News From the Kitchen

Food Works

A new partnership is being celebrated in St. Thomas with a focus on food and community. I attended the launch of Food Works yesterday at the Destination Church where myself and several other local businesses donated their time and lunch to attendees. I'm really excited for this opportunity and what it can bring for people in the city. Here is a link the an article printed in the St. Thomas Times Journal.

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Soup's On - St. Thomas, ON

Thursday, February 5, 12 local businesses from the St. Thomas area will be donating their time and soup to serve up samples at a fundraiser for the Heart and Stroke Foundation. I think it's going to be the greatest lunch going in the city as for only $5 you get to sample so many types of soups and then cast your ballot on what was your favourite. I will be attending on behalf of Our Little Farm CSA with Brigitte and we're looking forward to it! Mark will be emceeing the event so it's bound to be lively and a lot of fun. Soup's On (link to the Facebook page)

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Ontario Fruit and Vegetable Convention

Some other big news - I will be a guest speaker at this year's Ontario Fruit and Vegetable Convention in Niagara Falls!

This past fall I was approached by Christine, the manager for the outdoor Covent Garden Market in London (where I was a vender), and she asked on behalf of Farmers' Markets Ontario if I would be interested in being a part of the convention. Well, there wasn't anyway I would want to pass up this opportunity so I will be giving a presentation on farmers' markets from my perspective as a chef. It's challenging to keep just one perspective though as I've been a vendor, on a market board of directors, and now work on a farm. It's going to be out of this world to be around so many market enthusiasts in once place! The convention is later this month (February 18, 19).
A write up on the event with bio's on the speakers (me included!) can be found on the Farmers' Markets Ontario website.

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Ontario Fruit and Vegetable Convention

The Grower is a horticultural publication distributed to 17 000 farmers across Canada. In the February edition there is a couple of articles focusing on the Ontario Fruit and Vegetable Convention. In one of those articles the editor contacted me for an interview about a few of the topics i will  be covering during my presentation. A few of those topics: our CSA, my lack of experience as a gardener (haha!) and the wood-burning oven we have at the farm. Sweet! You can read the article by viewing the pdf onThe Grower website. I received one copy in the mail but if anyone knows where I can pick up a few more I would love to get my hands on them.

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Wood-fired Oven Bake - Our Little Farm CSA

This coming Tuesday, February 10, we're firing up the wood-burning oven at the farm to bake naturally leavened sourdough bread prepared with locally milled whole grain flours, maple-bacon buttertarts, salted chocolate rye brownies and a few other treats. We are accepting pre-orders until Saturday, Feb. 7 and everyone is welcome to order. More details are found on the website. So exciting!
Our Little Farm CSA website