Podcasts with Sandra Mark

Co-operatives: Alternatives to Industrial Food III

Part III – The Heritage Foodservice Co-operative Listen to a few broadcasts of Deconstructing Dinner, and choosing food may suddenly become an intimidating adventure. It is of the utmost importance that we also bring our listeners examples of alternatives to the industrial food system that is spiraling out of the control of Canadians. Enter the co-operative model…

Growing Hope

In the last 50 years, Canada’s food system has come to be all about efficiency, quantity, and economy – not health, employment, environment, and self-reliance. The response of our communities to this threat, while admirable, is wholly unequal to its magnitude. As a special food system issue of the Centre for Community Enterprise’s (CCE’s) quarterly Making Waves, Canada’s…

Why Deconstruct Dinner?

For the inaugural broadcast of Deconstructing Dinner, the question of “why should we be deconstructing our dinner” was posed to 7 British Columbians who are concerned about the state of our food system. Guests Abra Brynne – Chair of the certification committee for the Kootenay Organic Growers Society. She sits on the board of Nelson’s Kootenay Co-op grocery store…