Crop To Cuisine takes a look at the foundations of sustainable
agriculture and food from the food and wine industry, with a special focus on the food and wine in Colorado.
This second installment of the Cross-Canada Trike tour begins in the home of
Deconstructing Dinner - Nelson, BC. Of greatest interest on this episode is
the story of Darrick Hahn himself. Hahn grew up on a conventional dairy farm
and like many young Canadians growing up on farms, Hahn left his rural
community as a teenager and migrated into the city. Having most recently
lived in Vancouver for the past two years, he came to recognize that the
city life was far too removed from the earth and he is now heading back to
the farm.
The Reality Report interviews Raj Patel, author of Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System.
The interview reviews the historical development of the global food system, from 15th century England to the WTO and today's multi-national corporations. The discussion includes countervailing social responses to today's food crisis, such as the landless movement in Brazil to the CSAs of North America.
In this article for HopeDance Magazine, Post Carbon Institute founder Julian Darley
discusses the connections between food and energy, both globally and as locally as your kitchen table.
The Reality Report interviews
Sharon Astyk— writer,
teacher and subsistence farmer, and the author of two forthcoming books on Peak
Oil and Climate Change — Depletion and Abundance: Life on the New Home Front
(Fall ‘08) and A Nation of Farmers (And Cooks)
(Spring ‘09), the latter co-authored with Aaron Newton. On this show, we discuss
low energy methods for home food preservation and storage.
Localization of our food supply is one of the most critical ways we will improve the condition of our planet. There are many things we can be doing in the way of environmental sustainability. But none of them play as central a role in everyone's life as food. In this episode, we launch Crop To Cuisine onto the airwaves discussing the reasons that localization of our food supply is so important, including the historical context, environmental impacts, and even economic benefits. Our guests include Amy Trubek, PhD, Dawn Thilmany, PhD, and Jon Ash, Chef and Author.
In this episode of Deconstructing Dinner, we explore the creation of a market for local grain using a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) model. We also hear from a grade 4 student sharing some shocking information with his classmates on factory animal farms.
This episode highlights the dialogue that a regional food security conference can help inspire, and emphasizes the wealth of knowledge and talent that may be hidden in the recesses of North American communities. Host Jon Steinman also visits with a Conscientious Cook in Saskatoon, Canada - Daniel Walker.
In this freewheeling conversation, Jason Bradford and Brian Weller, co-founders of Willits Economic LocaLization (WELL), discuss local food security, creating a farm at a nearby grade school, being rooted in community, urban / rural friction in wealth and land use, regional trading partners, reinventing local public transportation, and more. Episode 95.
Recorded at a regional food security conference in Nelson, BC, we
hear from two keynote speakers and two elected officials on the current
energy supply and demand balance, the imminent need to redefine local
governance, mass migration, and a suggestion from one politician "to begin
looking to political representation as a means to help politics stay out of
the way of the interests of people!
