The more interesting of the two speaker's I attended was Getty Stewart who inspired me to buy her cookbook, which I swore I would never do once I got used to getting my recipes from sites like allrecipes.com.
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There is however much more to the book than recipes including tips on harvesting, storing, dehydrating and preserving.
In fact is has given me so much confidence that I will be able to make use of their fruit in delicious and healthy ways that I have gone out and bought two new fruit trees today for the back yard.
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(Apple / pear pie - yum!)
The session got me to realize that while I am not a vegetable grower I have in fact invested in quite a bit in fruit production: grapes, cherries, Saskatoon berries, blueberries, and now adding pears and apples plus I will add some rhubarb and more Saskatoons this year.
Luckily I will have time to prepare since it should be a few years before full fruit production for most of them - I may need it to learn all about pectins!