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food security and food sovereignty

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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Towards Sustainability: one couple’s working model (part III)

Thumbnail image for Towards Sustainability: one couple’s working model (part III) April 13, 2009 by Jonathan Wright

This is part three of a series of articles penned by Jonathan Wright, a Calgary area farmer and co-founder of one of the city’s first community supported agriculture programs. Jon operates a zero-emission farm called Thompson Small Farm near Carbon, Alberta with his partner Andrea.
Thompson Small Farm uses animal power for as many tasks as [...]

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Hosting a Community Dialogue on Local Food Systems: a closer look at one community

Thumbnail image for Hosting a Community Dialogue on Local Food Systems: a closer look at one community April 10, 2009 by Jon Steinman

What does it take for a community to redefine how it accesses food?
The answer is likely different for every community, however, most North American communities are structured quite similarly and a snapshot of a recent gathering of over seventy people in Nelson, B.C., lends an ideal example of who and what’s required to better localize [...]

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Joel Salatin on creating “forgiving” food systems

April 7, 2009 by Ryan Slifka

American farmer Joel Salatin on “building forgiveness into the system.”
Salatin owns Polyface Farms, a large organic farm in the Shenendoah valley of Virginia. His farm operates by what some would call biodynamic principles, where the farm is essentially self-sustaining and requires few outside inputs to be productive. Salatin was featured in Michael Pollan’s manifesto [...]

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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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Overland: the family farm and Canada’s agricultural crisis

March 11, 2009 by Ryan Slifka

Between 1996 and 2006 Canadian farmers lost money every single year, while agricultural income to large multinational players has reached record highs. Small-scale family farming is in the greatest crisis in Canadian history as a result. In 2004 realized net farm income (subtracting government payments) was negative $10 000, with most farms supporting themselves through [...]

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Government of Canada to close Ontario prison farms, end rehabilitation program

March 2, 2009 by Ryan Slifka

According to CBC News, the federal government has announced that the country’s prison farm system will be phased out, starting with the closing of two prisons in the Kingston, Ontario area. All six farms will be phased out over the next two years, said a government spokesperson, claiming that the farms are no longer a [...]

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