Food can be exhausting. It’s easier to let the grocery store make our decisions, and listening to others’ food politics can be more exhausting than running a farm. In her travels across Canada to talk with the farmers and chefs trying to get Canadians to eat local, Sarah Elton feels a bit late to the […]
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Local family’s food miles documented
The McMillins may seem like an ordinary family, but they’re not. They’ve cut their food miles by nearly 70 percent and have done so without depriving themselves of any of life’s pleasures, like the hot chocolates they’re sipping in a downtown cafe. The family reduced their average food miles from 2,569 km/month to 880 km/month, […]
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Sean Gallagher on buying local food
Like many people from Ontario who visit Halifax for school, Sean Gallagher got hooked into Halifax pretty quickly, and decided to stay. “I was in university doing commerce co-op and a lot of entrepreneurial work terms,” says the Ottawa native, who enrolled at Dalhousie seven years ago. “I figured that I should just start something […]