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.
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.
On Part II of the Soil Matters series, we hear from the members of this new Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program in Nelson, BC, Canada. How has joining a farm changed eating patterns? How has working on the farm reshaped
our connection to food? What changes should be made to the administration and functioning of the CSA for next year?
