By Sarah | September 2nd, 2010 | | Share:   Tags: Eat Atlantic, heirloom, seed saving | Category: Keynote Bloggers  Today is Eat Atlantic Day and a resurgence is happening across Newfoundland & Labrador to bring that message home! Inspired by our vibrant provincial food heritage, we’re planting backyard and community gardens, supporting local growers, going to farmer’s markets, restoring root cellars, preserving and canning, and even slowly welcoming chickens and other food animals back into our neighbourhoods. Hopefully it won’t be long before we’ll be able to Eat Atlantic right from many of our community green-spaces.
Root Cellars Rock! wants to congratulate you for all you’ve been doing to Eat Atlantic year-round and to also challenge you to bring it up a notch this coming year. Try things you haven’t before, talk to your neighbours, and take a few more personal steps to create a sustainable food system in this province.
One way to do that is to help preserve heritage seeds by seed saving! Below is an article written by Dan Rubin, an amateur gardener and seed saver who lives in Pouch Cove. He wants you to join him and his son Jasper in rejuvenating local perennial food crops. There is also a list of fantastic links to get you started saving your own seeds and experimenting with how you Eat Atlantic.
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By Kristie | August 1st, 2010 | | Share: Category: Local Food Recipes Last week we had a visitor from Montreal come and stay with us. We had a lovely time visiting the breathtaking sites of this island and of course we needed to satisfy the need to eat some local fish. On last saturday afternoon, after visiting the St. John’s Farmers’ Market, we went for a walk downtown to the local fish depot to buy some local fish. I found out while there that Tuesday is when Tuna delivers fresh from New Brunswick, Thursday is when Halibut comes in from the coast of Labrador, and every day is Cod, salmon, and steelhead trout day.We decided to pick up some Halibut to see what we could create along with other goodies we purchased from The Organic Farm, The Seed to Spoon Collective, and Jeremy Carter from Mt. Scio Farm at the farmers’ market.
Continue reading Impressing Friends from away with Fresh Fish!
By Kristie | July 4th, 2010 | | Share: Category: Local Food Recipes  The St. John’s Farmers’ Market, like other markets across the province, has made it easier for folks to access fresh, local, healthy food from June – November. As a way to highlight some of the wonderfully delicious, and healthy meals you can make easily at home with a few ingredients from [...]
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By admin | June 10th, 2010 | | Share: Category: Events Last night three panelists discussed food security in Newfoundland and Labrador. The presentation, hosted by the Harris Centre, was webcast live. The presentations and the following discussion can now be viewed online.
From a short growing season, and limited farmland, to depleted fish stocks and high transportation costs, Newfoundland and Labrador faces plenty [...]
Continue reading Memorial Presents: What’s for dinner? Building a Healthy, Reliable Food Supply for NL
By admin | May 13th, 2010 | | Share: Category: Uncategorized Check out this awesome program about a gardener in Woody Point, Newfoundland. All Land and Sea episodes can be viewed from the website at www.cbc.ca/landandseanl/, but this one is actually airing this Sunday, May 16th at 12:30 p.m. NT.
George Mancel Halfyard has done a lot in his 85 years. He served in the second [...]
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By admin | April 27th, 2010 | | Share: Tags: Young Farmers | Category: Events Leadership Summit and Annual General Meeting
When: Friday, April 30 and Saturday, May 1, 2010 Where: Holiday Inn, St. John’s To Register: Call Darryl Legge at 689-1779 or email darryllegge@hotmail.com. Download the Agenda for more information.
Newfoundland and Labrador Young Farmers’ Forum (NLYFF) was established in 2003 with the objective of [...]
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By admin | April 20th, 2010 | | Share: Category: Events Dirt! The Movie
If you’re in the St. John’s area, why not go to see Dirt! The Movie Tomorrow? Here’s the details:
When: Wenesday April 21 Time: 7:00 PM Where: EN-2006, MUN
The NL Environment Network (NLEN) and MUNSU present this new ‘insightful, timely & [...]
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By Rick Kelly | March 22nd, 2010 | | Share: Tags: seeds | Category: Confessions of a Novice Gardener Happy Spring!
It’s that time of year when you begin to think about buying seeds to plant all Spring and Summer long.
This year I got to work early dreaming about my garden and planning out all the vegetables I wanted to grow. Despite a goal of planting fewer varieties of plants we’d be [...]
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By Rick Kelly | October 17th, 2009 | | Share: Category: Confessions of a Novice Gardener EEk! Sorry everyone – I missed September entirely. Oh well, at least I have a lot to say about the garden.
As you may remember, I’ve been growing my first real attempt at a garden this year, with a 12×4 foot raised bed. Last time I wrote I was complaining [...]
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Today is Eat Atlantic Day and a resurgence is happening across Newfoundland & Labrador to bring that message home! Inspired by our vibrant provincial food heritage, we’re planting backyard and community gardens, supporting local growers, going to farmer’s markets, restoring root cellars, preserving and canning, and even slowly welcoming chickens and other food animals back into our neighbourhoods. Hopefully it won’t be long before we’ll be able to Eat Atlantic right from many of our community green-spaces.