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Food Secure Canada is hiring!

Food Secure Canada

Food Secure Canada is looking for its first Executive Director and a Coordinator! Would you like to be at the forefront of building a national movement for a fair, healthy and ecological Canadian food system? [...]

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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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St. John’s Farmers’ Market extended to Dec. 17

SJFM Extended Dec. 17

We’re really excited to spread the word that the St. John’s Farmers’ Market (SJFM) is open and flourishing until Dec. 17th this year! It’s the first year that they’re running right through December so be sure to tell your friends! [...]

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What’s in my compost?

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I know I’m not the first person to write about composting here on the RCR blog, but I figure you just can’t talk enough about turning your kitchen scraps into that lovely black gold. I’ve composted in one form or another for a long, long time now. The first compost I knew of was not in a bin or a black plastic Darth Vader container, it was just a heap, known imaginatively as the “compost pile.” That was in the 1980s. Composting was pretty low-tech back then. Take your scraps, throw them in the pile, and let nature do the [...]

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FSN Annual General Meeting

FSN Annual General Meeting 2011

Root Cellars Rock is a project of the Food Security Network NL (FSN). Come out to our Annual General Meeting to learn what FSN has been up to this past year, become a member, & help us plan our next steps! [...]

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