Local And Just

After purchasing the former Clearwater School, members of the Harvest Moon Society began to brainstorm about how to use the school building and yard as a place for community to gather and share knowledge about sustainable agriculture. The vision of the site remaining a place of learning has guided the Harvest Moon Society to transform [...]

“Migrant labour crews, combines the size of houses, mobile lettuce-packing factories marching across fields of romaine, twenty-thousand broiler chicken houses, or hundreds of acres of corn or broccoli or lettuce reaching clear to the horizon…” As I read this quote from Michael Pollen’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma, I wondered if he was really talking about organic [...]

On November 15th, ten University of Manitoba students from a variety of faculties headed off campus to explore food justice in action. It was the second annual “NGO Crawl”, a joint event organized by the World W.I.S.E. Resource Centre and the Global Political Economy Students Association. This year, the NGO Crawl visited four non-government organizations [...]

You may have decided that high-quality local food has health and environmental benefits you value. You may also think that it would be interesting to get to know your farmer and see where your food comes from. This may sound great, but how do you actually go about buying local sustainable food? It sure wouldn’t [...]

One of the greatest highlights of traveling to other countries is the opportunity to try new and different foods. This past semester I went on the Canada-European Union Peace and Conflict Resolution Exchange to Slovenia, a very small, hilly country in the former Yugoslavia.  (To give you an idea of just how small this country [...]