Episode #6
Fixing Food
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Episode Guests:
Abra Brynne – Food Systems Advocate
Erin Harris – Owner of Kootenay Meadows Farm
Michael and Marie-Eve Albert – Owners of Apple Quill Farm
Elizabeth Quinn – Executive Director of Fields Forward Society
Episode Overview
A century ago, the Kootenays produced approximately 70 per cent of their food and imported the other 30 per cent. Today, that ratio has flipped. For a region blessed with bountiful water and rich soil, why aren’t we producing more of what we consume? We talk to creative people with their hands deep in the dirt of positive change.
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