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	<title>Food and Farming Canada &#187; Unusual</title>
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		<title>Weetabix mixing food, farming and art</title>
		<link>http://www.foodandfarmingcanada.com/2010/06/28/weetabix-mixing-food-farming-and-art/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 12:49:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lilian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ontario]]></category>
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Weetabix, a global cereal brand, is sponsoring a wheat art competition for Ontario farmers this year. Sounds a little out-of-the ordinary at first glance and I must admit it is. After all, cereal, art and farming aren’t usually things I tend to link in my head. 
Ontario wheat farmers are encouraged to give their artistic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Breakfast pizza &#8211; easy, delicious and local!</title>
		<link>http://www.foodandfarmingcanada.com/2010/05/23/breakfast-pizza-easy-and-delicious/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 May 2010 18:52:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lilian</dc:creator>
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A few weeks ago I came across an article that talked about Breakfast Pizza as the latest trend in chic breakfast eating. This seems like a great idea to me &#8211; I love pizza and I love breakfast, so I figure you can&#8217;t go wrong by bringing these two life staples together!

I first tried the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lovely local lavender</title>
		<link>http://www.foodandfarmingcanada.com/2010/05/21/lovely-local-lavendr/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 10:45:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lilian</dc:creator>
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To me, the thought of lavender always brings images of the south of France to mind &#8211; and a lovely vacation I spent there with my Mom in the late 1990s. 
It&#8217;s time for me to change my thinking, though, because lavender is set to have a bigger presence as a homegrown Ontario crop as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where food, farming and bombs collide</title>
		<link>http://www.foodandfarmingcanada.com/2010/05/17/where-food-farming-and-bombs-collide/</link>
		<comments>http://www.foodandfarmingcanada.com/2010/05/17/where-food-farming-and-bombs-collide/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 18:33:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lilian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[IFAJ 2010]]></category>
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When they&#8217;re planting their crops, farmers in this area must always keep an eye out for unexploded bombs. Their lands were once battlefields and the dangerous remnants of those conflicts are still a threat today, decades after the end of hostilities.
Now any number of war-torn corners of the world may come to mind as you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A floral paradise</title>
		<link>http://www.foodandfarmingcanada.com/2010/05/10/a-floral-paradise/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 12:52:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lilian</dc:creator>
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Imagine an 11 acre indoor garden with two kilometres of walking paths, 776 cubic feet of soil, 4736 square feet of pond surface and 300,000 visitors over eight days. 
That&#8217;s the world famous Floralies of Ghent, an incredible floral and plant exposition that takes place once every five years &#8211; a tradition that&#8217;s been ongoing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Return of the ash</title>
		<link>http://www.foodandfarmingcanada.com/2010/05/06/return-of-the-ash/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 01:25:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lilian</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[eruption]]></category>
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There was a bit of deja-vu in the air along with the ash as I read in the news this morning that an airport-closing plume had made another appearance in Britain.
It seems a bit like old news now &#8211; but a few short weeks ago, the  impossibly-named volcano in Iceland that had somehow managed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Edamame &#8211; a new local food?</title>
		<link>http://www.foodandfarmingcanada.com/2010/05/05/edamame-a-new-local-food/</link>
		<comments>http://www.foodandfarmingcanada.com/2010/05/05/edamame-a-new-local-food/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 22:07:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lilian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Unusual]]></category>
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It’s a healthy green vegetable that is growing in popularity with consumers. So much so that a niche market for Ontario-grown edamame could be one with potential for farmers. 
Edamame is a succulent soybean that is a staple in some Asian diets. Although it is planted and grown like a regular soybean crop, edamame is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The spaghetti tree hoax</title>
		<link>http://www.foodandfarmingcanada.com/2010/04/01/spaghetti-tree-hoax/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 14:52:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lilian</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.foodandfarmingcanada.com/?p=1488</guid>
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In honour of April Fool&#8217;s day&#8230;a joke involving a spaghetti tree is listed among the top 100 hoaxes of all time.
In 1957, the BBC broadcast a story about a bumper spaghetti harvest from spaghetti trees in Switzerland. Many UK listeners called in with questions, including how they could grow their own spaghetti trees. 
It should [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teats and tweets</title>
		<link>http://www.foodandfarmingcanada.com/2010/03/07/teats-and-tweets/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 13:38:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lilian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Canada]]></category>
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A unique project brings daily activities of milking cows to new media tool Twitter.  
This article appears in this month&#8217;s Ontario Dairy Farmer magazine and is the full length version of shorter blog article I posted here a couple of weeks ago. 
They’re an unlikely team – a new media researcher in Waterloo, an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cows that moo&#8230;and tweet!</title>
		<link>http://www.foodandfarmingcanada.com/2010/02/22/cows-that-moo-and-tweet/</link>
		<comments>http://www.foodandfarmingcanada.com/2010/02/22/cows-that-moo-and-tweet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 13:48:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lilian</dc:creator>
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A couple of weeks ago I had the chance to visit a dairy farm in Brant County, southwest of Toronto. It was a beautiful farm with a state of the art robotic milking system &#8211; which basically means, the cows decide for themselves when they&#8217;re ready to be milked and the machine takes care of [...]]]></description>
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