Human Health
Health You Can Taste
What a sweet time of year. Well into the growing season there’s such an abundance of produce to delight the taste buds. Biting into juicy locally grown tomatoes, you can detect the difference in flavour across varieties. Maybe you can even taste the difference in the same variety from farm to farm. Contrast this with […]
Capturing Liquid Sunlight
Leaves are like little solar panels. Chasing the sun, they combine solar energy with water and carbon dioxide to make sugary sap. This liquid sunlight, stored in carbon rings, is the foundation of almost all life on earth. We cannot live without it. How well a plant carries out photosynthesis depends on a number of […]
Fenna’s Carrots
It’s the last of the dog days of summer (in October!) and we are sitting around a picnic blanket celebrating my youngest’s birthday. The lovely mama next to me is telling us how much she enjoys the sweetness of “Fenna’s carrots.” In two strokes of coincidence, Fenna’s carrots happen to be on the vegetable […]
Connecting Dots and Biomes
Rianna and I crossed paths at a friend’s farm. I was happily hauling buckets of manure, and she was curious. “What are you doing with that?” she asked.