Genevieve Fullan

Genevieve Fullan

Genevieve is earning her master’s degree in Environmental Studies at York University with a focus on sustainable food systems, food education and food literature. In The Mouthful, she blogs about the environmental politics and possibilities of food. Genevieve is a certified pastry chef and aspiring novelist. She lives in Toronto. @GFullan

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At the corner of Jane and Steeles, tucked between York University and Toronto’s Jane-Finch neighbourhood, Black Creek Community Farm (BCCF) is using local food to fuel a social justice movement....

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(Photo: a plentiful spread of fruits and vegetables)
The Globe and Mail recently published an article about the broken state of Canada’s Food Guide. The article points to a number of things wrong with our national food guide....
What Healthy Soil Looks Like | Natural Resources Conservation Soil Program
In the midst of conversations about how climate change and population growth are putting increased stress on food production, governments, activists and farmers have tackled issues such as water, crop...
hy-vee by Dean Hochman \ flickr
It won’t come as a surprise to most that we waste a significant amount of food as a society. We’ve all experienced that moment at the restaurant when we realize...
Hospital food
This past June, while attending a food-related conference in Burlington, Vermont, I inevitably found myself looking for somewhere decent to eat near campus. After asking around a bit, I was...
Lufa Farms Ahuntsic at sunset
Imagine a city that produces enough food to feed its population, a city that grows food without monopolizing more land; imagine a city of rooftop farms. This vision is precisely...
Beyond Food Banks
A new kind of community centre is emerging across Canada, and its focus is food. Community Food Centres Canada (CFCC) was launched in 2012 in an effort to provide a...
Young girl with root vegetables, learning how food is produced.
The term food literacy is thrown around a lot in discussions of food education, especially as it pertains to elementary and high school curriculum. The term food literacy is thrown...
Clagett_Farm_CSA_Week_11
The NDP recently published their Canadian food strategy in the document Everybody Eats. This comes several months after the Conference Board of Canada published their own version of a food...
Lucky Harms made with real GMO. Vermont mural by Brian Clark.
This past May, Vermont became the first state/province in North America to pass legislation mandating labels on GMO foods independently from other states. This past May, Vermont became the first...
Raised bed vegetable garden
“Worms are the heroes of existence.” This is what Alejandro Rojas said as we stood amid the raised beds of Eastdale Collegiate Institute’s 16,000 square foot rooftop garden in Toronto....