Did you know that sometimes you’re not supposed to wash food before you preserve it? With traditional food fermentation, you’d be washing away the living organisms that preserve the food for you (and make it even healthier too!). See here for June classes on canning, fermenting, and other food preservation methods.
Read More FOOD PRESERVATION ClassesWith the CRD’s January 1, 2015 deadline for “no more kitchen scraps” in the nearest landfill, we think it’s a key time to offer these two January classes: “Composting Basics” (for homes and small growers) and “Soil & Soil Building – Really Important Tiny Lives”. We have an expert visiting teacher – see here for […]
Read More Composting & SOIL BUILDING ClassesWe are happy to announce that on Saturday, June 14, 2014, Master Herbalist Don Ollsin of Victoria will be coming to Pender to offer two amazing classes… Top 20 Herbs to Wildcraft/Gather or Grow for our Health, and Creating a Fungi/Mushroom Garden. We invite you to seen these class descriptions, and now here are mushroom garden photos just in! […]
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