-- Battersea, Ontario Patchwork Gardens is a certified organic vegetable farm with a serious commitment to healthy soil and crops. The farm rotates it's 25 acres for best soil management: 50% of the land in production, and 50% of it at rest. When the soil is healthy and full of life your food is healthy - great tasting - and full of life! Patchwork is a collaboration between two families, Eric Williams and his family and Megan Joslin, Ian Stutt and their family, as well as their working crew. They grow sustainably, focusing on nutrient dense, flavourful vegetables, like their wonderful lettuce mixes, tomatoes, and especially root vegetables, which they say, "are great for squirreling away in the winter months."...
On any given day in the summer, you will find Titia Posthuma in her 1 acre market garden, barefoot, working the soil, pulling weeds, watering the huge variety of organic crops she grows, or picking heritage vegetables chosen for flavour.
Who does not love the warm, heady embrace of superior quality chocolate melting on the tongue? There are literally thousands of recipes involving chocolate, from your favourite chocolate chip cookie to a $250 French Madeline chocolate truffle. But what is this mysterious elixir that can be a sophisticated aphrodisiac, or comfort food eaten in pajamas?Chocolate comes from the Cacao tree. Many people would not recognize the large pods that grow on the trunk and limbs of this tree, much less the beans inside, as chocolate. And in fact, there are two different versions of this product: cacoa and cocoa. Cacoa is the raw version of chocolate (think cacoa butter, nibs or powder) that is made by cold-pressing the unroasted, fermented,...