Yearly Archives: 2011

 

Kneading Conference West – day 2

Sep 17

Sun broke out on day 2, causing some basking on the grass at lunchtime. We began the day with a PowerPoint tour of local and small scale wheat producers from non-wheat areas; wheat breeder and conference organizer Stephen Jones showed … Continue reading →

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Kneading Conference West: day 1

Sep 16

Drove to Mount Vernon, WA yesterday: a long day, but a gorgeous drive through lush northwest Washington. Headed to the first Kneading Conference West, which is modelled on Maine’s long established and hugely popular Kneading Conference. The idea is to … Continue reading →

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Eat Here Now… and we did

Sep 13

A glorious hot Sunday in the middle of Victoria, with food, music and more food. What could be better? The Downtown Public Market Society put on a great day in the interests of furthering interest in a permanent year-round downtown … Continue reading →

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Preserving the harvest: apples

Sep 10

I came upstairs from a round of apple-wrapping to find some questions on apple preserving from Ruth, who is the lucky recipient of a quantity of hangingoverthefence apples. Like me, she had heard that wrapping apples individually in newspaper is … Continue reading →

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Linen, flax, apples and more apples

Sep 8

On the last day of August I wandered along to a potluck information session on the Linen Project that Denise – who’s been driving the project forward under Victoria Transition‘s Reskilling umbrella – hosted. Although the sun was setting and … Continue reading →

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