The recent salmonella alert regarding tomatoes should be enough to get people talking about how they can grow more food where they live. There are a number of possibilities; what do you think the next step needs to be?

Just got the following email from national Biodiesel Board Recently it has become apparent to most in the biodiesel industry that the media thinks biofuels (which includes biodiesel) is negatively affecting food availability. The...

While the New Brunswick provincial election is about 2 years away providing no significant changes in the composition of the Legislature take place before then. I find myself, for the first time, contemplating doing something that I have never done....

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Humans affect the ecosystems they inhabit. This effect can be either harm or help the ecosystem and that is where choice comes in. Humans can behave in a way the mimics Nature, of which they are a part, or they can deny that relationship and...

When I was in Saint John Nb I, with others and a few local merchants, set up a 100 mile diet group. The idea is basically to eat foods that come from within a 100 mile radius of where you live. This is difficult to do 3 meals per day so we set...

The freshest food is food that you grow yourself; however, many people lack the space to grow much more than a few kitchen herbs on a sunny windowsill. If you want to garden and grow and maintain your own food, flowers or herbs but do not...