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By Andreae C | October 27th, 2011 | Tags: blueberries, canning, Downtown Dirt, foraging, freezing, fruit, jams & jellies, local food, local food recipes, preparing, Preserving | Category: Preparing, Preserving 
A little while ago, I wrote about my new love of herbed fruit jams. Before that, I told you about the Japanese knotweed jelly I was enjoying. If you hadn’t figured it out, I really love making jellies and jams.
I’ve said before that preserves make me feel rich. All lined up in my pantry, they’re like luminous jewels, ensuring that, no matter what goes wrong in this world, I have something tasty to spread on my toast.
There was a time when I didn’t consider anything less than an 6-pint batch of jam to be [...]
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By Sarah | August 16th, 2011 | Tags: children, local food, picking, Planting, preparing, Preserving, youth | Category: 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1Gm6F_8pjg”
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.
Multiple Topics
Acorn Naturalists : a publishing company retailing an array of materials for discovering the natural world, including [...]
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By Costa Kasimos | August 2nd, 2011 | Tags: A Taste of the Wild Side, food security, foraging, freezing, Gardening, greens, harvest, harvesting, jams & jellies, local food, picking, preparing, Preserving, St. John's, summer, wild foods | Category: Picking, Uncategorized 
We have entered the season of plenty. So much to write about, but all of my time is being taken up with hikes and gardening. Here are a few bits and peices of information to chew on. In this post, you’ll find info on dandelions, lambsquarters, roses, fireweed, and crowberry. [...]
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When Costa wrote his defense of Japanese knotweed last month, I was very excited. So excited that I almost immediately ran to the lot at the top of my street with a paring knife and filled a paper bag with bright, tender knotweed shoots. I turned them into a tasty soup and was most impressed with myself.
The next week, I tried serving plain steamed knotweed spears as a side dish. This time, I am afraid to say, I was not so pleased. Steamed, the knotweed took on this pallid olive-green tone, and deflated into [...]
Continue reading What weed? Knotweed!
By Sarah | February 16th, 2011 | Tags: local food, preparing, Preserving, recipes | Category: 
Local food recipes galore! Start from the garden, the field, the farmers’ market or your CSA box, and bring it all together for delicious, sustainable, Newfoundland and Labrador inspired local food meals all year-round. Do you have a recipe or link to share? Post them on the Forum page!
Blogs & Websites with many excellent local food recipes
Bernardine
Bidgood’s
Culinate
Farmers’ Market Nutrition Program
FoodManitoba
Get Local BC
Gluten-Free Girl [...]
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By admin | June 27th, 2009 | Tags: canning, Preserving, recipes | Category: Uncategorized Keynote Blogger: Andreae Prozesky, Food Nerd, The Scope
I’m not a rich woman. I probably never will be. I take my feelings of wealth where I can find them. The gleam of apple jelly through the criss-cross pattern of my favourite canning jars is likely as close as I’ll ever get to a real diamonds. My translucent bottles of berries, cherries, plums, and rhubarb are like rubies and amethysts and garnets and topaz to me. Peering into my pantry, I feel as though I’ve just walked into Tiffany’s.
Jewels and stones might [...]
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By admin | April 30th, 2009 | Tags: Heritage, Preserving | Category: Uncategorized Keynote Blogger: Alison Dyer, Root Cellar Researcher
Maberly Root Cellar, Trinity Bay, photo copyright: Alison Dyer
They were once to the garden and field what flakes and stages were to the coves: built by hand, located for access, and essential for a family’s sustenance. Root cellars, a place of riches and rich memories, have been called both a folk craft and a forgotten art.
Finding one of these cellars in an overgrown meadow is like coming across the closet to Narnia – a passageway to another world.
And so captivated, [...]
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