Malawi is a small country in southeast Africa where malnutrition as a result of desertification has left children orphaned by AIDS to fight for their own lives as infections leave them susceptible to disease... the number one killer being Malaria. These kids are stunted and have infected sores on their skin and swollen bellies as worms devour them from within. This sounds like a made up, contrived version of reality written with the purpose of getting readers to feel compelled to action, but it is not so.

Pigeons in many ways epitomize the concept of animal-human interconnected sustainability.  They are a bird that we humans have had a symbiotic relationship with since ancient times. We relied on them for several reasons, pigeons didn’t take up great amounts of land yet could still produce meat. Pigeons required little care and attention, essentially one needed only a loft to keep birds in at night to protect from them predators and during the day the birds would fly free.

Why Eat Locally?
We all sit down three times a day for a meal; or if your schedule is as busy as mine, perhaps you wolf down three servings of “whatever I had time to grab” while running to your next task of the day. Regardless of how structured your mealtimes are, food is a critical part of all our lives. Despite this, few of us consider exactly where our food comes from and how it gets to the plate in front of us.

I recently read an article in the Vancouver Sun written by Randy Shore.  It was regarding two local businessmen who decided to purchase a composter.  Their reason?

According to Randy Shore’s article: [their shared] “dumpster had to be emptied three or four times a week, at a cost of almost $1,000 a month and the contents were just going to the landfill. The two food businesses were already recycling just about everything, but not their organic waste”.