Home Grown: Agricultural Voices From Production to Consumption

Food reaches us long before it arrives on our plates. It starts in the soil, in someone's hands, in knowledge passed down and care given freely, and it stays with us through the rituals of preparation, the weight of memory, the stories we tell at the table. This edition of Home Grown traces that arc, gathering voices who think deeply about agricultural ecologies from the ground up. Through visual art, film, poetry, recipes, and personal testimony, our contributors ask how food systems shape the way we relate to land, to family, to culture and identity, to the places we call home. Some turn their attention to cultivation, to sustainability, to the quiet labour behind what nourishes us. Others look inward, toward kitchens, inherited recipes, the journeys of migration, and the tender meanings we attach to what we eat. Home Grown presents these works ask us to look more closely at what sustains us, to honour who makes it possible, and to notice what we carry; from soil to self.