From Field To Table
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Final Harvest
It is a time to honour our ancestors.
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A New Journey Begins
“Peak oil is a scam designed to create artificial scarcity
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Peak Oil Primer
The systems that produce the world's food supply are heavily dependent on fossil fuels.
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Food, Walking Weight Loss Continues
The best way to lose weight is to burn off more calories than you consume.
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Camp Joy Tomatoes
This way you keep the variety alive and growing.
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Micro-Eco Farming
“The differences among individual micro eco-farms are many, yet that is their strength."
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Food and Niche Opportunities
One sound way to develop a niche market is to find a product, in our case, a vegetable, fruit or herb, that is relatively unknown in your region but that grows in a climate that is similar.
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You Are What You Eat
You are what you eat
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Zucchini Tomato Sauce Recipe
zuchinni tomato sauce recipe
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Food and Choice
Decision can be tough to make, there are so many factors to consider. Take food, for example, after all we are what we eat.
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Seed Saving
If you are saving seeds for the first time, there are some vegetables that are easier than others to save.
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The Sustainable Life
This article begins our look at how creating a sustainable life relates to our previous discussions.
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Cooperative Gardening 2
An accessible garden creates an area where people of all ages and abilities can garden.
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Choices
Choice, options and opportunities play an intimate part in creating meaningful work and right livelihood.
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Food Myth and Reality
It is dangerous to assume that just because food grows in the field that it will end up on your table.
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Food Circles and Sustainability
Food is the foundation and future of any society.
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Cooperative Gardening
Cooperation is how we build the communities we want to live in and provide for ourselves, our families, our neighbours and our future.
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Meaningful Work; Part One
A Food Circle is a new way of conceiving of and organizing our agricultural and food system
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Sprawl
The problems begin when we take more than we return.
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Community Gardens, Two
Many community gardeners share the surplus that a properly cared for garden will produce.
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Community Gardens: Right Livelihood
Gardening can teach us a lot about being good neighbours
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Right Livelihood II
gardening, education, enterpreneur, food, squash,
community currency
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Right Livelihood
The business plan is your guide to a successful venture.
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Celery
Now you have a basic celery broth.
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Garlic Two
I don’t mind promoting the use of garlic but aromatic special effects are unnecessary.
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Garlic!
Garlic, a clove a day, keeps the doctor away.
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Tomato Sauce
Canned tomatoes are fine for sauce, I prefer using a combination of crushed and diced tomatoes but whole canned tomatoes can work as well
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Basil and Beyond
Basil is known as the "King of Herbs"
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Where Does You Lunch Come From?
If a food delivery system is to achieve sustainability, then, the more food that is available from sources close to the consumer, the better.
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Food and Prosperity: Part One
There just may be a food-based enterprise in restaurant food waste.
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Dandelions, Please.
The closer your food source is to your backdoor or front door, the more secure it is.
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Water can't grow without it.
Water is vital. We die after three days without water.
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Friends and business may not mix.
Chososing your business partners requires thoughtful observation.
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Heritage Seed Sources
heritage seed sources
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Food Travels
"What does the North American Free Trade Agreement have to do with what we eat?"
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We are what we eat.
Soups and stews made with lentils, bens, potatoes, carrots, cabbages, and peas, for example, not only warm us with their savoury richness but nourish us as well.
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Food: The Journey Disrupted.
You can have a mountain of dried pasta, rice and beans but without water or a substitute liquid to cook it in, it'll be hard chewing.
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The Seed
However, none of this will happen if we lose control over the seed.
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Schools and Food bans
The following comments and their sources shed some light on this complex issue.
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The Family Farm
Agriculture is the cornerstone of a strong, viable, healthy and sustainable community.
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Food Allergies and School Policy
a discussion about food, school, allergies and food bans.
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Food and school
to examine two programs that connect local farms and food to schools.
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Community Food Security
“Study how a society uses its land and you can come to pretty reliable conclusions as to what its future will be” (p.94)
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Herablism@home a review
Herbalism@home gave me the knowledge and the confidence that I need to make the attempt.
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Food and Public Policy 2
I am reading a book which I will be reviewing here in the near future. Michael Olson’s MetroFarm is a Guide to Growing for Big Profit on a Small Parcel of Land. The title fits well with the local social economy enterprises that we have underway here in Thunder Bay, Over the next few months we will discuss the three projects in more detail.
