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As we've recently established, there are often frustrating barriers to buying the right (read local/ethical/sustainable) foodstuffs. One alternative to buying food, however, is to grow it yourself! Tomorrow, the Toronto Community Garden Network is putting on a Community Garden Knowledge Swap, so if you have been curious about how to subvert the dominant capitalist food-production system, or if you just want to share tips with other gardeners, this is your chance!
The details: Saturday February 24th, 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Stop Community Food Centre, 1884 Davenport Road (just west of Landsdowne). The event is free, and you don't need to register. More information over at the Foodshare website.
Thematically related photograph from Flickr user Jon.
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Thanks for the dispatch from the Russian bureau.
The only "frustrating barriers" the comic "established" were: (1) that those who profess to have preferences for "local/ethical/sustainable" [sic -as if, for example, enriching a fair trade producer cartel was any of the above] are unwilling to pay a price commensurate with their professed principles; (2) The only thing less funny than Al Gore are forced references to same.
Why can't this story be written to appeal to people who might be interested in gardening without the embarassingly retrograde cold war lexicon?
Comrade, here is a quote from a Gothamist article today: "the Freegans - yes, the folks who dumpster dive (or as they put it, "employ alternative strategies for living based on limited participation in the conventional economy and minimal consumption of resources")..."
Thanks. Have anything else completely unrelated and irrelevant to share?