As per Maslow's hierarchy, we're all aware that food and shelter are fundamental needs. But it's easy to forget...

Let's get real for just a moment about what's going on with our food system – and then let's get busy fixing it. Shock and anxiety over...

Winter probably gets the least love of all the seasons. In the fall, people utter ominous grumblings that it's "on its way", continue to...

I recently heard humans described as an "overabundant, renewable resource" by author, filmmaker, and champion of localization Helena...

Do you have a favourite wild food? I think mine may be stinging nettle. Each spring I scan the landscape for signs...

It's a funny time of year to try to connect to place through food. Our recent record-setting cold spell has cast such a deep, icy...

Here in Alberta our weather woes typically involve cursing our frozen fingers as we scrape icy windshields or groaning when May rain...

Every year when it comes time to replenish my garden soil I'm reminded of how we city folk rely on country folk to make our world go 'round

In June when I wrote about our new backyard greenhouse, the fresh white paint inside had barely dried and the young plants, still tidy...

The pandemic has invited us to swap travel in search of excitement elsewhere for a renewed inhabitance of our own place in the world...

Here we are in a new season - and in some ways a new world entirely - and I'm happy to report our little food-growing addition is complete.

Here's what's keeping me grounded and hopeful; what's acting as both a balm and a way to be deliberate about the future:

If soil is the earth's microbiome, is producing food without it a good idea?