Michael Pollan is one of my favourite authors. After hearing him speak on the CBC Ideas program “Organics goes Mainstream”, I knew I had to read his books. The Omnivore’s Dilemma follows the life history of four meals. He starts with a discussion of...
Barbara and her family share with us their move from the desert of Arizona where life is “just not sustainable” to a farm in the Appalachian Mountains where they commit to spending a year becoming more connected with the source of their food. Their vow is...
James and Alisa alternate in telling the story of a challenging year they spent eating only food that grew within a 100-mile radius of their Vancouver apartment. I first heard about them while the experiment was still in progress as they submitted monthly updates to...
“Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. That, more or less, is the short answer to the supposedly incredibly complicated and confusing question of what we humans should eat in order to be maximally healthy. We are entering a postindustrial era of food; for the first...
If you actually look at what ‘peasant’ means, it means ‘people of the land.’ Are we Canadian farmers ‘people of the land’? Well, yes, of course. We too are peasants and it’s the land and our relationship to the land and food production that distinguishes us . . ....
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