Share By David Suzuki with contributions from David Suzuki Foundation Ontario Director Faisal Moola Despite its huge area, Canada has relatively little dependable farmland. After all, a lot of our country is rock, or buried under ice and snow. Fertile soil and a friendly climate are hard to find. So it might seem like good [...]
Share By David Staples, Edmonton Journal Edmonton city council has never once protected a plot of prime farmland from suburban development. That is about to change, but exactly how much land will be preserved is the subject of a fierce fight. It pits private rights against the public good, a multinational property company against a [...]
Share The American food activist and journalist, Michael Pollan, has a thoughtful article in the just-released New York Times food magazine. Though the piece is about a bill in California that would require genetically-modified foods to be labelled as such, there is much in it that speaks to what’s happening here in Edmonton right now. [...]
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Share Late last month, Greater Edmonton Alliance and Live Local organized a public tour of some of the farmland within Edmonton’s northeastern city limits. More than 400 people got the chance to experience, first-hand, the foodland that city council will be ruling on this fall. The choice is between two futures: one which paves over [...]
Share Five-year-old Owen Dorward comes running back from the berry bushes, his fists filled with raspberries. With an ecstatic smile, he shouts he’s going to eat all his berries at once, but his dad tells him to wait and take a picture first. Quickly he poses for his photo, then starts plowing into the now-sticky [...]
Share Edmontonians and their local food were brought a little closer with the Farming in the City tour Sunday. More than 400 people took 10 bus tours throughout the day to visit nearby farms and get a glimpse of how local food is grown before it’s brought to their weekend farmers’ markets. Tour-goers stopped at [...]
Share Dozens of people took part in a unique bus tour, Sunday. The tour is part of a local movement to inform Edmontonians about the importance of urban farms and locally produced food. The tour stopped at a number of farms in northeast Edmonton, including Riverbend Gardens. Janelle Herbert’s family has owned the land since [...]
Share Julia Parrish, CTV Edmonton Published Sunday, Aug. 26, 2012 6:56PM MDT A series of three-hour tours were held Sunday in northeast Edmonton, with the goal of showing Edmontonians where local food is grown. The bus tours were put on by the Greater Edmonton Alliance and Live Local – and more than 400 people hopped [...]
Share There’s a lot of talk these days about creating a viable and sustainable food economy. With political instability around the world, weather variability, a slowly fracturing food system and global water issues, Alberta could be facing an interruption of food supplies in coming years, says St. Albert’s Debbie Hubbard. Hubbard, a speech language pathologist, [...]
Share CBC News, Posted: Aug 27, 2012 9:17 AM MT Busloads of people who toured farms in the northeast corner of Edmonton on Sunday were urged to support a new plan to preserve agricultural lands within city limits. Debbie Hubbard from the Greater Edmonton Alliance wants councillors to set aside land for farming when they [...]
Share By Sheila Pratt Food activists say the city is rushing the preparation of its new food and agriculture strategy and more time is needed to look at ways to preserve farmland in the northeast. But Janine de la Salle, the Vancouver food policy expert running the Edmonton project, says the short time frame is [...]