What a great harvest this week! More greens, but I hear we will be getting some new potatoes and carrots soon! So excited to make fresh potato salad! This week we have: Beet Greens (some with bigger beets) Swiss Chard (rainbow!) Half a Green Cabbage Sugar Snap Peas Lettuce Mizuna A Beautiful Bouquet of Sweet … Continue reading
Another great bunch of veggies in this week’s CSA basket! This week we have an assortment of: Beet greens Garlic scapes (the last week of the season!!! Yep, a really short season) Snap peas Lettuce (This week is Red Sails) Gai Lan Radishes (multicoloured) Kale Kale I received a bunch of 3 types of kale- … Continue reading
I have been waiting for this harvest! Finally we have fresh flowers in our home again. Although, my allergies don’t seem to feel the same way about these beautiful flowers, I love them just the same. Of course it could be the masses of Cottonwood floating around in the air. Here we have some Bachelor’s … Continue reading
A day filled with pouring rain, lugging back over 50lbs of groceries from Whole Foods…. in my arms, madly cooking and preparing for my workshop….. Turned into such a wonderful evening! I delivered my first nutrition workshop as a nutrition graduate, to a lovely group of avid gardeners. We chatted about organic vs conventional foods … Continue reading
I picked up my CSA harvest on such a beautiful Vancouver day. It feels like summer has arrived! This week’s harvest included: Daikon Radishes, Kale, baby Leeks and Onions, Lettuce, Arugula and Parsley. As I have been crazy busy with finishing up my food service practicum and working, I asked Paulo to make dinner one … Continue reading
I am really enjoying eating all of the fresh organic produce from the Market Garden CSA at Farmers on 57th. It fills our fridge, and makes it’s presence known in our household. Filled with loads of Carotenoids, Vitamin K, Vitamin C, Iron, Calcium and fibre, this harvest is sure to fill the needs of Canada’s … Continue reading
