Choices Market "A Local Table" Cookbook

Anytime after November 15 visit your local Choices Markets and pick up a copy of their first cookbook, A Local Table, by Choices’ Dietitian Desiree Nielsen, RD and Choices’ Executive Chef Antonio Cerullo. Maintaining a focus on local food, the cookbook features original recipes by Chef Antonio. The recipes are in 4 seasonal chapters and each recipe is designed to make healthy cooking at home simple and enjoyable for you and your family. Choices has graciously committed to donating $5 from the sale of each book to FarmFolk/CityFolk. Get your copy while they're still available!

Edible Vancouver Magazine

Pick-up a copy of Edible Vancouver magazine to get the story on local food - find a copy near you. Past articles, including our regular Field Notes column, can be read on their website.

Spirit Of The North Magazine supports FarmFolk/CityFolk

Created early in 2009 and launched in July, this magazine is your destination for everything Canadian when it comes to recreation and tourism, the environment, sustainable living and development and First Nations culture.

Every dollar of subscription sales will go to a non-profit organization. Every year, four charities will be chosen from a list by our readers. Those four will split the profits evenly. Four new groups will be chosen every year.

The Editorial Board of The Spirit of the North Magazine has chosen the following four charities for 2009. : Farm Folk/City Folk, Churchill Northern Studies Centre, UNICEF and the Canadian Red Cross.

Spirit Of The North Magazine

 

GM SUGAR BEETS – VOICE YOUR SAY

If your company wants to say no to GM sugar beets, you can register your voice here.

 

 

 

May 28, 2009

New Centre for Art, Ecology & Agriculture on Salt Spring Island

The Center for Art, Ecology & Agriculture was established to demonstrate and interpret the vital connections between farming, land stewardship, food, the arts, and community well being; to model the economic possibilities for small and medium scale sustainable agricultural and forestry projects, and to nurture the human spirit through public programs, classes, and events. For more information, click here.

December 10, 2008

Give The Gift Of Going Local

Neighbours Organic Weekly Cooperative (NOW Co-op) is promoting eating locally this holiday season. NOW Co-op offers delivery of local, organic fresh produce, dairy, meats and bulk foods to neighborhoods around Metro Vancouver. NOW helps people enjoy delicious, local, organic foods--even in the middle of winter there are lots of yummy local things to eat. And guess what—local means fresher and tastier too. It is NOW's mission to connect local farms and processors with consumers, building community around a sustainable food network here in BC. Currently, NOW Co-op is offering some local, green gift options too:
- gift baskets full of strictly local food treats, carefully packed with cedar bows and holly to make them festive, while leaving out all the packaging to throw away
- gift certificates for organic, local groceries from NOW Co-op
- Green Zebra Guides with over 200 coupons featuring green products and services in the Vancouver area (see below)
- and finally, for those who have everything—make an investment in a sustainable local food system with a NOW Co-op membership share or two put in their name

While eating local in winter may be easy when it comes to dairy, meat and seafoods--produce is a different matter, “though it is exciting to see people having fun discovering some of BC's best kept winter food secrets: things like parsnips, portabello mushrooms, beets, carrots and the oh so sweet and delicious array of squash which are all at their best during December and January!” says NOW's community outreach coordinator, Joanna Michal.

For more information on NOW Co-op, visit www.nowbc.ca or contact Joanna at joannam@nowbc.ca.