I found a very welcome news story last week. Apparently, the federal government is proposing a review of the “Product of Canada” label on food. Currently, so long as 51% of the production costs were incurred in Canada, the item can be labelled “Product of Canada.”
This, understandably, creates a lot of confusion for shoppers. When [...]
Due to my work schedule and a few other concerns, we had our Thanksgiving dinner last weekend. We decided to do a 100 mile Thanksgiving dinner, and I wrote about the experience for Foodtv.ca.
It was a huge amount of work putting this dinner together, mostly through planning out what to have and where to get [...]
Unfortunately, this summer was not great for our garden. We had a late start due to a cool spring, a wicked windstorm in early August, and just not enough days of sunny and hot. (The heat wave we saw in late July helped, but it was a little too late and too short to do [...]
We’ve been making regular visits to the St. Norbert Farmers’ Market (which totally gets bonus points for putting the apostrophe in the right place) throughout the summer. It’s huge and sprawling on Saturdays, while on Wednesdays it easilly fits under the main white tent. Unfortunately, I’m only off work every other weekend (which limits how [...]
(Whew, back up and running finally! Sorry for the delay!)
There’s something about home-made jam. When we decided to go strawberry picking this year, I already had one thing in mind for the strawberries: jam. But how do you make jam. I had no idea. So… Internet to the rescue!
Bernardin, friend to Canadian home canners everywhere, [...]
My next post is up over at Foodtv.ca. This time I wrote about going strawberry picking.
I am now coming to you from a brand-new desktop/gaming rig… Which also means that all of my photos are trapped on my old hard drive (as well as my photo editing software!) so I can’t post any pictures [...]
It’s amazing what a simple glance through the paper at lunchtime can teach you.
At lunch today, I happened to see an article in the Winnipeg Free Press about 100 Mile Manitoba, a group of 100+ people who are pledging to follow the 100 mile diet for three months starting in September. I jotted down [...]
Tyson Foods, one of the United States’ largest poultry producers, has announced that they will no longer be using antibiotics for their fresh chicken sold in stores. The chicken will cost slightly more as a result of this change, but they anticipate that the change will actually increase demand for their chicken.
Personally, I know that [...]
Nature’s Farm pastas are a recent discovery of mine. They are made in Steinbach using Canadian durum wheat and eggs from vegetarian-fed, free-run hens.
We picked up a few bags (which, according to their website are compostable!) to try them out, and were generally pleased with the results. The pasta is very easy to cook al [...]
I think everyone’s grandparents had a rhubarb plant or two. Early summers would be filled with rhubarb pies and rhubarb crumbles, and if you were lucky you’d get rhubarb sorbet.
Rhubarb (also called a “pie plant”) can commonly be found at farmers’ markets this time of year. In Manitoba, the season for rhubarb has just peaked. [...]
