Meaford resident Jason Whaley has been causing quite a buzz at the Meaford Farmers' Market this summer. What is all the fuss about?

Apple fritters.

For 2009 Dragons' Den Meaford winner Meredith Cowan, Saturday was a special day.

Since leaving the Meaford Hall stage last October after finding enormous support from the Dragons for her Ginger Syrup venture, Cowan has found herself running in many directions building her business and running her farm.

Broccoli Salad with Bacon, Cranberries & Onion

Do you know this salad? It was quite popular when I was a young adult, in the early '80's. I suspect it was an invention of the 1970's "health food" movement, which took the charmingly naive view that vegetables were healthy, but fat and sugar were what tasted good, and so created a number of dishes requiring the metabolism of a race-horse to digest, but which had vegetables and whole grains, and so were "healthy".

Italian Dressing is traditionally made with olive oil, of course. However, the local sunflower seed oil which is cold-pressed retains a lovely nutty, sunflower-seed flavour and is equally good, in my opinion.