December 1, 2016
The art of gathering medicines and foods from nature is being revived. For most of us, the Island’s waters and forests are a source of beauty and offer an escape from the hustle and bustle of daily life. What we don’t often recognize is that these natural settings are also a valuable source of medicinal herbs and nutritional foods. The…
December 1, 2016
Kid-focussed food skills program gets big boost from Maple Leaf Foods. Many lament that today’s youth have no kitchen skills, but Chris Sallie is doing more than just complaining about the situation. A Red Seal chef with a big heart and firmly-held beliefs about levelling the playing field, Sallie spearheaded the creation of the Island Food Skills Initiative (IFSI) in…
December 1, 2016
A new venue, new bands and plenty of goodwill = a recipe for success. There are some holiday events you hope to get to, then there are the ones that are not-to-be-missed. For me, The Food and Warmth Show fits in the latter category for several years. An evening of fantastic live music, food, and familiar faces. It was a…
December 1, 2016
When tracking food trends, one can usually look to the fanciest of fine dining to see what may trickle down into our magazines, Pinterest boards, grocery shelves, and finally into our shopping carts. Insects, however, have been crawling along a different pathway to the centre of our plate. The insects-as-food trend was born out of necessity. The trend speaks to…
November 1, 2016
Charlottetown’s Urban Beehive Project marks first milestone. If you have a vivid imagination, you might initially mistake the two unique structures at the far edge of the Legacy Garden for alien pods. Upon closer inspection, you’ll see the hexagon-inspired structures are of this world and offer an essential function in food production as dwellings for nature’s most revered pollinators, bees.…
November 1, 2016
Generosity keeps Tyne Valley’s Caring Cupboard stocked Tyne Valley is home to PEI’s newest food bank, an expansion of the West Prince Caring Cupboard, with locations already in Bloomfield, Tignish, and Alberton. Christian members of the community approached the Caring Cupboard Board to establish a closer location. “If you can’t afford food, how are you going to afford gas to…
November 1, 2016
It’s entirely possible that you drive by Canada’s largest urban garden regularly without even realizing it. From University Avenue all you can see is the squat, brown 1970’s building known as the PEI Farm Centre, hugged on either side by the CBC building and the Allen Street Sobeys. When you go around to the back of the building, however, you…