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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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Saving Tomato Seeds

Spring FEASt Fest-Tomato Seed Saving

On Saturday, St. Thomas church played host to Spring FEASt Fest in St. John’s, and I ran demos on how to save tomato seeds. Overall, I think it went very well; people seemed to respond pretty well to the demo, and I managed to swap for some seeds that I’ve had trouble finding. I also met Dan Rubin, who runs Perfectly Perennial Seeds & Herbs out in Pouch Cove. We had a great time chatting about saving seeds, and the importance of localizing varieties to the unique growing conditions here in Newfoundland.

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Eat Atlantic Day

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Today is Eat Atlantic Day and a resurgence is happening across Newfoundland & Labrador to bring that message home!  Inspired by our vibrant provincial food heritage, we’re planting backyard and community gardens, supporting local growers, going to farmer’s markets, restoring root cellars, preserving and canning, and even slowly welcoming chickens and other food animals back into our neighbourhoods. Hopefully it won’t be long before we’ll be able to Eat Atlantic right from many of our community green-spaces.

Root Cellars Rock! wants to congratulate you for all you’ve been doing to Eat Atlantic year-round and to also challenge you [...]

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