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 [...]

This fall I had an opportunity to do a couple of things that I have not done before; I travelled to a remote northern community and I learned how to harvest chickens.  I had the privilege to accompany Byron Beardy, Laurie Wood Ducharme, Wallace McDougall, Grace McDougall (Four Arrows Regional Health Authority Inc.) and Robert [...]

This video features two high impact local food initiatives that are highlighted as case studies. One community scale and one regional scale initiative are discussed in relation to the barriers that each faces as well as the positive outcomes that these programs generate in the battle for food justice.  These food initiatives were chosen based [...]