From displaced Guatemalans to the Amazon rain forest to the angst of high school sweethearts, Canadian singer-songwriter Bruce Cockburn has been there for four decades to turn protest into song.
Now, Cockburn is traveling to Nova Scotia, Canada, for a Friday appearance to help kick off the four-day Real Food, Farming and Flowers weekend focused on food security and related issues, both locally and globally.
Mark Austin, co-organizer of the Truro and Halifax events, said,
"I believe, as many do right now, we have to find a way to reconnect. There’s a lot of talk about buying locally, growing your own food and supporting farmers’ markets," with where our food comes from. Along with that, we need to produce food in a sustainable way. In other words, I’m not a great believer in industrial farming and processed foods."