Hi Slow Foodies,

I was on the CBC’s Wild Rose Country last Friday (Feb 16) talking about the challenges of eating locally in our snow-covered city. It was a fairly basic discussion, but it caused me to revisit the reasons why it is so important that local food has a place in our food budget, ESPECIALLY in northern Alberta where we do have rely rather heavily on other places to provide the variety of foods we all enjoy.

For those of you who emailed me saying you missed it and would have liked to have heard it, I’ve included a rough transcript of the conversation I had with the host. (For those of you who heard it, this was the pre-interview discussion, so the order of the questions were somewhat altered, as were my answers.) Read the rest of this entry »