Mon, 21 May 2012 07:40:18 -0800WeeblyTue, 29 Dec 2009 16:32:16 -0800http://www.lushvalley.org/4/post/2009/12/terra-spheres.htmlSquamish Nation Tries New Technology - Terra Sphere Systems, a Vancouver based company, builds highly efficient systems called growth carousels. These carousels provide a natural means of growing organic fruits and vegetables in an indoor environment. Read more.. ]]>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:30:58 -0800http://www.lushvalley.org/4/post/2009/12/urban-aboriginal-community-kitchen.htmlUrban Aboriginal Community Kitchen Garden Project - The Garden Project brings aboriginal people from Vancouver's downtown eastside to the UBC Farm, and teaches them how to farm, then to eat together, and to bring that food back home with them. Watch the full video... ]]>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:29:12 -0800http://www.lushvalley.org/4/post/2009/12/the-global-land-grab.htmlGRAIN is launching today a new website that offers the most comprehensive information tool on the global land grab for outsourced food production: This new site is an improved version of the site initiated by GRAIN last year, which provides an open, up-to-date and easy to search library of over 800 articles, interviews and reports on farm land grabs around the world published since the outbreak of the food crisis in 2008. Read more... ]]>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:28:04 -0800http://www.lushvalley.org/4/post/2009/12/clyde-river-nutrition-studied.htmlClyde River's community lifestyle has drawn national attention. The small Baffin hamlet is one of eight aboriginal communities in Canada whose health, nutrition and fitness programs are being studied as role models in preventing diabetes. Read more...
]]>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:24:40 -0800http://www.lushvalley.org/4/post/2009/12/guts-and-grease-the-diet-of-natives.htmlThe hunter-gatherer's dinner is front page news these days. Drawing from the writings of Dr. Boyd Eaton and Professor Loren Cordain, experts in the so-called Paleolithic diet, columnists and reporters read more...

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]]>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:21:46 -0800http://www.lushvalley.org/4/post/2009/12/hagwilget-village-gets-justice.htmlA small First Nation community in northern BC has made history for itself today.

On the eve of a precedent-setting trial Canada agreed to compensate the people of Hagwilget Village near Hazelton for the complete destruction of their fishery by Canada fifty years ago. The trial was scheduled to start this morning, but on Friday afternoon Canada agreed to a judgment for $21.5 million dollars to compensate the Hagwilget people read more... ]]>