Our clients, friends and family often ask us, what can I put in my composter? Well here’s a quick list to help you out, starting with what you can put in it: Organic materials: for sure: this includes all types of food and drink, tea bags, coffee filters, flowers and plants (leaves, grass clippings) with caution: [...]
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Mushrooms! Mushrooms! Mushrooms! (and Mushroom Risotto)
There’s no hiding it, we love mushrooms around here. I guess our passion for them got picked up along the way as we were asked to guest blog for Mushrooms Canada. Check out our guest post for them here. We hope you like the recipe for Mushroom Risotto too. Eat drink and be merry, The [...]
Composter Dos and Don?ts
Our clients, friends and family often ask us, what can I put in my composter? Well here’s a quick list to help you out, starting with what you can put in it: Organic materials: for sure: this includes all types of food and drink, tea bags, coffee filters, flowers and plants (leaves, grass clippings) with caution: [...]
Is Your Produce Genetically Modified?
Have you ever stopped to wonder what those stickers on all the fruits and veggies you buy mean? Until recently I assumed it was the simply a PLU (product look up number) so the cashier can quickly scan the produce. Turns out there’s a whole lot more info in those tiny little stickers. And understanding [...]
Recipe: Yumminess Bread
What?s In It? 4 apples peeled, cored and chopped 2 eggs Splash vanilla 2 cups flour 1 tsp. baking powder ½ tsp. baking soda ½ tsp salt Handful of walnuts Handful of dried cranberries What you do with it Sauté the apples in butter until soft then mash up with a potato masher ? [...]
This Week?s Poll: Fresh, Local or Organic
If you had to choose which produce to eat, what would it be?
Recipe: Pasta Putanesca with Basil
I know that purists will dismiss this as non traditional but my wife isn?t an oregano fan so that?s life I suppose What’s In It 1L preserved tomatoes OR 796 canned tomatoes (I like the no salt ones) 1 cup chopped black olives 5 anchovies chopped (a light rinse will take some of the saltiness [...]
6 Reasons to Grow your Own Food
I just read a fantastic post about why you should grow your own food. Even with all the compelling reasons, many of us are victim to the wonderful world of convenience, and it’s sometimes hard to take the time (or find the time) to garden your own veggies (even if they are fresher, more local [...]
Recipe: French Onion Soup
Ingredients A lot of yellow cooking onions A few more yellow cooking onions ¼ cup sherry 1L chicken stock 1L beef stock 500ml water 4 sprigs thyme Kosher salt Butter Gruyere cheese Baguette 2 cloves garlic What You Do With It Half and slice as many onions as it takes to fill your biggest [...]
How to Save on Phantom Power
When you run an organic vegetable gardening company you get to be known as the Greenie amongst your friends. This means each time someone finds an article or hears a story about ways to be green (and save green) they let us know. Today a friend passed me a clipping from the Globe + Mail [...]
Fooling Mother Nature: Winter Edition
Fooling Mother Nature in the winter is not as hard as it sounds. Most cold tolerant plants enjoy the cooler months; it?s the wind they don?t like. You need a cold frame filled with cold tolerant plants like Mache, carrots and arugula. A cold frame is a box with hinged covers so that the plants [...]
