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Cultivate Tea and Kombucha Bar

Food and Drink

Cultivate Tea and Kombucha Bar

Eastern Brew.

After nearly a year of painstaking attention to detail, the new location of the rare and fine tea store, Cultivate Tea and Kombucha bar, has opened its doors on Main street.

Food and Drink

Deerholme Farm

Foraged and free.

The Cowichan Valley farm is ground zero for Bill Jones’s (mushrooming) mushroom empire.

MONTECRISTO Magazine: Foraging With Cloudy Bay Vineyards

Food and Drink

Foraging with Cloudy Bay Vineyards

Bounty hunters.

Eat, drink, and merrily take a few tasting notes; that’s usually how these things go. But this is Forage, set in the adventure capital of the world, so food and wine scribes don’t get away with simply writing for their dinner—they have to really work for it.

MONTECRISTO Magazine: Huckleberries

Food and Drink

Huckleberries

West coast gems.

The true identity of the huckleberry is a rather baffling issue.

MONTECRISTO: Sea Asparagus

Food and Drink

Sea Asparagus

Salt of the earth.

Shakespeare wrote, “a rose by any other name would smell as sweet”, but can the same can be said about sea asparagus and its salty taste?