Local And Just

Back in the fall I ordered 40lb of white flour, 50lb of whole-wheat flour and 25lb of oats from the Deruycks through a food buying club. Yes, I was overly ambitious with my purchase. It is a good thing I love to bake, because that, my friends, is A LOT of flour. And so I decided [...]

Montreal Food Secure Canada Assembly 2010. I was fortunate enough to be granted the opportunity to attend the three day national gathering, and in turn was asked to be your correspondent, filling you, our avid blog followers, in on what happened at this exceptional conference. Day 1: Friday November 26, 2010 Upon arrival in Montreal, [...]

Why would you want to spend a week on a farm? Let’s say it’s your only week off from work in awhile. You could be sleeping in, watching Seinfeld reruns in bed, petting your kitten in your pjs at 3 in the afternoon, but instead you are volunteering to haul firewood, pull weeds, and carry [...]

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 [...]

A couple of months ago I heard about Fruit Share, a new organization that had been started by Getty Stewart and the South Osborne Urban Community Cooperative. The idea of the Share is to connect fruit owners with volunteer fruit pickers so that all of the delicious, and nutritious local fruit growing in the Riverview/Lord Roberts area goes [...]

I had an interesting discussion with my uncle in the Netherlands a couple of weeks ago when I was there visiting family.  Setting: Friday afternoon bike trip with the family, on a bike path surrounded by farms and livestock in Friesland, the agricultural province of the Netherlands. My uncle is not a farmer and neither [...]