Jo-Ann and Ian Fraser run Tweedle Bee Candles and handcraft 100% pure beeswax candles from premium quality locally sourced beeswax, which
Jo-Ann and Ian Fraser run Tweedle Bee Candles and handcraft 100% pure beeswax candles from premium quality locally sourced beeswax, which Ian cleans using a gentle gravity system. Check out the slide show. Locally you can visit Tweedle Bee store or go to the Food Company in Tweed or the Village Green in Foxboro. Jo-Ann Fraser is a potter and she take part in the Tweed Studio Tour on Saturday and Sunday October 2 and 3, 2010 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Monthly Community Kitchens are being held in Tweed and Marmora
With wisdom and wit, Anupam Mishra talks about the amazing feats of engineering built centuries ago by the people of India’s Golden Desert to harvest water. These structures are still used today – and are often superior to modern water mega projects.
By Kim Severson
Warriors in the battle for more local, sustainable food have long been suspicious of the Department of Agriculture and its relationship to large agricultural interests. But even the most dedicated political agrarian has to admit that the U.S.D.A is getting local food fever.
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
USDA Announces Big Plans and $50 million For Local School Lunches.
With both the White House and USDA focusing on healthy eating and local sourcing, the paradigm shift in American agriculture is speeding the plow…
by Janet Richards, The Community Press
Belleville – An energy audit of 1,332 affordable housing units has given Hastings County officials some ideas and recommendations for reducing costs related to energy and water consumption.
By W. Brice Mcvicar The Intelligencer
Kim Hadwen is returning to his roots and he’s hoping area residents will join him in his journey back in time.
Hadwen, along with his wife Jean, will be renting out plots of land on his Wallbridge-Loyalist Road farm in 2010 encouraging people to grow their own vegetables without the use of any pesticides or herbicides. Not only will any crops grown be free of such sprays, but the field where they grow will be tilled by a team of eight horses pulling the plow.
Winter is a time to stock up with candles. In Hastings County we have a number of producers who make beeswax candles.
Our certified farmers’ market concept offers local Ontario producers easy access to an urban, diverse marketplace and a level playing field, where resellers are neither welcome nor permitted.
Everything you need to know about traceability but didn’t know who to ask. OnTrace is running a series of half-day and whole-day workshops.
Dorothy Connolly, tourism officer with Hastings County writes: The Premier Ranked Tourist Destinations Surveys have been sent out by email and/ or snail mail. The surveys need to be in by January 22, 2010. They can be mailed, or done on line by going to Premier Ranked Tourism Destination Survey or by visiting Hastings County and following the links. Hopefully I have not forgotten any one.
Bob Outingdyke and Sandra Pealow purchased the 14.5 acre farm in October 2009. We plan on producing in the spring of 2010 for selling from home, at markets. and at fairs.
Bob Outingdyke and Sandra Pealow purchased the 14.5 acre farm in October 2009. We plan on producing in the spring of 2010 for selling from home, at markets. and at fairs. Check back to find out what we are planning! As of March1, 2010 we will be taking orders for special green and blue chicken eggs. Quail eggs will be available in April 2010.
Beginning March 10 we will be taking orders only for quail, quail eggs and specialty eggs. Prices will be available then as well. We will have baked goods and elderberry jams and preserves.
Sandra is a retired Registered Practical Nurse with over 20 years experience in foot care. She has set up Circle Grove Mobile Foot Care and is able to come to you to provide comfort and relief from ingrown nails, callouses and to help with the maintenance of healthy feet and nails. Sandra also provides soothing foot rubs using homemade lotions, creams and ointments made from a Homeopathic Recipe using the best quality beeswax, and essential oils. Please contact Sandra to book an appointment and for prices. Sandra also has over 10 years experience working with animals and humans providing Reiki and Cranio-Sacral Therapy.
Thank You
Cheers! Bob and Sandra
Sandra Pealow is planting an orchard of elderberrry trees this spring on her farm on Carmel Road. She plans to make elderberry wine.
Sandra Pealow meets the new born colt. He is a Miniature Horse and only a couple of days old.
“We can’t bring him home until July”, said Sandra. In the picture is Laurie Hale from Hale Farm Miniature Horses, Newtonville, Ontario and Sandra Pealow. The colt’s name is Hale Farms Dazzling Midnite. Miniature horses make excellent pets as well as showing and driving carts.