Newsletter #9: Crossing Canada to visit Overview Farms Robert Overmars: the most welcoming dairy farmer in Nova Scotia Getting paid once a year: Welcome to raising cattle Driving across Canada — with kittens! Filming 'Til the Cows Come Home
Newsletter #8: How many farms does it take to feed 14,000 people? Just one. Prairie harvest is a race against winter What does it take to get a prairie farm started? How feudal are our farmers? Combine harvesters and baby's first farm machine
How feudal are our farmers? There's a question that haunts me when I'm lying in bed pondering what The Hands that Feed Us is really about: Are we at risk of reverting to feudalism? My fear is that we will end up in a situation where land is owned by large, absent land-holders who demand a tax from the farmers who actually liv
Newsletter #7: A leap into the unknown Heading east into the unknown Klippers' second job is running Vancouver's best new restaurant Food Security is not a subset of Poverty Eating peaches, tomatoes, and dirt
Why Food Insecurity isn't a Subset of Poverty Recently, I came across this article worrying about how people will afford to eat once CERB, the government's COVID-19 support program, dries up. The article takes an attitude that has become de rigueur iRecently, I came across this article worrying about how people will afford to eat once CERB, the
Newsletter #6: The Hands that Feed Us at Klippers Organics Eight weeks at Amara Farm Scaling up: First week at Klippers Organic Acres Footage preview: Timelapses What I've learned from working on the farm
Newsletter #5: Hello from Amara Farm First week on the farm The COVID-19 effect: How are farmers affected? Capitalism for farming is broken