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Your Chance to Get Involved in a Community-Supported Agriculture Project in Calgary This Summer

April 14, 2010 by Ryan Slifka

Our good friends at Oxyoke Farms are looking for more folks to purchase the remaining shares in their highly successful Community Supported Agriculture Project for this summer. If you are interested in weekly deliveries of local, seasonal, organic (not certified) veggies from a Calgary-area family farm, this could be for you!
Contact Robby and Phyllis Fyn [...]

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Embracing the Tyranny of Place – Beating the Travel Drug

Thumbnail image for Embracing the Tyranny of Place – Beating the Travel Drug September 8, 2009 by Jonathan Wright

Jonathan Wright is a Calgary-area farmer and co-founder of one of the city’s first community supported agriculture programs. Jon operates a zero-emission farm called Thompson Small Farm near Carbon, Alberta with his partner Andrea.
I am forty-five years old. I consider myself to have lived a luxurious life in terms of the spectrum of experience [...]

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How-To: Grow 100 lbs of Potatoes in a 4 Square Foot Tower

Thumbnail image for How-To: Grow 100 lbs of Potatoes in a 4 Square Foot Tower April 16, 2009 by Mike Soron

I devour potatoes. There is something comforting and inviting about them. A devoted fan of big weekend breakfasts, I’m a sucker for fresh hash browns, especially. And mashed? Astounding.
Yet, the idea of growing them in one’s backyard seems very intimidating, especially in the city.
Not so, says recent internet chatter. Attention has turned to an article [...]

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Simple recipe: flour tortillas

Thumbnail image for Simple recipe: flour tortillas March 4, 2009 by Ryan Slifka

I’d always assumed that flour tortillas were difficult to make because no one I know knows how to make them. Even our neighbours downstairs, who are from Mexico have no idea how to make flour tortillas.
I did a little quick research and found an easy recipe in my trusty copy of the Joy of Cooking [...]

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Resources for Starting a Root Cellar

Thumbnail image for Resources for Starting a Root Cellar March 3, 2009 by Mike Soron

Root cellars are back. Or, rather, resourceful food storage is back. And root cellars are efficient and effective tools ripe to be put to renewed use.
The New York Times covered the trend in “Food Storage as Grandma Knew It.” Unlike Grandma, we can turn to the web for assistance — and the resources are myriad [...]

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