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Food and Public Policy
we need to stop and take a moment to consider how influential our agriculture system is in defining who we are and what we do as a society.
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Winter Solstice
Winter Solstice also known as Yule, Christmas, and Saturnalia, occurs in mid December
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From here to there.
Food distribution is also a major contributor to climate change and other forms of pollution.
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From here to there.
Food distribution is also a major contributor to climate change and other forms of pollution.
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What's in that Fish?
mercury and seafood.
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Bananas
walking, water, fair trade and weight loss
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Your Own Business
are you a social entrepreneur?
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The Urban Forest: Future Planning
For example, we build roads and railways so that food can be transported to the city but we don't plant apple or other fruit trees in our parks or other community spaces.
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Social Enterprise
"The function of entrepreneurs is to reform or revolutionize the pattern of production."
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Samhain, Last Harvest, Halloween
The celebration of Samhain is a major event on the pagan calendar.
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Micro Eco-farming
“The differences among individual micro eco-farms are many, yet that is their strength.”
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Compost
one of my earliest garden memories is the compost pit that my father built in our backyard.
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Beyond Organics
“Beyond Organics :even the most chemical free chicken doesn’t do the environment any good if is trucked 2000 km from farm to market”
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Invest don't Shop
It is your investment in not only you and your family's future but it is a major investment in creating a healthy, caring community.
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World Food Day
The theme for World Food Day and TeleFood campaign for 2004 is "Biodiversity for Food Security".
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Cereal: when you're hot ,you're hot
The Autumnal Equinox is near.
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Food, Walking and Weight Loss
Our attitude towards food determines what and how we eat.
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Three Tomato: The Tale Continues
What you eat matters.
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Two Tomato
I will be able to savour the taste of cherry tomatoes picked within four feet of my kitchen table.
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The Potato
Many of us know that the potato has traditional connections to Ireland but are we aware that they are also enjoyed in the Netherlands, New Zealand and Scotland as well?
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The Tale of Three Tomatoes
Food is a celebration.
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Food; Follow the Trail.
The first stop on the food trail is the sandwich.
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Elemental Food
eart,air,fire,water
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The NAFTA Food Chain
Do you know where your tomatoes come from?
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Community Food Security
a community response to a global issue.
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Weeds, what weeds.
it is time to cultivate rather than destroy those weeds.
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Wild Food in the City
“Working Paper: Exploring the Value of Urban non-Timber Forest products"
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Slow down and do.
small and slow solutions
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Food and Transportation: Part One
Ideally, I'd like to see more of a balance between train and truck.
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Shiitake Mushrooms: Grow Your Own.
I begin my adventure with shiitake on a log this Summer
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Community
It is time to get beyond the talk and begin the action.
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Running Out Of Food?
You go to the grocery store only to find a mounting panic.
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I am what I eat
if we eat what was grown in the healthy soil.
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Avian Flu: An Overview
Poultry operations of all kinds have become more and more sophisticated.
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Let's End Hunger!
There is much that we can do all we need is compassion and a willingness to get together and discuss the possibilities.
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Millet:The Neglected Grain
Millet is still a major food source in Asia and North Africa.
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Urban Livestock
I'd rather be able to step out my backdoor, take a few steps and be at my own backyard chicken
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Hazelnut Permaculture
The Hazelnut Permaculture Workers Co-operative is being developed based upon the ethics and principles of Permaculture as detailed by Holmgren.
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My Garden
The gardening season officially began today.
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The Cooperative Advantage
Earn a living and do good work.
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Consumer Producer Cooperatives
Community food cooperatives all operate according to the seven international principles of
cooperatives.
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Back to the Foodshed
I am returning to the issue of foodsheds because they play an important role in understanding
how food travels within a society and how we can develop an action plan which will move us
toward community food security.
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Cooperatives
This week we begin our look at food related cooperatives
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Going Organic: Part Two
Size does matter and in this instance small is better.
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Eggs.
Or an slice of Gouda from a local cheese maker, Thunder Oak Cheese, on rye toast topped with a poach egg
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Going Organic, Part One
If our food is to be truly secure and safe, you need to grow it yourself, organically, or purchase it directly from a local organic grower.
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Lets Talk Food: Lunch
Food is one of our most intimate experiences.
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When is Enough, Enough?
How do we learn to maintain a comfortable and responsible balance between austerity and excess?
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Waste Not!
The economic potential of recycling is only just beginning to be recognized.
