Plant to Plate-Spinach Salad with Strawberries and Candied Pecans

It’s summer and the fruits and vegetables from the garden are rolling in. One of the most anticipated seasonal foods in Nova Scotia, has to be strawberries. Arriving at the beginning of summer, there is nothing like the taste of fresh picked strawberries. The u-picks are popular for many people who then like to make …

Haskap Jam-Haskap Strawberry Freezer Jam

Nothing says summer to me like jars of jam cooling on the counter. Then after they are set, enjoying that jam on a warm biscuit, toast, or in a classic PB&J sandwich. I love-making jam and my daughter mentioned the other day that she doesn’t remember ever eating jam from a store. The family favorite …

Strawberry Bread Recipe

Summer time is here and the fruits of the season are arriving! If you try to eat seasonally, then you know that some things are eagerly anticipated…like the arrival of fresh strawberries. Do you go strawberry picking? If you do go and end up wondering what to do with some of your berries, a little …

Strawberry Picking on the South Shore

There is nothing better than the taste of a fresh picked strawberry in the summer. Like, literally…nothing better. People wait all year for the first strawberry shortcake, berries and cream, or to start jam making. This is why eating seasonally is so optimal, but be warned, it can/will ruin you for eating strawberries any other …