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I’ve always been interested in starting up my own mobile perogy stand here in Vancouver.  And with an epic bike trip planned, I thought it might be a good way to raise the cash. A simple little roadside kiosk, perhaps mounted on my bike trailer, a plug in and a hot plate, and away you’d [...]

Last month a few friends from the Takla Lake First Nations, a remote reserve north of Fort St. James, were in town to talk about their study of industrial contamination of wild game in the area.
Called the Healthy Land Healthy Future Project, the study is funded by Health Canada as part of a national program [...]

You grow something locally, so the argument goes, and the carbon footprint of transporting that food to a dinner plate is far less than shipping it halfway around the world.   The argument is a common one made by the slow food movement.   Food miles, they claim, or the distance food travels between production and [...]

Unless you know about some lost, abandoned orchard in your uncle’s backyard, you will probably have a tough time making a good home-made apple cider here in BC.  That’s because, according to Andrew Lea’s UK Cider page, you need the right apples.  And those apples just aren’t cultivated anymore.
Think of wine.  A good wine grape [...]

An article from the Globe and Mail quotes a study that says free range chickens may not be that great.  Apparently, “free range” isn’t defined by a regulatory organization and can simply mean chickens are kept in a big enclosure (but not in individual cages).

There were days when I used to hunt.  It always made sense to me that if you were going to take the life of an animal, you’d do it yourself.  The supermarket hid what was behind that piece of meat- a routinized, mechanical processing system where workers probably stop realizing they are actually killing living [...]

An older article from the Straight about how the new meat inspection rules are going to shut down a bunch of small butchers around the Province.  I heard that the small ranch on the Queen Charlotte Islands, which used to feed the island, now has to ship live cattle off the island (7 hour ferry [...]

Interesting research by the Farmer’s Union.  Since 1989, the meat packing industry has become dominated by a few massive companies.  So much that beef farmers are getting half what they used to.