Local And Just

After coming home from being out of town for four weeks my garden looked like a jungle and I was having a hard time getting down to the business of weeding: the site of all those weeds was daunting and I didn’t know how or where to get started. Fortunately for me, I have a [...]

March 28, 2011 – The Manitoba Alternative Food Research Alliance (MAFRA), based at the University of Manitoba, has announced funding for thirteen community food projects across urban, rural and northern Manitoba. MAFRA received over 40 proposals from across Manitoba. The projects ranged from proposals for urban agriculture projects, to community food assessments. “It was overwhelming [...]

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 [...]

Joel Salatin recently opened the Growing Local Conference put on by Food Matters Manitoba with his rousing address entitled “Local Food to the Rescue”.  Joel Salatin is well known for his role in the documentary movie “Food Inc.”, his six books related to farming and his family farm called Polyface Inc. that services more than [...]

Thanks so much to everyone who came out to the communications workshop at the Growing Local Conference last weekend.  Here is the list of resources we went over along with some suggestions that you made.  Also coming out of that discussion we had a few suggestions to start conversations about low tech ways of communicating [...]

Many busineses or organizations would be excited to see their clientele grow by over 20% in a single year.  The same, however, cannot be said for food banks and, unfortunately, Manitoba food banks can say exactly that.  Between 2009 and 2010, food bank used in Manitoba increased by 21.0% – an increase of just over [...]