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Small is Indeed Beautiful
Food production works best on a small, local and interconnected scale.
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Taking Responsibility Part Two
If your only food shopping choice is a corporate supermarket, be sure to ask questions
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Let's Talk Food: Responsibility
Each week Field to Table will examine the food chain and help you find the information you need to make decisions.
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Lets Talk Food : Labelling
Do you know what the turkey you ate yesterday had for lunch?
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The Winter Solstice
Winter Solstice marks the time of the year when the light returns as the sun shifts and starts to move northward again.
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The Family Turkey Dinner
I was, at least able to get a free range, grain fed turkey.
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Invest in Your Community: Shop Local
If you are worried about the local economy, then, when you must shop, make sure you buy goods and services from a locally owned and operated business.
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The Family Farm
If the family farm disappears or becomes consumed by the agri-industrial food giants then we not only lose part of our heritage, but an intimate connection to the source of all that we eat.
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Slow down
Slow down you move too fast comes to mind.
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Lets Talk Food
In addition, I wanted to lose weight and save money. I have managed to do both.
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On Being Self-Reliant
We can learn the design skills we need through observing Nature and mimicking her works.
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A Cooking Song: on Samhain
A time for celebration and remembrance and what better way to celebrate than a meal prepared from your own harvest.
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Samhain: the Third Harvest
Pumpkins, apples and hazelnuts are Samhain regulars. The following pumpkin pie recipe will amke 2 nine inch pies:
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World Food Day
Why are people hungry?
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Urban Agriculture
urban agriculture plays a major role in building a sustainable city
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The Way Out
We need to reconsider our relationship with food.
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Designing The Sustainable Life
We can build community, create meaningful livelihood and design sustainable neighbourhoods and safe streets, when we pay attention to how the food we need, travels from the field to the table.
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Compost and Memory
Today, I practise what my father told me when I was very young. Making compost makes good soil and good soil makes good gardens.
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Permaculture Ethics
Without permanent agriculture there is no possibility of stable social order.
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Permaculture, Restoring The Earth
Our agricultural system can heal the earth as it provides food for our table.
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The Farmers' Market
As a shopper you can talk directly with the people who grow what they are selling.
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Going Bananas
Consumer power, use it to make a difference.
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Our Right To Know.
Why not let the market place decide? What are they afraid of?
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Friends, Family, Food, Fun, Memories.
However, dinner with friends is not the time to explore those consequences. It is the time to enjoy being together and the food that is before us.
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First Harvest
There is much to learn but the author gives us a solid foundation upon which to build the skills we need to gather dinner while taking a walk in our community
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Food and Festival: Two
I still object to being forbidden to bring food.
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Food and Festival
Living ecologically
doesn't mean giving everything up, but relearning the value of nature and
understanding new ways of being wealthy.
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Highway 71: The Voyageur Route
So if you love to travel and explore new places make the Great Northwest Circle Tour. Be sure to bring your camera. Great photographs are waiting for you and maybe you will see a moose.
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The Great Northwest Circle
If you rent or own a recreational vehicle this is an ideal region for you. Scenic lake side camp grounds are all around.
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For The Birds:
This week, we will begin our look at berries, from blueberries, bearberries to strawberries and service berries, somewhere there is a berry or two that is just right for you.
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Living In Place
When you live with a clear intent you can work miracles.
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Sustainable Living is Possible.
I want to introduce you to an important book: "Solviva: How To Grow $500,00.00 On One Acre & Peace On Earth."
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The Balcony Garden
I'm redesigning my balcony. My goal is to create a permaculture site in this six by six space
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Community Gardening, Community Building
Actually, the community garden enables people to become neighbours, not just people who live on the same street or nearby but people who stop and say hi, share a few minutes with one another.
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Rain!
If we take water for granted, many of us aren't even that kind to rain, we simply hate it.
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Thinking Like A Community, Part One.
According to an ancient Indian Upanishad, "All that is born is born of anna [food].
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Water!
water is Life's source.
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Seeds: Ecological Gardening, Part Two
The seed is where it all begins ...
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Ecological Garden Design: Part One
Good design and thoughtful plant selection help create bountiful gardens.
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Your Ecological Footprint
determine the impact you have on the earth
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Coffee, No Milk or Sugar
Coffe a consumer explosion.
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The Entrepreneur
are you an entrepreneur?
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Food Make It Your Business
On the community scale, the local production and distribution of food products provides people with an ideal economic opportunity.
