Flavourful Saskatoon, March 11, 2019

Local Happenings 
The Saskatoon Farmers’ Market is partnering with Gardening at USask to offer a series of talks over the summer. Check Gardening at USask’s Facebook page for upcoming events.

Congratulations, Food Renew! In their first year of operations, Food Renew diverted 300 tons of food from the landfill, collecting the food from 14 donor businesses and delivering it to 7 social agencies for distribution.

Spring Rêveries
“These festive spring eggs are the perfect combination of the hope nestled in both eggs and young herbs. You can forage your own wild herbs to use (sagebrush looks particularly lovely, and lends a slight flavor to the eggs as well) or just use herbs bought from the store (flat-leafed parsley works especially well.) . . . . All of the colors here are completely natural, derived of edible materials like red cabbage and yellow onion skins.” 

Food for Thought 
Over 336,000 Canadian families skip meals or spend days without eating. Over 786,000 families skimp on the quantity or quality of their portions. An additional 580,000 families worry about running out of provisions. “It’s the ‘getting by’ that’s exhausting. . . . Food insecurity wears you down because you must constantly cope and manage. . . . If food-security advocates believe tax-based solutions, like better social assistance or a universal basic income, should be part of a coordinated strategy to help Canadians put healthy food on the table, the question of how we will afford them remains. Given the drain that hunger has on health care, mental health, and productivity . . . we’re already paying for it.”

Don’t put tomatoes or potatoes in the fridge. Here’s why.

Flavourful Saskatoon is a weekly Monday feature. I also post articles about food that is good, clean and fair; travel; and books. You may also enjoy EcoFriendly Sask profiling Saskatchewan nature/environmental initiatives and events. 

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