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In season and in your neighbourhood
Here in Southern Ontario, local fruits and veggies are beginning to make their way in droves to our local farmers’ markets. Asparagus, lettuces, chard, garlic scapes, beans, peas…the list goes on. But look no further than your neighbourhood fruit trees and a whole other harvest may be ripe for the picking!
Do the Math Challenge: Day 3 – Swapping Diets with a Friend
Since this week I’m decidedly spending less than my usual $50/wk on food, I decided to swap diets with a friend who has been on and off of social assistance for years. Here, he writes about how he will spend the money.
Do the Math Challenge
This week I am joining people across Ontario to rally for an increase to social assistance rates so that people can meet their basic food needs. To raise awareness of this important issue, I am eating a “food bank diet” for up to 1 week. This is my first post in the series.
Shout Outs to Halifax
I could write 5 blog posts for all that I experienced in the fine city of Halifax, but I’m now enjoying sunning myself on the rocky shores of Mahone Bay. So for now, in keeping with my ‘write-less-live-more’ philosophy, I’ll keep this to the point.
Here’s a BIG thanks to the following people and places in Halifax for making this week great.
Social Change
I am pondering more deeply the notion of “social change,” and realizing it is less about what we do, and more about how we do it.
Getting up close and personal with meat & dairy
I rolled up to Tide Mill Farm in Maine on a sunny afternoon in late July. Within moments of my arrival, I had jumped into my first real encounter with a livestock farm… from milking cows, to slaughtering chickens. I even shot a video of how they slaughter the chickens, which I urge you to watch if you’ve never seen this happen before.
The Road to Revolution Will Be Planted, Not Paved
Imagine that an idea is in the form of a seed. And that each of us holds many of these seeds that are all just waiting for the right conditions to take root and sprout. I’ve been holding onto a seed that’s got the word ‘travel’ written all over it for quite a while now. [...]
Carnivegan?
To eat or not to eat? Meat is the question. My longstanding ethical and environmental stance against meat take backseat to my health. Thus begins my search for feel good meat, if there is such a thing.
Tasting Heaven in a Tomato.
If you’ve found your way to my blog, chances are you have some kind of love affair with food. This time of year especially, when locally grown food is abundant, and every morsel is just bursting with flavour. Or is it? If you’re anything like me, you probably have a busy life. And since time [...]
Preserving kick turns urban herb-op
I’ve been on a big preserving kick in the past couple weeks. I went to a “Preserving the Harvest” workshop put on by local farmer/food entrepreneur, Daniel from The Cutting Veg, and have since been inspired to freeze, jar and dry everything in season I can get my hands on. So far, I’ve frozen chopped [...]
Local Sustainable Food…but it’s so EXPENSIVE!
I’m pretty lucky in that what I do for a living involves me touting the benefits of buying local and sustainably produced food. But in doing so, I hear a lot of complaints around the price point. Today I want to write about this – not as an attempt to debunk a myth, but as [...]
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