‘It’s about going with the flow of what is there for the taking – as in taking from the early adopter to early majority stage. It’s about intervening to seize opportunities, or as a food advocate might put it, making hay while the sun shines. It’s about being a Solutionary.’ —Wayne Roberts Field notes this week: Pinning Big Hopes On…
Month: March 2016
Rod MacRae Newsletter
‘If we grew the oats we should eat for breakfast or baking, we would plant 25000 more hectares in oats that would generate 241 new jobs and $3.8 million in taxes. (Isn’t arithmetic interesting?) However, it might cause a decline in sales of laxatives.’ —Wayne Roberts Field notes this week: It’s the Food Economy, Stupid Bill Clinton claims the big…
Terry Marsden Special
“In Terry Marsden’s words, local is no longer just about physical location, but a ‘space for rearranging possibilities which attempt to counter the prevailing forces in the agrarian landscape,’ a place for new networks and relationships. Producer-consumer food relations can be both re-rooted and rerouted, he says.” -Wayne Roberts Field notes this week: New Equations of Regions, People, Nature and Food…
How to grow a local job rich economy
‘Thinking about Shuman’s idea of looking for holes to plug, I was reminded of a close friend who had a stroke. During rehab, my friend complained about his bad arm. Don’t blame your bad arm, his rehab worker replied. The problem is in your brain, which has to be retrained. We need to retrain our minds to think of how…