Local And Just

On Friday the staff of Food Matters Manitoba (www.foodmattersmanitoba.ca) and MAFRA headed out to the Blue Lagoon Organics (www.bluelagoonorganics.com) to learn more about the work that is being done there.  Blue Lagoon is just outside of Winnipeg and is a family run 27 acre farm.  We learned about the organic CSA (community supported agriculture) that [...]

Care passionately about food?  Want some ideas about how to talk with your candidates in the upcoming municipal election about food issues – hunger, local food, community gardens, farmers’ markets, and more!  The Winnipeg Food Policy Working Group has just released an election guide that you can use over the next two months as we [...]

High finance really intrigues me. Shocking, I know, because who wants to talk about financial instruments? Futures, swaps, derivatives, blah, and blah. While the nature of high finance is obscure, their effects on the real world are painstakingly real. This fact is demonstrated when food is traded as a commodity, like any other piece of [...]

The quail are laying eggs!  It did take about six weeks for them to start laying and it’s hard to say if they all started laying at once.  For the first little while we would get one or two eggs every couple of days, but now we regularly get about three almost every day.  The [...]

Two news stories caught my eye this week.  News that, while not particularly surprising, is pretty indicative of the values (or lack thereof) that drive our food system.  Actually, values is the wrong word.  There is but a sole creed of the industrial food system:  profit before people.  If there is an opportunity for money [...]

For the last number of weeks I have been tracking down supporting organizations of the Manitoba Alternative Food Research Alliance (MAFRA) and forcing them to fill out a questionnaire on communications. As a bonus incentive to fill out the survey we threw in a grand prize of having a promotional video shot for one lucky [...]