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Lunch On The Lawn.
a lawn can be more than a lawn.
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The Family Farm
An agriculture in which farmers and their families are owner-operators who buy and sell in the market
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Spring: Life's Promise Renewed.
Spring awakens hope.
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Food Myths
Food and water, life's basics
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Weather, A Little Knowledge Makes A Difference.
We cannot afford to take the weather for granted.
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Heritage Seeds, Our Past, Present and Future.
heritage seeds link us to Life's Cycle
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Light and Your Indoor Garden.
artifical lights enable you to grow plants all year round.
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Another Turn of the Wheel
Imbolc or Groundhog Day, it is a time for planning.
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Plants Are Our Future
We need to reconsider our relationship with plants.
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Seeds, Where the Journey Begins.
The journey begins with the seed.
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Why Permaculture?
permaculture is a design system for creating sustainable human environments.
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Where It All Began.
My interest in food and food security began with photography.
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Community Reflections
our common home
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Winter Solstice
The Winter Solstice is a time for inner reflection and celebration.
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Are You A Food Entrepreneur?
Careful planning is essential to business success.
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Cooking and Survival
Cooking is an essential skill.
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Shopping: Investing in your community
use your shopping dollars to build community
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Peas, Beans and Lentils, Oh My.
peas, beans and lentils safe, secure foods.
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We are how we eat.
Our lives are shaped by how food gets to the table.
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Potatoes, The Everyday Food.
potatoes are a very vesatile food.
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Taking Action
an eight step action plan.
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Last Harvest
a surprise final harvest
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Cereal more than a breakfast food.
Dry cereal is good anytime.
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New Foods
Time to expand our food chocies.
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Dinner, the choice is yours.
Every time we eat we make a choice.
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Food Is A Human Right.
We must acknowledge that food is a human right.
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There is grace in giving.
Give Food, Give Life
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Food Security: The Series
food security defined
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The Back to School Lunch.
the sandwich makes a great lunch.
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Food Labelling
even apples need labels
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The Farmers Market
The farmers market a community palce.
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Building Community
Self-reliance is a cooperative activity.
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Self-reliance, Part One
the first steps
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Balcony Garden: Update
The balcony garden is thriving.
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the pesto manifesto
the pesto manifesto, a review
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On The Road
1500 klicks and a cooler.
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Community Gardens, Part 3
If a community garden is going to work, then there are two things that need to be in place or the potential problems will erode the garden.
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The Community Garden, Part 2
The neighbourhhod meeting an essential part of community gardening
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The Community Garden
Community gardens fight hunger.
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Eternal Treblinka
How we treat animals helps define the society we build.
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Organic Cut Flowers: A Growing Niche?
The business plan continued.
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The Plan, Part One.
planning encourages success
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Stone Age Farming, a review
eco-agriculture for the 21st century
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A New Community Garden
My gardening weekend included setting up a new community garden.
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Starting A Co-operative.
Part One: starting a cooperative business.
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The Food Entrepreneur
on becoming a social entrepreneur
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Backyard Permaculture
Create your own backyard ecosystem.
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The Food Circle
A food circle links the many people involved in food production together in interdependent, holistic ways.
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Welcome to the Foodshed
The first in an ongoing series exploring local foodsheds.
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Wild Food!
Take a walk and pick your lunch.
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Take A Walk.
Take a walk around the block and meet your neighbours.
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Slow Food
slow down and enjoy dinner.
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To Chocolate or not to Chocolate.
Do you know where that chocolate bar came from?
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Welcome Spring: The Spring Equinox
The Wheel turns and Life renews.
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Pizza!
making your own.
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The Balcony Garden
Your garden starts at your doorstep.
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Small Scale Food Production
Growing food on a balocny
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Bread, Part Two.
gluten free bread
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Bread.
Bread, make your own.
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Peanut Butter Is Not For Everyone.
I love peanut butter but for people who are allergic to peanuts, it can be deadly.
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The Sandwich: A Complete Meal
What does it take to make a sandwich?
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Community Food Security
we must create a food culture where food matters
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Food and Community
We can build community while gardening together.
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Food Reclamation
Restaurant food is a resource not waste.
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Everything Eats.
Reducing food waste has many benefits.
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Food Matters
Food is more than dinner.
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Life's Dance
This holiday season celebrate the eternal dance.
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Earthworms, Your Dinner's Best Friends
Great gardens begin with you.
