Food – Transition Cornwall +

5th Annual Seedy Saturday Returns

February 15, 2019 TCWordpress Comments 0 comment

Saturday, March 16, 10:30am-2:30pm, Benson Centre Cornwall Planting a vegetable garden in 2019? Hoping to purchase some local seeds? Looking for expert advice on what to grow? Need a free event for the kids during March break? Then join us for the 5th annual Cornwall Seedy Saturday on March 16th, from 10:30am – 2:30pm at the Benson Centre. This is a free, family-friendly event designed to help new and existing gardeners find the seeds, tools, and tricks they need to…

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Screening whets Transition Cornwall+ appetites for edible gardens

February 13, 2019 TCWordpress Comments 0 comment

It was all things urban farming at the Cornwall Public Library on Sunday as Transition Cornwall+’s Winter Films series continued with a screening of Plant This Movie, a 2014 documentary directed by Karney Hatch. The timing couldn’t be better for Cornwall. One of the organizers of the event, and member of Transition Cornwall+, Alan D’Aoust, was on hand for a discussion following the screening. D’Aoust was recently successful spearheading an Edible Cities proposal city council supported in January. Read Screening…

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Not enough fruits, vegetables grown to feed global population a healthy diet: study

October 31, 2018 TCWordpress Comments 0 comment

The world’s agriculture producers are not growing enough fruits and vegetables to feed the global population a healthy diet, according to new Canadian-led research. The study, published this week in the scientific journal PLOS ONE, indicates that agricultural practices aren’t keeping step with prevailing dietary wisdom, greatly overproducing grains, sugars and fats while growing three times less produce than what nutritionists suggest everyone should consume. The study, led by researchers at the University of Guelph and completed by a team…

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Tips on Freezing the Harvest

September 12, 2018 TCWordpress Comments 0 comment

It’s that time of year—the garden is bulging with fresh produce and you’re spending lots of time in a steaming kitchen preserving it all. I find freezing preferable to canning for a number of reasons. For one, when it’s time to prepare a meal with my preserved garden goodness, frozen foods tend to be brighter, fresher, and all-around tastier. And relatively speaking, it’s fast and easy. Over the years, I’ve come up with a few tips to make freezing even…

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Free Summer Pickings in Cornwall!

August 6, 2018 TCWordpress Comments 0 comment

It is the middle of summer and there are free pickings to be had in Cornwall. The gardens planted by Transition Cornwall+ Food Action Group along with families in the community at the Fire Station, in front of the Justice Building and along Montreal Road by the Police Station are full of healthy vegetables and herbs ready for anyone to harvest. There is everything from tomatoes, to fresh green beans, chard and kale as well as basil, thyme, dill, chives…

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Seed Saving 101: 10 Things to Know If You Want to Start Saving Seeds

July 23, 2018 TCWordpress Comments 0 comment

Beans. That’s right. If you want to start saving seeds, we recommend beans. Or peas. Why? Legumes are by far the easiest seeds to save, and among the easiest to germinate. You can’t go wrong. With that, let’s learn more about the basics of seed saving. In order for a plant like lettuce to produce seed, you must wait for it to send up its gangly flower stalks, which eventually produce tiny seed pods. By this time. the lettuce leaves…

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How land under solar panels can contribute to food security

July 13, 2018 TCWordpress Comments 0 comment

Adding plants to solar farms offers all kinds of benefits to the facilities’ primary aim of reducing carbon emissions and expanding renewable energy. “Solar development is happening on a massive scale as lands are being converted from agricultural land or unused land into solar projects,” says Jordan Macknick, energy-water-land lead analyst with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), which funds research on the impact of native and crop plants grown in solar farms. “That represents an amazing opportunity to improve…

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5 Tips For a Bountiful, Water-Saving Vegetable Garden in a Time of Drought

July 9, 2018 TCWordpress Comments 0 comment

Many are wondering whether there is room for a vegetable garden in a drier future. Some are looking at ways to conserve water, and others are looking at vegetable varieties that have adapted to growing in hot and dry conditions. Below are some suggestions for vegetable gardening in times of drought that I’ve gleaned from research and these conversations. Read 5 Tips For a Bountiful, Water-Saving Vegetable Garden in a Time of Drought by Ramon Gonzales at Treehugger.

RetroSuburbia talk by David Holmgren

May 28, 2018 TCWordpress Comments 0 comment

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mk48lxgs-5c&w=560&h=315] Co-founder of the permaculture movement, David Holmgren, encourages permaculture activists to focus their energies on retrofitting suburbia for an energy descent future. David argues that the opportunities to retrofit are so much more important than new buildings because of the limits to debt based growth.