Fogo Island held its first farmer’s market this summer. It was hosted by the Fogo/Change Islands Agricultural Co-op, also recently formed. “There were about six or seven members of the co-op selling produce, and some from the community garden in Seldom,” reports organic farmer and ACORN member Winston Osmond. “We held the market at the arena parking lot from September 1st to October 10th, which we had inside at the Patridgeberry Fest and it was well received.” Winston says that they are hoping to start the farmers market in July in 2010. 
And what was for sale? “We had all the usual root veggies plus I grew almost everything possible: purple cauliflower, yellow, white and candycane beets, kohlrabi, all kinds of squash, greens, radicchio, tatsoi, beens, peas, corn, you name it,” says Winston. “And we gave out recipes with the unusual veggies. People loved that.”
What was for sale at your farmers’ market? What did you grow this year that you were particularly pleased with? We want to hear from our organic farmers across the province – from Deer Lake to Portugal Cove to Happy Valley-Goose Bay.
SLOW Food event… coming to St. John’s.
A Slow Food chapter has been formed in St. John’s. Slow Food is an organization (now in 130 countries) committed to safeguarding foods, raw materials and traditional methods of cultivation and transformation.
This event will be held Sunday, Nov.8th at Cochrane St. United Church.
Chef Eric Wood of Yellowbelly Brewery and Public House and Nadya Kyutukchiev of Bianca’s Restuarant will share their experiences of preserving local foods.
For more info, contact: harron.janet@gmail.com
ACORN - NL 
Hi,
I work for a Halifax Nova Scotia based tv production company that has recently completed a half hour documentary for CBC about local food called Turning A Green Leaf . In the film we take the McMillin family and challenge them to first measure and then reduce their food carbon footprint but without giving up any of the items that we can’t grow in Canada like coffee, tea, oranges, or chocolate. It’s like the 100 Mile diet but without the guilt trip.
We didn’t ask the family to change what they bought but rather to simply find a local source for all of the items they would normally buy. We then measured then average distance travelled of the finished product and the corresponding carbon emissions and calculated the difference over a two month period. The results exceeded our wildest expectations and the McMillin family provide a great example for anyone living in Canada of how to enjoy your food while managing to reduce your carbon footprint.
Turning A Green Leaf will broadcast nationally on the CBC main network as part of the Land & Sea series this Sunday November 22 at the following local times :
Atlantic Canada / Quebec / Ontario – 12 Noon
Saskatchewan / Manitoba – 15:00
Alberta – 15:00
British Columbia – 14:00
If you’re not able to catch the broadcast this Sunday you can watch the full episode online starting later next week on the CBC website :
http://www.cbc.ca/landandsea
I hope you enjoy the film and feel free to spread the broadcast info to any of your friends, family, or work colleagues that might be interested. If you have feedback or comments on the film we’d be happy to receive those as well and you can email us at : info@telltale.tv
Thanks,
Sean Doyle
Tell Tale Productions Inc.
Hi Sean
Great idea – hope it inspired many viewers.
Alison