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A celebration of sharing
Food plays an important role in our seasonal celebrations.
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Why Turkey?
Why not consider an alternative?
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Locally Owned and Operated Businesses
If you have to shop, buy from a neighbour.
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Light and the Indoor Garden
You can grow food indoors even in a room with no windows.
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Growing Herbs Indoors,
How to grow herbs indoors
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The Indoor Food Garden: Part One.
How to grow food indoors.
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Samhain: the Last Harvest
Samhain, a Year ends as One is born.
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The Neighborhood Forager: a review
a review of Robert K. Henderson's book.
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Building the Healthy City.
urban planners must consider food security.
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There Are Always Alternatives.
first in a 3 part series on alternative food sources.
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Gaia's Garden: a review
Gaia's Garden: A Guide To Home-Scale Permaculture
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Back To The Farm
When it comes to food security the small or family farm is our future.
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Greenhouses, Stretch The Growing Season.
A greenhouse can increase your food security.
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Water Conservation.
Tips on saving water.
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Permaculture; A Beginner's Guide, a review.
a review of Graham Burnett's book.
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Water Facts
Water, the facts!
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Water!
Water can't live without it.
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The Seed.
Food secuirty begins with the seed.
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Knowing Your Neigbourhood.
Getting to know what grows where you live.
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Knowledge: Makes a Difference.
Knowledge is essential for effective design.
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Permaculture Possibilities: An Introduction
An introduction to the possibilities of permaculture design.
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Contemplative Shopping
Enjoy your trip to the supermarket.
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It All Begins with Food.
The first in a series about urban agriculture.
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On The Road
Finding a good vegetarian meal while travelling.
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The Agreement on Agriculture
The global food game.
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Women Working The NAFTA Food Chain: a review.
women, food and globalization.
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Fair Trade
Fair Trade NOT Free Trade.
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Say No to GMO!
Now is the time to say no to genetically modified foods.
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Sweet Potatoe Leaves
A new market possibility.
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Yacon, expanding the possibilities
Source for yacon and marketing tips.
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Other Lands; New Possibilities.
Crops that thrive in similar climates may mean dollars in your pocket.
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Hemp, a Perfect Cash Crop.
Hemp an important part of the new economy.
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Microfinance
A peer lending circle may be your best bet.
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Small Green Business Planning
The sustainable small business encompasses the principle of right livelihood.
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The Grassroots Food Business
Over the enxt few weeks we will examine food as a community economic engine.
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Hot Dog!
Baseball and hot dogs, Spring is here.
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Eating at the Movies.
Moveis are a favourite place to snack.
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Snack Foods
Have we become fatter?
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Take Responsibility for Yourself and the Future.
Our primary purpose is to take care responsibility for ourselves and for future generations.
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Growing Your Own!
Grow your own food and be safe.
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Shop Locally
buying your food locally is a good community investment.
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Labeling, Just Do it!
Your Right to Know 2
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Food Labelling: Your Right To Know
You have a right to know what is in your food.
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Waste To Wealth
One person's garbage, is another's gold.
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Your Ecological Footprint
How big a footprint do you leave?
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Making Choices
Mad cow disease may not be a threat to North America, but do you want to take chances?
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Milk, How Much Do We Need?
Do you know how much milk you actually need each day?
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Milk, To Drink Or Not
Milk is it healthy?
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The Calendar Changes: A New Year Dawns.
A Yearly Review: Resolution Time
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Food Safety
Do you really want to nuke your food?
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Work, why do it?
What are the alternatives to the 9-to-5 work week?
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Sprout Your Way Into Your Own Business.
The first in a series of food and grassroots economic development
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Food and Community Development
The first in a series examining food and community economic development
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Food Is A Human Right.
It is time we accepted the fact that food is a human right.
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Community Food Programs
give a gift to help end hunger
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Tis the Sharing Season.
A food doantion makes an excellent gift
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Bread: Life's Staple.
too many people go to bed hungry each day
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The Oceans: where it all begins.
plankton is the primordal food source.
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Samhain: Greeting the New Year
Samhain, marks the end of the old year and the birth of the new.
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Food and You.
Food and you, the impact of food on your body and mind.
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Trees,Can't Live Without Them.
Part Two: Trees and Food Production.
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Trees, Humanity's Best Friend
The functions of trees.
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Big Rigs: Food and Transportation
The trucking industry and food delivery
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Food: the Business.
The second articel in a series about food production.
