Episode 8 has us talking a lot about the different health benefits of liquid diets and juicing. 

First, Jess catches up with someone who virtually wasn't able to swallow for nine months straight; not food, not water, not even his own spit.

Then we phone the west coast and Bryan speaks with an expert about the non-psychoactive & health benefits of a new form of cannabis for managing pain. 

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THANKS!

Thanks this week to Greg Milo for sharing his experience with achalasia. If you're curious about the treatment that relieved Greg of his symptoms, googling P.O.E.M.- or Per-Oral Endoscopic Myotomy- will provide all the information you might need.

Thanks also to Dieter MacPherson from Cannabis Digest (http://cannabisdigest.ca/juicing-raw-cannabis/) for meeting with Bryan over the phone.

Thanks always to Erik Betlem, Ken Stowar and Sam Petite and CIUT for the use of their recording facilities. The CIUT Funding Drive is over, but you can always donate to the station here (http://ciut.fm).

And thanks very much to Chris Foster (www.chrisfoster.ca) for our Foodstuffs logo.

Cheers!

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Episode 8- Juicing for Health: Achalasia & Cannabis

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This week, we learn what the elements that give beer flavour, just in time to cheers to the end of another season.

Matt Park is the Operations manager at Toronto's Burdock Brewery and he loves yeast. We learn how yeast impacts the taste of beer and how to maintain flavour when brewing low alcohol beers. Yum!

Ep 40: Matt Park Brews Crushable Craft Beers

This week we talk to the son of a farmer about his photographic homage to his upbringing, currently on display at Toronto's St Lawrence Market. Fittingly for one of Canada's oldest farmers' markets, Andrew McGill's work displays scenes from his hometown: farm life, county fairs and local characters.

What happens when you book most of your work in the city, but draw some of your greatest inspiration from your rural farming town? How Andrew McGill reconciles his past and present, and tries to envision his future.

To hear our chat with Andrew's father, Larry McGill, download "Ep 14: The Homegrown Dinner Project & A Farmer's Perspective."

Ep 39: A Farmer's Son's Perspective

Workplace safety is known as a basic right in our country, however political collective Justice for Migrant Workers is working hard to spread awareness of the realities of the Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program for some of Canada's migrant farmworker population.

On this week's episode, we speak to one of the J4MW organizers, Tzazná Miranda Leal, about the range of efforts the group has taken to spread the issue of substandard working and living conditions for Canada's migrant worker population. 

J4MW's campaign ramped up last year, culminating as the Harvesting Freedom Caravan that crossed Southern Ontario. This work is currently on display in the form of three concurrent art exhibitions, 'Art and Tomatoes,' taking place as a part of the Mayworks Festival of Working People and the Arts in Toronto. 

For more information, please visit our website: foodstuffs.life

Ep 38: The Art of Fighting for Migrant Farmworkers' Rights

How access to food, water and the Internet shapes one northern community; the people of Attawapiskat First Nation cope with the high cost of living on reserve. 

We chat with Kathy and Stephen Stoney- a teacher and a minister- about the barriers that currently exist and what they hope to see for the future of eating in their subarctic First Nation.

Ep 37: The Meaning of Access in Attawapiskat

When life handed Michaela Kutaj a diagnosis that kept her close to home, she prescribed herself backyard chickens.

This week, Jess takes a trip to the Mississauga to visit a woman who is reaping more than just the obvious- albeit illegal- rewards (i.e. local food, healthy compost, active lifestyle) of backyard chicken farming.

Episode 8- Juicing for Health: Achalasia & Cannabis

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