I’m going to share with you one my favorite shopping experiences: a Polish grocery store. There happens to be a successful big one in my area here in Toronto, but at least some of what I’ve found is likely to be available at smaller East European markets wherever you find yourself.
Jumping right in to [...]
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Right after finishing Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal, I tucked into Holy Cows and Hog Heaven, also by Joel Salatin. In retrospect, that was probably a bad idea as the two books contain a lot of the same information and Everything… is a lot more in-depth. However, that doesn’t make Holy [...]
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I finished Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal by Joel Salatin of Polyface Farm fame this past weekend. In this book, Salatin talks through all of the myriad government regulations standing in the way of building a truly burgeoning local food economy. He runs through loads of stories about government bureaucrats coming [...]
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Louisville skyline photo courtesy of Bryan Peabody
Tuesday night I went to the third forum in Louisville’s “Sustainable Cities Series” at the Glassworks Urban Design Studio. This one focused specifically on Local Food and Agriculture. I was impressed with the turnout. I met up with John, the leader of a local co-op here [...]
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I finished The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved: Inside America’s Underground Food Movements by Sandor Ellix Katz last week. The gist of the book is all of the many ways used by people to remove themselves from the corporate food supply. Katz himself lives in what they call an “intentional community” with some [...]
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