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The Seed Farmer

By (author) Daniel Brisebois
Categories: Sustainable agriculture

Save seeds, save money, and increase profit from your small-scale farm or market garden

The Seed Farmer is required reading for any grower who cares about being part of a truly sustainable local food system. ...

Plundering the North

The manufacturing of a chronic food crisis

Food insecurity in the North is one of Canada’s most shameful public health and human rights crises. In Plundering the North, Kristin Burnett and Travis Hay ...

Taming Fruit

By (author) Bernd Brunner
Translated by Lori Lantz
Categories: Botany and plant sciences

A captivating cultural and scientific history of orchards, perfect for readers of Michael Pollan’s The Botany of Desire. Throughout history, orchards have served many sacred purposes: they are sites ...

Asa Johal and Terminal Forest Products

When the dust settled after the restructuring of the Canadian forest industry at the beginning of the 21st century and many of the major players such as MacMillan Bloedel, Doman Industries, and Slocan ...

La crise des abeilles

By (author) Jean-Pierre Rogel
Categories: Apiculture (beekeeping)

Grand reportage percutant sur le déclin des abeilles et sur l’usage inconsidéré des pesticides dans l’agriculture aujourd’hui. Un réquisitoire pour la biodiversité, mais aussi un éloge de ...

Sustaining the Forests of the Pacific Coast

In this thoughtful collection of essays edited by Debra J. Salazar and
Donald K. Alper, forest policy in the U. S. Pacific Northwest and
British Columbia is examined in a binational context. While US ...