Patient Gardeners Can Expand Home Fruit Production with Pawpaws

Ambitious gardeners seeking to diversify their food production output could consider growing Pawpaws, according to Cavan resident Andy Harjula. Tropical in appearance and flavour, the fruit of this North American native tree is highly prized for its flavour and nutritional value.  A recent lecture by Ken Taylor of Greenbarn Fruit… Continue reading

Suzanne’s Hot Stuff Delivers Heat and Flavour

Suzanne Schmidt is confident, straight-forward, and also a great cook.  Her flavours are rooted in  her Guyanese background and all include heat, but her products deliver more than that burning sensation.  Her products are carefully crafted to showcase flavour, featuring sweet mango, lemon and pineapple, savoury garlic and onions and… Continue reading

Christmas Hamper Preparations Begin

Millbrook and District Food Share volunteers are getting organized for this year’s Christmas Hamper program which distributes hampers each year to local families. Hampers are prepared for registered recipients and includes non-perishable food items, fresh local produce, a grocery voucher from Foodland and Walmart vouchers for each child in the… Continue reading

Corks and Boards Helps Hosts Create Tasty Celebrations

  Millbrook family business launched last October by the Greer family as they were contemplating their move to Millbrook.  Steve and his wife Avril were retiring, and their daughter Ashely was on maternity leave, so it seemed like a lot of free time was looming in their future.  How to… Continue reading

New Name, New Owners for Bethany Restaurant

Coaches Restaurant, located on the main street of Bethany, has recently changed ownership and rebranded themselves with the new name of Champions Restaurant. The business was launched by two principal partners Mittal Patel and Chirag Patel.  Both partners in the new business originate from India, but their restaurant experience was… Continue reading

Blank Canvas Joins Sandwich Sisters in Supporting One-Roof Community Centre

  Since January, Jane Berlin and a group of volunteers out of Bethany have been preparing sandwiches and snacks once a week for visitors to One Roof Community Centre in Peterborough.  This shelter is open 365 days a year and provides free meals, professional training, life skills, access to primary… Continue reading

Small Growers Satisfy Appetite for Local Food

Pictured is Harmony Evans, of Wild Ginger Farms, with her constant companion, Meekin, in her half-acre plot on the edge of town. She is one of my young farmers including Amanda Rice, of Spring Bloom Orchards, Cody and Kelsey Armstrong, Eban Hancock, and Merridey Senior, of Puddleduck Farm, who are… Continue reading