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We went on a driving adventure this weekend and found ourselves in the far reaches of Tsawwassen, just past Boundary Bay. \u00a0What a lovely part of the Lower Mainland! \u00a0We had gone in search of\u00a0the Earthwise Society’s Tomato Fest. \u00a0I’m so glad we went!<\/p>\n

Earthwise Society promotes\u00a0sustainability through education and\u00a0community outreach initiatives. \u00a0This working farm is based in South Delta\u2019s Boundary Bay and they operate both the Earthwise Garden<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Earthwise Farm<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Saturday event had a number of attractions – the biggest of which was the sale of 400lbs of heirloom tomatoes. \u00a0We brought home $11 worth of gorgeous tomatoes…zebra, chocolate stripe, sweet orange roma, and others whose names I’ve sadly forgotten. \u00a0Talk about delicious!<\/p>\n

\"Earthwise<\/a>The event also featured drool-worthy flatbreads being cooked in the cobb oven. \u00a0We gobbled up both the sausage\/tomato\/egg flatbread and the apple\/tomato\/cinnamon version. \u00a0The organic lemonade was also rather heavenly.<\/p>\n

\"Earthwise<\/a>With our tummies full we joined the honey bee tour. \u00a0I sure learned a lot! \u00a0Did you know that a healthy hive (just one of the boxes pictured above) holds 60,000 bees? \u00a0Yes, sixty thousand! \u00a0A healthy queen bee will lay between 1,500 and 3,000 eggs EACH DAY! \u00a0Worker bees live, at most, for 6 weeks. \u00a0They literally work themselves to death; you can tell an “old” worker bee by its wings, they are completed ravaged. \u00a0The most fascinating \/ horrifying factoid is that urban bees do much better than rural bees. \u00a0Due to pesticides and the fact farmers now don’t leave forage (grasses and scrub) along the edges of their fields the bees are not surviving. \u00a0However, bees in an urban setting have access to gardens\u00a0that are in continual bloom. \u00a0I’m nearly ready to set up a hive in our backyard!<\/p>\n

Our boys enjoyed learning about the bees, we purchased some of their honey, we gobbled up tomatoes drizzled in the best lemon-infused olive oil I’ve ever tasted, and we brought home a massive bag of freshly picked corn. \u00a0I am marking my calendar for next year; there is no way we are going to miss out on Earthwise Society’s Tomato Fest 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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