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Articulate Announcements
I’m not sure how articulate these announcements are, I just like the alliteration. First announcement: Food Matters, as heard on CBC Radio’s All Points West with host Jo-Ann Roberts, is moving to Thursdays at 4:35pm, from Wednesdays. So adjust your … Continue reading
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Tagged BBQ, Bill Jones, CBC Radio, Classes, Deerholme Farm, Don Genova, Food Matters, Jo-Ann Roberts, Kilrenny Farm, Monday Magazine, Rome, UBC, UBC Writiing Centre, Umbria
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Food Matters – Beer Revolution!
Becky Julseth of Salt Spring Island Ales It wasn’t that long ago that the beer scene in British Columbia was pretty boring. The market was dominated by a few large breweries that produced beers that pretty much tasted all the … Continue reading
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Tagged All Points West, Artisan Foods, beer, CBC Radio, craft beer, Don Genova, Food Matters, Joe Wiebe
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Food Matters – Defining ‘Local’ Food
Local Lettuce Local Food. It’s such a difficult concept to define. However, bureaucrats at the Canadian Food Inspection Agency have issued an ‘interim policy’ that for the purposes of labeling, ‘local’ is anywhere within a province, including up to 50 … Continue reading
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Tagged All Points West, Artisan Foods, CBC Radio, Don Genova, Food Matters, local, local food, sustainable eating
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Food Matters – A Very ‘Local’ School Lunch Program
Getting Ready for Lunch Breakfast and lunch programs in our schools have become a necessity to help feed students who might otherwise have to go hungry. Most of them rely on grants and donations of some sort, as in the … Continue reading
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Tagged All Points West, Artisan Foods, CBC Radio, cooking, Don Genova, Food Matters, lunch program, organic, Shoreline School, sustainable eating
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Food Matters – ‘Local’ Bees
We’ve been hearing a lot about honey bees over the past few years; declining populations, danger from pesticides or predators, and the threat of a weakened North American food system because of a lack of these valuable pollinators. Recently I discovered … Continue reading
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Food Matters – Artisan Jammers
“ooh, yeah, we’re jammin’…” It may be a little too early in the year to mention fruit, when many of our fruit-producing plants are either still to blossom or just finishing setting their fruit. But I always looks ahead to … Continue reading