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Three jars, bowls, and strainers

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Three jars, bowls, and strainers. These simple kitchen items help me to prepare food that is healthful for me. [...]

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We need photos!

RCR Food Skills Workshops

We need your help! We’re looking for photos to use for a free kit of 8 food skills workshop that will be shared across NL! [...]

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Improving Health Together in 2012!

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Be passionate about your health, get involved in your community, and let’s make 2012 the year that the local food movement takes action against chronic disease! [...]

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4Ps Library- December- Gift ideas!

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We’re getting creative here coming up with fun gift ideas inspired by the 4 Ps of Local Food: planting, picking, preparing and preserving. Try one of these to light up the faces of the foodies on your gift list! (Cat picture taken prior to receiving awesome gift, seriously) [...]

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Local Garlic

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“It is so easy to grow our own garlic!” Faeterri shares what you need to know to get started growing garlic in NL, including tips from her experiences on the southwest coast of Newfoundland and a hearty garlic soup recipe to inspire you. [...]

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Local Food with a Global Flavour

Local Food- Global Flavour

Come to NEA REDB’s Multicultural Services Expo this Sat. Dec. 10th & enjoy delicious global cuisine made with local ingredients! Presented by Buy Local! Buy Fresh! Avalon Region, this event connects consumers with farmers and local markets. Event is free and open to the public. [...]

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A gift that gives twice!

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Root Cellars Rock and the Food Security Network NL both contributed recipes to the “Dine on Purposeā€ Charity Cookbook CD that includes a wonderful selection of 55 recipes from local Chefs, Restaurants, Bakeries and Food Producers. For every $20 donation given to an organization that feeds the hungry, between Dec 1-15 2011, you can get a copy of the cookbook CD (while supplies last)! [...]

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Winter Foraging

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Winter foraging is a fun way to enjoy this season and to make sure you get a bit of sunshine. We need vitamin D to keep the winter blues at bay. [...]

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Bulk Buying Clubs

Bulk Buying Clubs

FSN has created a guide explaining how to start and maintain a bulk buying club in your community in Newfoundland and Labrador! A bulk buying club is a group of people with similar food preferences who come together to buy food in bulk. All participants of a bulk buying club are involved in the planning, shopping, sorting, and delivering of food. These clubs enable individuals to work with a group of like-minded people to get more with their food dollars. [...]

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Warm and Hearty Veggie Cobbler

(Veggie cobbler, hot out of the oven!)

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As the days get shorter and the temperatures begin to plummet, I begin craving those warm, hearty meals that fill the soul (and stomach!). I try to put to good use the wonderful bounty of food harvested from my own backyard, local farmers, and in wild places around the City. The wonderful thing about veggie cobbler is that you can use differen combinations of vegetables depending on what’s in your fridge, as well as personal taste. Many of the ingredients I used, such root [...]

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