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 NANOOSE EDIBLES FARM –
CELEBRATING OVER 26 YEARS SERVING THE REGION WITH FRESH, NUTRITIOUS, ORGANIC PRODUCE Newsletter January 2014 Winter Market Hours: Friday, Saturday & Sunday from 10.00am - 3.30pm (about dusk) If you have been to the farm in the last while you might have seen Caleb and his family who are living at the farm. We welcome Caleb’s family and the wealth of knowledge that Caleb brings to the farm. The farm has been busy cleaning seeds from 2013 which we will be selling at Seedy Saturday on Feb 1 in Qualicum Beach. http://www.qbseedysaturday.com/ Be sure to look for Barb and Caleb at the booth and say hello. We will have transplants, seeds, and signup sheets for volunteers, u-pick, and pickers for the farm. We will have more seeds available at Sugar Shack seeds who will be cleaning our Certified Organic Seeds. Check out the sugar shack seeds at Seedy Saturday or www.sugarshackseeds.com for locally grown seed. Grown as Mother Nature intended, all open-pollinated seed, untreated, non-GMO, a lot of heirloom varieties. Our transplants are coming along and we will have suitable transplants at the beginning of each month. This month we have parsley, dill, arugula, fennel, lettuce, cilantro and strawberry transplants. We will have some at Seedy Saturday and the Qualicum Beach farmers market on Feb 1 but will likely go fast. If you would like to purchase transplants from the farm please email Barb neorg@telus.net The farm is excited to have the International Organic Inspectors Association come to our farm in February do a mock training exercise for Certified Organic Crops. The farm is going digital! We have launched a Youtube channel and will be updating it often with farming information. Please subscribe J http://www.youtube.com/user/nanooseediblesfarm Next month we will be moving the newsletter to a service for newsletters called Mailchimp to make the newsletter easier to manage. We will be importing the email addresses over and will send out a reminder closer to next month to make sure it doesn’t go to your junk mail. Happening in the Community 2014 Feb 1, 8, 15, 22 – Qualicum Beach Farmers Market Feb 1 – Seedy Saturday in Qualicum Beach Feb 7-8 – Island Agriculture Show - Cowichan Feb 10- Food for the future rally in Victoria to save the ALR Feb 21- 23, Certified Organic Association Conference March 2, - Seedy Sunday in Nanaimo “BC company called Okanagan Specialty Fruits has asked the Canadian and U.S. governments to approve a genetically modified (GM) “non-browning” apple. The GM apple could be approved in 2014.” Please take action. More information please click CBAN For daily updates, farm promotions and events please visit our facebook page and “Like Us” at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Nanoose-Edibles-Organic-Farm-BC-Certified-Organic/196503243712007 Nanoose Edibles Farm 1960A Stewart Road, Nanoose Bay, B.C., V9P 9E7 E: neorg@telus.net P: 250.468.2332 F: 250.468.2324  NANOOSE EDIBLES FARM – CELEBRATING OVER 26 YEARS SERVING THE REGION WITH FRESH, NUTRITIOUS, ORGANIC PRODUCE
NEW WINTER Market Hours: Friday, Saturday & Sunday from 10.00am - 3.30pm (about dusk) WE WILL CLOSE FOR THE HOLIDAYS – December 23st to January 2nd Indoor/Outdoor Winter Market – It is getting frosty out there… We are only able to pick when we have enough light and the crop is somewhat thawed. However, we still have at the stand – apples, pears, salad greens, nutritional greens, kale , beets, potatoes, carrots, onions, garlic, and much more. Nanoose Edibles has now cleaned and bagged our 2013 harvest of Dried Beans. If you haven’t tried freshly grown organic dried greens you are in for a nice surprise. Available in sample size as well as by the pound. Soak for 4 hours and cook for 40 minutes, turn off the heat and allow to rest in the pan. This Christmas Season we are offering Gift Baskets made from specialty items from the neighbourhood as well as produce items from Nanoose Edibles. These will be packaged and wrapped for gift giving – made up to your specifications. Prices range from $30 to $50 depending on content. Please contact us by telephone or Email and give our staff an hour or so to prepare the baskets. Gift certificates are also available at the stand which make perfect stocking stuffers! Every Christmas season Barbara cuts down greens and creates pots with assorted winter greens with holly. They are great to put outside on your verandah or on your front door. It would also make a nice gift for a neighbour or as a substitute for a Christmas tree. Price $20-$30 per pot. Happening in the Community Feb 21- 23, 2014 Certified Organic Association will be at the Coast Bastion Inn in Nanaimo for its annual conference – the theme this year – Work-Life Balance. Honolulu signed a bill on Thursday ”prohibiting biotech companies from operating on the Big Island and banning farmers from growing any new genetically altered crops.” This is big news for the GMO free community with something we all need to strive to put into place. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/05/big-island-biotech-ban_n_4395521.html Land needs to be protected because it effects everything around it - “Infinito Gold, a Canadian mining company, just slapped Costa Rica with a $1 billion lawsuit because the nation decided to protect its rainforests rather than host an open-pit gold mine.” http://action.sumofus.org/a/mining-costarica/8/2/?akid=3110.1848529.6wLchb&rd=1&sub=fwd&t=2 For daily updates, farm promotions and events please visit our facebook page and “Like Us” at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Nanoose-Edibles-Organic-Farm-BC-Certified-Organic/196503243712007 Nanoose Edibles Farm 1960A Stewart Road, Nanoose Bay, B.C., V9P 9E7 E: neorg@telus.net P: 250.468.2332 F: 250.468.2324 |
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