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The Importance of Garlic to Small-Scale Farmers

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Genetically Engineered Honey?

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How Organic is an 'Organic' Egg?

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Year-Round vs. Seasonal Eating

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Conventional vs. Organic Wheat

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A Farewell... For Now! (incl. Update on Eggs Investigation)

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The Local Grain Revolution XII (Year 3 & Lopez Island Grain Project)

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Exploring Ethnobiology IV (The Immaterial Components of Food Sovereignty / Comparing 17th/18th Century Cereal Grain Productivity Among Iroquois and Europeans)

9

TED Talks on Food w/Jamie Oliver, Carolyn Steel & Christien Meindertsma

10

Produce to the People

11

Packaged Foods Exposed V (Unilever 3 Years Later) / Unequal Harvest

12

Exploring Ethnobiology III / Investigating Eggs Update

13

Local Food Fraud?: An Investigation

14

Climate Friendly Eating (Conscientious Cooks VIII)

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The Future of Prison Farms V: Abducted Cows

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The Erosion of Civilizations (w/David Montgomery & Ronald Wright)

17

Exploring Ethnobiology II: Nancy Turner

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Are Agricultural Systems Sustainable? (Toby Hemenway on Permaculture)

19

Fermenting Revolution / Deconstructing Dinner in our Schools II (revisited)

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Vancouver's Backyard Chickens II / Bucky Buckaw

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Margaret Atwood Joins Prison Farms Campaign / Vancouver's Backyard Chickens I

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Farmed Salmon Arrive in Ottawa (Norway, British Columbia VII)

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Exploring Ethnobiology I: Preserving Traditional Foodways Among Indigenous Youth

24

Whole Foods Market Targeted by Organic Advocates / Local Food System Development Spotlight / Carnivore Chic

25

Rally for Wild Salmon: "Fish Farms Out" (Norway, British Columbia VI)

26

'Crack' Down on Backyard and Farm-Fresh Eggs

27

Joel Salatin & Judy Rebick on Building New Food Systems

28

The Vote on Bill C-474 (Protecting Farmers from Economic Harm of GE Crops)

29

Final Attempt to Save Prison Farms (The Future of Prison Farms III)

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Bill C-474 (Protecting Farmers from Economic Harm of GE Crops)

31

Collapse of Honey Bees on Vancouver Island / Tugwell Creek Honey Farm & Meadery

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Conscientious Cooks VII (Sooke Harbour House) / Carlo Petrini & Slow Food Canada

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The Slow Down Diet

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The Seaweed Lady / Deconstructing Dinner in our Schools V

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Anna Blythe Lappe: Food and Climate Change - Making the Links

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Farming in the City XIII / Updates: 'Norway, British Columbia' & 'A Dinner Date With the Olympics'

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The Future of Prison Farms II

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Speerville Flour Mill

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A Dinner Date With the Olympics (2010 Version)

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Campaign for New Farmers / Farmers and the Global Food Crisis w/ Paul Nicholson

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NFU Convention w/Dr. Shiv Chopra

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Eating History w/ Andrew Smith

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Canada's Agriculture & Agri-Food Committee on GMOs

44

Linnaea Farm - Ecological Gardening Program

45

Agroinnovations Podcast w/ Paul Stamets, Rob Hopkins & Richard Manning

46

The California Drought and Fox News

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Dan Barber - A Perfect Expression of Nature (Conscientious Cooks VI) / Backyard Chickens IX

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Sustainable Agriculture at Fleming College / The Local Grain Revolution XI (Sailing Grain Year 2)

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Sally Fallon Morell

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Halifax Awaits a World-Class Farmers' Market

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Pedal-Powered Groceries / Tom Stearns on Hardwick, VT

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Farming in the City XI (Nelson Urban Acres / Massachusetts Avenue Project)

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The Local Grain Revolution X (Retail Supported Agriculture? / Sprouting Grain)

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The Local Grain Revolution IX

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Stuffed and Starved / Food Sovereignty / The Canadian Wheat Board

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Genetically Engineered Sugar, Trees, Alfalfa and Wheat / Backyard Chickens VIII

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Permaculture at The Blue Raven Farm

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Norway, British Columbia V ("Organic" Salmon?) / Co-operatives: Alternatives to Industrial Food VI

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Norway, British Columbia IV (Farming Atlantic Salmon in the Pacific)

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The Future of Prison Farms

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Deconstructing Dinner in our Schools III (Ryerson University) / Backyard Chickens VII

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Sailing Vegetables in Puget Sound / The Local Grain Revolution VIII (Sourdough Waffles)

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Pigshit! - Industrial Hog Farming in Quebec

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Genetically Engineered Crops - A "Spectacular Failure"? w/ Dr. E. Ann Clark

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Deconstructing Dinner at the Dairy Farmers of Canada / Rally for Farms, Farmers & Food Security

66

A Primer on Pesticide Propaganda II

67

Mountain Valley Farm II (Kootenay Alpine Cheese)

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University of Guelph Organic Agriculture Axed... Almost / Mountain Valley Farm I

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Hosting a Community Dialogue on Local Food Systems II / Backyard Chickens VI

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Hosting a Community Dialogue on Local Food Systems I

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A Crisis in Awareness & Participation - Michael Ableman

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Canadian Beef Consolidated Further / Backyard Chickens V

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The Local Grain Revolution VII - Sailing Grain

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Biofuels: Food, Fuel and Future

75

Palagummi Sainaith - The Age of Inequality

76

Frances Moore Lappe - Ending Hunger, Feeding Hope

77

Norway, British Columbia III (Farming Atlantic Salmon in the Pacific)

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Norway, British Columbia II (Farming Atlantic Salmon in the Pacific)

79

Food System Retrospective and Outlook w/Brent Warner

80

Whopper Virgins / Backyard Chickens IV (Farming in the City VI)

81

Natural Pastures Cheese / Agritourism / Red-Fleshed Apples

82

Kootenay Harvest Revival III (The Local Grain Revolution VI)

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Kootenay Harvest Revival II (The Local Grain Revolution V)

84

Kootenay Harvest Revival I (The Local Grain Revolution IV) / GE-Free Zones IV

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GE-Free Zones III: Campaign Launch continued / GE-Free Resolution

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GE-Free Zones II: Campaign Launch with Percy Schmeiser

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The Local Grain Revolution III

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2008 Federal Election Agriculture Debate

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Co-operatives: Alternatives to Industrial Food V (Common Ground Food Co-op)

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The Human Right to Food

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The Local Grain Revolution II

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Backyard Chickens III (Farming in the City V)

93

Lessons from Cuba / Employing Insect Farmers

94

Fred Eaglesmith / Cross-Canada Trike Tour IV (Quebec - Newfoundland)

95

Livestock Lost - Part III (Local Meat? "Not in My Backyard!" II)

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Livestock Lost - Part II (Local Meat? "Not in My Backyard!")

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Co-operatives: Alternatives to Industrial Food IV / Cross-Canada Trike Tour III

98

Livestock Lost - Part I (Slaughterhouses and the Culture of Meat)

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Backyard Chickens II (Farming in the City IV)

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Episode #100 - Best of May-August 2007