Ecology Action Centre

This is a blog from the Food Action Committee of the Ecology Action Centre, based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Join us as we document our experiments with sauerkraut, push for urban chickens, make giant batches of jam, and plant some seeds (both literally and figuratively). For more about what the Food Action Committee is working on, visit our website.

No one left behind

This week is an international week of Climate Action, marked by marches, demonstrations and climate strikes held around the world.…

6 years ago

Elections and You

There’s a federal election! The person elected to represent you and your riding will have opportunities to shape public policy…

6 years ago

One Farm’s Approach to Climate Resilience

This spring, I had the extreme good fortune of visiting Broadfork Farm, where a couple of my farm heroes, Shannon…

6 years ago

Growing food in a Changing Climate

I am a Community Food Coordinator in Cape Breton, and I am also a small-scale vegetable farmer at Local Motive…

6 years ago

Transforming communities through Food: the Mobile Food Market

When the Halifax Mobile Food Market launched in 2015, the goal was simple but powerful: to bring fresh, affordable foods…

6 years ago

Indigenous Food: Reclaiming Traditions, Rights, and Future

This was written in Unama’ki, also known as Cape Breton, the unceded and traditional lands of the Mik’maq People. We…

7 years ago

Know your farmer, know your food.

When people think about where their food comes from, they often think about how it was grown. Did the farmers…

7 years ago

When Gender and Food Connect

Gender inequality contributes to different experiences throughout our food system, from production to purchasing. Continue reading → More

7 years ago

Food Connections in a New Place

Food connects to us to different cultural traditions and to the people, lands and waters in different parts of the…

7 years ago

Speaking Up for School Food

Imagine… A young child travelling on the school bus for 45 minutes to get to school. Despite having breakfast, the…

7 years ago

Giving Food as Food Futures – a new way to think about food security in Nova Scotia

Do you have someone on your gift list that is hard to buy for? Someone socially and environmentally conscious? Someone…

7 years ago

The Food Trade Game: the nitty gritty of Fair Trade coffee

I had the pleasure of playing The Food Trade Game recently. In a very short time I gained a great…

7 years ago