On March 30th, The Food Connection hosted a Community Growing Social, which was a fun casual evening where new and old friends got together to make Buddha Bowls, swap seeds and get excited about gardening. We appreciated the seed sharing with the seemingly unlimited choices and numerous ideas and tips for gardening; it was especially educational for us beginners. The discussion on bug infestation problems and solutions was of particular interest to us; one method that stood o

Chickweed, dock, plantain, clover, and dandelion. Weeds, they would seem. Most of us would walk on by without a glimmer of thought as to their utility. Some of us might recall seeing dandelion leaves in those pre-washed, ready-to-eat, packaged salads sold at supermarkets, but that’s probably it. Yet on the warm Wednesday evening in Mount Pleasant where a number of us gathered, our guest Lori Snyder, of Earth Awareness Realized Through Health, showed us otherwise. “A man may e

For April we devoted our workshop to a topic that is behind all the delicious food we base our Food Connection evenings on: Gardening! In terms of the growing season, it was the perfect time to dig up (pun intended) our seed collections at home and bring them to swap with each other, since right now lots of veggies can be planted outdoors. We also set some seeds aside for our fieldtrip after to our community garden plot at Dude Chilling Park (aka Guelph Park). After cleaning