When is my favourite produce in season?

It’s canning season again, folks, and this year it comes even earlier than usual.   Now that summer’s heat has arrived, the farmers markets are starting to get full of delicious produce, and we here in the office have been pouring …

2013 CSA List

In reviewing last year’s blog stats, the most popular post, by far, was the 2012 CSA list, suggesting that many of you are hungry for information on CSAs.  Well, it’s time for me to update that list for the 2013 …

Have your cupcake and eat it too!

This is the final post from Rachel & Courtney, our 2012-13 nursing students.  Even the healthiest of eaters enjoy a treat now and then. Thanks for all your hard work!   With the month coming to an end, we decided to surprise …

Black Bean Soup

    This cold snap has been a DOOZY.  Our woodstove has been going at full tilt for the past few weeks, and I’ve been taking advantage of its radiant power to do a lot of my cooking.  The cold weather …

Organic Milk in Nova Scotia

Jen Greenberg and her husband David farm one hour from Halifax in the Avon River Valley.  They run a CSA from their farm, Abundant Acres.   I have a personal story to tell about milk, cows, and dairy farming.  When …

Spanakopita!

Rachel Paterson & Courtney McPhee are two nursing students working with the Food Action Committee this year.  They are simultaneously teaching and getting a crash course in local food cooking. In early January, we set out for our second workshop …

Adventures in Local Chickens

For the past several months, my husband and I have been the proud owners of a small flock of chickens. A bunch of our friends in our rural community have always raised a few hens to provide their family with …

Using your preserves

When I first started canning, I started small.  A batch of salsa, a batch of strawberry freezer jam.  I always seemed to go through it too quickly, and I was usually out of my homemade preserves by Christmas. As the …

A new year of local food

Happy New Year from the folks at Adventures in Local Food!  And thank you to Mary Ellen for today’s post. Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you’ve conquered human nature. Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870) Well, the last of the …

Time for Celebration

A poem for this time of celebration and community and dear ones. Yours in the land, Mary Ellen Sullivan For N & K by Gina Myers Otis on vinyl carries from the barn. Blessed is this day. The camera captures …

Great Meals for a Change

Today’s post comes from Sara.  Sara grew up in Dartmouth, NS and has a bachelor’s and master’s degree in Biology. She is currently working in a genetics lab at Fisheries and Ocean Canada as a Lab Technician. She is a relatively …