1 Today city council votes on the proposed pilot project for Halifax’s first mobile food market, which was green-lighted for a staff feasibility report back in June. Yes, a market on wheels, aimed at making fresh, healthy food accessible to the city’s driest food deserts. Those wheels would belong to a Halifax Transit bus—which the […]
Grocery Shopping
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Grocery challenge: Farmers’ market vs supermarket
Are farmers’ markets better than grocery stores? You’ve probably asked yourself this very question. But you’ve probably never done a side-by-side comparison with a video crew to try and answer it. Because that’s what we’re for.
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Welcome Home Grown
The new year brings new digs for Home Grown Organic Foods (492-1412) , which’ll move its way popular fruit and vegetable delivery service and general store over the holidays, leaving its longtime home on Allan Street for 2310 Gottingen Street. “We’ve grown out of this barn,” says Geordie Ouchterlony, who bought the century-and-a-half old Gottingen […]
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Pompous Jerks
I went into Sobeys to get milk and juice, right before they closed tonight. As I walked into the aisle, past about five college boys who were congregating around started staring me up and down, as one of them said a drawn out “hiiii” sketchily. Now I know this is going to come off as […]