The other end of the food chain
4 min readWritten by Steffanie Scott So-called ‘waste’ is the oft-forgotten other end of the food chain. But it’s a critically important resource, if cycled …
KISS — Keep it Small — Sweetie!
9 min readWritten by Theresa Schumilas My experience in talking to eaters is that most people are naive about farm scale. When we talk about …
Addressing Local Food in the Provincial Policy Statement
2 min readWritten by John Lubczynski The Provincial Policy Statement, issued under the Planning Act, sets out the Province’s key policies concerning land use planning in …
Recess on the Local Food Act
5 min readWritten by Hayley Lapalme The original version of this blog post said that Bill 130, Local Food Act, would go dormant with legislature …
Groundbreaking research on the health impacts of GMOs
3 min readWritten by Taarini Chopra Genetically-Modified Organisms (GMOs) are in the news again. A team of French researchers has just released the results of …
From the Suburbs to the Farm
3 min readWritten by Judy Paul One Family’s Adventure in Growing Their Own Food In 1992, Kevin and Susan Shields bought a home in the …
Corporate Organic and Organic Lite
6 min readWritten by Theresa Schumilas Organic disrupts. Its very existence makes us ask ourselves lots of questions about our food. How was this produced? …
The World in 2023
3 min readWritten by Jessica Kuepfer I may be beginning to sound like a parrot with my incessant blogging on climate change and food prices but Oxfam …
Can Organics Feed the World?
3 min readWritten by Steffanie Scott How will we eat well in our resilient communities… in a period of declining oil and climate change? Ralph …
An Anti-Aging Apple
3 min readWritten by Taarini Chopra Okanagan Speciality Fruits, a company based in Summerland BC, has developed an apple that doesn’t brown after being sliced. …