Yearly Archives: 2013

 

Back online to see out 2013

Dec 31

Things have been on hold here at the cafe for a couple of months. There has been activity I could have reported on, but I’ve been tied up with other matters, and took an unscheduled break while paddling the river … Continue reading →

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It’s all about the apples

Sep 27

Actually, other fruit trees too, but this weekend is a double whammy: Plant a Fruit Tree Day and the Salt Spring Island Apple Festival. There will be rain, but there will be fruit as well.. ya can’t have one without … Continue reading →

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Public market opens

Sep 13

Victoria’s long-awaited public market at the Hudson’s grand opening sprawls over this entire weekend. Want to get out of the drizzle on Sunday? Come and say hello in the nice dry market space where from 11am till 5pm, I’ll be … Continue reading →

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Provisioning

Sep 7

The Iambic Cafe has been mostly offline these past months, enjoying the summer, which seems to have been abnormally short this year, though things have kept growing and so has the list of things I’m preserving in the kitchen. So … Continue reading →

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Short film: la surconsommation

Aug 15

In what is pretty much a condensed version of Our Daily Bread, this six minute film gives us hundreds of thousands of good reasons to support small-scale, local, organic food production, processing and retailing.

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