This week Warren's guests are Adam and Jenna Wall of Purple Pasture Homestead in Salmon Arm. Working on Jenna's grandparent's land, they started their homestead in 2019 while living in a 26 foot trailer. Now well established, Adam and Jenna are regulars at the Downtown Salmon Arm Farmers Market. Their goal is to be as self-sufficient as possible. They grow their own food, raise their own animals, do their own canning and baking and bring their delicious food to sell at the Farmers Market every week.

This week Warren's guests are Jade and Isabelle Shamen, Quoc Nguyen and Amelia Jensen, all members of the recently formed FRIES Society. This new organization in the Shuswap is dedicated to making available the equipment and infrastructure that local food growers need to establish their farms and help to rebuild our local food system. FRIES encourages using regenerative farming methods to protect our water, to rebuild our soil and to provide the local community with nutritionally dense foods. The group is coordinating a food equipment cooperative including farm implements, transport equipment and food processing equipment such as a grain mill. In addition the team is developing facilities for local food storage.

This week Warren's guests are Kevin and Joy de Vos of Foxtrot Dairy located just off Hwy 97B near Enderby, BC. Joy and Kevin have been running Foxtrot Dairy on Kevin's family land for decades. Now, they have opened Foxtrot Dairy General Store on the property and are offering educational tours of the dairy, local produce and dairy products, and their own farm raised beef. Kevin and Joy are long time 4H leaders and the family has been deeply involved in the community for many years. Listen in to hear about Foxtrot Dairy's latest endeavor and make a plan to visit Foxtrot Dairy soon.

In this episode Warren's guest is Salmon Arm City Councilor Sylvia Lindgren. Sylvia and Warren talk about the role of the City's Environmental Advisory Committee and its relationship to preserving the environment for sustainable farming and food production in the Shuswap. The EAC mandate is to protect, maintain and enhance the natural environment in accordance with the provisions of the Environmental section of the Official Community Plan. Some upcoming projects include an anti-idling campaign and setting up community seminars in conjunction with local nurseries on drought-resistant and fire-safe landscaping.

In this episode Warren's guest is Dr. Hannah Wittman, Professor of Land and Food Systems with the University of British Columbia. Dr. Wittman’s research studies agrarian reform, food sovereignty, and agrarian citizenship. Her projects include community-based research on farmland access, transition to organic agriculture, and seed sovereignty in British Columbia, food sovereignty in Ecuador and Brazil, and the role that urban agriculture and farm-to-school nutrition initiatives play in food literacy education.

In this episode Warren's guest is Ashlee Rutherford of Gnominvore Kitchen. Ashlee joins Warren for a lively discussion of her new local food endeavour where she offers tasty foods with sustainability in mind. Ashlee is becoming a regular at the Downtown Salmon Arm Farmers Market where she sells frozen meals, novelty items like cook at home Poutine Kits and Duck breast pastrami - a ready to eat delicious deli or charcuterie meat. Soon to come are convenient 'homestyle' meals perfect for anyone looking for quick healthy options when life gets busy. Originally from Western Australia, Ashlee has had an interesting life of travel, work and education and has recently settled in Salmon Arm. Join Warren and Ashlee for a great story of travel, food, love and love of cooking.

In this episode Warren's guest is Valerie Tarasuk of the University of Toronto. Valerie is the lead investigator behind PROOF, a project conducting research to advance understanding of the causes and consequences of food insecurity in Canada and the policy interventions necessary to prevent this problem. Dr. Tarasuk’s work has helped lay the foundation for food insecurity monitoring in Canada, and in recent years, her research has utilized monitoring data to advance knowledge on food insecurity in this country. Join Warren and Valerie for a deep dive into issues in food insecurity in Canada.

In this episode hear Warren's conversation with Brian MacIsaac and Rebecca Kneen of Crannog Ales and Left Fields Farm in Sorrento BC. For Twenty-five years Brian and Rebecca have been developing and running their organic brewery and farm lands with a passion for natural, local and flavourful beer and lamb. They are equally passionate about their impact on the earth and fighting for their cultural agenda which includes social justice, stewardship of the land, the arts and close community. Listen in for an in-depth discussion of some of the critical issues facing our communities, farmers and small businesses today.