You may have heard the term “food security” tossed around over your mesclun salad mix. You may even know what it means. Or think you know. So what the heck does it mean? To me, it means that everyone in a community has consistent and adequate access to healthy, nutritious, […] Read More
Saturday, July 18th, 1pm to 4pm 1401 Hornby, next to Kettle of Fish Want to learn how to compost or get some tips on how to manage your bin better? Join me at the Urban Garden this Saturday and get all your burning compost questions answered. I will also have […] Read More
Village Vancouver and the Westside Food Security Collaborative are pleased to offer a new neighbourhood based food networking workshop in Kitsilano. (This was mostly written by Ross at Village Van, but you need more than a B.A. to figure out how to override my byline!) Backyard Composting with Spring Gillard […] Read More
David Tracey and I are doing a series of podcasts, exploring the question: Can Urban Agriculture Save the World? Today we are standing in a front yard with Cam MacDonald. Cam doesn’t have a yard. He farms in other people’s yards around the city. Although he doesn’t say it here, […] Read More
Book Signing at Art Knapp’s Penticton, BC Saturday, July 4th, 11am to 2pm I am going home for a few days. Home meaning where I was born and my parents still live. Penticton, BC in the fertile Okanagan Valley where they still grow a lot of fruit, probably more grapes […] Read More
David Tracey and I are doing a series of podcasts, exploring the question: Can Urban Agriculture Save the World? David is an environmental designer and author of Guerilla Gardening, A Manualfesto (New Society 2007). You know who I am and what I wrote, I hope. But just in case, it […] Read More
It’s hard to escape your past. After 14 years as the compost hotline operator, it has been hard for me to move beyond that identity. I occasionally think I may have been successful in creating a new persona. Like the time I wrote a letter to the editor of a […] Read More