Food Insecuirty – The Hands that Feed Us

What makes “The Farming Lifestyle” worth it?

August 6, 2021 The Hands that Feed Us What We're Learning Farmland, Food Insecuirty, Money, The Farming Lifestyle, Wealth

The Hands that Feed Us started with a sense of injustice: Farmers can’t make “a living” from farming alone, most need off-farm jobs to pay the bills. That sense of righteousness launched me into my journey with a great deal of momentum, and it has carried me a long way. As I’ve learned more about how farmers live, my thinking about the problem has shifted. I’ve grown. And I’ve realized that focusing on how much money farmers make misses the bigger picture.

Newsletter #7: A leap into the unknown

August 2, 2020 The Hands that Feed Us Newsletters Cattle, Food Insecuirty, Grain, Klippers Organics, Row Fourteen

Heading east into the unknown

Klippers’ second job is running Vancouver’s best new restaurant

Food Security is not a subset of Poverty

Eating peaches, tomatoes, and dirt

Why Food Insecurity isn’t a Subset of Poverty

July 30, 2020 The Hands that Feed Us What We're Learning Food Insecuirty, Food Security, Money, Poverty

Recently, I came across this article worrying about how people will afford to eat once CERB, the government’s COVID-19 support program, dries up. The article takes an attitude that has become de rigueur iRecently, I came across this article worrying about how people will afford to eat once CERB, the government’s COVID-19 support program, dries up. The article takes an attitude that has become de rigueur in the past few years:

The reason households or individuals go without food is they simply don’t have enough money in their pocket to buy it.

“It’s not a food problem; it’s an income problem. It’s not that we don’t have enough food, or even cheap food”…read more…

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