Contents Introduction 6 chapter one Let's Eat A Veggie Marathon 8 In Excess We Trust 9 Full Circle 10 Our Daily Meat 10 Cheap Now Costly Later 12 Aquaculture A Fish for Everyone 13 What’s Your Food Really Saying 15 chapter two small is beautiful On the Homestead 19 Work It 20 New Roots 20 Permaculture 22 The No-Till Zone 22 Rice-Duck Farming 23 Organic or Bust 23 Pasteurized vs Raw 24 From Farm to Market 25
chapter three urban foodscapes Do You Live in a Food Desert 26 Gardening Together 27 Food Forests 28 Commercial Urban Farms 28 Urban Homesteading 33 Food Truck Fever 34 chapter four A farm for the future Dinner’s in the Fish Tank 36 Insects Yum 37 Green Eggs and Jellyfish 37 Lab Burger Anyone 38 Milk Beyond the Cereal Bowl 39 Revolutionary Rice 40 Bee Biz 41 Farming in Space 42 Bringing It Back to the Table 42 Resources 44 Acknowledgments 45 Glossary 46 Index 47
Introduction Introduction Do you ever wonder what your groceries would tell you if they could talk When I realized that the bananas avocados and mandarin oranges I loved had traveled across more countries than I ever had I decided to pay closer attention to where my food came from I discovered that every thing you buy whether it’s an apple or a pair of shoes has a story I found out my salmon fillet came from a fish that had never swum in the ocean my orange juice was previously brown and some ingredients in my favorite packaged foods had originated from plants conceived under a microscope This book unlocks the mysterious secret lives of our groceries explores alternative and sometimes bizarre farm technology and tours gardens up high on corporate rooftops to down low in military-style bunkers beneath city streets My son Landon and I picking apples at an orchard in Kelowna British Columbia One of his first foods was applesauce I made with apples from this orchard Now he will happily devour a whole apple in one sitting core and all L AUR A C ARBONNE AU 6
Few children in North America are growing up to become farmers like their parents and grandparents before them SUSAN H SMITH ISTOCK COM From Farm to Table When I was a child my family lived on a farm in Saskatchewan I loved planting watering and harvesting veggies helping my mom make jams and pies from Saskatoon berries collecting chicken eggs and drinking milk fresh from our cow Daisy and goat Pixie Now that I’m a mom I try to find the healthiest foods for my family and make as much as I can from scratch with whatever’s in the fridge or pantry This is me herding our three goats and cow led by the rope up to the barn KIMBERLE Y VENE SS 77
