Yearly Archives: 2010

 

Why it’s a good idea to grow and cook as much of your own food as humanly possible

Jun 22

Latest notices from the Canadian Food Inspection website May 25, 2010 – June 18, 2010 HEALTH HAZARD ALERT – Consumers Cautioned To Avoid Recalled Meat Products Consumer Advisory – United States’ “SpaghettiOs” With Meatballs Recall HEALTH HAZARD ALERT – Certain … Continue reading →

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Lovely lavender and scourge of the wireworm

Jun 18

The Canadian Organic Growers, with chapters across the country, has a lively membership on Vancouver Island, which includes summer farm tours in the area. Yesterday’s tour took us to Cobble Hill to see a lavender farm, and on to Cowichan … Continue reading →

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Farms & gardens

Jun 17

Sooke’s Sunriver Allotment Garden opens properly with a garden dedication this weekend. I won’t be there for that but hope to have a look round soon. There’s been a lot of buzz about Chinese organics, since this article about dodgy … Continue reading →

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Art and food

Jun 15

Here’s a tasty article that gleans from a number of literary classics while discussing a new book, The Love Verb, which includes recipes. Seems to me I’ve ready other novels with recipes but the idea’s never really grabbed me. Maybe … Continue reading →

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Au revoir Ottawa

Jun 10

TWUC‘s meetings ended on Sunday after a lot of discussion about copyright, and the promise to issue this press release, and create this Facebook group. The gist of the problem from the writers’ point of view is a change to … Continue reading →

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