Oh, Farm Bill, where did you go so wrong?
FERN partnered with Mother Jones on this reeeeally good look at five historical turning points when the US Farm Bill…
Author: Cathy
Can good food ever be huge?
I’m just catching up on this fairly amazing report out of the UK from last fall, flatly challenging the idea…
On being “the other other half”
Fellow Canadian Jon Randell Smith has a soul-searching post on Eating an Island about food security that resonates with what…
What happened to the food words?
I’m super excited that my book about what I’ve learned at the food co-op is going to be published by…
How small grocery stores became illegible
Another short clip from the book I’ve been working on about my involvement at the food co-op in Orange. In…
Joining the cold chain
Here’s another short clip from the book I’ve been working on about my involvement at the food co-op in Orange. …
The koan and the magic trick: the food system, explained
NOTE: I’ve been working on a book about what I’ve learned in the grocery business, and this is a short…
Attention/exhaustion
This summer I’ve been re-reading Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants, and…
Fast forward
Two weeks ago, the first week of the COVID-19 ramp-down of so many of the systems that keep our modern…
Taking stock
How are you celebrating the new year and new decade? At our food co-op we really know how to have…
