5.3 Shotgun in the Garden: food storage & food values
The impact of food storage infrastructure on food prices, food values, and food security. Front line stories of shotgun defense of a potato patch and a bed of lettuce harvested by headlamp then given away, given the context of planting to keep, gardening made easier, and the insidious impact of international corporations owning our food storage infrastructure. With a call to action around the Federal Government's funding of Food Hubs - which needs to be less urban, more field-friendly.
Potatoes so precious their gardener took a shotgun to their defence - is one of the stories of our food & money systems in action today in which I root this episode. I touch on many things but keep coming back to food storage infrastructure. The wrap up on what to do zeroes in on fun, community and the power to plant your own food traditions!
Referencing:
My conversation with Elder Phil McGuire in October 2022 about local food systems
Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves by Nicola Twilley (Penguin Random House, 2024)
Federal Funding for Food Hubs:
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The episode image is of native Self Heal in a bed of settler Forget-Me-Not
