The best time to plant a fruit tree is 20 years ago. The next best time is now. Temporary land use permits do not honour the heritage orchards that have fed communites for generations. Somehow my feelings are brewing. Ungluing from the seams of a community dream. This is where I grew up, in Lantzville […]
Tag Archives: food
Food: Prepare For Higher Food Prices
The price of food is rising. Inflationary food prices have occurred in more than 60 countries over the past two years, and in many countries, people have taken to the streets to protest. Extreme weather is taking a huge toll on global food production. A frost hits Mexico. A heat wave in Russia causes wheat […]
Change The Way You Eat
If you really are what you eat, what does that say about you? Do you need to change the way you eat? If you want to improve your nutrition, you need to eat more whole foods. Fill your fridge, freezer and cupboards with nutritious foods, and as you run out of the old processed […]
“Without refrigeration, modern life would be impossible!”
The fridge is a household amenity that we rarely consider removing from our lives; it is a useful appliance for storing the goods of consumerism, but it perpetuates a cold food-chain system contrary to sustainability, and its use of harsh and toxic chemicals for cooling is questionable at best. Improving the way we ship, export, […]
To Eat Meat Or Not To Eat Meat?
This is an extremely relevant, contemporary question. One aspect of this debate is indisputable. Industrial meat production is destructive to Planetary Ecology. Rainforests, the lungs of the planet, are burned to make way for growing soy to produce cattle feed. Water sources become polluted. Greenhouse gasses (which affect climate change by trapping heat in […]