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Every Thursday the coop hosts farmer’s from Ferme du Zéphyr based in Senneville.  Go read more on Spacing Montreal.

A little follow up on two previous posts.
The first being our visit to Windmill Point Farm last Saturday with a few close friends.  Getting to know your farmer made easy.  Stop by any Saturday and chat with the owners of a gorgeous, all natural, massive piece of land on Ile Perot.  Ask Ken about his […]

Here’s a quick read on what farmer’s go through during a transitional period, switching from industrial dairy farming to organic dairy farming.
 Organic milk demand is growing by an estimated 25 per cent a year, according to industry studies.
Fisher studied eight farms that switched from conventional to organic farming in recent years, detailing production levels, revenues […]

1.beets 2.cabbage 3.swiss chard 4.cinnamon 5.pomegranate juice 6.dried plums 7.pumpkin seeds 8.sardines 9.tumeric 10.blueberries 11.canned pumpkin.
12. pie.

So with the exception of canned pumpkin, I’m in for adding a few of these to my diet.  Sardines I do on occassion.  Tumeric and cinnamon find their way into my tract in equal quantities, but the rest, nada.  […]

Here’s an oldie (15 yrs as a coop and still running) but still a goodie, the Frigo Vert. Bonus if you’re a student at ConU, seeing as it’s right across the street from the GW campus on Mackay. Small, mostly clean with all the usual suspects inside. Check it out if you’re […]

Found another hidden gem in NDG (yes working there has proven quite fruitful) called ‘A Votre Santé’. The whole gamut of organic products from vitamins and baby care products, to cereals and cheese. Don’t let it’s tiny entrance fool you, it’s really huge inside with a wide and well selected choice of goodies.

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Draw a giant circle around Montreal with a radius of 100km. Then find all the organic farms that fit snugly within that border. Now support those farms.
Here’s a few to start:
44.1km - Ile Perot, Qc - Windmill Point Farm
Offering a gamut of fruits and veggies (oooh organic potatoes)
100km - Waterloo, Qc - […]

This time a local producer steps into the ring. The competitors being Liberté and Loblaws brand PC Organics Milk.
Lamothe est Freres milk, squeezing the cow’s teet since 1913. Raises the bar, on Price!
Charging 5.19$ (at Metro) for a 2L jug of 2%, Biolait really puts the squeeze on consumers trying to select […]

Take two organic milks (i.e. the cows don’t eat food sprayed with synthetic pesticides, hormones etc) both 2%, both 2L, both available in a Montreal Loblaws.  Which one costs 25% more than the other?  Yay friends with a baby in the oven and a keen eye for pure whitish milk.