Gardening has many positive benefits, but one great one is that it teaches children new skills! Gardening with your kids not only gives them new skills, but lets them have fun, and develop self-confidence tending to plants and growing their…
Happy Earth Day! Since we last celebrated this day, we’ve discussed a lot of topics related to sustainability. Our goal with these blogs was to educate our community about what actions have the largest environmental impact and offer ways to…
On the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, none of us could have predicted that we would be managing an international health crisis alongside an environmental one. A silver lining in times of crisis, however, is that crises make us take…
There is a short answer to this question. The commonality between divas and environmentalists is that they have high standards. They set the bar high for people, the environment, and for business. One company that honors divas and environmentalists alike…
In celebration of all the hard-working women in the food system, we at SPUD.ca have teamed up with a local organization, called Young Agrarians, to support business women and farmers in our community. This month, buy from any of our…
As amazing as it sounds, by “live off” we don’t mean eating exclusively ice cream for the rest of your life. Instead, we're talking about a Calgary-based gelato shop that has created a company that works for its employees and…
Here at SPUD.ca we love our vendors and we want to shine a spotlight on Aja (pronounced Asia) today! Aja is the founder of Drizzle Honey and also the Queen Bee. Years of beekeeping, research and sampling honey from all…
A famous chemist in the 18th century by the name of Antoine Lavoisier once said, “nothing is lost, nothing is created. Everything is transformed” (1). This concept, as poetic as it may sound and traditionally referenced in cultural and spiritual…
Immediately after U.S. President Donald Trump completed his State of the Union address, millions of viewers watched a powerful commercial by Seventh Generation which showed images of youth climate strikers and clips of an old speech by past- U.S President…
The history of food production, like any history related to the human race, is complex and does not originate from a single place. Dating back thousands of years ago to today, we have learned many lessons from the development of…
As conscious as we may be about our impact on the planet, we all have a carbon footprint and we all create waste. A carbon footprint represents the greenhouse gas emissions we create from where we shop, what we eat,…
There is a sustainability-related debate that continues to arise which is both fascinating and brain-frying at the same time. The topic under debate is whether food waste or packaging waste is worse for the environment. Many researchers have attempted to…
