l-r: Marc, Krista, and Ben Schurman (and Zoey the dog) in front of one of the new boilers

NEW BIOMASS BOILERS FOR LOCAL GREENHOUSE

Finding ways to save at Schurman Family Farm Imagine if you could save 100,000 litres of furnace oil a year? Yes, you read that right. One hundred thousand litres. That was approximately the number of litres of oil burned to heat the greenhouses at Atlantic Grown Organics in Kensington, PEI last year. The organic farm…

A variety of seeds available at a Seedy Saturday seed exchange Photo credit: Brian McInnis

GROWING A FOOD SOVEREIGN ISLAND

Island farmers save seed to assert local ownership over food production Food sovereignty: the central element of a food system in which communities control the production and consumption of their food. It prioritizes local, affordable, sustainable, and culturally appropriate food. On PEI, farmers believe that the Island can become food sovereign. The movement begins with…

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TOP CHEF CANADA COMPETITOR FROM PEI

Chef Lucy Morrow will compete on Food Network’s reality cooking show Chef Lucy Morrow is good at keeping secrets. Really good. She’s been keeping a big one for months but the cat is out of the bag finally. She can now add Top Chef Canada to her resume. “I’ve always been a fan of competitive…

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