What is your favourite Kale recipe?
If you’re like me, you have some favourite places to find recipes online (i.e. simplyrecipes.com and the hilarious video blog, foodwishes.com). With the launch of the CSA page on the site, it was apparent there is a need for recipes that include seasonal produce. During my CSA last year I received a lot of vegetables that I had no idea how to.. read more →
Seedy Saturday 2012!
March 3, 2012 Essar Hall, Sault College 10 am – 3 pm Come swap or purchase seeds from local gardeners. Visit environmental, food security and gardening displays and vendors. Listen to speakers throughout the day. Refreshments, children’s activities and door prizes. Admission by donation. See the attached Seedy Saturday Poster 2012. 2012 Presentations and Workshops Seed.. read more →
Locally-grown food research kicks off
NORDIK researchers have hit the streets to survey food businesses in Sault Ste. Marie on their habits to buy local food from farmers in Algoma. Dr. Nairne Cameron and David Thompson are coordinating the research project that will determine the preferences and capacities for food businesses to purchase local food and use GIS maps to.. read more →
If you want a ‘green’ Christmas, get a real tree.
Where can I get Christmas trees this season? Flood’s Farm: Jeff Flood’s trees are grown in a plantation from Little Rapids (near Thessalon). Tomorrow (Dec 3rd), Jeff will be bringing in his Christmas trees to the Sault to be sold at the Moose Lodge (543 Trunk Rd) from 9AM-9PM, 7 days a week. Jeff has.. read more →
Holiday treats and treasures
When: Saturday November 19th, 2011; 10:30AM-3:30PM Where: Johnson Township Community Centre (Arena) in Desbarats What: A one of a kind event featuring local: Crafts and art: Knitting, crocheting, paintings (watercolours and acrylics), photography, wooden furniture & trims, rocking horses, doll highchairs, wood art, alpaca fibre products, soaps, candles, stone etchings, stained glass, jewellery, and afghans... read more →
Buy Algoma. Buy Fresh. (October)
Farmer Bob’s Corn maze is open! Farmer Bob’and Mockingbird Hill Farm on 943 Landslide Rd is an area where one can really get in touch with their country side. With a corn maze, this year in the shape of the Bawating Braves Logo, a petting barn with goats, chickens and cows, hay rides through.. read more →
OSEA’s Community Power Roadmap to Success Workshop
Ontario Sustainable Energy Association (OSEA) and NORDIK Institute are hosting a hands-on workshop in Sault Ste. Marie on Friday September 23, 2011. At this workshop OSEA will walk you through an overview for a project that will give you the basic tools required to get a community solar power project started in your own community... read more →
Algoma Agricultural Symposium in November
The Sault Ste. Marie Innovation Centre and NORDIK Institute will be hosting an Agriculture and Agri-Food Symposium on November 4th and 5th at Algoma University. The symposium is part of a new partnership between NORDIK and the Innovation Centre called the Rural Agri Innovation Network (RAIN). The RAIN aims to support collaboration, create linkages, and.. read more →
Remembering Jack Layton
Your energy, your vision, your passion for justice are exactly what this country needs today. You need to be at the heart of our economy, our political life, and our plans for the present and the future. read more →
Friday Feature Farmer Aug 12
Heather & Paul Jansa 232 Hwy 548 Desbarats, ON P0R1E0 (705) 782-6957 Heather and Paul Jansa produce garden vegetables using sustainable practices and no chemicals. Their production of eggs from their laying hens, and broiler chickens support the vegetable garden with manure. Beginning to farm in 1987, they have been producing lamb for the local.. read more →
Good things grow in Algoma
Savour, relish, enjoy; you pick the verb for delicious local food. There are many great chefs, caterers, coffee roasters, bakers, fishers, blueberry foragers and farmers across Algoma. Are we savouring Algoma food? A few weeks ago at RotaryFest; I was surprised to see a Foodland Ontario logo drive by in a big trailer through the.. read more →
Events this weekend around Algoma
Happening Tonight (Thursday Aug 4th): Folk musician Katherine Wheatley performing at Tina’s On Main Resto-Lounge (Tapas daily), 221 Main St. Thessalon Wabi Sabi – Fine Craft Exhibition & Sale, The Old Town Hall, Richards Landing, St. Joseph Island Exhibitions by 6 full time artists and 13 guest artists. This most anticipated show is a spectacular gallery of.. read more →
Sault Community Garden celebrates nine years
Release from SooToday.com: It has been nine years since the notion of creating a community garden here in the Sault was fully realized by the Sault Ste. Marie Horticultural Society and six other partnering organizations. With the help of the Ontario Trillium Foundation, we secured funding in 2003 and scrambled to build the garden in.. read more →
Friday Feature Farmer – July 29
Algoma Farm Fresh Jack and Lou Ann Tindall 3676 Government Rd. RR#1 Desbarats, ON Jack Tindall has been raising cattle for 30+ years in the Algoma District. His experience is proven in the care he provides his animals and the high quality of his product. His cattle roam across several pastures scattered between Desbarats and.. read more →
U-pick, we-pick.
One summer job I had growing up was picking berries at a local u-pick. The strawberries made for good ammunition to fire at co-workers in the fields. Since you were paid on how many strawberries picked, I seemingly ate my profits. It’s that time of year when you grab some baskets to go pick berries... read more →