Interesting Farm Stats: change from 2009 to 2011
Here are some highlights of the changed between the 1991 to 2011 farm census. We have more mouths to feed, with less farmland and farmers.
Recipe: Cranberry Blueberry Shortbread
Ingredients: Fruit Filling: 2 cups frozen Barrie Hill Farms blueberries 3/4 cup Johnston’s Cranberry Marsh dried sweetened cranberries 3/4 cup apple juice Boil 10 min, cool, puree
Recipe: Red Fife Chocolate Cranberry Granola Bars
Red Fife Chocolate Covered Cranberry Granola Bars We featured this fabulous Red Fife Granola bar at the Green Living Show this year. We adapted it from a family recipe of Kathleen’s. Her mother used to make a white flour version of this with chocolate chips and raisins when she was a kid.
Recipe: Jill’s Apple Cake
This is one of our favourite ways to use bruised and battered apples at the end of the season. They taste and look just fine when enrobed in butter, sugar and baked into a cake!