Recipe: Quinoa, Sweet Potato and Apple Salad

This past Sunday, the Memorial Farmer's Market team suggested a Quinoa, Sweet Potato, and Apple Salad in a Sunday Meal Ideas Facebook post. It sounded so tasty, we figured we would test it out using ingredients from the farmer's market and local area.

Kingston Winter CSAs 2014-15

Throughout the summer, we've revelled in the Ontario summer growing season. While winter may bring lots ice, snow, and chill, it does not mean a freeze on local eating. Community Supported Agriculture or CSA programs are a great way to get a hearty dose of local food while continuing to support your local farmers through the winter season. Nothing invigorates your kitchen quite like a basket full of good food throughout the darker, colder days of the year.

Here's the low-down many of the Winter CSAs available to Kingstonians over the 2014-15 winter season. Be sure to get signed up for your chosen CSA soon to avoid disappointment as the lists fill up fast.

Local Thanksgiving Challenge

This Thanksgiving, take up the Local Thanksgiving Challenge and commit to bringing locally-sourced ingredients to the table! Whether its one dish or the whole meal, your tastebuds will be guaranteed a treat. Here's a few ways you can fill your fridge with local goodness just in time for this weekend's big feast:

Helping through the Harvest: 2 Ways to Donate to Loving Spoonful

The nights may be longer and the temperatures cooler, but nothing seems to say fall more than the abundancy of the harvest. All across the county, from small home gardens to expansive fields, produce is 'ripe for the picking', literally, and there's really no better time to be thinking locally. 

Hard Work Well Spent

Source: Patchwork Gardens (2014) Biggy & Baggy wheel hoeing the fall kale

What do you see when you look at photographs of our local farmers? 

I love looking at images such as the one above because of the reoccurring themes they reflect. I almost always see passion, love for the earth, and dedication but I most certainly always see hard work.

Brand New!

Welcome to Eat Local, Kingston! Over the next coming weeks this website will be under development! Check back frequently to see the exciting developments.