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not your garden-variety garden

[caption id="attachment_3210" align="alignleft" width="197" caption="Photo by Leif Jason"][/caption] Dan Jason ships about 80,0000 packets of seeds from Salt Spring Island to locations around the planet every year. He has eight growers on Salt Spring working cooperatively to produce hundreds of varieties of seeds, many of them old, unusual or endangered. His seeds are tried and true, tested for countless generations and adapted to the regions they grow in. Dan’s business, aptly named Salt Spring Seeds, is successful and vibrant. However, Dan is more concerned about empowering people to grow their own food than he is in growing his businesses’ ...

dog day picnics

The dog days of summer have arrived and thus initiated the universally recognized time to embrace al fresco dining on Vancouver Island. Everywhere you look you'll see baskets of fresh fruit, garden vegetables, gleaming fish and packed cars heading off to a favorite picnic spot. For me, nothing defines summer more then a outdoor meal with friends and family. There is something irrationally joyful about eating outside, sitting on a blanket and leisurely picking at grilled vegetables or BBQ fish. Living on Vancouver Island we are so lucky to be surrounded by a beautiful coastline and all the picnic possibilities it ...

wood burning oven legacy

This September approximately 600 chefs will gather at Providence Farm in Duncan to cook, eat and discuss how culinary professionals can contribute to the sustainability of our oceans. The event is being hosted by the Canadian Chef Congress and dozens of chefs from Vancouver and Vancouver Island have worked hard during the last two years to organize this ambitious gathering. The chair of the Vancouver Island organizing committee is well known island chef and expert mushroom forager Bill Jones. Bill owns and runs Deerholme Farm in the Cowichan Valley. It was decided early on to ensure that the event provide a legacy ...

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not your garden-variety garden

Photo by Leif Jason Dan Jason ships about 80,0000 packets of seeds from Salt Spring Island to locations around the planet every year. He has eight growers on Salt Spring working cooperatively to produce hundreds of varieties of seeds, many of them old, unusual or endangered. His seeds are tried and true, tested for countless generations and adapted... [Read more...]

dog day picnics

The dog days of summer have arrived and thus initiated the universally recognized time to embrace al fresco dining on Vancouver Island. Everywhere you look you’ll see baskets of fresh fruit, garden vegetables, gleaming fish and packed cars heading off to a favorite picnic spot. For me, nothing defines summer more then a outdoor meal with friends... [Read more...]