Host Jon Steinman speaks with Rebecca Kneen of Crannóg Ales -
Canada's only Certified Organic farmhouse microbrewery. Kneen published a
manual on small-scale organic hop growing and she is extremely excited at
the attention the manual has received since the global hops shortage hit
home. We also learn more on the philosophies of biodynamic agriculture and
the important presence of microorganisms in a post-carbon world.
Sharon Astyk is a writer, teacher and subsistence farmer, and the author of two forthcoming books on Peak Oil and Climate Change — Depletion and Abundance: Life on the New Home Front (Fall ‘08) and A Nation of Farmers (And Cooks)
(Spring ‘09), the latter co-authored with Aaron Newton. Both books are
forthcoming from New Society Publishers.
Maude Barlow of the Council of Canadians believes water is the greatest ecological and human rights crisis of our time. Deconstructing Dinner recorded her speech in March 2008. We also hear from Farmer Percy Schmeiser and an exclusive interview recorded only moments after Monsanto paid him for the damages their genetically engineered canola inflicted upon his farm.
In this episode of Deconstructing Dinner, we explore the creation of a market for local grain using a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) model. We also hear from a grade 4 student sharing some shocking information with his classmates on factory animal farms.
James Howard Kunstler reads from World Made By Hand, his new novel based on the post-oil future. Published by The Atlantic Monthly Press, World Made By Hand
is set in upstate New York in the not distant future. It is a fictional
account of the ideas based in Kunstler's nonfiction book, The Long Emergency. With transcript.
Recorded at the 2008 annual conference of the Certified Organic
Associations of British Columbia, we hear segments from a workshop titled
"Starting Your Organic Farm". Also featured is a short segment from a recent event titled, "Write to a Farmer Who Inspires You".
In this freewheeling conversation, Jason Bradford and Brian Weller, co-founders of Willits Economic LocaLization (WELL), discuss local food security, creating a farm at a nearby grade school, being rooted in community, urban / rural friction in wealth and land use, regional trading partners, reinventing local public transportation, and more. Episode 95.
