GTEC Reader Volume 6 – Issue 1

In the small packets in which seeds like to travel by this time of year Salt Spring Seeds are on their way to destinations throughout the Gulf Islands, across Canada and around the globe. But, these are seeds with a difference. If you grow a tomato plant from seeds purchased from Salt Spring Seeds you […]

Two hooves stuck out at awkward angles, each tied to a rope. Farm hands held the other end of the line; with every contraction, they pulled. “Come on! You can do it!” they called encouragingly to the mother—a black-and-white cow named Luma. Then, all at once, the calf spilled to the ground. “It’s a girl!” […]

Devouring Tomorrow: Fiction From the Future of Food, edited by Jeff Dupuis & A.G. Pasquella.  Rare Machines (Dundurn Press), 2025. This anthology serves up a tasty buffet of 16 imaginative short tales from Canadian science-fiction writers in response to the question: How will food change, and how will it change us?  The editors have challenged […]

Introduction The Okanagan Valley is an agricultural mecca – full of vineyards, orchards, farms, and agritourism businesses that have been impacted by the climate crisis. Shifting weather patterns, increased drought, and forest fires in recent years are causing significant challenges to the Okanagan’s economy. So how are food and wine producers reacting? As climate crisis […]

Have you ever thrown out a soggy goo of rotting vegetables lurking on a shelf in the fridge?  Well, I have. Add to that, other unsettling discoveries – jars of sauces and other food ingredients well past their expiry date, leftovers now sprouting colourful strands of bacteria and food that never gets cooked. One might […]

Last month resilience.org posted an interview with Caitlin Taylor, an architect with an interest in food and farming.  Here is a brief summary of her remarks. Our modern industrial food system depends on monocultural, fragile worldwide supply chains.  It is based on the impossible promise of infinite growth in scale, uniformity, efficiency and profit.  Sameness […]

HERE SAY by Scott Lawrance Some say you’ve been my mother some Where in the dips, drifts, & cones of time Your lips, eyes, brows, skin, fur, & feathers, Horns & claws beloved.    Some say I  Be your mother. Fed you sweet Aztec chocolate,  Scythian bread – we be grass say, cloud, & river […]