Extra Resources

Here are some great resources that touch on multiple aspects of sustainable living, living off the land and supporting local. There is lots of information out there, these are some of what we dove into when we first started our journey into living off the land. 

Books

  • Farmacology: Total Health From the Ground up by Dahpne Mille
  • Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teaching of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer 
  • Sacred Cow: The Case for (Better) Meat by Diana Rogers and Robb Wolf

All of these books are easy to read and jam packed with information.  Don't expect to go through them all in one sitting.  I highly recommend borrowing them from your local library, if you'd like to own them, then please order from small independent book stores in your area. 

Here are some small independent bookstore in the Ottawa area, all three have online shopping:

Documentaries

  • Kiss the Ground on Prime
  • Common Ground on Prime
  • Groundswell on Prime
  • The Need to Grow: Save the Soil, Save the World at this link
  • Sacred Cow on YouTube at this link
  • Rotten on Netflix

Kiss the Ground, Common Ground and Groundswell are all documentaries done by the same organization.  They are decent documentaries, they are very Holywood style but do eventually get the point across.
The Need to Grow is a really great example at how difficult pushing for regenerative food can me. 
Sacred Cow is the documentary version of the book recommendation above and we highly recommend this documentary.  It's done extremely well, and brings up many many issues that a regular consumer just doesn't overly see.
Rotten is one of the first docuseries that I watched about our food system and it is very eye opening. I still recommend it to people today, definitely worth the watch.

Videos

Some of our favourite videos when it comes to learning about soil health, restoring ecosystems, the circle of life and agriculture.   They are a quick watch, with lots of information, so you'll most likely want to watch them more than once. 

Do you have resources you'd like to share? Want to chat? Because we're always looking for more opportunities to learn - Reach out - we'd love to hear from you, we could talk all day about this!