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Growing from the Ground Up
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December
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Delivery: Wednesday Dec 13 2023 Calgary, Red Deer, Edmonton
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Thursday: Lethbridge & Medicine Hat
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What about a Christmas Dinner Medieval Style?!
The Madrigal Banquet in Colorado Springs!
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The Glen Eyrie Castle
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With a more than thirty-year history, this spectacular holiday event continues to be a Colorado classic. Set in the grandeur of The Great Hall of The Castle, our 16th century-style banquet and performance is sure to inspire and prepare your heart for this Christmas season as we focus on the true meaning of Christmas, our Savior’s birth.
This is a full evening, with a 4-course dinner and performance. You’ll enjoy music, dancing and plenty of humor with our talented troupe of performers. The banquet typically lasts over 3 hours.
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No visit to Colorado Springs is complete without a stop at Glen Eyrie Castle, and no visit to Glen Eyrie Castle is complete without experiencing our afternoon tea!
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Well this newsletter is featuring British Fare!
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We have our very own Edmonton Based Meat Street Pies owned by Thea and based on British fare... and also Karl, originally from England owning Lone Valley Sheep Farm just south of Calgary! We thought it would be awesome to feature Karl and Thea because if you are looking for something authentic and delicious - these two have it!
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From South Africa
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Having lived in South Africa for 7 years, and being that my father was South African... we grew up in a society that was hugely British, but also was a diverse place. I remember listening to the call to prayer, the sonorous chanting from the Mosque coming over the valley in the early mornings. We ate curries, samosas, and British steak and kidney pies, Shepherd's Pie, Liver and Eggs for breakfast and "Melktert" (milk tart) a traditional South African Milk Pie. And there was Mieliepap, (corn meal porridge).
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(I will include some recipes here for you if you want to give it a go! South African desserts can be quite sweet so you may have to adapt the sugar! I remember tiny porcelain tea cups and people would put 6 small teaspoons of sugar in one cup of tea!)
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From "My Recipes" by Ishay Govender-Ypma
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I was curious if the Voortrekkers—the Afrikaner boers (farmers who descended from the Dutch settlers) who traversed the difficult terrain from the Cape in the west to Kwa-Zulu Natal in the east by ox-wagon—were indeed the first to introduce maize meal porridge to South Africa, as suggested by some online sources. Both dried maize and millet, being easy to store with an ample shelf life, are said to have contributed to their survival.
A long Southern African porridge-making tradition was in place before the arrival of Europeans. Across the continent’s ancient grasslands, drought-resistant wild cereal grains like millet and sorghum were stamped and ground to make flour for porridge and other staples.
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Mealie Pap Is a South African Breakfast for All
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From "All that's Jas"!
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Milk tart is a South African dessert consisting of a sweet pastry crust and a creamy, custard-like filling made of milk, eggs, sugar, and flour. It's believed that milk tarts such as this one may have originated amongst settlers at the Dutch Cape Colony in the 17th Century. All recipes vary, but the common denominator is a rich, creamy filling cooked either inside or outside the crust, baked or cooked on the stove.
It's like eating pudding in a cookie crust, so what's not to love? It's effectively the South African version of Greek milk pie and sugar cream pie, both the Hoosier and my homeland's favorite one - krempita.
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A deep dive into British pub culture
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Behind the allure of every great British pub stands a publican—a custodian of traditions and the animated soul of the establishment. Often intricately woven into the fabric of the pub, publicans frequently possess a familial or community connection to the establishment, contributing to a sense of continuity and familiarity.
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The evolution of British pubs extends beyond liquid libations to encompass an array of gastronomic delights, transforming these establishments into gastronomic havens known as gastropubs. Traditional dishes like fish and chips, bangers and mash, and steak and ale pie share space with culinary innovations that elevate pub fare to gourmet heights. The olfactory allure of hearty meals permeates the air, tempting patrons to indulge in culinary creations that complement the pub's convivial atmosphere.
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Antony is a prolific cookery book writer, with many of his titles focusing on food issues such as diabetes, health and nutrition. He is also passionate about farming – he owns an avocado farm in Spain and keeps fish, pigs and chickens at his home near the River Thames.
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Thea's Meat Street Pies!
