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Food Matters – Figs!

Consider the fig. It’s one of those mystical fruits steeped in history, yet sometimes relegated to being the dried, sticky filling in a stodgy Fig Newton. The fresh fig is something that should be very celebrated, as I demonstrated today … Continue reading

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Food Matters – The Food Shed

UPDATE! Here is the schedule of organizations speaking at Eat Here Now on Sunday: 11am: Wayward School and the Victoria Downtown Public Market Society 11:30: CR-Fair 12 noon: Dogwood 12:30: Lifecycles 1:00: OUR Ecovillage 1:30pm Slow Food (featuring me!) 2:00pm … Continue reading

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Farm To Fork Eating in the North Thompson

‘Farm to Fork’. It’s a catchy phrase we’re hearing a lot this days when it comes to talking about a sustainable agriculture system. Some farmers and restaurants are trying to make it work in the Kamloops area. I got to … Continue reading

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Food Matters – Fruit Tree Projects

If you’re looking for the Feast of Fields contest, scroll to the bottom of this entry. You can easily spot them this time of year. Trees in your neighbourhood, maybe even in your own backyard, loaded with fruit that may … Continue reading

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Food Matters: Denman Bakery/Vassili’s Bread Shop

If you’re looking for the Feast of Fields contest, click here. When it comes right down to it, most people don’t like change. Especially when it comes to your favourite food products, including your daily bread. But change was made … Continue reading

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Food Matters – Feast of Fields Preview

Feast of Fields The fifteenth annual Feast of Fields on Vancouver Island is fast approaching. Next month dozens of local chefs and beverage producers will spend a Sunday afternoon doling out thousands of delicious bite-sized morsels of food in an … Continue reading

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