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Community Gardens
Community gardens are becoming more and more popular. As people living in urban areas want more and more to have gardens to grow their own fresh produce and finding little space to do so on their own...
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The Farmers' Market
I love the farmers' market. Recently the city of Hamilton opened the renovated farmers' market. It's a nice improvement to the old market with huge floor to ceiling windows and sliding glass doors...
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Locavore.
What is a locavore?A locavore is someone who eats locally from locally sourced foods. Typically this encompasses food sourced from within 100 miles (160km) from the locavore's home. This can be tough...
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Forage in your backyard.
It's spring and everything is growing. That includes things to eat in your own backyard.The other evening I was making dinner and stepped out into my backyard to pick some dandelions. I brought them...
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Read and understand labels
Labels provide all kinds of information. Some by law and some for marketing. Usually it's the marketing labels that win consumers' dollars. Too bad. They're being fooled and someone is taking their...
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Edible Flowers
It's spring! Flowers are blooming. April showers were 2 months ago and May was last month but those flowers are in full bloom right now. All the gardening you did on the long weekend in May not only...
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Those Tricky Marketers
Remember the expiry date? It was the date printed on food packing to let you know when the contents of the package may not be fit for consumption any more. We all checked dates before we purchased...
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Adamtarian
Who is Adam?Adam is a biblical name referring to a man God created in book 1 and named in book 2 of Genesis. He is the same person in the bible as he is here in this blog. This is not a religious blog...
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What does food look like?
What happened to our food? It doesn't look like food used to look.Something happened to our food after World War 2. For some reason marketers started using what I call cartoon images of food in their...
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Local at the Farmers' Market?
I go to the farmers' market once or twice a week for my produce. Your local farmers' market is there for your local farmers to sell their produce. This is produce you buy in good conscience knowing...
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Local fish and sustainable fish.
This is a real tough one. Local fish for some of us is impossible. The catches and limits in some areas with little to no water in the surrounding area may be zero. Those who "know what's good for you"...
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Probiotics?
What are probitoics? I mean other than the latest word splashed on dairy products usually of the yogurt variety?Probiotic, the word, is literally "for life". Probiotics is the word made up to define...
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Moderation
Moderation in moderation.It used to be that moderation was a trip to McDonald's once a month or once every six weeks. It was a treat. It was an outing. I remember when the Big Mac came out and kids...
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Cereal
Cereal is a staple in most households. It started when Mr. Kellogg started making Corn Flakes 100 years ago.Cereal started as a good meal to start the day. Breakfast (to break the fast you just went...
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Local?
What is local? There's the 100 mile concept. Anything grown or produced within 100 miles is local. But what if I grow some bananas in a greenhouse? Are they local? My local diet book tells me I can't...
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Washing produce
Produce is so clean. Maybe too clean. And we clean it even more when we get it home. It used to be that people would eat stuff they harvested or hunted and ate it. Vegetables were washed in the water...
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