Meet the Foodie Collective – a group of friends bound together by their love for cooking, eating, and drinking – as well as a hint of healthy competition. They hold regular “Throwdowns” which test their culinary skills, imaginations and stomachs! The Foodie Collective is all about food and good fun so they’re natural allies of Santropol Roulant. Enter their latest creative project: The Foodie Collective Cookbook! This …
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Small Scale Gardening Workshop
Small Scale Gardening Workshop (Now offered in English! Don’t miss your chance!) with Jean-Martin Fortier, family farmer at les Jardins de la Grelinette Come to meet Quebec’s pionneer in small scale bio-intensive farming! During this 2-hour long training, the urban gardener will learn all the tricks and tips of a professional farmer while those who are willing to start their own small scale commercial farming operation …
The first One Night Stand
Starting this December, we’ll be “getting up close and personal” with some warm and cuddly Montreal eateries in a series of One Night Stands. What are we talking about? Well, as you know, we’re all about people and food… and what better way to raise funds for our programs than by bringing together people and food! We’re kicking things off on …
100 Mile Meal
Fans of local organic food – We are excited to hold our 5th annual 100 Mile meal on Sunday October 21th. The evening will consist of a 3 course meal – including local wine – with ingredients sourced from within a 100 mile radius, followed by a panel discussion lead by local farmers. – More details about this year’s …
Le Devoir: Récoltes urbaines
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Gardening workshop with Jean-Martin Fortier from Les Jardins de la Grelinette
Gardening enthusiast, debutante, or somewhere in the middle, have we got something for you! Jean-Martin Fortier, family farmer at Les Jardins de la Grelinette (http://lagrelinette.com/), renown organic agriculture expert, author of a the book – Le jardinier-maraîcher: Manuel d’agriculture biologique sur petite surface (http://lejardiniermaraicher.com/)- will be leading a workshop at the Roulant in small-scale organic gardening. We are silly excited …
The Gazette: Iron Chef-style competition showed off urban agriculture
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Looking back at the Iron Chef
Can you say awesome? Last Thursday evening, from 5pm onwards, hundreds of food lovers, chefs, and community members turned out to celebrate good food and good company at our third annual Iron Chef. Hit the bottom of this post for the slideshow! — Things kicked off well at 5pm, with food and drinks flowing past appreciative palates, each bite or …
The Gazette: An Iron Chef competition where everyone wins
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Press Release: Iron Chef
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 5th, 2012 Local Restaurants Go Head to Head in Support of Urban Agriculture Montreal — The battle of the beets is back as local restaurants face off in support of Santropol Roulant’s Urban Agriculture Program. The 3rd annual Iron Chef Competition will take place on Thursday, September 6 th from 5-10pm at the Edible Campus Garden …
First Annual Froot Cup Champions Crowned!
A heartfelt thank you to all the teams that came out and braved the tropical heat and participated in the 1st Annual Froot Cup. We want to congratulate Telus FFC who narrowly beat the McKibbins team in the final to hoist the coveted Froot Cup trophy. In other announcements, the best cheer and best uniform awards both went to the Wyld Stallions. The …
Iron Chef 2012 – 1 part bucolic, 2 parts adrenaline
This is it! Our Iron Chef competition is back for a third year! It’s going to be huge! This year, six teams of chefs will have one hour to harvest fresh produce from our Edible Campus Garden and cook up a feast LIVE on location. Chefs from Rumi, Holder, Sala Rosa, La Khaïma, Fabergé, and a community team (Gabriel Couture and Cai Rintoul) …