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Entries for the ‘random musings’ Category

Farming Food in the Nickel Belt

One of 2009’s hot stories was our growing love affair with buying locally grown food – and learning how we can do more of that ourselves.
There’s an interesting story from the Globe and Mail on the CTV Olympic site: a Sudbury torchbearer is involved in a local food growing project in the region. I [...]

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The realities of rural life

Today is the day I officially move back to the country. I grew up on a farm but have lived in various cities since I left home to go to university in the mid-1990s.
Now, after many years as city dwellers, my husband and I are moving to a small acreage just outside of Guelph. [...]

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Back for another year…

…it’s been rather quiet – ok, totally quiet – on this blog for the last week or so. I took a few long-awaited days off from blogging and working over the Christmas holidays. Mostly it was to pack and get organized for our big move this week, but also just to take a step back, [...]

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Ending the year on a sad note

The connection of this post to food and farming is tenuous at best, but I do somehow feel the need to share it.
The year ended on a sad note for Canada with the news of five more deaths in Afghanistan on December 30th. Of particular interest is the fact that one of the dead [...]

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The great Internet divide

The Internet has become inextricably intertwined with my daily life – to the point where I can’t image living without it and have a hard time remembering the days when I did.
High speed internet access is something I’ve pretty much taken for granted, having always lived and worked in urban areas since it became [...]

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Pondering fresh meat’s future

Normally, when I go grocery shopping, I approach the whole experience a bit like a military mission – with focus, list in hand and plan in mind to get in and out as quickly and painlessly as possible.
Several weeks ago, I was a bit less rushed than usual at the supermarket, so I had [...]

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Do we or don’t we talk about it?

In a society where less than two percent of the population farms, there’s a real knowledge gap when it comes to food. It exists on many levels – nutrition and preparation come to mind – but especially on the production and origins end.
So it’s no surprise that one of the main missions of many [...]

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