Hey folks, welcome back. This is Andy and this is the Port Pearls Almanac. In this episode, we're talking about food sovereignty

and imagining utopias around what food sovereignty looks like in a post-capitalist state.

Dr. Brian Dale is a faculty member at Bishop's University's Environment and Geography Program.

There, he focuses on food sovereignty, institutionalizing ecological farming, and

agroecology praxis in a capitalist setting. We have a great conversation discussing what it looks like

to try to imagine a more resilient world in which our communities are framed within an

agro-ecological understanding. I really enjoyed this conversation,

and I hope you do too. So Brian, thanks for taking some time to chat with us. Could you tell

us a little bit about your background? Sure. So right now I'm speaking to you from Sherbrook,

Quebec, Canada, which is Abanaki territory,

and a relatively new arrival to this area. So I am now teaching at Bishop's University, which is an Anglophone University in Quebec. And I started with bishops this summer. So it's with the Environment and Geography Department

and we have a lot of exciting things going on, which I'd be happy to chat about if you'd like,

but we have a new sustainable agriculture and food systems program and an educational farm,

which is 140 acres. So for the department and folks involved in the program, there's a big

playground that we're working with in terms of research and teaching and such. Before Bishops,

though, I was doing a postdoc, a postdoctoral fellowship with the University of Toronto

Scarborough. And that was a project specifically I was involved with

Dr. Joe Sharma called Feeding the City, Pandemic and Beyond. And prior to that, I did a PhD in

Human Geography at the University of Toronto where I was looking at issues around climate change

and food sovereignty and agoracology. Yeah, it's an interesting triangulation of those

things. And actually, I'm so jealous of you that you have this like, it'll essentially like you said,

a playground to try stuff out and to integrate a lot of these ideas into. One of the terms that

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