Recipes

Our “100 Mile Diet” breakfast

Want to eat more locally-grown, seasonal food? Strangely, there can be a steep learning curve to incorporating more local whole foods into your diet. Easy recipes are one solution; learning how to properly store fresh vegetables is another secret weapon.

Here are some handy tips and easy, yummy recipes we’ve collected over the years.

NOTE: we are in the process of adding our recipe collection to this website. Please bookmark this page and stay tuned!

Vegetable Recipes

Beans

Beets

Cabbage

Carrots

Cauliflower

Fennel

Garlic

Kale

Kohlrabi

Leeks

Lettuce

Parsley

Potatoes

Stinging Nettles

Squash (summer and winter)

Tomatoes

Fruit Recipes

  • Award-Winning Walker Family Pie Crust (possible Cowichan-grown fillings: pumpkin, apple, strawberry, rhubarb, blueberry)
  • Strawberries (how to freeze the harvest and make a mean strawberry daiquiri, plus some random info that will make your strawberry experience even better)

More Recipes

Check out these websites for more great recipes from local-food lovers: