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Published date December 12, 2013
For 2014 – please go here. There are lots of general vegan gift idea lists out there, so please do check them out (I’ll link to some of them at the bottom of this post), but it’s worth looking locally to tap into the great community of creators and crafters,...
READ MORE Things I Love Thursday – Local Vegan Toronto Gift Ideas 2013 Edition
Published date August 24, 2013
This weekend started out in an awesome fashion. JC and I went with a crew of folks from the West End Food Coop, and drove to Two Century Farm, and picked beautiful peaches for use in the Community Supported Orchard (CSO) program (that I am part of). You can join...
READ MORE Millions of Peaches, Millions for Me, Millions of Peaches, I picked them for free.
Published date July 12, 2013
This week has been wet and wild in Toronto. We got the equivalent of a month’s worth of rain in the span of a few hours, which led to flooding, power outages, traffic delays, and a lot of property damage. There is an underpass near our house that was completely...
Published date June 7, 2013
Some weeks, writing a TILT is a trial. Some weeks, I don’t know what to say. The basic “things” I love area always pretty static – JC, Emmie, Kes, Earl Grey Tea. These things are probably not all on the same plane, but they are constant sources of joy in varying...
Published date March 14, 2013
You know those times when you have a great idea as you’re falling asleep and think – whoa, I should really write this down so I don’t forget it… but then you wake up the next morning not having written it down, remembering only that you had a great idea,...
READ MORE Things I love Thursday – Co-ops. SNL Veganville. Pomdeter. Artisinal vegan cheese.
Published date February 10, 2013
Recently on a trip to the West-End Food Co-op, there were two different kinds of Kind Green Organic’s Chocolate Bars conveniently located right at the check out. And it was a happy impulse buy, I’ll admit to it completely. I have seen Kind Organics selling salad blends, spouts, herbs and other greens...
READ MORE Kind Organics Mystical Mint Chocolate Bar – Toronto – Get it at West End Food Co-op.
Published date May 23, 2012
I’m getting increasingly more excited with the possibility of having fresh local produce, that I can paw through myself, and buy directly from someone that might have a connection to the source. I like talking to people about food, and some of my favourite folks are people that make food,...
Published date April 4, 2012
Last week we went to the West End Food Co-op’s Fermentation 101 workshop and made Sauerkraut with nice big green heads of local Ontario cabbage. The class was taught by James Partanen and I think JC and I took a lot away from it. So how do you make sauerkraut? (the...
READ MORE West End Food Co-op: Fermentation 101 – Sauerkraut