Canadian Food Focus On The Farm Video Partnership with Andrew Campbell

BlueSky Ideas is so thrilled to be working with award-winning communicator and passionate farm advocate, Andrew Campbell to create short videos based on his Dinner Starts Here farm interview series on YouTube. Andrew has generously allowed us to reformat his original videos, adding music and captions to share on our social media platforms. We also have worked with Andrew to create articles from the Dinner Stars Here video interviews that are featured on the Canadian Food Focus website. It is a win win partnership and a great way to help consumers go behind the scenes to see how food is grown and raised in Canada.

As you can see in the photo above not only are the video receiving great engagement on Facebook but positive comments from a mostly urban audience.

Here are a few samples:

There isn't much of a better fall food than an apple. The crunch when you bite into one, the smell of a warm pie, the excitement of heading to the orchard for an afternoon of picking. When it comes to getting that apple ready for you, there is a pile of work that goes into making the best apple possible.

With the craft beer craze in full swing, farmers in several parts of Canada are growing a new crop - hops! Demand for locally grown hops, one of the key ingredients in beer brewing, is expanding alongside the demand for craft beer with many craft brewers using significantly more hops per pint than their larger rivals.

I always find mushrooms to be that incredibly accessible food that goes with a lot of things. Homemade pizza, of course it needs mushrooms. A great topping for a burger or steak, fried mushrooms! And of course a fresh salad needs a few mushrooms cut up in it too.

In Canada, there is a new push to get more of the garlic we eat, produced here in Canada. In this video, we'll see how the family grows, harvests & sorts their newest farm crop - garlic!

When you walk into the store at Brantwood Farms, your senses take over. The smell of warm apple pie, the bright baskets of local fruits and vegetables and right front and centre the sight of fresh asparagus. And by fresh, we are talking picked in the morning and for sale that afternoon.

If the summer season had a taste, it would likely be the sweet taste of strawberries. Those little red gems, picked at their freshest peak from the farm, do wonders to any salad, dessert or just straight from the box. But for any strawberry farmer, the work isn't just picking them.