Baby bok choy stir-fried with lots of chopped garlic, hoisin sauce, soy sauce and rice wine and sprinkled with fried garlic. Photo courtesy of ^-^ liz Jennie Pearce from the Algoma Farmer’s market sent in this list of local produce you can take home and enjoy. This week you can take home broccoli, bok choy, [...]
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Smiling faces at Family Day at the Market last week Jennie Pearce from the Algoma Farmer’s market sent in this list of local produce you can take home and enjoy: Lettuce Radishes Spring onions Spinach Peas Strawberries Beets Swiss chard Be sure to get there early! The demand is greater than the supply, especially after [...]
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First off, congratulations to Suzanne Hanna and the people who organize the Allard Street Community Garden. They received a grant from the Ontario Trillium Foundation to replace the deteriorated wooden retaining walls and paving slabs around the existing raised garden plots in order to improve accessibility and safety for users. I heard the new fence [...]
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Wow, what an action packed week, something for the environmentalist in each of us. Check out the calendar for information on: Potential nuclear expansion in the north Workshops for consumers and businesses on how to save money in the face of rising gas prices A coming of summer celebration up at Searchmont, with everything from [...]
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The rocks and trees group gets together once a month to chat about all things green and good for us and the environment, that is when we aren’t eating some good eats. Potlucks are the best! This month we were at Tim Kelly’s place. My 3.5 year old daughter Malia was the videographer, her first [...]
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The Red Cross has a community kitchens program. It’s a great way to share the work of cooking and meet other people at the same time. Meals are cheap (only $5 for the event) and good for you. The recipes come from the fun Looney Spoons and Crazy Plates cookbooks, which we use at our [...]
In time for Earth Day, Yahoo has created a Google map you can search to find a local reuse group. These e-mail based groups allow anyone to offer and take items, provided they are offered freely. I’ve been a member of the one in the Sault for a few years now, and have used it [...]
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