As I harvest the food that remains in my downtown community garden, my thoughts fall to the massive flooding and mudslides that recently destroyed roads and instantly cut Vancouver off from accessing the many items that we enjoy each day. We are incredibly insecure within this “system” that they have created and continue to perpetuate. Like most things, food exists within the capitalist system and is subject to the same logics of profit, dependency and class inequality. Most of us are dependent on grocery stores to survive and incapable of growing our own food, while access to healthy and …
food security
Adventuring into the Unknown
There is a confession wanting to come forth. Holding onto the idea of van dweller of 20 plus years, there is currently a slight untruth to that. Exploration has taken hold into areas taken for granted to most western people but with my own free will and desire, I became unfamiliar with. The confession isn’t large. It is merely that our dwelling situation has expanded. To be clear, it is not a mansion in which we reside though it certainly feels like one. The place is more of a small box; bigger than the comforts of my van, but lacking the freedom of wheels. There are no amenities like a …