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The Farm: Where it all begins.
Food production: A Series, Part One
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Go Bananas!
You can make a difference.
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Get Political, Drink Coffee
Save the songbirds buy shade grown coffee
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Humility: changing perspectives.
Don't flush it away, recycle.
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RATS!
what our food waste feeds.
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Fast Food Follies
Our Fascination with Fast Food is leading us towards ecological danger.
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Nuisance Bears?
Are bears the nusiance or are we?
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The One Straw Revolution
A tribute to Fukuoka's work.
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Alternatives: Field-To-Table
exploring alternative food delivery systems.
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The Carbohydrate Economy, Part 2
Eat it, wear it, drink it, grow it.
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The sustainable vegetarian food system: Part 1
Part One in a series exploring how a sustainable vegetarian-based food supply system works.
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It takes an ecosystem to provide security.
All creatures make a garden grow.
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Tell us The Truth!
The promoters of biotech have not been honest.
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Are You Thirsty?
water, our most precious resource
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Small Thrives.
The small farm is essential to food security.
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Backyard Harmony
Food Security and Ecology
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Healthy Cities
food and the city- grow your own.
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Urban Sprawl
Sprawl and the disappearance of the rural environment.
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Strategic Planning: Increase the odds.
Create a five year plan
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Farmageddon: Now Is The Time.
Farmageddon, a review of Brewster Kneen's book
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People and Berries and Bears, Oh My!
Berries are a delicious food not just for humans
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Lettuce, the Sandwich's best friend.
Lettuce is a versatile additon to your food supply.
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The Seed, The Source
Seeds are the beginning and the end
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The Four Elements, a sacred interaction
every day is earth day
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Porridge, the breakfast champion
Part 2, Cereal
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Cereal, You Can't Leave Home Without It.
The History of Cereal, Part 1
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Microenterprises
Resources for anyone seeking to launch a microenterprise
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Growing Your Own.
Community food supply
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Ending hunger, a micro response
Local community action can reduce hunger.
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Can We End World Hunger?
First in a 4-part series
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Sugar,now there's something better
stevia is a natural sugar replacement
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Looking Back
a Pause To Reflect
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Carrots, Winter's Delight.
Chase away the winter blues eat a carrot
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Your dinner is a political statement.
Our food choices stretch far beyond the dinner table.
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What have we learned?
Y2k has come and gone will we, as a society, grow or continue in our wasteful ways.
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Designing: don't forget the bees.
How to choose plants that will help heal the Earth.
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Design Your Own!
Now is the time to plan your garden
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Tis the Season to be Compassionate.
it is the season for sharing
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Planning the food security garden
1st of 3 articles exploring food security and garden design
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Merry Yule To All!
Tis The Season to Be Joyful.
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Building Community
Imagine the possibilities when you build community
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Food, so many decisions
Eating can be a complex experience.
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Change Begins at Home.
part two in our look at alternative food systems
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Alternative Communities
How we supply our food may decide how we live with each other.
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Out of the Past Our Future.
The final part in the history of agriculture series.
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Farming Past, Present and Future
Part 3 in the history of agriculture series
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Into the Past to Greet the Future
Part Two, historical agriculture
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From hunter to farmer and back, Part One.
Part One of a look at the history of food production.
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Forward into our Past.
the first in a series of articels looking at our agricultural past.
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Splicing the seed: a slippery slope indeed.
when we begin to manipulate seeds we begin a process that may hold dire consequences.
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Molecular Farming: a blessing or a curse?
an introduction to molecular farming
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What are you eating?
Do you know what is in the food you eat?
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Mushrooms: an easy step towards self-reliance.
Mushrooms can provide both food and income.
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Who is Monsanto?
A look at Monsanto.
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Food Production: Who do you trust?
A look at the food production system and its alternatives.
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Soybeans, the controversy continues.
Soybeans to eat or not to eat.
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Soybeans: How healthy are they?
Are soybeans really good for you?
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Water: For sale!
Water, our most precious resource has become a commodity.
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Weather, friend or foe?
The wise gardener knows weather.
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Seeds, self-reliance and you.
Seeds are Life's beginning, our food supply depends upon them.
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Greenhouses, do you need one?
Plan before your build or buy.
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Working together increases your self-reliance.
storms, pests and disease are threats to food security, workin with others diminishes the damage.
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Self-reliant or self-sufficent?
