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This weekend, eight farms in Kingston and Frontenac County will be opening their doors, fields, and barns for Open Farms 2022. To cap off the celebrations, the City of Kingston, in partnership with Frontenac County and Tourism Kingston, will host an Open Farms Harvest event on Sunday, Oct. 2, 2022.
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Get out of the city for a Saturday night and enjoy an evening of food, folk, rock, and roots music under the stars at the Barn. Midsummer Music at the Barn is a one night, 19+, licensed event happening at Furnace Falls Farm, located in Lyndhurst, Ontario — just a
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The only market of its kind in Eastern Ontario has returned, just in time for National Indigenous History Month. After a great success last fall, the Katarokwi Indigenous Art and Food Market is reopening for the 2022 season. Located in Springer Market Square, the market will highlight Indigenous artists, artisans,
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Who doesn’t love a good comeback story? In 2018, Emily O’Brien was sent to the Grand Valley Institution for Women in Kitchener, Ont., after being caught smuggling drugs into Canada. For O’Brien, this sentence served as an opportunity to reframe her entire life, as well as start a popcorn company,
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Kingstonians and tourists alike will have something delicious to cool off with this summer. On Thursday, May 26, Churn Small Batch Ice Cream opened its doors in downtown Kingston. Located on King Street, directly across from Springer Market Square, the shop offers a wide variety of unique flavours to choose
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During the Canadian Brewing Awards and Conference, which was held May 12 to 14 in Calgary, Alberta, Spearhead Brewing Company’s Queen of Wheat was the recipient of a Gold award for Wheat Beer – Belgium Style (Wit). The father-son brew team of Tomas and Jacob Schmidt created this award-winning wheat beer. According
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Editorial note: To mark Nutrition Month 2022, Kingstonist will be featuring a column from a Kingston-based Registered Dietitian (RD) each week throughout the month of March. For more information on nutrition and the role of the dietitian, visit the Dietitians of Canada website.The following article, Indigenous Food Sovereignty and Land
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Editorial note: To mark Nutrition Month 2022, Kingstonist will be featuring a column from a Kingston-based Registered Dietitian (RD) each week throughout the month of March. For more information on nutrition and the role of the dietitian, visit the Dietitians of Canada website.The following is an article written by Kristen
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Editorial note: To mark Nutrition Month 2022, Kingstonist will be featuring a column from a Kingston-based Registered Dietitian (RD) each week throughout the month of March. For more information on nutrition and the role of the dietitian, visit the Dietitians of Canada website.The following article is written by dietetic intern
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Earlier this month, Tommy Hunter, owner of Tommy’s Diner in downtown Kingston, and friends paired up with Autism Ontario for a third time to create and deliver 39 meal kits for families to make together at home. The volunteer-made meal kits come with a fun and interactive video series for
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Despite being launched into a fourth iteration of ‘lockdown’ until Jan. 27, local restaurants remain resilient and adaptable in the face of COVID adversity. As the city with the most restaurants per capita in the country, Kingston’s restaurant scene isn’t one without competition or creativity! Over the past two years,
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Some farms just seem to have it all. With a challenging corn maze, pick-your-own apples, in-house apple cider, make-your-own flower bouquets, and specialty caramel apples, Wynn Farms — just a 20 minute drive west of Amherstview — is a ‘wynn-er.’ James and Sarah Wynn started farming 10 years ago, taking
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