It’s World Food Day. Family Farms: feeding the world and caring for the earth is the theme of World Food Day as the United Nations is celebrating 2014 as the International Year of the Family Farm. In this post I’m going to give a recipe for a Gold and Green Salad to celebrate the bounty […]
MoreToday on CBC Radio One’s Alberta at Noon with host Donna McElligott I talked about World Food Day’s 2014 theme of family farming – feeding the world and caring for the earth. You’ll find the podcast here. You’ll find my Aunt Muriel’s Farmhouse Carrot Cake recipe using lots of local farm ingredients here. One of […]
MoreI was once in a book club for people with short attention spans…we went to movies of books. If you found my last post on World Food Day too long to read, this post is for you. Farmers feed the world and care for the earth. Here’s a few few videos to learn more about […]
MoreOctober 16 is World Food Day and this year’s theme is Family Farming: Feeding the World, Caring for the Earth. My Alberta at Noon column this month will share what kinds of challenges family farms are facing and what’s going on with the family farm movement right here in Alberta. This post will provide some […]
MoreUrban farming has become topical. Here’s a video by Alberta PrimeTime discussing why. The video features Rod Olson of Leaf and Lyre SPIN farm here in Calgary and Professor Debra Davidson of the University of Alberta and they do a great job of explaining why people are becoming more interested in growing food within city […]
MoreVisiting Alberta’s farms and farmers – whether urban or rural – has always been a big part of my life in Alberta and summer is the prime time to make a visit. If you’d like to meet some farmers here’s some ideas I’ve collected to help you be “Outstanding in a field” this summer.
MoreSome people are born to shop but I was born to grocery shop. I love it. I am delighted that I get to write about the great ingredients and cool things I find in local grocery stores, markets and kitchen shops. I do this for my Get This (must have kitchen stuff) column in Calgary’s […]
MoreMy April column for CBC Radio One’s Alberta at Noon was all about a new website called Soil Mate. The Soil Mate website acts like a match making service between consumers and farmers. Just as internet matchmaking services helps people find their soul mate, this site will help you find your “soil mate”. But, it’s […]
MoreWatch the video above to learn about this new agri-enterprise that has the potential to change the way we source our food. Recommend your favourite farms, farmer’s markets and wineries/meaderies. Spread the word, like farmer’s spread manure. Let’s see all our soil mates get listed and help get this great seed of an idea growing […]
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