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  • Sora Farm Newsletter-Vol. 59

    Our daughter, Yuka, and her dog, Milo, have been staying with us since last Thursday. They live in downtown Toronto and this is their first visit to Gabriola. Yuka took Milo for a walk and did not come back for almost 2 hours. She said it was so nice to smell trees instead of exhaust

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  • Apple juice adventure

    One of our friends told us that she has a fruit press but no space to store it. So we volunteered to keep it for her, under the condition of we can use it. We have never used this kind of press, and were very curious. We bought tote-full of apples from a local orchard,

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  • Sora Farm Newsletter-Vol. 49

    We had our first apples! We planted four apple trees three year ago. This spring, two of them had flowers, then one of them started to have fruits, lots of them. We were so excited and waited and waited for them to become bigger. They didn’t get much bigger and started to change color. We

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  • Sora Farm Newsletter-Vol. 31

    Have you ever eaten blacken fern? It is called “warabi” in Japanese and very popular in Japan as wild spring food. Last week we visited our friend nearby and found them on her property. She told us they are poisonous but we couldn’t help picking them. As it is normally done in Japan, we soaked

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  • Sora Farm Newsletter – Vol. 10

    Thank you to those of you who requested for information on our miso-making workshop. We are happy to share this healthy and delicious tradition of Japan! In this workshop, we will: Available dates for December and January are: Class size will be small (2-4 people, maximum 5). Fee is $75/person including all the ingredients and

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  • Sora Farm Newsletter – Vol. 9

    One week after we started making apple vinegar (link here), the liquid became darker and started to taste like alcohol! The surface is really bubbly. Definitely something is going on. We strained and moved the bottle to our pantry where it is cool and dark. 3 to 4 more weeks and it is supposed to

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  • Sora Farm Newsletter – Vol. 8

    As we mentioned in our blog (link here) we started making apple vinegar with apple skin and cores last Friday. It has already become bubbly. After 1 week, it is supposed to become alcoholic. We will share the progress in our next newsletter. Our salad mix is back this week! Last week many people came

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  • Apple scrap from apple cinnamon raisin bread

    Kenji has been baking 8 loaves of apple cinnamon raisin bread today. He uses 2 apples for each loaf, skin and core removed. These are very fresh, local apples with amazing flavour. We didn’t want to waste the skin and core, so we decided to make vinegar. The size of the bottle in the photos

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  • Sora Farm Newsletter – Vol. 7

    We planted four apple trees this spring. They survived aphides attack during summer and have grown nicely. Now one of them is blooming! Whatever the reason is, looking at these pretty flowers certainly brightens up our day. This week, our veggies need a break. Therefore, we will not host a farm gate sale… We will

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  • Special bread for Autumn

    When you grow vegetables, you always feel the season. For baking and eating bread, not always. We thought it would be nice to have something special for the season to add a little excitement in our daily lives. For October and November (while apples last), we offer “Apple Cinnamon Raisin Bread”. Gabriola apples are made

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