Today is the first cool and rainy day in quite a while, so I’ll be spending the morning the way other “radicals” the world over are, in the kitchen and the garden reclaiming democracy and occupying the food supply. I’ll be cooking up strawberry & rhubarb jam with organic local
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350 or bust: The Climate Crisis: It’s Time To Take Back The Land
Dr. Vandana Shiva – physicist, ecologist, activist, author, and founder of Navdanya (a movement for biodiversity conservation) on the most important work of our times: * VandanaShiva.org
Continue reading350 or bust: Are You Hungry For Change?
Yesterday, I asked the question: what if our dysfunctional relationship to food is connected to the dysfunctional relationship we have with our ecosystem? Can we really properly care for our planet if we aren’t able to care for our own bodies? If we are making choices that contaminant our bodies,
Continue reading350 or bust: An Apple A Day
One of the responses that we can all take to the looming peak oil/climate change crisis is to work to make our communities more resilient (for more on this, check out the Transition Town movement). And one of the ways to build resilience is to increa…
Continue readingGeoff at Mount Allison: Mount Allison University Farm Project
Mount Allison University recently revived its farm after allowing it to lay dormant for half a century. The results have been a very sucessful harvest and a substantial amount of fresh local food for Jenning Dining Hall.
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Continue reading350 or bust: Does Life Get Better Than Fresh Strawberry Pie?
It’s strawberry season in Canada, although here in our corner of the Canadian Shield there are no strawberry farms within 200 kilometres, and no organic ones within 500 kilometres. But, thanks to Mark’s lovely parents, who visited us from M…
Continue reading350 or bust: The Joys of Mushroom Hunting
It is becoming increasingly clear how important the links between food security, decreasing our carbon footprint, and eating local are. Although for decades industrial agriculture has been touted as the way to feed an increasing, and increasingly hungr…
Continue reading350 or bust: Eating Local Is Delicious With Rhubarb Kuchen
Here in northern Ontario where I live, rhubarb is the first harvest from the garden that we look forward to. In anticipation of a meal of homemade pasta and grilled eggplant that’s planned for tonight (thanks to Michael who is willing to shar…
Continue reading350 or bust: Eating Local Is Delicious
Where we live in northwestern Ontario we don’t have access to a lot of local market gardens or farms. But what we do have on our doorstep are lakes full of pickerel and jackfish, as well as some trout and perch. Mark took our youngest daughter …
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