Our Commitment to Quality All our cattle are born, raised and finished on Vancouver Island grass pasture the way mother nature intended! We do not use grain, bovine growth hormones, or antibiotics and of course no GMOs. Ethical Animal Treatment We raise and handle our cattle in a low stress environment. Our pasture based animal […]
Mar Farms from Saanichton will be joining the Breakwater Market starting Sunday July 10. This week we should have kale, chard, a broccoli, a parsley, amazing bunch beets, strawberry rhubarb, garlic, broad beans. Zucchini is coming soon and our chickens are just starting to lay. They will also sometimes have a few duck eggs. The […]
Here’s some exciting news: chef demonstrations – a new feature at last year’s Seedy Saturday – are back this year. At 11 am, Chef Laura Moore of The Good For You Gourmet will be making hot and sour soup with goji berries, and very generously handing out samples and the recipe for those who wish […]
If you’re wondering what’s going on with food policy planning around Victoria, you can find out at this year’s Seedy Saturday, February 18th in the Victoria Conference Centre. At 2 pm, Pat Reichert, well known for her work on food security projects on Salt Spring Island, will be moderating a panel of food activists, members […]
There used to be (and perhaps still is) a rather unusual sign along one of the back roads up-island. It looked like an official traffic sign, but read “Be Prepared for the Unexpected”. It was attached to a large fallen tree. And beneath the tree trunk was what remained of a car. While we hope […]
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