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Author: Sophie Beaudoin • Date: December 14, 2014

How Much Food Can You Buy For $5 Around The World?

From bananas, to rice and even Big Mac's, I'm amazed at how noticeable the differences are! ...

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Author: Sophie Beaudoin • Date: December 12, 2014

Food Security vs Food Sovereignty

Do you know the difference between food security and food sovereignty? Some people think they are interchangeable, but they definitely aren't. ...

Appears in: Community, Farmers

Author: Sophie Beaudoin • Date: December 10, 2014

What’s the Strangest Food You’ve Eaten?

Yuck! Some seriously strange ones in here, but probably not strange to those cultures who make them part of their diet. ...

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Author: Sophie Beaudoin • Date: December 8, 2014

Food-Waste Rebel Wants You to Eat Ugly Food

Here in North America we have some pretty strict cosmetic standards for food and it's a a big hurdle in the food waste revolution. ...

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Author: Sophie Beaudoin • Date: December 8, 2014

Food Miles

Food travels an average of 1500 miles to your plate, but most of these fruits travel a lot further. However, almost all of them can be found locally at some point during the year. Choosing local can also mea...

Appears in: Community, Farmers, News

Author: Sophie Beaudoin • Date: December 6, 2014

Food Waste

Can you believe that 40% of the food that's grown, distributed and bought in the US never gets eaten? I bet the numbers are not much better here in Canada. Find out what people are doing to change this, including gleaners, food rescues an...

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Author: Sophie Beaudoin • Date: December 4, 2014

Why Eat Local?

Food travels 1500 miles on average to reach your plate. Here Michael Pollan tells us why eating local is so important not only for our health and our farmers, but for climate change too. ...

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Author: Sophie Beaudoin • Date: December 2, 2014

How Does It Grow? Cranberries

Did you know? Cranberries are one of a handful of crops that are native to the US. Check out this video for more interesting tid bits about cranberries and how they grow. ...

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Author: Sophie Beaudoin • Date: December 1, 2014

How Locavore-Oriented is Your State?

I definitely thought California would top this list. Here's to Vermont, Maine, New Hampshire, Oregon and Hawaii for their strong commitment to local foods! ...

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Author: Sophie Beaudoin • Date: November 30, 2014

How It's Made - Hot Dogs

If you like hot dogs, maybe don't watch this. ...

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