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By admin | February 21st, 2012 | Tags: food storage, Home Grown, sprouting, sprouts, tools | Category: Preparing, Preserving
Three jars, bowls, and strainers. These simple kitchen items help me to prepare food that is healthful for me. [...]
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By admin | January 16th, 2012 | Tags: call-out, canning, cold storage, composting, Container Gardening, edible wild plants, food skills, foraging, herbs, Pickling, root cellars, seed saving, storing vegetables, vegetables, vermicomposting | Category: Picking, Planting, Preparing, Preserving
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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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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By Sarah | December 16th, 2011 | Tags: 4 Ps Library, canning, community gardens, composting, csa, DIY, Gardening, holidays, sprouting, vermicompost, winter | Category: Local Food Recipes, Picking, Planting, Preparing, Preserving
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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“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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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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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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By Costa Kasimos | December 4th, 2011 | Tags: A Taste of the Wild Side, cattails, cranberries, dandelion greens, foraging, harvest, harvesting, jams & jellies, local food, partridgeberries, picking, tea, wild foods, winter | Category: Picking, Preparing
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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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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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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