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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