Posted in Organic Food--Videos on October 31, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Video: Two unsuspecting pumpkins find out what Halloween really means in this hilarious Jib Jab creation
More than 4.5 MILLION views and counting! That’s how many people have seen this Jib Jab video “Pumpkin Massacre” to date. It starts with a couple of pumpkins chatting about what they’ll be doing on the weekend and ends with pumpkin gore galore and viewer hilarity.
Posted in Where Else Organic Food? on October 27, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Photo: Blaize, Cecilia & Welly of Forstbauer Family Farm at the Vancouver winter Farmers’ Market
Photographer: BC Association of Farmers’ Markets
Is there a winter Farmers’ Market in Vancouver? Yes! Absolutely! And that’s cause for happy laughter from organic food lovers and farmers alike.
WHEN: Saturdays, November 3 to April 27 (except December 29) 10 am – 2 pm
WHERE: East Parking Lot of Nat Bailey Stadium – 30th & Ontario Street in Vancouver
[For other BC locations, see “Find a Market.”]
You can enjoy continued access to “fresh from the farm” to your table produce and preserves year round, not just in the Spring! Cheers for that!
Photo: shopping at the winter Vancouver Farmers’ Market
Photographer: BC Association of Farmers’ Markets
[For more information, visit BC Association of Farmers’ Markets.]
Posted in Organic Art and Artists on October 20, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Video: Master Pumpkin Carver Ray Villafane Brings Ghoulish Zombies To Life
Add three 1,800 lb pumpkins (largest in U.S.), Ray Villafane, partner Andy Bergholtz, and a talented team of carvers–and what do you get? Masterpieces of pumpkin created nightmares! All these imaginative and highly original pumpkin ghoul carvings started innocently enough, even ‘as a lark’ for teacher/artist Ray Villafane. Now he does little else. Pumpkins are clearly Villafane’s passion!
Can you match him? Here’s Villafane demonstrating to Martha Stewart--on air--the art of pumpkin carving:
Video: How to Carve Incredible Pumpkin Faces Ray Villafane ⎢ Martha Stewart
In this Martha Steward video Villafane offers tips, techniques and tricks for carving lifelike faces from Halloween pumpkins. Brilliantly creative! Stewart will need more practice!
If you’re ready to try carving pumpkins yourself, check out this short Villafane video tutorial. Need tools? Villafane can provide them: Master Pumpkin Carving Tool Set. Dazzle your friends! Happy Halloween!
Video: Ray Villafane mini-tutorial for carving pumpkins
Posted in What's Next for Organic? on October 17, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Photo: Best of Local Farmers’ Markets poster
It’s that time of year again! Transition from Summer/Fall to Winter/Spring Farmers’ Markets is almost here!
Dundarave’s Saturday Farmers’ Market in West Vancouver closed in mid-October, but Ambleside’s is still going strong. That will be open until the end of the month, Sunday, October 27th, from 10 am–3 pm, across the street from the Ferry Building Gallery. In North Vancouver the Lonsdale Quay Farmer’s Market also remains open until the end of the month, but on Saturdays, from 10 am — 3 pm. [For more information, visit “North Shore Farmers’ Markets.”]
For dates and times of Farmers’ Markets open until the end of the month in Vancouver, see “Eat Local Markets.”
Only ONE Farmers’ Market happens throughout the winter in Vancouver. That’s the Farmers’ Market at Nat Bailey Stadium (30th & Ontario Street), East Parking Lot. It’s open from November 2, 2012–April 26, 2013, 10am – 2pm each week. [For more information, see “Winter Farmers’ Market.”]
Posted in Other Organic Food News! on October 15, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Video: kitty litter facial tutorial
It’s Halloween! A happy time for witches! Every witch has a “familiar.” It’s usually a cat. Who knew why, until now? For the litter, not the cat!
Actually, the woman in this video is from Malaysia. She’s NOT a witch AND she has the most beautiful skin anyone could imagine–unlike the more cartoonish depictions of a Halloween witch. Unscented kitty litter is DEFINITELY ORGANIC! If it works for smoothing skin, that’s an added plus!
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