Eating Local on a Budget Part 3 –An excellent resource for gardeners

By Janet Kroeker
This column is all about local... and it doesn't get more local than eating many of your own home-grown garden vegetables and fruits.
"A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.”
By Janet Kroeker
This column is all about local... and it doesn't get more local than eating many of your own home-grown garden vegetables and fruits.
by Laura Reeves
Step outside and look around you. Is there a corner of your yard that’s overgrown and unruly? Are you excited to get back in the garden, while at the same time dreading all the weeding you’ll need to do? Perhaps you’re looking at your neighbour’s lawn and wishing you had lush green grass like theirs, instead of the mess of clover, plantain and dandelions at your feet.
“Making reductions by 2030 the wrong way might actually prevent us from ever getting to zero.” It is possible that if we mainly focus on the 2030 target, we may achieve limited emissions reductions but in ways that do not contribute, and may even work against achieving the 2050 target.
by George Klassen
We are embarking on a wide-reaching transition. This transition is variously called the Green New Deal, Path to Resilience, a Good War, “addressing climate change”, a Just Transition, Saving Us, or “avoiding a climate disaster”.
Contributed by George Klassen
The message below is from my friend Alois Mueller in Switzerland:
“Coca Cola Switzerland has announced that they will completely move to recycled PET (polyethylene terephthalate) bottles for all their Switzerland-bottled products and have already reached around 60%.