Submitted by ecogarden_admin on February 16, 2009 - 12:53pm.
TheTyee.ca
Making homemade bread has taken on a whole new meaning.
Brock McLeod and Heather Walker will teach you how to start your own wheat field. Even if you live in the heart of the city.
"We want to see a reintroduction of people growing grains for themselves in their backyards," says McLeod who, together with Walker, has created Island Grains, a new participatory farming project on Vancouver Island.
"If we can start growing wheat locally, if there is enough demand for it, well, that could really help revise the food system."
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