Interested in gardening but have no access to land? Want to grow your own food but aren't sure where to start? Passionate about food security? Come out on April 13 for a volunteer meetup at ComeUnity Roots Garden and see what we're all about!

(and hopefully the snow will be gone by then so you can actually see the garden)

#CommunityGarden #DTK #Kitchener #IronHorseTrail #gardening #garden #foodSovereignty #FoodSecurity #FoodInsecurity #volunteer @WaterlooEvents @waterlooregion

The baby pineapple is looking more pineapple-like by the day! Technically it's just a bloom at this point - a very bristly bloom! It will soon be covered in purple petals, and then it will be on its way to being a delicious fruit.

I have a total of three pineapple plants that I've grown from pineapple tops. This is the second one. The first one fruited last year, and I grew a third plant from the top of its fruit. I grew the first two plants from the tops of store-bought pineapples. They're surprisingly easy to grow, though they're tender, so they have to spend the winter in the house.

Hello Aus.Social (and the wider fediverse)!

As with so many others, I'm emigrating from Meta. I'll mostly be posting random life updates, photos and the occasional opinions on #Agriculture, #FoodSovereignty, #communities

I'm currently living on #Yuin land on the Far South Coast of New South Wales, and soon moving to #Sweden.

Any tips on helping family and friends to adopt Mastodon if they want to stay in touch?

3-4 March 2025Brussels
#MarketRegConf2025 International Conference of Researchers & Farmers Rethinking Agriculture #MarketRegulation for the Transition to #Agroecology in Europe
Livestream, Programme & Press
https://linktr.ee/marketregconf2025

#FairPricesForFarmers #FoodSovereignty

https://eurovia.org | https://linktr.ee/ViaCampesina.eu

@Associazione_Rurale_Italiana @AbL_Rlp_Saar @LeMAP_be @ViaCampesina @ViaCampesinaEU @ViaCampesinaDE @rosaluxstiftung @transnationalinstitute @ULBruxelles

Retaliatory tariffs on American food:

So far, the Canadian govt has focused on food items that have a Canadian alternative. But:

"That “vegetable axe” has been hanging over the Canadian food system long... As a country with a narrow growing season, Canada depends deeply on California for much of its supply of fruits and vegetables through the winter."

https://www.thestar.com/business/salad-dressing-could-be-trouble-canadian-supermarkets-scramble-to-find-alternatives-before-threatened-u-s/article_9d9a47f6-e576-11ef-9650-ef77f1f85087.html

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If you'd like to make some baby steps towards #foodSovereignty you can:
Plant live lettuces in a plant pot and they'll regrow for quite a while.
Plant the rooty-butts of onions and grow more onions.
Stick bits of rooty potatoes into pots and get more potatoes.
Fresh herbs can often be rooted in water and then planted for more mint, basil, etc.
(things I have all done lazily and successfully w a bit o trial and error).
Anybody else got #LazyGardening suggestions?

a joy to watch dr. Jess Hutchings journey around Aotearoa in Hua Parakore - Rebuilding Our Broken Food System.

a beautiful series on Māori food & soil sovereignty & alternatives to ecological breakdown by Papawhakaritorito Trust, Storybox & Māoriland Productions streaming in NZ: https://www.maoriplus.co.nz/show/hua-parakore

#Papawhakaritorito #ecologies #Aotearoa @ecologies #Kai #Food #FoodSovereignty #soil #SoilSovereignty #KaupapaMaori #NZ

alliance of native seed keepers (AONSK) a non-GMO Indigenous-owned seed & benefit company who got their first building, is raising funds for various things like: offering resources for seed-saving/seed-banks for Indigenous growers, building repairs, decolonizing the process of contract growing, managing a seed sanctuary of ancestral seeds, giving back to other Indigenous communities, & many so many other cool things you can read about below:

https://gofund.me/125c49e9

https://www.allianceofnativeseedkeepers.com/

Communal cooking done right is something most of us don't know we're missing.

I have friends and family who live in a 6-story #cohousing development. Around 50 people in 30 units. Each apartment is complete but the kitchens are slightly smaller than typical.

Cohousing is mutual ownership of the building. About 20% of the building is common areas, like widened hallways with couches and bookshelves, or a games nook, music room, workshop, laundry, etc. It's basically a tall village, and they are like roommates with privacy.

The giant kitchen and dining room is used six nights a week. One person is chef with a small crew, and dinner is for around 30 people. It costs $5 CDN per meal, though if you raid the leftovers later it's pay what you want, usually $2.

The cooking volunteer roster is optional and organized by a Slack channel. Out of 50 people there are those who like to spend their duty time showing off culinary skills. Dinner is usually awesome and everyone wins.

Discover groups, projects and initiatives that carry out and support initiatives in Agroecology around the world.

https://agroecologymap.org/projects_and_groups

Let's all join forces for Agroecology