Seaport Farmers’ Market 1209 Marginal Road Earth Elementals Laundry Soap Make a clothes call and use this locally made, toxin, cruelty, dye and fragrance free, biodegradable, fair trade and organic detergent. Super Natural 5755 Young Street, 454-9999 Seventh Generation Dish Soap Essential oils and botanical extracts are the only things making this detergent smell so […]
Grainery Food Co-Op
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Take the Shop Talk Guided Tour: The north end
The meat of the issue We love it when something old is unearthed for us to experience for the first time. One year ago, Frédéric Tandy opened Charcuterie Ratinaud (2082 Gottingen Street, 446-8222), bringing home the European practice of curing meats and making pâtés and sausages. “It’s something that people have been doing for hundreds […]
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Green clean
1. P’Lovers Park Lane Mall, 5657 Spring Garden Road Citra Solv Concentrate $12.95/$9.95 A versatile citrus cleaner with a “a sweet, juicy and delightfully effervescent scent” that you can dilute for all-purpose cleaning or use at full-strength for the tough stains around the house. A 256ml bottle is $12.95, or a pre-diluted spray bottle is […]
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Crowbars now available. (To eat!)
We now have an energy bar to call our own: The Crowbar made by hand here in Halifax. “The Crowbar is about twice as large as the average energy bar, and is free of wheat, dairy and refined sugar,” explains bar-expert Breighan Hunsley. “It’s also full of fibre, omega threes, protein, calcium and iron, and […]
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Beef Box now Available
The certified organic Bruce Family Farm (brucefamilyfarm.com, 902-665-2119) near Bridgetown, NS is offering a Beef CSA, or Community Supported Agriculture program. It’s a subscription service for organic beef direct from the supplier. You can purchase a monthly supply, 10lbs of organic beef from the farm for $55, which typically includes 4lbs of lean ground organic […]
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Northern lights
King-in-exile of the local music scene, Sloan was the highest-profile band to come out of the mid-’90s Halifax music explosion. Though they’re longtime Toronto scenesters—it even says as much on their website—Sloan often sang of its hometown experience, as on a few key tracks from the 1999 release Between the Bridges. The bridges in question […]