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MEAT PIES
Specializing in baked ethnic pies, pasties and patties, all with their own unique flavours in flaky pie pastry and/or puff pastry. Steak and Cheese, Cornish Pasties, Chicken Pot Pie, Steak and Kidney, Jamaican Patties to name a few.
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$30.00
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$26.00
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Lone Valley Farm is just south of Calgary, in Arrowwood. He arrived here from a small farming town, Chatteris in the UK when he was in Grade 9. His background is in sheep farming and is a regenerative farmer which means he does it right! Proper grazing and moving his sheep, they are fed right. He uses no hormones or anti-antibiotics unless a sheep is ill and the sheep is not put back into the flock until everything is good. He grows his own hay so he knows exactly what his sheep are fed! And when the sheep are butchered, they are sent to within 15 minutes of the farm and have no stress. He cares for his sheep!
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Baa Box: 4pk chops, 1 Shoulder Roast, 1lb Ground lamb, 1lb Stew lamb, 1lb lamb Sausage
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Christmas Wishes from GFGU , Farmers and Volunteers!
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Christmas Greetings from all our farmers, volunteers, Mark and I!
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New Health and Wellness Products!
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We are super excited to share with you some of our new vendors! Bright Gather is north of Edmonton and has products that are from her grandparents and parents, family wellness products that are herbal heirlooms!
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Another vendor will be with us in January!
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Silver Sprays! A maker of colloidal silver cleaning products! See below for more information on this new vendor from Camrose!
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Bright Gather
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A gift box of 12 items to celebrate advent! Includes Linen and room spray, bath salts, lotions, teas, bath bombs and so much more!
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All Natural
Colloidal Silver Cleaners!
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Silver Sprays
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At Silver Sprays, we take pride in our transparency and stand behind each ingredient in our products. Our cleaners contain pure colloidal silver, vinegar, witch hazel, and a blend of essential oils (different depending on the product, all will be labelled) to create a tailored, truly all natural, safe for you family and the environment, and extremely effective cleaner for all parts of the home. It's as simple as switching your current cleaners for Silver Sprays!
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Some interesting goings on for you...
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Health and Wellness Products and services
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Millie is going to be helping with the newsletters and working to develop our health and wellness section, with new vendors and services! Millie hails from Ontario, raised on a farm and has a legal background! Millie will be working on developing the health care and personal wellness part of our our community!
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Our very own Lobbiest for small farmers!
As you know we have mentioned that we are gathering farmers together to begin giving information to agriculture ministers to start to turn around the high costs of meat processing facilities being past onto farmers, that and other bottlenecks they face. Well that would be Anjelika! She is very politically involved and has been a customer on this site since the beginning! Thank you Anjelika!
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Driver Co-ordinating
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Wannitta has been pure gold, giving 8 hours of her time to deliver products between Edmonton and Calgary. She is going to be helping with admin and also if everything goes well, to be a co-ordinator for drivers so one person will not have to do the 8 hours drive!
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A New IT Guy
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We have Jesse on board with us! Although he works more in HTML and Java Script - he is up for the task of sorting out our Php! So over the next few months we may have many improvements to our site!
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A new database
Also amazing... our database person is doing quite a bit and should have that finished today or tomorrow. This will be awesome because it will speed up the work on our back end and make it easier and quicker for the farmers to get your orders!
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Little House Prairie City Baking
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Cranberry & White Chocolate Scones
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Interesting Agriculture issues with our food
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Here are some interesting videos and articles about some of the problems with the commercial food industry.
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These past few weeks I have been reading and watching videos about food fraud. It is not new and some of it I am sure you already knew about, like prosciutto ham. But there are issues with Virgin Olive Oil, Ground Beef (a European issue) and a few other products as well.
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All about Honey
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This is an interesting video about what commercial honey producers do to honey by adding fillers and removing pollen.
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We have two honey producers with us, Hilltop Honey near Okotoks, and Sweet Oaks Honey by St Albert. Honey starts at $10. Both are unpasteurized, but filtered to remove the honey comb.
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Merry Christmas!
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Well... this is our last delivery this year! We are super excited to be back Jan 10th! Merry Christmas everyone and Happy New Year!
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Thank you for being terrific customers and members!
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All the best
Elana and Mark
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Next Delivery is January 10th 2024
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Contact us for more info! 587-598-9204
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