Hi Everybody! We are still accepting registrations for the food preservation workshops series: Pickling (August 22) Canning fruits (August 29) Canning sauces (September 12) Changed! Now Fermentation on September 12! (New! Call Chelsea at: 604.531.8168 or email Silvia at: silvia.diblasio@gmail.com for registration!) We will be playing with different flavours, from pickled sweet zucchinis (delicious in hamburger, […]
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Do you know that an average 30% of the food is thrown away, sometimes not even making it to supermarkets? In Toronto (Canada) a single family household discards about 275 kilos of food every year! Food waste is a huge problem for the environment (around 20% of Canada methane emissions come from food in the […]
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“To ferment your own food is to lodge a small but eloquent protest – on behalf of the senses and the microbes – against the homogenization of flavors and food experiences now rolling like a great, undifferentiated lawn across the globe. It is also a declaration of independence from an economy that would much prefer […]
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Originally posted by Silvia Di Blasio from MainstreamPermaculture.com “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien “The mountains of things we throw away are much greater than the things we use. “~ John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America “Fruits and veggies named […]
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