Cooperation at the Table: Why Local Food Begins With How We Eat Together
We often talk about local food as a purchasing decision—buy local, support farmers, reduce emissions. But this misses something…
Artificial Scarcity: Overproduction, Demand Management, and the Ecological Cost of Stabilizing Commodity Agriculture
For more than a century, North American agriculture has lived inside the wrong story about scarcity. The public story…
From Soil Health to Chemical Expression: Why Nutrient Density Is a Dynamic Event, Not a Static Property
This blog adds further detail to a well-received Soil Health, Plant Health, Human Health: How Living Soils Create…
Beyond Production Narrative: Reclaiming Landscapes as Commons
It is easy to underestimate how culture changes. Not because it moves slowly—though it often does—but because culture change…
Reciprocity, Not Charity, Is the Real Antidote — and That Is Precisely the Problem
After two community members ran online fundraisers, in order to alleviate the pain of managing personal tragedy, our local…
Soil Health, Plant Health, Human Health: How Living Soils Create Abundance
Human health is build by our relationship, by the communities that we keep—both of human and microbial nature. Not…
The Aspirations of Building a Green Local Economy
Building a green local economy is an inspiring vision that promises environmental sustainability, local economic resilience, and the social…
Elegy for Eat Local Grey Bruce
In the heart of Grey Bruce, where fields once whispered secrets of the soil, There stood a beacon, a gathering…
Pastured goose – The most delicious strategy for ecosystem regeneration
Humans have domesticated geese for millennia, going back to ancient Mesopotamia about 3,000 BCE ago. Today, geese may be…
Narrative networks in the Canadian Industrial Food System
Pre-competitive alliances are common in the corporate world. Such alliance brings together competitors who share common interests. For example,…
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