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Dunvegan Gardens: Dunvegan Gardens
Dunvegan Gardens (AB) Ltd., the company owned by Ron Friesen and his family, is operated independent of Dunvegan Gardens, Grande Prairie and Dunvegan Gardens, Fort St. John, BC.
WHAT’S IN A NAME?
Dunvegan Gardens takes its name from the community & historic trading post where Bill & Hilda Friesen settled with their family in 1952. During the time of the fur trade, the Hudson’s Bay Company built a small settlement in the Peace River valley called Fort Dunvegan. Later, when the H.B.C. closed its trade in the valley the river crossing became known as the Dunvegan Crossing. It was the only point to cross the Peace River for some distance. From the time the first of the fur traders settled in Dunvegan, crops have been grown in the rich, river-bottom land to supplement food supplies.
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SIX CANADIAN FAMILIES EAT LOCALLY FOR 100 DAYS WITH ASTONISHING RESULTS IN THE NEW SERIES “THE 100-MILE CHALLENGE”
Premieres Sun., Apr. 5 at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT
Can you imagine no coffee, tea, chocolate, olive oil, and even sugar
in your diet for 100 days?
Did you know that many of these items travel
over 1,500 carbon-producing miles to get to Canadian consumers?
Based
on James MacKinnon and Alisa Smith’s best-selling book The 100-Mile
Diet: A Year of Local Eating, the new Food Network series “The 100-Mile
Challenge” documents the fast-growing trend of local eating – which is
healthier and better for the environment – for the first time on
television.
The series follows the ups and downs of six Mission, BC
families who make the difficult, but rewarding, commitment to consume
only food and drink produced within a 100-mile radius for 100-days.
James MacKinnon and Alisa Smith act as guides in the series
“We were amazed by the changes ‘The 100-Mile Challenge’ families
went through in such a short time, from their health to their sense of
community,” say James MacKinnon and Alisa Smith, authors of The
100-Mile Diet: A Year of Local Eating and the series’ guides. “It
exceeded our expectations in every way—and our expectations were high.”
“Today more than ever local eating is important for our health and
our environment,” says David Paperny, executive producer, Paperny
Films. “Paperny Films is happy to bring this growing, and very
important, food movement to Canadians across the country.”
Each one-hour episode of “The 100-Mile Challenge” details the
progress of the six families chronologically, revealing the struggles,
triumphs and downright creativity of these residents as they try to
cook full meals from local ingredients.
From foraging for food in their
own backyards to turning a family lamb into sausages, each
participant’s eating habits are tested in the extreme – with often
astonishing results.
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