Category: Musings
National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
September 30th marks the annual National Day for Truth and Reconciliation in Canada. The day has been set aside as a statutory holiday, although it is less about celebration than it is recognizing…
In Your (Messy) Garden – Let it Bee
Like many people, we gardeners go kicking and screaming into fall, reluctant to let go of the long days of summer and grapple with the switch to shorter, chilly days filled with back-to-sc…
From Consumer to Producer: A Metamorphosis
All change is difficult but changing our spending and eating habits can sometimes feel impossible. It’s not easy to transform from a fortunate consumer who has a world of choice at the grocery sto…
Our Mission: To INSPIRE Urbanites to Grow Their Own Food and Reconnect With Nature
As BUFCO heads into its fifteenth year, I reflect back on our metamorphosis from mindless consumers to conscious producers. We were driven by a need to connect with the land, to get back to ba…
Why I Grow My Own Food
Why do you grow your own food? This was a question I posed to workshop participants this winter. I was not at all surprised to hear the wide variety of enthusiastic answers. Take a deeper dive int…
Thinking Outside the Foodbank Box
I remember volunteering at a local food bank some years ago, working at the donation counter and coming face to face with people who could only put food on the table by coming in once a week. They…