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Purpose and Product: the Beginning of a CSA Part III

August 10, 2009 by Ryan Slifka

Last weekend, a few of our CSA members headed out to Linden, Alberta for another visit to Oxyoke Farms. We’d been out a month or two before that and had a great time.
I took a few videos from this last trip, but Windows Vista didn’t seem to like them, so I’ve been struggling for the [...]

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Permaculture at the Blue Raven Farm

Thumbnail image for Permaculture at the Blue Raven Farm August 4, 2009 by Jon Steinman

The New Resilient features Deconstructing Dinner, an award-winning weekly radio podcast about local and international food issues brought to you by Kootenay Coop Radio CJLY FM in Nelson, British Columbia. You can download the latest episode here, stream it here or download the podcast via iTunes.
Deconstructing Dinner revisits with the topic of permaculture… a concept [...]

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Agriculture Industry’s Oil Addiction Threatens Food Security

July 18, 2009 by Mike Soron

Peak oil is real. It is becoming much more expensive to extract petroleum and the rate at which we do so is dropping. Serious consequences for food production loom.
Lester R. Brown has a solid summary post at Solve Climate:
This prospect of oil production peaking and countries at the same time failing to establish greater energy [...]

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Planting a Food Forest in Calgary #yyc events

Thumbnail image for Planting a Food Forest in Calgary #yyc events July 16, 2009 by Ryan Slifka

Rob Avis of Ravis Sustainable Consulting will be leading his Introduction to Permaculture class in transforming a Calgary lawn into a viable food forest. He already has enough help to do it, but anyone who would like to check out the progress is welcome to stop by.
“It is a pretty powerful message and great to [...]

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Norway, British Columbia IV (Farming Atlantic Salmon in the Pacific)

Thumbnail image for Norway, British Columbia IV (Farming Atlantic Salmon in the Pacific) July 15, 2009 by Jon Steinman

The New Resilient features Deconstructing Dinner, an award-winning weekly radio podcast about local and international food issues brought to you by Kootenay Coop Radio CJLY FM in Nelson, British Columbia. You can download the latest episode here, stream it here or download the podcast via iTunes.
In October 2008, host Jon Steinman spoke with wildlife biologist [...]

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Visa Requirements for Mexicans a Perverse Outcome of NAFTA

Thumbnail image for Visa Requirements for Mexicans a Perverse Outcome of NAFTA July 14, 2009 by National Farmers Union

Canadians need to understand the context of today’s announcement that Mexican citizens will require visas to visit Canada. We also need to understand the root cause of the rising number of Mexican refugees coming to Canada.
Food products—staples such as corn and beans—are flooding into Mexico. Since the 1995 implementation of NAFTA, US corn exports [...]

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Calgary Farmers’ Market Goes Corporate?

Thumbnail image for Calgary Farmers’ Market Goes Corporate? May 14, 2009 by Ryan Slifka

The Calgary Farmers’ Market has become a fixture of the Calgary culinary and local food community. In fact, it was the place where I eventually discovered the joys (and pricey-ness) of local food fare. Some of my favourite farmers still sell there, like Valta Bison and the Innisfail Growers co-op.
However, the Farmers’ Market has always [...]

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Wendell Berry: Agrarian Radical

May 12, 2009 by Ryan Slifka

I think I’ll just give a plug for one of the most intelligent, principled and writers of our time. His book Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community, and subsequent reads, completely transformed my own views on ecology and the human project, making it clear that all life on this earth functions in an economy of communion [...]

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North American Agriculture: A crisis in awareness and participation

Thumbnail image for North American Agriculture: A crisis in awareness and participation April 3, 2009 by Jon Steinman

The following article is Deconstructing Dinner host Jon Steinman’s reflections on the talk given by farmer, author and photographer Michael Ableman’s in February of this year in Nelson, British Columbia. The talk can be found here.

Michael Ableman is a farmer, author and photographer.
His interest to change the way in which North Americans access food [...]

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High on the (corporate) hog: our Agriculture Canada weekly update

Thumbnail image for High on the (corporate) hog: our Agriculture Canada weekly update April 1, 2009 by Ryan Slifka

Agriculture Canada sends out periodic press releases, usually proclaiming the good work of Agriculture Minister Gerry “Puttin’ on the” Ritz’s office in assisting “farmers.” I’ve decided to take it upon myself to present some of the statements made by Minister Ritz’ office and decipher them because they can’t be taken at face value. In this [...]

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Hosting a Community Dialogue on Local Food Systems

Thumbnail image for Hosting a Community Dialogue on Local Food Systems March 30, 2009 by Jon Steinman

The New Resilient now features Deconstructing Dinner, an award-winning weekly radio podcast about local and international food issues brought to you by Kootenay Coop Radio CJLY FM in Nelson, British Columbia. You can download the latest episode here, stream it here or subscribe to it on iTunes.
Over the past few years, Deconstructing Dinner has involved [...]

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A Crisis in Awareness & Participation: Michael Ableman

Thumbnail image for A Crisis in Awareness & Participation: Michael Ableman March 25, 2009 by Jon Steinman

The New Resilient now features Deconstructing Dinner, an award-winning weekly radio podcast about local and international food issues brought to you by Kootenay Coop Radio CJLY FM in Nelson, British Columbia. You can download it here, stream it here or subscribe to it on iTunes.
Michael Ableman is a farmer, author and photographer. Since he moved [...]

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Potato Famine “Facts”: the Real Dirt on Farming? Part II

Thumbnail image for Potato Famine “Facts”: the Real Dirt on Farming? Part II March 20, 2009 by Jon Steinman

The following is a continuation of the March 6, 2009 column featuring excerpts from Jon Steinman’s talk given in early February 2009 at the Annual Policy Conference of the Dairy Farmers of Canada in Ottawa. In the spirit of Deconstructing Dinner, the talk focused on the deconstructing of an industry and government-funded publication produced in [...]

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