The True Cost of Food

Sow and Grow Podcast

The unequal price of food starts with production! Our guest, Cheyenne Sundance, highlights the necessity of paying fair wages for farm work and in making small scale farming a viable livelihood and step to achieving food sovereignty. We’ll dive into the tension between food prices and fair wages while getting into one of Sundance Harvest’s central goals of providing dignified work to people who have historically been shut out from an equitable place in agriculture. Small scale farmers feed the world, so let’s make sure they are fairly compensated!

Cheyenne Sundance is the director of Sundance Harvest, a year round urban farm growing flowers, herbs, mushrooms, and veg in Toronto. Cheyenne started Sundance Harvest from nothing but stubbornness, a nurturing love of the land and a drive to see true equity in agriculture. She sits on the Ontario board of the National Farmers Union as well as started the first BIPOC Farmers Caucus across Canada with the National Farmers Union and now sits on the Executive Board.

For more about Cheyenne and Sundance Harvest, check out the following links.

• Sundance Harvest
• BIPOC Advisory Committee | National Farmers Union
• sundance harvest (@sundanceharvest) • Instagram photos and videos

As always, a huge thank you to the National Farmers Foundation (NFF)

Disclaimer: The thoughts and opinions expressed by the guest and producers of this podcast do not necessarily represent the thoughts, opinions or policy of our sponsors, including that of the National Farmers Union.

ETC GROUP Links

Who will feed us third edition (2017): https://www.etcgroup.org/whowillfeedus

Who will feed us animations (2018): https://www.etcgroup.org/content/new-video-who-will-feed-us-peasant-food-web-vs-industrial-food-chain