The Way Of The Future? Project Mineral, Robot Farming And Growing Food
It’s hard to believe that the film Blade Runner was set in 2019! While today’s world isn’t quite the sprawling …
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Garden Advice: Ways to Feed your Plants Naturally
All plants need 17 naturally occurring elements to grow, flower, fruit and reproduce successfully. However, they require different quantities depending …
Tight On Space? Try These Small Food Garden Solutions
Urban food gardeners are often challenged by confined spaces with limited options for growing edibles. Many people have to juggle …
Relationships and Rethinking Profit in Local Food Business
Every business wants to make a profit; that’s how companies progress, and that’s how growth happens. So how can we …
App Helping Small-Scale Farmers Fight Food Insecurity
With the World Health Organization estimating that 790 million people struggle with food insecurity around the globe, blockchain technology is …
Seasonal Spotlight: Lovely Leeks Offer Cold Weather Flavor
Leeks strike me as among some of the most humble yet elegant vegetables out there. Part of the onion family, …
Seasonal Spotlight: Beets A Delicious and Nutritious Cold Weather Food Crop
These days, eating seasonal foods is where it’s at. Not only will you be consuming the freshest, most flavorful produce …
How To Choose The Right Containers For Growing Food
More people than ever are learning to grow edible gardens, especially in small urban areas. With limited space, container gardens …
A Very Merry Plant-Based Holiday
What will you be serving up this holiday season? Between Thanksgiving, Christmas, and ringing in the New Year, traditional feasts …
Celebrating Canada’s First-Ever Upcycled Food Festival
At one point or another, we’ve all let perfectly good food go to waste. It happens, but it needs to …
Seasonal Eating: Get Cozy With These Healthy Fall Favorites
While the summer is undoubtedly for grilling delicious meals on the bbq, the fall is for slow-roasting and cozy soups …
The Secret To Creating And Maintaining Local Food Networks
The logistics of creating and maintaining local food networks takes time and effort, of course. Here we are in the …
Tower Farming Technology Doing A World of Good
Some might shy away from using gadgets in the garden, but with the United Nations sounding the alarm that we …
Is Organic Certification Worth It For Small Scale Farmers?
“It’s the people who spray the chemicals on their food that should have to label it!” We’ve all heard this …
Health Canada Wants To Know How You feel About More Glyphosate In Your Meals
Time is one thing we never seem to have enough of. But for Canadians, the Federal Government has decided to …
Agricultural Threefolding and Building a Cooperative Grocery Store in a Food Desert
In a big broad stroke, we live in a world defined by culture, rights, and economy. These domains of social …
Grow Bag Gardening an Easy and Eco-Friendly Way To Grow Food
First Light Farm Strives For Nutrition And Food Security in Revelstoke
Extraordinary circumstances sometimes have a way of sparking us into action; for Jesse Johnston-Hill and Chris Rubens, the COVID-19 outbreak …
Atlanta Home To Largest Food Forest In The U.S.
Some initiatives deserve to be applauded, and Atlanta’s giant food forest is one of them. The seven-acre plot is the …
#StoptheWaste Campaign Tackles Food Waste And Hunger
Celebrity chef Andrew Zimmern has created a recipe for a Thai Coconut Salmon Soup that uses salmon heads and other …