Fans of Narwhal and Jelly will love this laugh-out-loud graphic novel adventure with Weenie, Frank and Beans that features a new villain: another wiener dog named Sweetie-Pie who’s out to ruin Weenie’s good time. When another wiener dog comes along to make Weenie’s life miserable by peeing on his toys, messing with Bob’s stuff and […]
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When I was young, I lived on a farm with my European parents who brought many of their old-country ways with them. Composting, burning paper products, exchanging our produce with other farmers for meat and dairy—these everyday habits meant my mother’s grocery bill was about $20 a week to feed eight people. At the time,
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from Good Food, Healthy Planet Dukkah is a wonderfully fragrant combination of roasted nuts, seeds and spices that can be used along with, on top of, or inside a host of other dishes. The Middle Eastern flavours of this seasoning complement most savoury dishes and add texture and crunch quite quickly. One of my favourite
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In this simple-to-follow guide for today’s households, food writer and climate activist Puneeta Chhitwal-Varma provides everything you need to prepare good-for-us, good-for-the-planet food. Beginning with a primer on “the big why” of eating with emissions and land-use in mind, and a comprehensive guide to stocking kitchen essentials and making the most of your pantry, Puneeta
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There’s something deeply Canadian about planning a garden while snow piles up outside the window. As we hibernate through long winter months, seed catalogues become bedtime reading and dreams of fresh greens offer comfort against the cold. First published years ago, The Zero-Mile Diet: A Year-Around Guide to Growing Organic Food by Vancouver Island gardener
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from The Zero-Mile Diet I consider winter squash a vital part of our diet. When left to mature on the vine before they are brought inside, they will store through the winter. Summer squash has a higher water content and winter squash a higher nutrient content, particularly in beta carotene in the orange flesh. All
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This definitive month-by-month guide brings gardeners into the delicious world of edible landscaping and helps take a load off the planet as we achieve greater food security. Full of illustrative colour photos and step-by-step instructions, The Zero-Mile Diet: A Year-Round Guide to Growing Organic Food shares wisdom gleaned from 30 years of food growing and seed saving.
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