Tough new rules that eliminate non-farmer ownership of land in the Agricultural Land Reserve will be needed to bring idle land into production, according to Kent Mullinix, director of the Institute for Sustainable Food Systems at Kwantlen Polytechnic University. Thousands of homes have been built on land reserved for farming, due to a “colossal policy failure over decades,” he said. But stopping the erosion of farmland being populated with “monster homes” ranging up to 23,000 square feet is not going to be easy.