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The Local Grain Revolution X (Retail Supported Agriculture? / Sprouting Grain)

Thumbnail image for The Local Grain Revolution X (Retail Supported Agriculture? / Sprouting Grain) September 11, 2009 by Jon Steinman

What is Retail Supported Agriculture?
As far as the North American local food movement is concerned, it’s not a concept that has yet been coined in any notable way. The Kootenay Grain CSA (community supported agriculture) project located in the Kootenay region of British Columbia is now changing that.
Community Supported Agriculture is most often a model [...]

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Stuffed & Starved/ Food Sovereignty/ The Canadian Wheatboard

Thumbnail image for Stuffed & Starved/ Food Sovereignty/ The Canadian Wheatboard August 21, 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 this episode here, stream it here or download the podcast via iTunes.
Deconstructing Dinner features three segments produced by the National Radio Project’s [...]

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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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Labour Intensive Farming “No Longer Relevant” – Minister of Public Safety

Thumbnail image for Labour Intensive Farming “No Longer Relevant” – Minister of Public Safety July 29, 2009 by Jon Steinman

In February, startling news was leaked to Kingston, Ontario’s daily newspaper, The Whig-Standard. Minister of Public Safety, Peter Van Loan, was cutting Canada’s prison farm program located at six Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) institutions.
The program is part of CORCAN – the branch of CSC providing rehabilitative employment training to inmates.
The planned closures [...]

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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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The Future of Prison Farms

Thumbnail image for The Future of Prison Farms July 6, 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 download the podcast via iTunes.
In February 2009, it was discovered that Canada’s Public [...]

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Lessons from Cuba/Employing Insect Farmers (encore)

Thumbnail image for Lessons from Cuba/Employing Insect Farmers (encore) June 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 download the podcast via iTunes.
Launching this episode, we travel to Cuba – a [...]

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DOW Formalizes NAFTA Challenge to Quebec Pesticide Ban

Thumbnail image for DOW Formalizes NAFTA Challenge to Quebec Pesticide Ban June 26, 2009 by Jon Steinman

In some provinces across the country, walking outside your house in the morning will no longer be greeted with a breath of fresh chemicals being applied to your next-door neighbour’s lawn.
Quebec was the first to implement a province-wide cosmetic pesticide ban, similar to those within municipalities being enacted throughout Canada on the use of chemicals [...]

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Deconstructing Dinner in our Schools III (Ryerson University) & Backyard Chickens VIII

Thumbnail image for Deconstructing Dinner in our Schools III (Ryerson University) & Backyard Chickens VIII June 23, 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 download the podcast via iTunes.
Deconstructing Dinner in our Schools III (Ryerson University)
The G. [...]

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Sailing Vegetables in Puget Sound/Sourdough Waffles

Thumbnail image for Sailing Vegetables in Puget Sound/Sourdough Waffles June 16, 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 download the podcast via iTunes.

Sailing Vegetables in Puget Sound
Part VII of The Local [...]

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Sailing Zucchinis in Puget Sound

Thumbnail image for Sailing Zucchinis in Puget Sound June 12, 2009 by Jon Steinman

For over a year now, Deconstructing Dinner has been documenting the evolution of Canada’s first community supported agriculture (CSA) project for grain. Located in the West Kootenay region of British Columbia, the CSA has also been the catalyst for many more firsts, one of which was likely the first inland distribution of food by sailboat [...]

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Pigshit! Industrial Hog Farming in Quebec

Thumbnail image for Pigshit! Industrial Hog Farming in Quebec June 9, 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.
Recorded in May 2008, Pigshit! is a three-part documentary about [...]

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A Primer on Pesticide Propaganda: the Pesticide Lobby

Thumbnail image for A Primer on Pesticide Propaganda: the Pesticide Lobby May 27, 2009 by Jon Steinman

“Researchers were able to demonstrate that current scientific knowledge does not sup¬port the idea that a switch to organic and sustainable agriculture would drastically lower food production and lead to hunger.” – M. Jahi Chappell, co-author, Organic Agriculture and the Global Food Supply
On April 22, the Province of Ontario implemented a ban on the “cosmetic” [...]

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