How This Indigenous Farmer Is Solving Food Insecurity

Nathan Wild

This is a great short documentary about one woman’s journey into community-based farming and how she’s using food to keep her cultural heritage alive.Food is so much more than the commodity crops and fast foods that we have today. Food is culture. It’s part of our identity. It contains our...

How Fresh Is Your Food?

Nathan Wild

When you walk into the produce section of a grocery store you often see signs that say "fresh" plastered everywhere. But how fresh is it actually?If your fruits and vegetables have to be sprayed post-harvest with pesticides, a shiny artificial wax coating and an antifungal chemical to protect it, preserve...

Acting Out

Nathan Wild

Our cat Nomi started acting out this winter. Because she was stuck inside due to the snow she would tromp around the house, bored and constantly meowing for food. When she didn't get her way she would jump up on the table and counters trying to eat anything she could...

The Art Of Salad Mix

Nathan Wild

I learned how to grow salad greens from one of my farm mentors. His name is Jordan and he runs Unearthed Farm in Kelowna. Salad greens were his specialty, and he sold them to the top winery restaurants in Kelowna. They were by far the best greens I had ever...