Shannon Courtney

Shannon Courtney is former editor-in-chief and co-founder of Salty, Prince Edward Island's comprehensive food and farm digest. Shannon completed her Masters of Environmental Studies at Queen's University, focusing her thesis research on how local food systems both depend on and create social capital. The holistic-nutritionist-in-training has milked Jersey cows in Australia, almost overdosed on maple syrup in Prince Edward County, and explored Vermont's foodscape beyond Ben & Jerry's.

On the Lamb at Wildwind Pastures

Apr 14, 2021

Meet Adam MacLean, a bootstrapping shepherd in South Melville, P.E.I.

Gleaning knowledge

May 29, 2020

By Shannon Courtney Originally printed in Salty, Vol. 1, Issue 1, October 2016, saltyisland.com. Reprinted with permission. What do knitting, glee...

Book review: Vancouver’s Street Farms

May 8, 2019

Michael Ableman’s ambitious urban agriculture project is germinating seeds and hope.

PEI Burger Love: 84 Beefy Reasons to Come Out of Hibernation

Apr 3, 2019

For most Canadians, April is simply the bridge between a long winter and the promise of summer. In Prince Edward Island, however, April has been...

Gleaning knowledge

Jul 13, 2017

What do knitting, glee clubs, board games and food preserving have in common? If you guessed the 1950s, you wouldn’t be wrong, but these old-school...