Category Archive for: ‘100 Mile Diet’
Salmon Confidential – A MUST Watch Documentary
When industrial food farms moved into the Fraser River in the early 1990′s there was a dramatic rise in parasitic sea lice on the tiny juvenile salmon that don’t normally carry sea lice and since then there has been a dramatic decline in the pacific salmon. The eco system …
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You have to Experience Shopping at Ingredients Organic Market and Cafe in Victoria!
If you haven’t had the pleasure of shopping at Ingredients Organic Market, you need to give it a try. The store has a wonderful community, small town feeling and yet it is filled with over 450 bulk organic ingredients, organic dairy and meat products, superfoods …
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Vantreight Farms Organic Strawberries
I am making a salad with my delicious Vantreight Farms, Organic Strawberries. Why you ask would anyone spend $5.99 for a container of local, organic strawberries when the grocery store right up the street is selling twice the amount for $1.00? Because mine taste like …
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Need Any Gardening Tips?
When the sun shines I get so excited to walk around the garden and see what is coming up! The garlic is about 18 inches tall, the raspberries, strawberries and logan berries are just starting to show their leaves and the rhubarb is almost ready …
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Chicken Coops for Urban Farmers
What a great idea Mike Lenaghan and Chase Robertson! Get Cooped Up at getcoopedup.com Backyard Chickens are becoming the most popular birds in the city, and it is easy to see why! They lay the highest quality farm-fresh eggs for you, your family and …
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The Green Resolution Revolution
The article below is written by Nathan Ladin, freelance fitness writer with Slimband and a lover of all things green. Nate loves to promote health awareness and believes that part of the secret to healthy living is cultivating a healthy environment. Remember when caring about …
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Ruby Red Farms – North Saanich, BC – Certified Organic Blueberries
I just picked up 10 lbs of blueberries and they are delicious! They are all perfectly ripe, not a rotten one in the box. Ruby Red Farms was selling them from the Reynolds School parking lot. Well worth the $42. They are located at 11121 …
Read MoreAlmost Free Victoria
I went to an open house at Woodwynn Farms. I was hoping to learn more about how the “Creating Homefulness Society” was working, but maybe we were there too early. I did enjoy poking around the exhibitors, try some tea, and having a hot dog …
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Ice Cream – Real Ice Cream made with milk!
If you read my last post, you know that many ice cream and frozen desert products don’t really contain milk. They contain “modified milk products”. If you didn’t read it, click here. The good news is that some companies do use real milk in their …
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Ice Cream – Is there really any milk in it?
Have you ever read the ingredients on your ice cream carton? Big mistake…we read them and then started to research what some of the ingredients are. This article was from the Brooklin Naturopath – What are modified milk ingredients? “Modified milk ingredients” is an umbrella …
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