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Organic Gardens: Planting Memories for A Future Yet To Be

By Elizabeth James

August 2017

One recent evening, I turned to the shelf in our living room that houses back issues of The Countryman and picked one at random.

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Book Review: Street Farm: Growing Food, Jobs, and Hope on the Urban Frontier

By Sally Luce

December 2016

In this remarkable book, farmer/activist Michael Ableman tells the captivating story of the creation of Sole Food, a community farm started in 2009 in the parking lot of the Astoria Hotel in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. Sole Food’s aims are to provide meaningful employment for the area’s hard-to-employ residents and to operate a commercially viable farm.

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From Farm to Folks: “Growing Good” in Montreal

By Alayne Moody

July 2016

Santropol Roulant’s meals-on-wheels program, servicing mobility-restricted individuals, has reached a beautiful level of integration now that they've added an organic farm operation to supply vegetables for their program. The farm fulfills the organization’s social mission and supports the development of aspiring young farmers, generating sustainable returns on small plots of land.

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Book Review: Digging the City: An Urban Agriculture Manifesto

By Anouk Mackenzie

December 2015

Our food system is broken and profit-driven corporations are to blame. With no magic bullet in sight to such a complex problem, urban organic agriculture will have to be part of the solution.

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Lettuce, Not Lawns: Farming in the City

By Janet Wallace

September 2015

Among the manicured lawns edged with rhododendrons and ornamental grasses, one front yard stands out with rows of arugula, spinach and tomatoes. The grass is confined to the periphery of the yard.

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Belief and Farming: Remembering Clark Phillips

By Jeff Schnurr

November 2012

Clark inspired generations of farmers since he settled in New Brunswick during the 70’s. He lived as an example, proving what hard work and principle could achieve.

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SOLEFood: Farming in Vancouvers Downtown Eastside

By Virginie Lavallée-Picard

July 2011

In Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, a new model of urban agriculture is creating employment opportunities for inner city residents, greening the streets and improving food security in the neighbourhood.

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The Canadian Organic Grower is Canada’s national magazine on organic production and marketing – reaching farmers, gardeners and consumers for 37 years! Print issues are published 3 times/year.

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