Some Food & Farming Links
- Agriculture at a Crossroads, the IAASTD’s report on world farming
- The Archers – Britain’s longest-running agricultural radio soap
- Assessing the Environmental Impacts of Consumption and Production, the UNEP’s report to the International Panel for Sustainable Resource Management.
- Canadian Organic Growers (COG)
- Deconstructing Dinner radio show (now an archive)
- EAT Magazine – all the tasty news from Vancouver Island & beyond
- Eat Here Now – a forager’s guide & cookbook
- Edible Vancouver magazine
- Epicentre Encyclopedia of Exotic Spices
- Farming Today – BBC Radio 4
- The Food Programme – BBC Radio 4
- Haliburton Community Organic Farm
- Just Food.com – global food industry news
- LifeCycles Project Society – Victoria food action: fruit trees & much more
- Salumi info, from the Istituto Valorizzazione Salumi Italiani
- Transition Victoria’s Food Group
- Slow Food – the mother ship
- Slow Island – Slow Food on Vancouver Island
- The Soil Association – UK source for info on organics
- Sustain: The alliance for better food & farming
- The University of Gastronomic Sciences
Some Poetry & Writing Links
- Academy of American Poets: Poets.org
- BC Bookworld Author Bank
- British Arts Council Contemporary Writers
- The Guardian’s Poetry Workshop
- League of Canadian Poets
- National Association of Writers in Education
- The Poetry Archive
- Poetry at Ariadne’s Web
- The Poetry Book Society
- Poetry Daily
- Poetry Kit
- Poetry London
- Poetry P F
- Representative Poetry Online
- WOM-PO Women’s Poetry ListServ
- Writers Union of Canada
– poets, poems & audio
– many bios
– searchable database of UK/Commonwealth writers
– UK writer-teachers network
– poets, poems & audio
– writing exercises
– poetry books by subscription
– a daily poem
– resources & events, mostly UK
– subscribe!
– lots of UK poets
U of Toronto Libraries searchable database of poetry & poets past & present
Some Blogs
- Agrarian Grrl’s Journal
- Alone on a Boreal Stage
- August Avenue
- Carrie Etter
- Chocolate and Zucchini
- Cookblog
- Don Genova’s Blog
- Edible Geography
- Food Museum Blog
- The Hungry Writer
- Invective Against Swans
- Laurie Constantino (Mediterranean Cooking in Alaska)
- Manageable Imaginations
- Mellotone 70Up
- Organically Cooked
- Out on the Big Limb
- Politics ‘n Poetry
- Politics of the Plate
- Recipes for Trouble
- Spruceville
- This Magazine
Some Writers
- Mike Bartholomew-Biggs
- Patrick Friesen
- Leah Fritz
- John Harvey
- Gerald Hill
- Margaret Hollingsworth
- Sarah Lawson
- Alice Major
- Nancy Mattson
- Clodagh Phelan
- Sue Rose
- Mari-Lou Rowley
- Norm Sacuta
- Heather Spears
- Leona Theis
- Mary Walters
- Tamar Yoseloff