Organic Gardening Magazine … reviewed by Jason

Next month, the long-running Organic Gardening magazine will be celebrating its 70th anniversary. Yep, that’s right … Organic Gardening was not the by-product of hippies and communes after all, but instead, was a pioneering sustainable living publication dating back to the Second World War when Victory Gardens could be found all over North America and in [...]

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Apples and Miracles … reviewed by Jason

Good food can be a great excuse to travel anywhere: fresh, local organic food even more so. These two books take you on the (back country) road to eating off the land all the while learning, or better yet re-learning, about where our food comes from and what it truly can cost to get it [...]

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A Second Bushel of Fresh Reads … reviewed by Jason

Everything’s coming up books! Urban farming books, that is. It seems every month there’s a new crop. Here are another four such titles for those new to the food security movement. Every movement has its manifesto and Maria Rodale, granddaughter of modern organic agriculture pioneer J. I. Rodale, outlines hers in the form of Organic [...]

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