Flavourful Saskatoon, March 2, 2020


Local Happenings 
The Saskatoon Farmers’ Market Co-operative has moved into its new home at 2600 Koyl Avenue (#11 bus or free parking). Look at all that space – no more overcrowded aisles or limitations on how many vendors can move inside on cold days!


Library of Things has made free cloth bags for market customers to use. Help yourself!


Be sure to take a look at the murals. They are the work of a regular market customer and were carefully moved out of the old building and into the new one.

Five years ago Hal Jadetske, Red Barn Dairy, bought an organic farm, built a pasteurization/processing plant, and purchased some goats. “So, retirement involves milking the goats twice a day every day and processing the milk and then off to the farmers market which I have been a part of for the last 2 ½ years. The Saskatoon Farmers Market is a wonderfully diverse group of people who all have a passion and dedication to what they bring to the market every week and along with the many wonderful customers have become like an extended family. So happy to be a small part of such an outstanding group of people" - Hal Jadeske [for more producer profiles, be sure to subscribe to the SFMC’s email newsletter]

Visit Odla after 5 pm, Mar. 4, and a portion of the proceeds will go to CHEP Good Food Inc.

Adi, Kaleidoscope Vegetable Gardens, was telling me that one of his favorite fruits is durian, which he buys frozen from the Asian Market at Clarence & 12th. Buying it frozen sounds like a good plan as people tend to be put off by the very strong smell of a fresh durian.

 

Wine 
If you’re looking for some new wine options, check out this article with an A-Z of recommended vendors at the Vancouver Wine Festival. You don’t have to be in Vancouver to drink these wines; at least some of them are available in Saskatchewan.

Food for Thought
How do we qualify food as local? Is it by location, culture, history? Should we use local food as a guide to what we purchase or is it just a new form of snobbery?

Supermarkets are evolving rapidly. One-stop shopping was first introduced in the early 20th century, the grocery cart in 1937 (“first rejected by men as too effeminate”), bar codes in 1964, and self-checkout in the 1990s. Nowadays, online ordering and delivery is rapidly replacing the physical store. But what are we losing in the process – social interaction, freedom of choice, visual stimulation? “Food, along with shelter, is one of our most basic needs . . . . How we get our food is most definitely important. And the connections that we build are important. What we keep losing are those social relationships that we built on food being so central. And, if we’re not building those connections, then we’re losing a part of being human.”

Thank you for the Farmers' Market photographs, Shelley!  

 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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