2010

Post season presentations, workshops and media!

Back in mid-October, I was interviewed via phone about the farm by Glenn Cheater, writing for the Canadian Farm Business Management Council.  We talked about why/how I got into farming and I sent him some pictures from the farm. You can see the results in the article “Farming their own way” in the December 2010 […]

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Prepping the farm for winter

I can’t believe how fast time has flown by since my last vegetable delivery! I had to get lots of stuff done before winter came in earnest (there are a couple feet of snow on the ground at the farm right now). In November, with the help of Jeremy, my intern for next season, I

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Commentary on prison farm closings

The following commentary is by Grant Robertson, whose National Farmers Union (of which I’m a part) commentaries I’ve been reading for a while now. I agree with him wholly…wake up rural Canada and stop voting Conservative! That said, I haven’t yet decided which other party would be the best alternative, but anything would be better

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Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth

Last week, I had the privilege of attending the retirement party for Wayne Roberts, head of the Toronto Food Policy Council (TFPC) for the past 10 years. If you read Toronto’s NOW magazine, you may recognize him as a weekly columnist and he has also written several books. Wayne was instrumental in guiding me to

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Our food system is beyond broken if pricing is dependent on global market pricing

I read an interesting article today about how financial speculators may have contributed to a spike in world food prices in 2006/2007: http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/johann-hari-how-goldman-gambled-on-starvation-2016088.html. While none of these ideas are particularly new to me, the article brings together many issues in one place that underlines the horrible state that our global food system is in. Export

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