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Summer Salads for Hot Days

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Here is my summer salad filled with an assortment of veggies and leftover cut up meat. I top it all with homemade balsamic dressing. On the side is some strawberry flavored kombucha which is a refreshing drink for hot summer days.

GUEST POST by Maureen Lefebvre

My lunch of choice these days has been a large salad filled with an assortment of veggies and leftover cut up meat or hard-boiled egg. I top it with a dressing of olive oil, spices, salt and balsamic vinegar. With a refreshing glass of strawberry flavored kombucha on the side, this keeps me going until dinner time. I found a new vegetable at the farmer?s market this week – kohlrabi. Slightly smaller than a peach, it was good peeled, sliced and tossed onto my salad. To me the taste is similar to a radish, with a satisfying crunch. The folks at the Kamloops Farmer’s Market from Tranquille on the Lake were so informative about all their produce and I?m glad I took their suggestion to try the kohlrabi.

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Kohlrabi is a new vegetable for me. I enjoyed its radish-like flavor and crunchy texture.

Kamloops Farmer’s Market Videos: Golden Ears Farm

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GUEST POST by Larkin Schmiedl

Tristan Grube-Cavers runs Golden Ears Farm co-operatively in Chase, BC. In this video he shares his ethics, the reasons he went into farming, some of what he hopes to achieve on the farm, as well as the things Golden Ears grows.

Kamloops Farmer’s Market Videos: 4 Bar S Ranch

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GUEST POST by Larkin Schmiedl

Melanie Stutt, butcher at 4 Bar S Ranch, has an interesting story to share about what happened when food was in short supply in her local area because of forest fires. Watch this video to hear more about 4 Bar S Ranch, how it operates and what happened when fire swept through Barriere, BC.

Tiny Market Garden

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Here is my market garden of cucumbers, tomatoes, zucchini and sweet potatoes.

GUEST POST by Maureen Lefebvre

This year I planted a ?market garden?. Do I plan to have enough vegetables to sell at the market you wonder? No, this year my garden holds only specific plants that I want to be able to eat on the spur of the moment, harvested from my own plants. In the spring I purposed to make use of the Kamloops Farmer’s Market instead of planting a lot myself. So far I have made it downtown every week, either on Wednesday or Saturday, for fresh fruit, vegetables and meat. The atmosphere is friendly and the vendors are more than happy to chat about their products. I feel good supporting local farmers and producers while getting superior, nutrient-dense food on my table.

The vegetables that I have chosen to plant are cucumbers, tomatoes, zucchini and sweet potatoes. This is my first time to plant sweet potatoes, so I?m curious to see how they do. The slips came from Vesey?s Seeds, PEI. They are only one of a few suppliers of sweet potato slips in Canada. The slips arrived mid-June looking very dead. The 6-8 inch stems were topped by a few wilted or dead leaves. I wasn?t hopeful that they would survive, especially because our weather at that time was still so cold and wet. However, I put them in the ground and waited for the sun. The plants are mailed well into the growing season because they can?t tolerate any cold at all. Now that they have been in the ground about a month all but one out of the twelve are growing leaves and the plants with no shading at all even seem to be thriving.

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Here are my little sweet potato plants.

Kamloops Farmer’s Market Videos: 4 Elements Farm

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GUEST POST by Larkin Schmiedl

Sarah Martel of 4 Elements Farm, grows organically near Westwold, BC. along with her partner Michael Weinman. Here she shares what they grow on the farm, some tricks they have learned, and her priorities when it comes to thinking about food security.