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We were very pleased to be featured in an article by Carolyn Heller in Moon (a Canadian travel website). Here’s the link: https://moon.com/2018/08/unique-victoria-bc-food-experiences/
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What’s new at Snowdon House Gourmet and Gifts!
West Coast Bread Featured in Globe and Mail
The New Year often brings a renewal of health and fitness goals. What better way to start a healthy year than with a hearty breakfast? Snowdon House’s West Coast Bread was featured in the Globe and Mail’s article “Canadian breakfast products that are both healthy and hearty” alongside other Canadian companies creating healthy, local food.
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Snowdon House Featured in Montecristo Magazine
In October, Raina Delisle from Montecristo Magazine visited us at the farm to learn about our Douglas Fir products. The piece is a nice introduction to some of what we do at Snowdon Farms and how we started using Douglas Fir. Snowdon House
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Tomato Sauce to Die For!
A combination of cherry, beef steak, roma, marzano tomatoes, purple basil, red onions, zucchini, parsley, sage, thyme, oregano, and garlic, all fresh from the garden. Roasted in olive oil and infused with thyme vinegar and slow roasted for 6 hours at 200 degrees. Homemade pizzas were made with this yummy sauce and the rest was
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The Fruits of Our Labour
After hours of dedication to the flowers and gardens, the bees have rewarded us with a bountiful crop of honey. Yesterday ten frames of honey were harvested. Soon to be extracted, bottled, and available for sale. And more to be harvested later!
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Our West Coast Bread is Ready to Enjoy!
The Douglas Fir Tips used in this bread paired with our FirEssence or soda is a truly West Coast original. The Douglas Fir tips are packed with vitamin C and electrolytes. To make the West Coast Bread, simply add a 341 mL bottle of our FirEssence or soda, mix, and bake at 375 degrees for
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Lavender Vinegar
“The gauzy gray-green foliage, graceful violet spikes, and above all, unequalled perfume make lavender a shameless seducer. Its fragrance is both invigorating and sedating and one of the great pleasures of the herb garden.” The most common variety of lavender is English lavender, Lavandula angustifolia, which grows to between two and three feet, with one-and-a-half-inch flower
Kale Crop
Our Kale crop is so bountiful that anyone who visits the house goes home with some! The germination rate and crop yield of the 4 Kale Mix from Salt Spring Seeds has been exceptional! “A mix of our 4 favourite kales: Red Russian, White Russian, Laurel’s Frilly and Rainbow Lacinato. Easy to care for and
Summer Salad Recipe
Amaranth & Mango Salad 1/2 cup of yogurt 1 1/2 teaspoons of curry powder 1 teaspoon of grated ginger 1/2 teaspoon of sea salt 1 cup of Amaranth grain 1 1/2 cups of water 2 chopped mangos 1/2 cup of diced red pepper 1 tablespoon of parsley 1 tablespoon of diced jalapeno 2 tablespoons of
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Look at the Quinoa!
Black Quinoa Seed purchased from Salt Spring Seeds is 3 feet tall and the first of the seeds have started to appear in pink and green, as shown in the photo above. With about 100 days of maturity, it will continue to grow until 6 feet tall in late August. Once the seeds have matured,
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