Great resource for eating local

I have been in kind of a funk about the weather lately, so I have not been making it out to the farms too much. But where I have been, is to alot of garden centres as I attempt to get my garden ready…I was thinking about drafting up a post about planting your own garden, grow your own local, kind of deal – but it needs some more serious time alotted to get it just right – so I will at a later date. I will tell you this – I know for sure that you can find asparagus, lettuce, spinach, rhubarb, fiddleheads and even arugula right now, it”s out there – and its waiting to be eaten. If you have been procrastinating and have not been to a garden centre yet, you will be as surprised as I was to see that there are many more veggies available this year to grow in containers or in garden beds right at home – a heck of a lot more varieties than I remember seeing last year. I even heard that you can buy seedling heirloom tomatoe plants at the covent garden market on saturdays right now. What I do want to let you all know about is this great resource – every wednesday in the Londoner, there is a columnist – Christine Scheer that writes a column about eating with the seasons. Her section is always intelligent,with a delicious twist – apparently she was a chef for a number of years in london and she now grows and cooks local food and shares her adventures as well as her wonderful recipes in our local paper. I have been trying to add the links to her stories to this blog so that they are easier to find,but the latest one (on arugula!) can be read right here: http://www.thelondoner.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1056235&auth=Christine+Scheer happy eating xo  Read More