catapult magazine

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• A global network of local organic food producers

  The 24th Annual Organic Agriculture conference in Ontario addresses a range of food issues.

• Top Ten re: vegetables

  A personal history told from the field, table, freezer, mouth and memory.

• Getting away

  Experiencing other cultures can offer a window into what may be lacking in our own.

• A welcome and an invitation

  An introduction to the content of this unique issue, with links and information for participating in Practicing Resurrection 2006.

• A progressive feast

  On a food journey and the resources that served as maps along the way.

• Squash stories

  A motley gathering of autumn vegetables decks the halls with delectable values.

• Back in time

  A living history experience lends a new perspective on food.

• Eating violence

  Exploring the troubling origins of our identities as creatures who are what we eat.

• A common thread

  On the beauty of choosing the "by hand" way, while honoring the divine purposes of all human activity.

• From oasis to desert island

  A short account of an ideal vision for community that came tumbling down.

• Is smaller always better?

  Questioning the motivations and effectiveness of fair trade coffee.

• Bruised peaches taste sweeter

  Reflecting on the relationships that make local shopping the best bargain.

• Divine coincidences

  A journey from bedside reading to the grocery store.

• An autobiography, with tea

  A North American looks to look beyond the leaves.

• Vanya

  A reflection on the concerns of a man and a woman of the Ratwa Bhil tribe in central India.

• Musings on an inefficient life

  Living life at the pace of a wood burning stove.

• Lost and found

  A mad farmer reflects on bringing life back to Maple Tree Meadows through bartering, laboring and other acts of faith.

• Meet your meat

  The story of a family’s journey toward more conscious consumption.

• The sacrament of meat

  An excerpt from Eat With Joy: Redeeming God’s Gift of Food.

• Thin places

  Exploring the memories buried beneath the surface of the family farm.