The sustainable harvest
Why garlic from China? We’re browsing over the bounteous produce in a local supermarket: carrots, broccoli, tomatoes, five kinds of squash, russet potatoes and pale-skinned ones, cauliflowers in purple, orange and green as well as white.
Éric Darier, a sustainable agriculture campaigner with Greenpeace, has joined a Gazette reporter and photographer to shop […]
local harvest shopping list
October 11th, 2008 No Comments
Tags: 100 Mile diet · Harvest · Local Food · Montreal · Organic
follow up x2
July 22nd, 2008 No Comments
A little follow up on two previous posts.
The first being our visit to Windmill Point Farm last Saturday with a few close friends. Getting to know your farmer made easy. Stop by any Saturday and chat with the owners of a gorgeous, all natural, massive piece of land on Ile Perot. Ask Ken about his […]
Tags: Compost · Local Food · Montreal · Organic Farming · Windmill Point
harvested carbon
May 24th, 2008 3 Comments
The invasion of Iraq by Britain and the US has trebled the price of oil, according to a leading expert, costing the world a staggering $6 trillion in higher energy prices alone.
He spoke after oil prices set a new record on 13 consecutive days over the past two weeks. They have now multiplied sixfold since […]
Tags: Local Food · Peak Oil · Survivalists · There will be blood