Paloma Pacheco
Assistant editor
@palomahazel.bsky.social 
Paloma Pacheco is a journalist and editor based in Vancouver. Her reporting and writing on art, culture, social issues and humans’ relationship to the natural world has appeared in The Globe and Mail, Canadian Geographic, The Tyee, Maisonneuve and POV Magazine, among other publications. In 2022 she was a finalist for Best Emerging Writer at the National Magazine Awards, and in 2020 she received the Max Wyman Award for Critical Writing emerging writer prize. She’s happiest near the ocean and with a good book in hand.
Stories by Paloma Pacheco
How an Okanagan deep freeze left B.C.’s independent wineries with a big tax bill
15 min. readB.C. wineries needed foreign grapes to replace a 2024 harvest decimated by extreme weather. Now,...
Basia Bulat sings the western chorus frog’s praises
The Montreal-based musician talks about her latest album, becoming a mother and the tiny endangered...
Ecologist Glynnis Hood wants to change your mind about beavers
The author and beaver expert on her love of the outdoors, Canada’s wildlife and a...
Family farmers in British Columbia were already struggling. Then Trump started a trade war
A trade war could help remake B.C.’s food system, but will family farmers be left...
Crunch time: co-op closure adds to B.C. apple industry’s many worries
One B.C. apple farmer is ripping out an orchard as his industry faces rising costs,...
The future of B.C. wine has never been more uncertain
Vineyards in the Okanagan-Similkameen region have been almost completely decimated by back-to-back cold snaps. Industry...