Marg taught grade 6 before retiring. In this video she teaches us how easy it is to grow your own potato patch year to year without having to buy your own seed. She's kept her own garden patch since she moved to Gander in 1964

Unlike most of us, Hope & Lewis never have to run to the store for a bottle of jam, because they grow a bounty of berries in their backyard. In this video, Hope walks us through her technique for making freezer jam; an alternative to cooked jam.

Penashue is a grandmother to 53 grandchildren: that’s a lot of people to pass her wisdom along to, and she has plenty of food skills to share. 

“We were taught to cook fairly young,” Marina reminisces, “everybody in the house could cook fairly good. We had to take turns making special cakes for the weekend. [Our] vegetables came from the garden; fish would have come from Port-Aux-Choix, from the local fisherman.”