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Foodie’s Follow Friday 4 – Food Sovereignty

I have teamed up with Alex over at www.amoderatelife.com and April of 21st Century Housewife to host the Feed Me! Tweet Me! Follow Me Home Friday Friend Builder Linky. Scroll to the bottom of this page to link up your Real food lovin’ blog so we can all get to know each other.

Focus on Food Sovereignty

Well here in the Northern Hemisphere it’s that time of year people start gathering and sharing their seeds. I hear there are plenty of Seedy Saturdays happening all over North America and the UK, so if you have seeds to share do a google search for one in your area. Often you can get some exotic and rare seeds this way. Last year I shared some of my pau d’arco seeds! I am finally feeling a bit more organized and have just been reading a very informative newsletter put out by Nyeleni on the topic of food sovereignty which they publish copyright free in order to get the information to as wide a base as possible. I recommend reading them yourself as there is too much information for me to post here. I have pulled out some things from the latest newsletter on seed saving as well as the last newsletter on factory farms.

What’s So Great about Gates?

What’s So Great about Gates?

This article was recently pointed out to me by a friend who knows of my distaste for the Gates Foundation and all of the "good work" they are doing. I once looked through a long list of all the projects they were funding in 'developing' countries and was quite disturbed. One example of something the ...