agriculture

Roots of Revolution

Robert DeVet — Thu, 20 Jun 2013 23:17:50 +0000

Permaculture techniques offer alternatives to industrial agriculture

Amid growing concerns surrounding global food security Graeme Calder of

'Seeds Are Life'

Editor — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 10:20:09 +0000

Guatemalan permaculture expert touring the Maritimes

This is part of our Just Us! Just Journalism! series of articles dealing with issues of food security, sustainable farming, fair trade and cooperatives in the Maritimes.

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Who's Growing our Local Food?

bsichel — Sun, 06 May 2012 19:19:31 +0000

Halifax - A group called Puppets Et Cetera! drew a curious crowd to watch a giant puppet parade and performance along the Halifax waterfront Saturday.

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The Land that Feeds

Hillary — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 11:11:23 +0000

Rural community divided over proposal to rezone farmland

GREENWICH, NS—A proposal to rezone 380 acres of active farmland in the hamlet of Greenwich, Kings County, has raised public concern over food security, cultural history, and sustainable community-planning in Nova Scotia’s fertile Annapolis Valley.

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Peasants Day protest feeds for free

HBeaumont — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 16:14:59 +0000

On Saturday, April 17, local food lovers held a peaceful protest on the Halifax Commons to oppose corporate control of food. Organizers encouraged attendees to buy local and grow their own produce. The protest was held in solidarity of the upcoming G8 protests on April 25 and 26.

Growing Farmers

Hillary — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:33:03 +0000

The National Farmers Union Youth say we must increase the number of young farmers in Canada

"Between 1991 and 2006 the number of farmers under 35-years-old decreased by over 60 percent," says Kalissa Regier, a 31-year-old organic grain farmer.

That's a trend that Regier and other young farmers gathered in Tatamagouche, Nova Scotia over the weekend are hoping to change.

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Musicians for Farmers

Hillary — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 12:45:12 +0000

The Halifax community comes together to support local farmers

Farmers, musicians and urbanites come together for a night of food and dancing to celebrate and support local agriculture.

Musicians for Farmers will take place on Saturday February 20th 6pm-midnight North Street Church 5657 North Street.

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Chickens in the City

Hillary — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 20:10:33 +0000

Haligonians cluck over the merits of urban hens

Urban chickens were a hot topic this week for a large group of Halifax citizens. About 100 people filled an upstairs meeting room at City Hall on Wednesday, February 10th for the first public information meeting about potential changes to HRM zoning bylaws, changes that would legalize the ownership of a small number of laying hens in the city.

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New Farmers' Gathering

jayme — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:52:40 +0000

To view photo essay, click on any of the above photos.

On June 13 & 14th, the Lorax Woodlands hosted the 2nd New Farmer's Gathering: an alternative conference for farmers, those who want to be farmers, and the friends and supporters of agricultural renewal. The event, which took place on a farm in the Annapolis Valley, included two days of workshops, discussions and making connections.

The first gathering happened last May on young farmer Charles Summers' land, up the North Mountain. Despite the rain last year, it was an amazing party, and local, small-scale farming in our community got a major injection of the-I-can-do-its. Perhaps the organizing crew got the biggest injection of life-changing juice, because they sure put a lot into this year's gathering. The event was well-organized, and the food was amazing. There were about 150 people who came this year, including a lot of kids and babes.

The highlight for me, aside from learning how to gut a chicken, was listening to Peter Daniels. Peter Daniels grew up on the north mountain. His family had about 40 acres, 10 of it cleared. They had about 12- 16 cows, 5-18 horses, 40 - 50 sheep, 15 - 18 pigs, and a flock of 15 - 20 chickens. They grew cucumbers for the cucumber truck which took them to the Berwick pickle factory. They grew potatoes, turnips, and a big garden. Peter's father was into breeding racing horses for the local races, which sounds like it was another small local economy.

Peter is the old guy who stopped by on Charles Summers when Charles arrived to the North Mountain in October with wife, child, sheep and a couple tarps. Peter asked if Charles had any firewood; Charles said no. Peter asked if Charles had any hay; Charles said no. And Peter became a close friend and mentor from there on in.

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