Healing Herbs: Nasturtium – CSA Week #9

This week you have been given a little potted Nasturtium plant (Tropaeolum majus). These are the spicy orange flowers you have been receiving in your salad mix each week, so I thought it’s about time we talk about them! Nasturtium flowers have a peppery taste, and as...

Kitchen Exploration: Use and Value – CSA Week #8

Kitchen Exploration:Using and Valuing Diversity by Cooking for Each Person’s Needs One of the Big Ideas in the BC Curriculum for English Language Arts is that “people understand text differently depending on their worldviews and perspectives.” When I...

Healing Herbs: Raspberry (Rubus idaeus) – CSA Week #8

Raspberry (Rubus idaeus) is beloved for its luscious red berries and is native to many parts of Europe. The leaves of the raspberry plant are used in classic herbal preparations to support a woman’s health tonically (meaning it can be taken regularly) and especially...

OUR Educational CSA – Week #8

Hello CSA members!I know we mention this every week but that’s because it is important to us ~ Thank you for helping us reduce waste and consumption as much as possible and returning jars, containers, egg cartons and your plant pots for us to reuse! The baking...