The Locavore

We recently spent some time in Kincardine, Ontario in a part of the province where dairy farms abound. I was hanging out with my family, having an ice cream cone at a highway-side shop, when the milk truck pulled in. Not wanting to lose the opportunity to learn something about how milk is collected in [...]

This afternoon in the car, to amuse my two daughters in downtown traffic, I put on a CD we’d borrowed from the library. An older-sounding woman leads a group of enthusiastic children through a series of songs about farms, about animals, about food. The last song on the CD goes something like “Look who’s here, it’s [...]