Category: Food

Market Maker: Ursula and Riverside-Albert’s Farmers Market

4/6/2024

Farmers Markets are several things all rolled up into one. They are a source for local foods. They are a place to buy arts and crafts. Though perhaps, most importantly, they are places that bring neighbours together. 

Last year a woman named Ursula, who had a table at the Hillsborough farmers market, realized it was a bit of a drive for people in Riverside-Albert to get there. She recounts, “I thought why not have something more local. It's a beautiful little town, why is it a drive-thru town? So I figured it made sense to have a market here and I started hunting around. Three days before I posted that there would be a market I had made arrangements with the exhibition hall.” The first weekend there were five vendors which rose to sixteen vendors at its highest point. The number of vendors fluctuated from week-to-week based on people’s schedules.

January Pantry Challenge

2/1/2023

by Angela MacDougall Herb n' Joy Fundy Farms: local harvest

It's January! Time for eating hearty, soul nourishing meals we have put away in the cold room, cupboards and freezers. It's time to do the deep clean of all the food in our houses - rotate, use up, save on groceries and get creative in the kitchen! What else are you going to do with all the snow and cold temperatures coming our way?
If you've been around for a while, you know the Pantry Challenge drill, but with so many new faces in the community, let's do a quick overview.

The Pantry Challenge is to help you: save money, reduce waste, rotate through your food, learn new recipes and get the family involved in some fun in the kitchen. The concept is to not buy groceries for the month of January, BUT you are your own rule maker. So! If you need to buy dairy products, or bread or whatever it is, no sweat! You make your own rules. The goal is just to buy less and try to go as long as possible without grocery shopping.

This year we are really excited to learn some new cooking techniques and introduce new styles of cooking into our repertoire. We will be highlighting foods made with flour (Yikes! Not my comfort zone.) with our new community member Kasia Diana. Kasia is going to teach us to make some dishes from her Polish background. We are excited to get together in the kitchen and cook with friends. (This is also something YOU could do, too.)

We will be sharing all our meals, discoveries, recipes and ideas on our social media pages. We invite you to follow along under Fundy Farms: local harvest on Facebook and Instagram.

We hope you will get involved and join in on the fun. You can also follow #threeriverschallenge #pantrychallenge2023 on Instagram to see what others are doing for the challenge as well.

Hillsborough Supports Local Food Entrepreneurs

1/1/2022

Ryan Smith & Angela MacDougall of Fundy Farms: Local Harvest

By Deborah Carr

When Byron Gourley first purchased a beautiful heritage home in Hillsborough, he envisioned an art studio in his future, not a grocery store. He and his life partner had been living in Moncton, but sought a larger home that afforded space to expand his artistic endeavours. Although it needed work, the Hillsborough house was an incredible deal. Too good to pass up. They hired a local contractor to start the repairs.

“Then I fell in love with the people,” Gourley says. “The warmth and welcoming we received…our neighbours brought us welcoming gifts. In Moncton, we didn’t even know our neighbours.”

In discussions with neighbours and workers, he heard how much residents missed the grocery store that closed in 2019. In his role as an economic development officer for Metepenagiag First Nation, he brought in businesses to meet the needs of the community. Now, he saw a niche that could be filled in Hillsborough.

Albert County Food Forest: Help bring food security and education to Albert County!

25/6/2021

Image by Tessa Wissink

By: Tessa Wissink

Hello! My name is Tessa Wissink and I am 28 years old. Over the past five years, I have become increasingly interested in the intersection of food, environmentalism and quality of life. I have found the experiences of starting to grow my own food at home, foraging for wild food, and learning to hunt, trap and fish extremely rewarding. I feel a much greater connection to the food I eat and the land around me, much more than I ever had before, and would like to share these experiences with others wherever and whenever I can.

Diversity in the Kitchen: Malaysia - Hakka Yong Tau Fu (客家釀豆腐）

27/5/2021

This is the first in a series of articles celebrating the growing diversity of countries, cultures and cuisine among our neighbours in Albert County. We will feature stories and recipes from around the world, brought to you by new friends who now call Albert County home. Enjoy! Lynne Greenblatt

Hakka Yong Tau Fu (客家釀豆腐） by Lim Lee Fui

I moved to Alma a year ago to be with the love of my life, whom I met in Malaysia nine years ago. I like my life in Albert County where I am well pampered by (besides the nature and scenery) local produce and seafood, of which I am a big fan. I am so grateful that I am still able to create many recipes from home with the vegetables, meat and seafood found in Albert County.

I am honoured to share a recipe that is connected to my heritage, Malaysian Hakka, with Connecting Albert County. Hakka is a Chinese subgroup and means ‘guest families.’

And the Beet Goes On!

25/1/2021

By Angela MacDougall

It's no Sonny and Cher song, but the lowly beet has played an important role in feeding the world since the Roman Empire.

Although a beet is not really attractive to look at, it’s a nutrient powerhouse for your body. In the past, beets were used as a medicinal food for detoxification and to improve digestion, blood health and heart health. Now, people appreciate beets for their high level of antioxidants.

The Joy of Food

25/1/2021

by Janet Wallace

Food is a source of joy. I love food: it’s that simple. Fortunately, most of the foods I enjoy eating are healthy. But it wasn’t always like this.

When I was learning to cook, I was also learning about nutrition. At that time, food was fuel. I balanced my ingredients to ensure that I ate enough protein, fibre and vitamins, with a minimum of fat, oil, sugar and salt. Looking back, it was a rather miserable diet, even though the nutritional principles were sound. I didn’t enjoy my meals very much, which led me to binge on junk food every once in a while. Now, my diet is much less rigid and, as a result, much healthier.

Go Nuts

25/1/2021

By Angela MacDougall

You may know Lorna Milton as the ‘Donut Lady’ from The Old Church Farmers Market but, if you were so lucky, you may have also tasted her backyard maple toasted walnuts.

Many market-goers were surprised to hear that the edible nuts were grown in Albert County.

Forest Dale Home Partnering with the Community

14/7/2016

Community Partnership is evident at Forest Dale Home in the community of Riverside-Albert with the non-profit organizations Foods of the Fundy Valley and Shepody Food Bank!

Fundy Fresh – A Taste of Fundy

9/8/2015

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Foods of the Fundy Valley, in conjunction with the Taste of Fundy, is inviting you to become part or our most recent local food campaign. The purpose of this campaign is to provide business owners with the means to advertise to consumers that their products are locally produced, and/or made from locally sourced ingredients.

As local food movements are steadily growing across Canada, we in the Fundy region are fortunate to have an abundance of fresh seafood, beef, poultry, dairy, seasonal berries, fruit, vegetables, maple products, wild edibles and other food products. We also have an impressive pool of talented local chefs, butchers and bakers. As a region that benefits greatly from tourism dollars, it is important to promote not only our beautiful scenery and natural wonders, but also our culinary excellence. Tourists are known to follow the local food scenes everywhere.

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food, farming
and fishing

Market Maker: Ursula and Riverside-Albert’s Farmers Market

January Pantry Challenge

Hillsborough Supports Local Food Entrepreneurs

Albert County Food Forest: Help bring food security and education to Albert County!

Diversity in the Kitchen: Malaysia - Hakka Yong Tau Fu (客家釀豆腐）

And the Beet Goes On!

The Joy of Food

Go Nuts

Forest Dale Home Partnering with the Community

Fundy Fresh – A Taste of Fundy

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