Contents
VOLUME 1 • number 2
INSIDE
FALL / WINTER • 2010
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Cover Story page 10
FEATURES
Committed to Sustainability
MANAGING editor
Quails’ Gate puts their money where their mouth is when it comes to jumping on the sustainability bandwagon.
donna@prospermediagroup.ca
HOW DOES YOUR GARDEN GROW?
Growing Gardeners One School at a Time page
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FOODS THAT HEAL
Oh, Honey! page
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CONTROVERSIAL TIMES
COABC Encourages Spread of West Nile Virus page 6
Celiac Disease page
Preserving the Harvest page
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FALL/WINTER 2010 • Field to PLATE magazine
Chytra Brown
chytra@prospermediagroup.ca
COVER PHOTO: Leah Ballin
ARTICLES
editor in chief
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Darcy Nybo
editor@fieldtoplate.ca
DESIGN/PRODUCTION Donna Szelest
CONTRIBUTORS
Mischa Popoff Shannon Larrett-Bliss, CNP, ROHP Dr. Jack Degruchy, DDS Dr. Charlene Reeves, CTN, CBS Darcy Nybo
PUBLISHER
Craig Brown Prosper Media Group Inc. cbrown@prospermediagroup.ca
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COLUMNS
3 Ask A Nutritionist.................. 4 Food for Thought................. 12 You Are What You Eat..........
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