Canada: City Farmer Featured on Food For The Future

Creativity and home growing. Find out what city farming is and how you can become a home grower by using your creativity and ingenuity to contribute to a flourishing food system right in your own backyard. Guest: Mike Levenston

Food For the Future Hosted by Peggy O’Neil
Podcast Radio Global News 980 CFPL
April 14, 2021

52-week “curriculum” of 30-minute, pre-recorded shows

Join Peggy O’Neil, home economist and host of Food For The Future Presented By Platinum Level sponsors Burnbrae Farms and Middlesex London Food Policy Council – a hope-inspiring show that shares stories from farmers, agri-food experts, and families, to address food waste, city farming, and cooking at home.

It really is “food for thought”. Food For The Future adds the Arts and Humanities to today’s food dialogue in order to find common ground and the way forward together.

Saturday March 27, 2021

Guest: Dr. Colleen O’Connor, Registered Dietitian and Acting Chair of School of Food & Nutritional Sciences: https://brescia.uwo.ca/directory/colleen_oconnor.php
Topic: The purpose of food
Find out how food unifies the human family, what the body does with food and how nutrition relates to a person’s life chances.

Saturday April 3, 2021

Guest: Vimlendra Sharan, Director United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization: http://www.fao.org/north-america/our-office/our-team/en/
Topic: Recently published UN report and statistics on global food waste
Find out what you can do at home to reduce waste, how to support your community to address hunger and other, ways you can governments collaborate to feed a hungry planet.

Saturday April 10, 2021

Guest: Mike Levenston, Executive Director, City Farmer: https://www.cityfarmer.eco
Topic: Creativity and home growing
Find out what city farming is and how you can become a home grower by using your creativity and ingenuity to contribute to a flourishing food system right in your own backyard.

Saturday April 17, 2021

Guest: Sarah Hood, author and Board Member of the Culinary Historians of Canada: https://www.culinaryhistorians.ca/wordpress/
Topic: Return to traditional food preparation methods.
Find out what Sarah predicted 10 years ago about household approaches to food preparation and the ways that you easily and successfully try canning, pickling, and preserving in-season, local fruit and vegetables.

Listen to all the shows here.