Food is a community affair

When Around the Sound moved to its new location on 6th Street East at 7th Avenue in Owen Sound it was with a view to having a kitchen in the store for cooking classes, chef demonstrations, and a space where someone could test the market for Grandma's great recipe before investing in a processing space. We also wanted to have a place where we could have Community Kitchens where folks could cook a meal together and take home a serving for the freezer. Kelda's Kitchen gets closer to reality but we need a few things yet. We need a person with a BCIN (?) number to look over our drawings so the city can give us a building permit. We need some people handy with drywall and wood.
And we need people to come to Kelda's Vaudeville Show in mid-November to help us pay for the good people who will install our sinks, outlets and vents.
Give us a call if you want to be part of this great community food project.

In a jam...or a pickle

Everybody has a favourite part of a Fall Fair. For some it is the horse show, or tractor pull or the rides or the dance. For me it is the work that people do at home, working all year on a beautiful quilt or sweater. Watering and weeding to produce a beautiful squash or tomato. And getting out grandmother's recipe book, stained on the very best pages, to make the chili sauce or apple pie or strawberry jam.
Then going to the fair and looking at the competition, holding your breath to see if there is a ribbon on your jar.
As we drive to the Fair we see pumpkins and cornstalks in the field and tomatoes and squash for sale at the end of the laneway. Turkeys are enjoying their last few weeks before Thanksgiving, and you could eat far more than your apple a day to keep the doctor away. But come February, you will be happy that you made all that applesauce, pickled those beets, canned those tomatoes and froze the corn. It is a long winter, and good local food will come out of the pantry and the cold cellar and freezer. Put it away now while it is plentiful and you'll be smiling all winter.

Being Green Farm Comes to Town

Farmer Tarrah Young describes their Green Being Farm as "a little bit of heaven in Neustadt". Who knew? She and partner Nathan Carey chose their farmstead carefully, knowing they wanted to have a full range of pasture-fed animals and a big vegetable garden. The property had a swimming pool - the perfect spot for a huge cold storage for their winter vegetables. On Thursday, September 16 at 7 p.m., Tarrah will come to Around the Sound to show us pictures of the farm, talk about their happy chickens, and bring samples of the organic produce from their garden. She will tell us about Community Shared Agriculture, and you will have an opportunity to be part of the farm by signing up for a bi-weekly share of the stored harvest all winter, plus farm fresh eggs, meats and prepared foods made with Green Being ingredients. Everyone is welcome on the 16th - come along and join the fun.