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Posted on Wed, 03 Mar 2010

Art and Food Take Root at Wychwood Barns

Art and Food Take Root at Wychwood Barns Market to Host Artistic Interventions for Food and Social Justice Toronto, March 2010 – On March 6, the Saturday READ MORE


Posted on Tue, 02 Mar 2010

You are invited…to Sustain Ontario’s AGM

To Sustain Ontario’s first Annual General Meeting and a Taste of Waterloo Region Reception. Join Sustain Ontario for a celebration of its first year of w READ MORE

FOOD RENEGADE

Posted on Tue, 09 Mar 2010

Announcing a Real Food Nutrition & Health Course

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From the Latest Issue of Small Farm Canada...PAST FEATURES

Talking Shiitakes

Three takes — and a plethora of tips — on these lucrative but labour-intensive mushrooms

By JULIE STAUFFER | PHOTOS AHREN HUGHES

It’s only 9:30 on a Saturday morning at the local farmer’s market, but Ahren Hughes has already sold out of his fresh shiitake mushrooms. “People gobble them up like mad,” says the organic farmer, who grows them on half an acre of wooded property he rents just north of Guelph, Ontario. Specialty mushrooms like the firm, flavour-packed [...] MORE

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