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Eat Alberta 2012
This past weekend I was at Eat Alberta teaching 2 preserving workshops. OFRE generously donated Evans Cherries picked by OFRE volunteers last season to make a cherry ginger & honey butter. The...
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OFRE’s new vision, mission, and values!
OFRE has been fortunate to have a core group of volunteers and an excellent facilitator working over the winter months of 2011/2012 on helping OFRE establish a more formal organizational structure,...
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OFRE is a vendor at the new 124th Grand Market (tonight)!
Last season, OFRE began a pilot project of making jams, jellies, cider, and other preserves to determine if this could be part of a funding model for our non-profit organization? The pilot was a huge...
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OFRE presents at PKN13!
Wow, what a wonderful night for the first outdoor PKN and what a beautiful destination to do it in at Hawrelak Park amphitheatre! PKN, stands for Petcha Kucha and means chit chat in Japanese. It’s a...
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New fruit grower form is available!
Thanks everyone for your patience. The new fruit grower form is now available! Please click on the fruit grower form page to see the new re-vamped fruit grower form for this season. All previous and...
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DIYalogue talks food! Wednesday, July 4th, 6:30-8:30pm
Hey everyone, if you haven’t heard, there is a great event going on tonight at the Black Dog Pub hosted by NextGen’s fabulous crew called: DIYalogue Talks Food. There will be a great group of food...
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OFRE volunteers help glean a strawberry u-pick farm
On a hot, sunny afternoon at the end of July, OFRE volunteers went out to a starwberry u-pick farm North of Edmonton towards Gibbons to glean the patch at the end of the season. Not only did we get to...
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OFRE volunteers attending Slow Food’s Terra Madre!!
This post is LONG, LONG, overdue! Earlier this summer, I received a call from a Slow Food Edmonton Convivium member to let me know that I had been nominated to attend Terra Madre in October in Italy...
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Building community through food: MacEwan Apple Project
As the Director of OFRE, I often get more requests for interesting partnership projects than we can handle in a season and it’s hard at times to say no. But, that is sometimes the case when you are...
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