# food security

The supply chain is not a series of equal links dependent on the ‘weakest link’ to operate. Rather, the middle is a choke point over…

Newfoundland and Labrador has the highest rate of food insecurity in Canada. It also has the second lowest minimum wage. These two things are connected.

Premier's comments on food security in Canada's north "totally hypocritical," says jailed NunatuKavut Elder and land protector.

Eight years into our do-it-yourself adventures in maple syrup, things are getting serious.

The recent provincial budget reaches deep into the pockets of every citizen of our province. One way to combat ‘the age of austerity’ is to…

‘Eat local’ has become a bit of a buzzword over the past few years here in Newfoundland, yet we still import over 90 per cent…

Everything is not awesome and everyone knows it.

Lovage, sometimes known as sea parsley, is so obscure nowadays that it can’t be bought at your typical grocery store --- but it once enjoyed…

Used for making medicine, wines and liqueurs, insecticide and art, there’s much more to this vegetable that many of us ever knew.

There’s a little known secret about expensive gourmet mushrooms like shiitake, blue oyster, white oyster, lion’s mane and others --- they grow on sawdust! With…

"All the fertile areas of this planet have at least once passed through the bodies of earthworms." -- Charles Darwin

From Facebook groups to farmers’ markets and community gardens to communal food-sharing programs --- the writing’s in the dirt: food security is an important idea…