Eat like your future depends on it
I recently finished a six week course on regenerative agriculture at a local university. You know, one of those “keep the old farts learning” courses. It was super interesting and gave me lots to think about and information to share
While doom scrolling social media over the holidays I got served up an add for a food delivery service called Odd Bunch (www.oddbunch.ca). Kyla and I have bought from CSAs (Community-supported agriculture) before with mixed results. The big issue for
Back in October I received a bit of money for a not so special birthday. Ah found money, it opens up so many possibilities. Birthday money is like the Schrodinger’s cat of birthday gifts. Until you spend it, it could
When Kyla and I decided to give vegetarianism a try back in 1997 it was solely for health reasons. Both our fathers and basically all their male friends (and families) were suffering through heart surgeries in their 60s. Of course
Wow! Here we are on a Wednesday morning and our electricity has been back on for 12 hours. Three days ago a “derecho storm” knocked out a large swath of our local grid. A derecho is different from a hurricane
For some reason I got to thinking about the human history of eating meat. So many of the people we talk to can’t imagine not eating meat and this is potentially a real problem for future generations. To a large
Nutritional yeast is a popular condiment in plant based cooking. The Latin name for nutritional yeast is Saccharomyces cerevisiae, and is in the same family of yeast that is used in baking and brewing. Nutritional yeast however is quite different
According to Wikipedia the apple was introduced into North America in 1625 and the only native apple is the crab apple. Who knew? Originally from Asia, the apple has been grown there and in Europe for thousands of years. In
Current articles on plant-based eating tell us that nuts and seeds are part of a well rounded diet. Nuts can be an important source of amino acids that help make sure we get complete proteins. Of course not everyone is
One of the big questions that comes up is around nutrition, protein and vitamins. In particular people want to know how much protein they are getting if they substitute an animal source with a plant based-source. These kinds of questions