of Southern California.<\/p>\n<p><em>This <a href=\"http:\/\/ubc.us3.list-manage1.com\/track\/click?u=820ba5406ce97ad5bc671f983&amp;id=39bb2d0020&amp;e=d764435808\">public series<\/a> provides students with the opportunity to interact with key industry experts from the food and agribusiness sector and hear them speak about their company, food &amp; agribusiness expertise, industry opportunities &amp; trends and the challenges running an Agri-Food entrepreneurial business. The speaker series is part of the professional development program in the Master in Food and Resource Economics Program.<\/em><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MFRE Speaker Series:\u00a0Kirk Homenick, Naturally Homegrown Foods Ltd. Friday, November 6 | 3:30 &#8211; 4:30 pm Lecture Theatre 102, Michael Smith Labs (2185 East Mall) Naturally Homegrown Foods Ltd. is a Maple Ridge, BC based premium snack food company.\u00a0 It &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsundergrads\/2015\/11\/02\/mfre-speaker-series-kirk-homenick-naturally-homegrown-foods-ltd-nov-6-2015\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17824,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69305],"tags":[1231334,1108502,572248,838829],"class_list":["post-5479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-upcoming-events","tag-agri-food","tag-agribusiness","tag-food-resource-economics","tag-mfre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsundergrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsundergrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsundergrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsundergrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17824"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsundergrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsundergrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5480,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsundergrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5479\/revisions\/5480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsundergrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsundergrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsundergrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}