In the month of April, there are very few vegetables and even fewer fruits that grow within British Columbia's Fraser Valley. However, with the help of my family, we managed to serve a delicious "100 mile" turkey dinner with only a few exceptions.
The ingredients:
Salad
Lettuce: Windset Farms, Delta
Cucumbers: local hot house
Pea Shoots: Misty Mountains Farm, Richmond
Tomatoes: hot house, Delta
Stuffing
Chives: our garden
Oregano: our garden
Leaks: our garden
Parsley: our garden
Mushrooms: Misty Mountains Farm, Richmond
Bread*
Mashed Potatoes
Potatoes: British Columbia
Milk: Avalon Dairy Ltd., Fraser Valley
Turkey
Turkey: JD Farms, Langley
Rhubarb Strawberry Crisp
Rolled Oats: Chilliwack
Honey: Sweetcane by Everland, Burnaby
Flour: Anita's Organics, Chilliwack
Butter: Avalon Dairy Ltd, Fraser Valley
Rhubarb: our garden
Strawberries (frozen from last summer): Emma Lea Farm, Richmond
Yogurt: Fraser Meadow, Agassiz Harrison Valley
*" A Bread Affair" in Vancouver makes 100 mile bread, but we found this brand after making the stuffing
Where did we buy these ingredients?
Choices: Burnaby
Donald's Market: Quay, New Westminster
Drive Organics: Commercial Drive, Vancouver
Sweet Cherubim Natural: Commercial Drive, Vancouver
To avoid the extra carbon emissions it would take to drive to all these stores and gather the ingredients, we used transit and our walking shoes!
yum
until next time,
half of a tree
aka Hannah


