Farm to Fork Tour 2017

Our fourth Farm to Fork tour organized for Farm & Food Care Sk. The tour hosted food writers, chefs, and media dietitians for two days and included tours to a grain, beef and dairy farm.

Ag in the City Saskatchewan Social Media

Agriculture in the City is a free, family oriented, urban festival that explores how food and farming are all around us, every day. The event offers people of all ages a chance to explore the vibrant and innovative world of agriculture – a world that involves exciting careers, biotechnological advancements that improve our daily lives, and of course, the food on our plates. Each year, thousands of visitors enjoyed the interactive and educational displays, exhibits and contests illustrating the depth of our farming community.  More Information: 

Our role is to manage their social media platforms leading up to the event and maintaining them throughout the year as well. This includes developing and managing the social media calendar,  curating content from the partner organizations, engagement and content development. 

Ag in the City SK Facebook and Twitter

SaskMustard Video Playlist

SAskMustard Video Playlist

We had the wonderful opportunity to work with SpreadTheMustard creating a series of "Hands and Pans" videos featuring recipes from the cookbook Mustard Makeovers and More. Click below to watch our playlist of fantastic mustard recipes.  Enjoy!

Hands and Pans Videos created by BlueSky Ideas for SpreadtheMustard Campaign.

HealthyFlax Video Playlist

HealthyFlax Video Playlist

As part of our work for HealthyFlax, we created a series of "Hands and Pans" videos to showcase how simple it is to include flax in your recipes.  Click below to watch our HealthyFlax video playlist showcasing ground flaxseed recipes. Enjoy!

Hands and Pans Videos created by BlueSky Ideas for HealthyFlax Campaign.

Photography by BlueSky Ideas

HealthyFlax had the opportunity to work with Nancy S. Hughes, a nationally recognized cookbook author, food consultant, and recipe developer specializing in creating delicious and healthy recipes for some of the largest food companies, health-focused organizations and magazines in the nation.  Nancy developed a set of recipes for HealthyFlax that make use of flax eggs. 

International Year of Pulses - One Year 27 Events!

We had the pleasure of working with the Saskatchewan Pulse Growers during International Year of the Pulse (2016) to help promote pulses within the province of Saskatchewan. It was a busy year planning and executing 27 events across the province. Highlights included exhibiting at several tradeshows, delivering cooking demonstrations and nutrition talks, judging at the Chef Series at Taste Saskatchewan, showcasing pulse plants at GardenScapes and handing out thousands of brochures and gingersnap cookies!

Saskatchewan Cooks Premier Issue

Download Saskatchewan Cooks Premier edition

We proudly partnered with several of Saskatchewan's Commodity Groups to bring Saskatchewan Cooks to fruition!

Our contributors were:

Chicken Farmers of Saskatchewan

Farm & Food Care Saskatchewan

SaskBarley Development Commission

SaskCanola

Saskatchewan Egg Producers

SaskFlax

Saskatchewan Mustard Development Commission

SaskMilk

Saskatchewan Oat Development Commission

SaskPork

Saskatchewan Pulse Growers

SaskWheat Development Commission

Turkey Farmers of Saskatchewan

Avena Foods /Only Oats Social Media

It has been a fun 4 plus years managing and curating content for the social media accounts of Avena Foods/ Only Oats - a gluten free oat grown and packaged in Saskatchewan. We are proud of the work we have done to launch their social media sites and to build a following and a community. Their marketing team has grown and starting in January 2017 they will do their social media in-house. We wish them all the best - it is a great product. 

Farm to Fork Tour 2016

This is the third Farm to Fork tour we have organized for Farm & Food Care Sk. The tour hosted food writers, chefs, and media dietitians for two days and included tours to a grain, beef and dairy farm. We also toured Star Eggs and Great Western Brewing. Participants were encouraged to ask questions and delve into all sides of farming.

HealthyFlax.org Recipe Development and Photography

A sample of recipes we have developed and photographed for HealthyFlax.org. 

Chef Jeni Cooking Demonstration at Canola Camp

The weather cooperated with our breakfast and cooking demo at the Saskatoon Farmer's Market. Chef Jeni educated and entertained food writers from across the US, Mexico and even China with information about local ingredients including - of course- the star of the show canola oil!

George Geary and CanolaInfo at IACP 2016

Coookbook author, chef and culinary educator - George Geary joined us at the CanolaInfo.org exhibit portion of the International Association of Culinary Professionals in Los Angeles, CA. George developed a flavoured popcorn recipewhich we had designed, printed and attached to bags of popcorn for our giveaway.