Episode 233: Food, Power, and the Fight for a Sustainable Future
About the Podcast
Today, Clancy speaks with Jeff MacFarlane, social entrepreneur and founder of The Ville Cooperative in Canada. You won’t want to miss their conversation about how food can both unite and divide communities, the danger of corporate control over food and energy, and how local innovation can bring back power to the people. Jeff shares his passion for sustainable living, cooperative farming, and creating communities where people and nature thrive together.
About Jeff MacFarlane
Jeff MacFarlane is a social entrepreneur dedicated to building a more sustainable future. As the founder of The Ville Cooperative, he developed a model that helps communities reconnect with nature and each other. His work focuses on advancing eco-friendly housing, sustainable solar communities, and resilient food systems across Canada.
Discussion Takeaways
- Food has been used as a tool of control, politically, economically, and socially. It can also become a force for unity and empowerment when communities reclaim it.
- Victory gardens during wartime once produced nearly half of the local vegetables. That same spirit of self-reliance can reshape our food future today.
- Industrialized, profit-driven food systems have disconnected people from how food is grown.
- Food dignity is the freedom to grow your own food and live without policies that prevent a healthy, sustainable life.
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Food dignity is the freedom to grow your own food and live without policies that prevent a healthy, sustainable life.
Each week on the Food Dignity® Podcast, the Food Dignity® Movement's Clancy Harrison hosts a wide variety of hunger experts and other people making changes on the frontlines. Join us as we dive deep into conversations that will change the way you think about food insecurity.
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