Resources

Food Action Initiatives in the Kootenays

• BC Food Systems Network
• Kootenay Food Strategy Society
• Cranbrook Food Action Committee
• Kaslo Food Security
• Peeling the Onion
• Kootenay Local Agricultural Society
• GE Free BC

Food Action Reading

Books

• 100 Mile Diet, Alisa Smith & James MacKinnon
• Animal, Vegetable Miracle: A Year of Food Life, Barbara Kingsolver
• Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future, Bill McKibben
• The End of Food, Thomas Pawlick
• From Apples to Oysters, Margaret Webb
• The Garden That You Are, Katherine Gordon
• The Global Food Economy, Tony Weiss
• Grub: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen, Anna Lappe & Bryant Terry
• Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, Peter Menzel
• In Defense of Food, Michael Pollan
• The Omnivore's Dilemma, Michael Pollan
• Stuffed and Starved, Raj Patel
• The Winter Harvest Manual: Farming on the Back Side of the Calendar, Eliot Coleman
• World Food Security: A History Since 1945, D. John Shaw

Articles

The following Thought for Food articles were written by the Creston Valley Food Action Coordinator for the Creston Valley Advance newspaper on the dates indicated.

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• Food Without Fossil Fuels 08-10-02
• Ode to Cooler Times 08-09-18
• Is Food Irrelevant 08-09-04
• Brave New Community 08-08-21
• This Land is Your Land 08-08-07
• Local Foodies Connecting 08-07-17
• The High Cost of Cheap Food 08-07-03
• Local Diet Beats the Bulge 08-06-19
• Local Fare Creates Compelling Food Story 08-06-05
• Local Diet Wins Ultimate Food Fight 08-05-15
• Local Diet Nourishes Local Economy 08-05-01
• Local Diet the Way to Go 08-04-17

Food Action Viewing

• Asparagus: A Stalkumentary
• Bullshit
• Ethiopia: Feeding the Future
• Farmer's Requiem
• The Future of Food
• Grow Your Own
• Hijacked Future
• In Search of Good Food
• King Corn
• Mouth Revolution
• The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil
• The Real Dirt on Farmer John
• Shit and Chicks
• The Story of Stuff
• Surfing the Waste
• Tableland
• Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
• We Feed the World
• The World According to Monsanto