Thought something green and inspiring would be appropriate for St. Patrick’s Day. Detroit has been hit hard by foreclosures and the struggling auto industry. The […] Read More
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I was sitting on a bus – “ one of the new cavernous tanks on the road in Metro Vancouver. I had just happily settled […] Read More
I am a big fan of the University of British Columbia (UBC) Farm. I’ll be taking a tour there this spring. It’s the only working […] Read More
I have joined a food co-op. I stumbled on it quite by accident one day. There was a sign posted in a front yard a […] Read More
I had the privilege of hearing Percy Schmeiser speak recently. Monsanto sued this prairie farmer for growing Round-up Ready Canola when in fact he hadn’t […] Read More
Percy Schmeiser is a Canadian farmer from small town Saskatchewan. He has been farming for more than 50 years, saving his own seed, developing some […] Read More
In celebration of Valentine’s Day, I share this poem with you. My favourite love poem. It is by Pablo Neruda, Nobel laureate who arose to […] Read More
Global Exchange is doing amazing work. I used their web site and various reports and resources a lot when I was working on the chocolate […] Read More
Honeybees are dropping like flies. Around the world beekeepers are reporting massive die-offs of these essential pollinators. Colony collapse disorder (CCD) as it is called […] Read More
A crowd has gathered on Granville Street at Helmcken in front of a vacant store. There is a shopping cart there with large buckets in […] Read More