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On Tuesday, November 22, 2011, Root Cellars Rock piloted its Food Skills Workshop initiative at The Lantern, in St. John’s. The Food Skills Workshops Kit is intended to assist community organizations and individuals who are interested in learning and sharing skills related to picking, planting, preserving and preparing local food. Later this year, FSN will be offering materials for how to host Food Skills Workshops on composting, container gardening, using culinary herbs, preparing local vegetables, seed saving, edible wild plants, safe canning and preserving and root cellars and cold storage! [...]
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By Sarah | August 16th, 2011 | Tags: children, local food, picking, Planting, preparing, Preserving, youth | Category: 
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FEASt Pippy Park Family Garden
Below is a list of resources to help kids and youth learn how to plant, pick, prepare and preserve their own local food! Some resources are directed towards children and youth, some to parents and others to educators. To share your feedback on these or to let us know about other good resources, leave a comment in the children & youth section of the forum or email info@rootcellarsrock.ca.
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Acorn Naturalists : a publishing company retailing an array of materials for discovering the natural world, including [...]
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By Andreae C | July 28th, 2011 | Tags: Downtown Dirt, Gardening, growing season, heirloom, Lead, Pests, Planting, Potatoes, safe gardening, Slugs, soil contamination, summer | Category: Picking, Planting 
White cosmos, nowhere near the worm tree
Hello, friends! I had wanted to do a lovely pictorial of all the things growing happily in my garden today, but unfortunately almost everything in the back yard is completely covered in specks of black poo from the millions of tiny worms rolled up in the leaves of my neighbours’ enormously large maple tree, the branches of which now reach almost 2/3 of the way across my back yard. It’s to the north of my garden, so it doesn’t block all the light (although if it weren’t there, I [...]
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In Newfoundland and Labrador we produce a huge abundance and variety of leafy greens for a lot of the year, but they’re sparse come wintertime. If you’re missing summer salads and need a boost after all the heavy holiday eating, there is a way to get local greens into your life way before spring, and it is so extremely simple. In your own kitchen you can easily grow the powerhouse of plants, the sultan of salads, the emporium of enzymes…sprouts! [...]
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Done! (Almost). This weekend I planted all of my seedlings, and a bunch of seeds. Last week I was mixing together the soil in the raised bed according to a recipe, but I lacked vermiculite. I couldn’t find it anywhere and I got some advice that it wasn’t necessary with good peat, so I ended up buying a few bags of topsoil from Traverse Gardens to fill up the bed. My soil contains a lot of peat moss, a little vermiculite, my personal vermicompost, sheep manure, seaweed, and whatever is in Ross Traverse’s soil mix (peat, compost). It feels pretty light and moist, much better than the actual soil in the ground.
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