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Weeding with Fire

Derek Barnes — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 16:51:53 +0000

Major weeding labour can be avoided if you torch newly germinated weeds before they get established. When we shot this video carrots had been seeded earlier in the week and some much needed ...

Radish Butter

Derek Barnes — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 02:23:28 +0000

A great, easy and refreshingly delicious recipe for those early spring radishes.It’s perfect simply on a slice of french baguette or use it on your sandwiches in place of regular butter. Ingredients 15 French breakfast radishes 6 Radish ...

Sake and Maple-Marinated Sablefish with a Hijiki – Soy Sauce

Derek Barnes — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 13:41:35 +0000

Another interesting and tasty recipe from Rob Feenie making good use of our freshly made maple syrup. Yield: 4 Ingredients 1 cup sake 1/3 cup Sweet Ass pure maple syrup 4×5 ounce fillets sablefish (aka black ...

Owen’s Dutch Oven Beer Bread

Derek Barnes — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 18:00:33 +0000

Photo by Jenn Chic Owen Lass and I prepared these beautiful loaves the day before a big pork celebration out at Church Hill Farm in New Hamburg, proofing them overnight and baking them two at a ...

Maple Orange Cornish Hens

Derek Barnes — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:58:42 +0000

Maple syrup is definitely not just for pancakes. This is a great recipe for Cornish Hens that will definitely make all your hard work boiling down Maple sap this spring worth while. True, oranges cannot ...

I’d Tap That: A Beginner’s Guide to Making Your Own Maple Syrup

Derek Barnes — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 06:59:38 +0000

It's mid-February and the only thing that keeps a Canadian like me from opening a vein this time of year is the thought of thawing snow, plants beginning to grow, song birds returning and budding leaves on the trees. Even before we can start seed in the greenhouse or prepare the soil for Spring planting out at the farm, we can enjoy the first glorious days of relative warmth and participate in a local culinary tradition that predates European settlement of this harsh, cold landscape. All 'syrup-suckers', as Stephen Colbert affectionately refers to us Canadians, really should give the process of making Maple syrup a try at least once. When the Enns family offered up for tapping their 25 acres of virgin sugar bush in New Hamburg, Ontario that is exactly what I intended to do for the very first time.

Biodynamic Agriculture: A First Impression

Derek Barnes — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 07:14:11 +0000

I attended the Guelph Organic Conference today expecting nothing more than to be introduced to the people and ideas shaping the practice of organic farming in southwestern Ontario. Keep an open mind, I said to ...

A Christmas Pig’s Tale

Derek Barnes — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 22:24:08 +0000

Twenty minutes outside of Stratford and enroute to Christmas family fun in the Ottawa valley is Church Hill Farm, a small family run organic livestock farm where beef, pork, lamb and poultry heritage breeds are ...

Festival partners with Mirvish Productions

Derek Barnes — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:51:14 +0000

The Stratford Shakespeare Festival’s hilarious production of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum is heading to Toronto in 2010, where it will be presented as part of Mirvish Productions’ 2010/2011 subscription ...

Caesar and Cleopatra to air in HD on CTV on Boxing Day

Derek Barnes — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:14:47 +0000

December 14, 2009… This Boxing Day, see Christopher Plummer in Caesar and Cleopatra – broadcast for the first time in high definition on CTV. Artistic Director Des McAnuff’s glorious production of Bernard Shaw’s classic comedy will ...