If you like your veggies, you may have seen Local Source Market’s newest seasonal video, in which a greens-starved skateboarder checks a tip for organic and local products. While the video is tongue-in-cheek funny, story behind it is actually, as they say, inspired by real events. “It felt too good to be true,” says Local […]
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Donna Hiebert moving on
Donna Hiebert is moving to Mexico. Maybe. She’s definitely leaving town, putting more attention towards sculptural work, and as such is closing her gallery at 5775 Charles, next to Local Source. Her jewellery will be on sale until she closes on March 24, everything 50 percent off. The shop is open Tuesday to Saturday, 11am-4pm. […]
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Sourcing local holiday meal supplies in Halifax
Appetizers There’s no need for your bland grocery-store cheeses, as Atlantic Canadian artisanal cheeses can hold their own on any board. Jess Ross, owner of Gold Island Bakery, sells Au Fond des Bois’ goat cheeses (aufonddesbois.com) Saturdays in the Halifax Historic Farmers’ Market (Brewery Market, 1496 Lower Water Street, 423-2279). Originally from Belgium, farmers Marina […]
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Local Source puts the “squeeze” on Seaport Farmers’ Market
Sean Gallagher and his cohorts at Local Source Market (5783 Charles Street, 454-6014) is supplying and supporting the start-up of The Main Squeeze. It’s a juice bar at the Saturday Seaport Farmers’ Market (1209 Marginal Road) offering super-tasty, fresh-juiced drinks, full of enzymes, vitamins, minerals and lip-licking flavour.
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Go Local: Agricola
Halifax’s coolest strip is a thriving mix of independent shops and boutiques (the only chains are bands and the province’s booze store), making Agricola the unofficial Main Street of the local Shop Local movement. Finer Things Antiques 2797 Agricola Street, 456-1412 Proprietor Jack Craft “urges you to peruse your attic, basement, outbuildings cubby holes and […]
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Source is a force
There are big goals stored in the little hole in the wall that is Local Source Market. Their aim is to build community through food culture, connect the peninsular population with the province’s farmers and promote quality food that is healthy and organic. That’s a lot of pressure to put on a few hundred square […]
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Slow Food NS goes abroad
Happening from October 21 through 25 in Torino Italy is the fourth biennial, invitation-only Terra Madre conference, organized by the international Slow Food movement. Shoptalk has learned that 14 members of the Nova Scotia chapter have been invited. Michael Howell of Tempest in Wolfville and Chives’ Craig Flinn will lead the Nova Scotia delegation, which […]
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Sean Gallagher on buying local food
Like many people from Ontario who visit Halifax for school, Sean Gallagher got hooked into Halifax pretty quickly, and decided to stay. “I was in university doing commerce co-op and a lot of entrepreneurial work terms,” says the Ottawa native, who enrolled at Dalhousie seven years ago. “I figured that I should just start something […]
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Food for thinking
With an absurd amount of places to dine out in Halifax, the best spot of all to eat is actually right in your kitchen. But with assignments, social life and dating, it’s all too easy to get fast or processed foods instead. It isn’t easy balancing a student’s hectic lifestyle with their body’s needs and […]
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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 […]
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Assembling a local picnic basket
Sunday August 30 is the Incredible Picnic, the province-wide celebration of local food. At the Halifax location, on the Garrison Grounds, onsite vendors will have samples, but the truly adventuresome will bring their own picnic baskets. You can’t, however, rely on imported picnic staples like watermelon. Fortunately, savvy Maritime entrepreneurs make eating locally easier. Starters […]
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Where to find the best ice cream
As days get colder and shorter, what better way to savour the last weeks of summer than by slamming copious amounts of ice cream down your throat? But even the simplest pleasures can lead to confusion in today’s consumer culture—we have a slew of frozen treats to choose from and all are not created equal. […]