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Continue reading →: How a “Normal” Weather Year Changed How I Think About Food Security ThreatsIt has been a weird gardening year. Not terrible but certainly not predictable. Here in the Pacific Northwest, Vancouver specifically, the last few growing seasons have been long, hot and dry. That weather is a far cry from the springs and summers of my youth where summer never really arrived…
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Continue reading →: Book: Freedom FarmersI just finished Monica White’s excellent book, Freedom Farmers, and wanted to share a little bit about it. I picked up a copy after reading Land Justice, and found myself painfully aware of how little I knew about black agriculture in the United States (and elsewhere). Permaculture and sustainable agriculture…
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Continue reading →: Why Some Forests Burn More Than Others“an estimated 36% of remaining intact forest landscapes are on Indigenous land. Studies show that not only do community-controlled forests absorb more C02 than those under government or private control, but deforestation rates are lower. They also suffer less during severe water shortages, greatly reducing wildfire risk.” – Linda Farthing Guardian article As many of us are…
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Continue reading →: Dog Days of SummerHello everyone! Just wanted to post a quick update as I’ve been quiet the past few weeks. This typically happens once growing season gets under way: there’s so much to do in the garden but so little time to write about it. I’ve also been taking some time away to…
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Continue reading →: How Food Brands are Involved in Colonial ViolenceEarlier this month, the popular fruit brand, Chiquita was ordered to pay $38 Million to families of men killed during Colombia’s civil war. This settlement is significant because as part of addressing food security is dealing with how enormous foreign corporations from Canada and the US (among other imperial countries)…
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Continue reading →: Satellite Garden UpdateI have been growing in my new space for about a month and a bit now, so I thought it might be nice to share some updates and lessons learned. The space is basically two beds, one fairly square and the other long and rectangular. In the square bed, I…
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Continue reading →: Nobody Believes In 1.5 Degrees of Warming- Why We Still Have to FightTimes are tough and the news is tougher. Not to bludgeon you with bad news but our climate is very not okay. Despite a lot of attempts to paint the climate crisis as an opportunity or high tech solutions as our ultimate savour, things are very, very bad. In a…
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Continue reading →: Are We Saving the Wrong Bees?One of my goals for 2024 was to learn more about bees and pollinators, so, in that spirit, here’s a video! It explains how wild bees and other insects are the ones in real danger. If you want to learn more, I recommend this article by a bee researcher at…
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Continue reading →: I Finally Finished Reading ‘Braiding Sweetgrass’I started reading Robin Wall Kimmerer’s ‘Braiding Sweetgrass’ during lockdown, when the world seemed dark and the days were endless monotony of bad news. I had read her other book ‘Gathering Moss’ during a period of immense grief and feel like I had my perspective on life permanently changed after…
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Continue reading →: I Doubled My Gardening Space by Asking AroundFor the last ten years, I have been growing what food I can in containers on my back patio and around my apartment building. As my dream of one day owning a little Gulf Island plot of land died during the housing price spike of the pandemic, I have steadily…
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