Yellowknife and Hay River “We’re so far behind up here that we’re ahead,” Evellyn Coleman told me, explaining why her Territorial Farmers Association, the first in North America to consider accepting backyard and community gardeners as full members, was inviting me up to speak in the Northwest Territories. Just south of the Arctic tundra, where [...]
Northwest Territories Gardeners and Farmers Work Together For Local Food
August 26, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Agro-Ecology Is the Oldest and Newest Form of Bio-Mimicry: Count the F Words
August 23, 2010 By 1 Comment
Imitation is the highest form of flattery, and the intricate form of food production practiced by peasants through much of Asia and South America still express that flattery in relation to Nature. In the Global North, all food production except hunting and gathering is commonly referred to as agriculture. But in the Global South, the [...]
Hole In The Wall Gang Wants A Room Of Its Own
August 12, 2010 By 2 Comments
Quebec City Uses Food as Pioneer Species of Urban Revival
August 10, 2010 By Leave a Comment
By sheer luck, our family stumbled on a little-known urban success story while looking for a place to crash in Quebec City that offered direct access to the throughway to northern Quebec, where our daughter was going to learn French. Right next to Quebec City’s famous central core, preserved as a walled monument of an [...]
Governments Spend More on Bombs, Not Food, Decades after Cold War and Atomic Bombing
August 10, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Visiting Japan a few years ago changed the way I look at the difference between conventional and nuclear war. On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima became the target for the first atomic bomb dropped on civilian populations, a chilling example of the use of non-conventional weapons. That moment is now commemorated around the world every August. [...]
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