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ACORN Conference, Community Supported Agriculture, Farmshare, Food Skills, Urban Farming & Gardening, Create
Jen Greenberg presented this workshop at the 2011 ACORN organic conference and trade show in Halifax, Nova Scotia. (54 mins)
ACORN Conference, Complementary Agriculture, Food Skills, Urban Farming & Gardening
At ACORN's 2011 organic conference and trade show in Nova Scotia, Cuban permaculturalist Roberto Perez Rivero presented his research and experiences with a permaculture-based Cuban society. (60 mins)
ACORN Conference, Community Supported Agriculture, Farmshare, Food Skills, Educate
Sandra Murphy discusses the health benefits of following a seasonal diet at ACORN's 2011 organic conference and trade show in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Food Skills
Urban gardener Jayme Melrose explains many ways to make your lawn and edible and beautiful food resource at the 2011 ACORN organic conference and trade show in Halifax, Nova Scotia. (59 mins)
Business & Marketing, Food Skills, Getting Started With Organic Farming, Grain & Field Crops
Gift of Organic Farming is one in a series of inspirational videos with Klaas and Mary Howell-Martens talking on organic farming at the Growing More Organic Conference, Cornwall, PEI, 2007.
Food Skills
A study from the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom shows and provides scientific evidence that organic farming methods generally provide more biodiverse environments.
Community Supported Agriculture, Farmshare, Food Skills, Getting Started With Organic Farming, Educate
Eating Locally all Year Long with Jen Greenberg.
ACORN Conference, Food Skills, Urban Farming & Gardening
Keeping Chickens in the City with Louise Hanavan: Chickens; Supplies; Pest control
Certification, Food Skills, Getting Started With Organic Farming
ACORN Garden Centre List: Fertilizers; Soil Mixtures; Growth PromotersBusiness & Marketing, Food Skills
Making Organic Society's Norm with Marjorie Willison: Social Change; Communication; StrategyFood Skills, Value-Added
This Nova Scotia-created guide is intended to help you develop your food processing business. Whether you’re new to the food industry and starting a new business, or are considering expanding your existing operation, you’ll find the tools you need here.
Food Skills
Food Skills, Français
ACORN Conference, Food Skills
Chef Lauren Marshall hosted a raw-foods information session jam-packed into an hour of juicing, spiralizing and soaking and sprouting demos at the ACORN conference 2014
ACORN Conference, Food Skills, Infrastructure & Equipment, Livestock
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ACORN Conference, Business & Marketing, Food Skills
ACORN Conference, Food Skills, Value-Added
In this workshop from the 2013 ACORN Conference in Moncton, Diane Savoie used local, organic, whole foods to create delicious appetizers for the audience to enjoy. She illustrated the importance of cooking with little to no waste, by using food scraps for making stocks. Diane never uses recipes, but the following notes should give you an idea of the ingredients used, and how they are prepared.
ACORN Conference, Food Skills, Grain & Field Crops
In this workshop from the 2013 ACORN Conference in Moncton, Tegan Wong-Daugherty, co-founder of Buckwheat Flats Natural Foods (NB) provided a hands-on workshop on how to make sourdough bread. Sourdough bread is special in that it uses the local bacteria and yeasts present in your home as a levener, which makes for distinct flavors and characteristics in each loaf. She outlines the steps and ingredients necessary for successful sourdough from start to finish.
Complementary Agriculture, Food Skills, Fruit & Berry, Urban Farming & Gardening
Food forest gardening does not mean gardening in a forest, but like a forest. It is an imitation of a woodland ecosystem, focusing medicinal and edible plants that thrive together. Unlike dedicated gardens, they are low maintenance while still offering an abundance of food and medicine. At the 2016 Homesteading Symposium in Dieppe, Estelle Drisdelle shares her insight and years of experience on maintaining food forests and guilds.
Complementary Agriculture, Food Skills, Urban Farming & Gardening
At the 2016 Homesteading Symposium in Dieppe, Estelle Drisdelle shares her knowledge of harvesting and preserving local plants. Her presentation explores the variety of healing properties these maritime plants posses and how to reap the benefits.
Food Skills, Season Extension, Urban Farming & Gardening, Value-Added
Having both grown up in the city, Bryan Dyck and Shannon Jones of BroadFork Farm came to realize that their vision of farming included a desire to homestead. Their favorite way to preserve their harvests is through lacto-fermentation. At the 2016 Homesteading Symposium in Dieppe, they presented 3 styles of lacto-fermented vegetables: kimchi, sauerkraut and pickle.
Food Skills, Infrastructure & Equipment, Season Extension
At the 2016 Homesteading Symposium in Moncton, NB, Robin and Rebecca LeBlanc share their many methods of preserving their harvest. Together they explain how they store summer’s bounty and give insight to where certain crops should be stored.
Food Skills, Getting Started With Organic Farming, Infrastructure & Equipment, Season Extension, Urban Farming & Gardening
Robin and Rebecca LeBlanc met in Moncton and later moved to Bathurst, where they have been homesteading since now joined with their 3 children. At the 2016 Homesteading Symposium in Moncton, they offered insight of their experiences living off the land including the making of their cob oven, maintaining the green house and poultry, and mushroom logs. The LeBlanc’s strive to balance both their careers as teachers and musicians, and as a result prefer to do large batches of their preserves and dairy in order to have quick access to their bounty year long. Every July they leave their homestead in the hands of a neighbor and are full time musicians for the month.
Business & Marketing, Food Skills
You can search for organic prices in the Maritimes using Canadian Organic Growers' online price tracking tool atwww.OrganicPriceTracker.ca. Thanks to ACORN member producers and volunteers for contributing prices! If you have prices to contribute, please contact tegan@acornorganic.org.
Community Supported Agriculture, Food Skills
Tips on proper storage for vegetables and fruit at home
Community Supported Agriculture, Farmshare, Food Skills, Create
Tips on proper storage of vegetables and fruit at home from Tipi Produce Farm in Wisconsin
Community Supported Agriculture, Food Skills
FairShare CSA Coalition features an array of food preservation links on their website.
Food Skills
The Organic Agriculture Center of Canada (OACC) reviews a scientific paper that examines the positive impact that organic farming could have on the environment in Canada and how it makes organic farming superior to its convential counterpart.
Food Skills
An evidence-based examination of the claims made for the safety and efficacy of genetically modified crops and foods.
Food Skills
A research paper from Washington State University examines how organic production enhances the fatty-acid composition, and subsequently overall quality of milk.
Food Skills
From RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. An experiment was conducted were a group of people were put on a mostly organic diet, and within a relatively short time period, the levels of herbicides (namely, organophosphate metabollites) decrease significantly.
Food Skills
A North American initiative aiming at decreasing the widespread of GMO in agriculture.
Food Skills
A study conducted in 2011 examined and analyzed levels of energy across a large number of farms to determine and deduce long-term sustainability of carbon levels in organic farms.
Community Supported Agriculture, Food Skills
This Fix.com blog written by Halifax-based Andrea Moore provides a good overview of why CSAs are a great choice and what to expect when signing up for one. While geared to a US audience, there is valuable content and great graphics to boot!