It’s almost 2 years to the day since I posted about our great mid-west beer run to Madison, Wisconsin in preparation for our wedding. In that post I alluded to a harrowing adventure and promised to post about it after the wedding… and then I totally didn’t! The horror! To recap that story, Chris and…
Tag: Ontario
Farming in the urban shadow in Waterloo, Ontario
Urban farm pressure. A combine harvests wheat off Fischer-Hallman Road in Kitchener. As Kitchener’s suburbs have grown outward, the once-quiet countryside has become a busy suburb. Photo by David Bebee. “Urbanization forces farmers to become land speculators, even the ones that don’t want to be,” By Greg Mercer, Record staff Jan 06 2012 Excerpt: Flourishing…
The sad truth about our food?
My boss shared this video with me today and I thought it was quite compelling. Yes, it’s a commercial for Hellman’s, but a clever one in that it doesn’t really focus at all on their product. Instead it incites the viewer to consider where Canadian fruits and vegetables come from, offers up startling figures about…
2009 Veggie Garden Review in Pictures
Well… yesterday, the first day of November, I harvested the very last of my veggies, the single head of radicchio that didn’t bolt in the spring, the teeny parsnips and the skinny leeks. We grilled the leeks and the radicchio and dressed them simply with a little balsamic, lemon, olive oil and salt and pepper,…