Chicken poop for the soul : in search of food sovereignty /

Chicken poop for the soul : in search of food sovereignty /

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Author / Creator:Dowling, Kristeva.
Imprint:Halfmoon Bay, BC : Caitlin Press, c2011.
Description:271 p. : col. ill., col. ports. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
Subject:
Dowling, Kristeva.
Farms, Small -- British Columbia -- Bella Coola River Valley.
Subsistence farming -- British Columbia -- Bella Coola River Valley.
Self-reliant living -- British Columbia -- Bella Coola River Valley.
Farms, Small -- Government policy -- British Columbia.
Farms, Small.
Farms, Small -- Government policy.
Self-reliant living.
Subsistence farming.
British Columbia.
British Columbia -- Bella Coola River Valley.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8546817
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ISBN:9781894759601
1894759605
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
Summary:"Food sovereignty goes beyond addressing the need to secure a daily food source. Food sovereignty means having the right to determine where your food comes from and how it is produced. In 2008, alarmed by the impact agro-business was having on Canadian food quality and security, Kristeva Dowling decided to take control of her own food source. In an attempt to achieve 100 percent self-sufficiency on her small holding in BC's Bella Coola Valley, she ploughed under her land, converted her garage to an intensive care unit for chickens and learned to hunt, fish, gather and preserve her own food.
In the tradition of the "back-to-the-landers" of the '60s, Dowling sheds the habits of her urban life and, with no agricultural background, begins an emotional and political journey towards independence. Dowling's story is a witty, humorous and often bizarre journey of trial and error. Between rendering maple syrup, mothering baby chicks, canning hundreds of pounds of preserves, tracking wild game and growing her own wheat, Dowling finds time to reflect on her new-found tangible skills, her intangible problems and the politics and legislative barriers that face BC's small farming community"--Pub. website.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The Seeds of Sustainability
  • My property wish list
  • Creating a garden
  • The advantages of planning
  • The clan grows (not according to plan)
  • How ethical can you get?
  • Cabbage anyone?
  • The value of heritage
  • The genetically modified threat
  • Why buy heritage?
  • Heirloom seeds
  • Year Two at the Howling Duck Ranch
  • The beet affair
  • Building the permanent garden
  • Mr. Mallard meets his maker
  • Gordon gets into the grain
  • Egg profits: Keeping it local
  • The Food Sovereignty Project
  • Do I go or do I stay?
  • Planning to provide
  • Counting chickens before they're hatched
  • Are you my mother?
  • The dedicated poultry barn
  • Teach a woman to fish
  • Planning the Garden for Self-Sufficiency
  • The asparagus incident
  • Spring harvesting
  • Cougar capers
  • The pie plants of penchants
  • To brassica or not to brassica
  • ôIndeed the tears live in an onion ...ö
  • The new tomato patch
  • People who want glass houses
  • Beans, beans, the musical fruit
  • The King of Wheat's wheat comes to Bella Coola
  • Eating with the seasons
  • Milk
  • Ruminants with a view
  • The raw and the cooked
  • Got milk?
  • Before the fall: Raw milk pasteurizing
  • Hard cheese
  • Summer Harvesting
  • The best laid plans
  • Mrs. Mallard meets a mate
  • The twenty-mile community feast
  • Atleast of the Fields sample menu
  • The running of the chicks
  • A potato party for one
  • Hi-ho, hi-ho, it's off to work experience I go
  • Preserving the Harvest and Generally Persevering
  • The pantry
  • Pantry contents (Winter 2008-9)
  • Haute cuisine-style fast food
  • Calling for reinforcements
  • The staff of life
  • Yeast wrangling 101
  • The tough realities of food sovereignty
  • City Girl Gets a Gun
  • The only thing to fear ...
  • A time to kill
  • Woman running fairly close to the wolves
  • Butchering 101
  • Clarence-style kosher butchering
  • Turkey plucking
  • To breed or not to breed
  • Food insecurity and unpalatable realities
  • Bears I Have Known
  • They were here first
  • The Project in Full Swing
  • The Rod and Gun Club dinner and dance
  • Crouching farmer, soaring feed costs
  • Sweetness and light
  • The Jenny Craig Cornish Crosses
  • Taking stock
  • Searching for that one percent
  • Your Money and Your Mouth
  • Epilogue
  • Farming: The social nexus
  • Additional Recipes
  • Notes and Sources
  • Seed resources
  • References
  • Acknowledgements
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