The first in a 3 part series exploring self-reliance and self-sufficiency
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The Sandwich: Quite A Journey
The sandwich a quick meal or is it?
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The 6% Solution
Increase your food supply without increasing the size of your garden.
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Backyard Conservation: where food security begins
Your backyard can provide you, your family and a myriad of other creatures with food.
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Let's Share with the Bears.
Part Two, The competition for food.
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Bears, Blueberries, a Battleground? Part One
All too often the search for food is a competition,
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Food make a conscious choice.
Grow you own food and know what you eat.
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You Never Know...
Knowledge will improve your life.
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Food First
growing food cooperatively builds community
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Chocolate.
Chocolate, where does it come from?
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Water, Get Your Own!
Some ideas for improving your water security
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Permaculture, understanding how Nature works.
A look at permaculture and why it is important.
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What's The Buzz?
The buzz of bees means Life is unfolding.
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Expanding Your Indoor Garden.
Your imagination joined wiht knowledge increases your ability to grow food indoors.
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Designing Your Indoor Garden
Garden design how big will my garden grow?
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Growing Food Indoors 2
Part 2 in our look at growing food indoors.
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Growing Food Indoors, Part One
You can grow vegetable indoors year round.
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The Ancient Celts: Links worth visiting
Ancient Celts, some useful links
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Seeds, no future without them.
Seeds, the first step to food self-reliance
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Water, Water, Part 2.
Part II: Water Conservation
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Water, Water, Everywhere?
First in a two part series on our dwindling water supply.
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A Salute to the Potato
The poatoe may be a wonder crop, consider growing your own.
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Soil, In The Beginning...
Feed the soil, feed your family
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Foraging For Food
Foraging for food in your own backyard
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Be Prepared!
Develop you food emergency plan.
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Chickens In The City
Raise your own livestock within the city limits
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Your Personal Food Supply:Two
Part Two of our look at how to increase your personal food security.
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Fast Food, The Other Food Network
Fast Food, the 90's food network
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Your Personal Food Supply
Three ways to increase your personal food supply.
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To Turkey Or Not to Turkey?
Why do we eat turkey at Christmas?
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Stepping outside the box.
Look at the situation from another angle, if you want a solution
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Alternatives: Another Look
the alternative food system revisited.
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Food Banks: a system failure.
Food banks, the demand is growing and they cannot meet the need.
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Tis' The Season
The Winter Solstice is the season for sharing.
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Saying Grace
Poverty and hunger are nothing to be thankful for.
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Part 2: Future of Work
Part 2: The Future of Work
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What if?
What if you started your own food business?
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The Future of Work
The Future of Work, Part 2
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Samhain, The Druid New Year
Samhain, the Celtic New Year,
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The Food Industry, A Major Employer
First in a series of articles on employment and the food industry.
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Redefining Community
We need to redefine community to include all the lifeforms who live there.
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Alternatives.
Alternative ways to increase the food supply
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Pest Control: Choices
Pest Control, the choice is yours.
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Pests: Big Eaters.
Plant pests can be a natural disaster.
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Natural Disasters- Plant Diseases
The first in a series of articles that examine natural disasters and their impact on the food system.
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Y2K and What You Can DO!
Y2K and what you can do
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Y2K, will we run out of food?
First in a two part series exploring Y2K and the food system.
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Water: Limitless?
Water is our supply endless
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Water: Limitless?
Water is our supply endless
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Seeds, from the beginning.
Seed saving the first step to food security
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Hemp: An Illegal Food Source?
Industrial hemp, future food.
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How Safe is Your Supper? Part 2.
the second part in a series which examines food safety issues
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How Safe Is Your Supper? Part 1
The first in a two part series on food safety
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The Dairy Industry
Milk and the dairy industry exmained.
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The Food System
An overview of the food system
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Pizza Passion
Pizza it takes thousands to make one.
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Food Security
Food security can begin when people begin to share the responsibility for ensuring everyone has enough to eat.
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One Sweet Potato, Two Sweet Potato
A look at the history, popularity and ways to eatsweet potatoes
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In Praise Of Peanut Butter
A look at peanut butter and its role in our diet
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Steak or Dandelions?
food self-sufficency urban agriculture part 3
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Self-Sufficency
food security seed saving self-sufficency
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Urban Agriculture: Moving the Field to the Table
a look at growing food within the city
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B12, You Gotta Have It!
B12 sources diet
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Water, Water, Part 2.
Part 2: water conservation
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