Home Grown: November 2011 Archives
Friday November 25, 2011
Home Grown: Brewed Awakenings
Posted by Vanessa Vander Valk
Okay, so you can't grow coffee cherries in New Brunswick, but you can roast them. We're bending our own rules this week to introduce you to Brewed Awakenings, a company in French Lake that roasts some unusual beans. Jennifer Sexton is one of the owners and she explains what makes her company different.
Categories: Home Grown
Friday November 18, 2011
Home Grown: The Happy Hopyard!
Posted by Vanessa Vander Valk
Ashley Durdle was wrapping up a career in the airforce a few years back and she was looking for a bit of a change. She bought some fifty acres of land in Cornhill, near Sussex, with her partner Bob Fitzgerald and the Happy Hopyard was born! With micro-breweries popping up all over, there's no shortage of customers looking for a source of local hops.
Categories: Home Grown
Friday November 11, 2011
Home Grown: Leah Anstis of Buy Local NB
Posted by Vanessa Vander Valk
You could call Leah Anstis a local food evangelist...and the Buy Local NB campaign coordinator is finding a lot of converts. The website where you can search for everything from locally produced cheese to wine to sausages gets about 3,000 hits a month. And that's not all she has up her sleeve!
Categories: Home Grown
- July 2012
- Fri., 27 – Tasty Raspberries at Harper's U-Pick
- Fri., 13 – Remembering Organic Pioneer Clark Phillips
- June 2012
- Fri., 29 – Homegrown: Everett Family Orchard
- Fri., 22 – Homegrown: Lavenhop!
- Fri., 15 – Home Grown: Farm Writers Tour NB
- Fri., 8 – Home Grown: The Frilly Apron
- May 2012
- Fri., 25 – All Local Wedding Feast!
- Fri., 18 – Slow Food Movement Arrives in NB
- Fri., 4 – Home Grown: Naskwaak Noodles
- April 2012
- Fri., 27 – Growing Your Own Shiitake Mushrooms!
- Fri., 20 – Home Grown: Fresh Mobile Bistro
- Mon., 16 – Home Grown: Mr. Tomato/ M. Tomate
- Mon., 9 – Home Grown: Medieval Hot Cross Buns!
- March 2012
- Fri., 23 – Home Grown: Good Spring Farm
- Fri., 16 – Home Grown: Bunnett Family Farm
- Fri., 9 – Home Grown: Buckwheat Flats
- Fri., 2 – Home Grown: Wellwood Farm
- February 2012
- Fri., 24 – Home Grown: Windy Hill Farm
- Fri., 17 – Home Grown: Shooting Sprouts!
- Fri., 10 – Home Grown: VanDine's Beans
- Fri., 3 – Home Grown: HutLo Acres
- January 2012
- Fri., 27 – Home Grown: Jemseg River Farm
- Fri., 20 – Home Grown: Winter Garden
- Fri., 13 – Home Grown: Sussex Butcher
- Fri., 6 – Home Grown: Strawberry Hill Farm
- December 2011
- Fri., 30 – Home Grown: Naturally Raised Turkeys
- Fri., 16 – Home Grown: Brighton Botanicals
- Fri., 9 – Home Grown: Bite By Michelle's Christmas
- Fri., 2 – Home Grown: Fundy North Fishermen
- November 2011
- Fri., 25 – Home Grown: Brewed Awakenings
- Fri., 18 – Home Grown: The Happy Hopyard!
- Fri., 11 – Home Grown: Leah Anstis of Buy Local NB
- Fri., 4 – Home Grown: Gagetown Fruit Farm
- October 2011
- Fri., 28 – Home Grown: Speerville
- Fri., 21 – Home Grown: Real Food Connections
- Fri., 14 – Home Grown: Savour in St. Andrews
- September 2011
- Fri., 30 – Home Grown: Bite By Michelle
- Fri., 23 – Home Grown: Rose Doucet Eats Local



