< Previous10 Tastefully Tropical ™ and ever so sweet Solara™ Mini Melons are greenhouse grown where it’s paradise 365 days a year. They are nurtured with the ideal amount of light, nutrition, and water to deliver the same sweet flavor families love, regardless of the time of day or the season. It’s your own personal paradise, right in the palm of your hand. BREAKFAST ™11 WHY LIMIT PARADISE TO A TROPICAL HOLIDAY? Solara™ Mini Melons are the all-day melon, ready to be enjoyed for any snack or meal. From a breakfast bowl featuring yogurt and granola, to a refreshing lunch salad, grilled with as a sweet dessert, Solara™ Mini Melons bring adventure to every meal, every day. DINNERDESSERT LUNCH If you need inspiration, we’ve been busy creating Tastefully Tropical™ recipes to help you Live Deliciously®! TIPS & TRICKS TO Simplifying Life! Pinterest truly is a world’s catalogue of endless ideas. Ultimately a visual bookmarking sight to search and find new ideas and organize them exactly how you want. From decorating to fashion, sports to travel, you can search it all. We love all the endless recipes you can search, pin, and enjoy, to fuel a healthy lifestyle and Live Deliciously®. 1213 TERMS TO KNOW: • Pin is an image or a video that someone picks or saves • Boards are where you collect and sort your pins • Feed is a collection of content and links from boards and users that the Pinner follows FUN FACTS • 433 million monthly active users in Q1 2022 • Over 70% of Pinterest users are women • Over 200 billion pins have been placed according to Pinterest • 85% of pins occur on mobile VIEW OUR PINS 14 There are many outdoor activities our family likes to do, here are a few ideas. • Walk to the nearest park instead of drive • Take a family bike ride or rollerblade • Play tennis • Play catch outside and see how many throws you can make until the ball falls • Head to the nearest open field and have a family soccer game • Go outdoor skating • Tobogganing is always a hit at our house • Head over to a local entertainment center and do some rock climbing, goofy golf, or hit up an indoor water park • Stay in activities such as: dance parties, charades, musical chairs, twister, or creating a living room obstacle course are also great options STAYING HEALTHY & ACTIVE INTO FALL WITH ERIN KANE Keeping an active family all year round. Although summer is coming to an end that doesn’t mean our fun, physical indoor/outdoor activities must come to a halt. Yes, days are shorter, the air is colder. And while snuggling up on your couch may be all you want to do, keeping active as a family is a great way to pass the time, keeping our bodies moving and healthy.15 Time can be busy, and with parents working late nights sometimes staying active with the kids isn’t always a priority. I would encourage families to try and set a goal of doing something active at least 3-4 days a week, especially if your child(ren) doesn’t play any extra curricular activities. It is so important for our mental health, physical health, and longevity. Keep it postive and fun. Break up the time, it’s recommended that children have a minimum of 60 mins of exercise each day. Depending on your child you may want to break this up into smaller chunks. Create a routine and stick to it. Find activities that jive well with your family. The colder weather doesn’t mean you have to give up on things you like, Along with keeping our bodies physically active, we also want to be fueling our bodies with good food and snacks. Be sure if you are a family that is always on the go that you bring along simple and easy snacks with you to avoid having to stop for not so healthy options. We try to save our treat meals for the weekends as that is when we are typically travelling for sports. During the week- meal prepping and having some snacks ready to go is always a good life hack to avoid empty bellies and hangry kiddos. Have fun out there and be safe, more importantly have fun all while staying healthy. ERIN KANE Mom of four. Trainer and health coach. 1 2 3 No matter the weather:16 What’s more fun than setting the stage and serving spooky and scary healthy snacks on Halloween right before heading out trick-or-treating. Let your creativity go beyond and see the excitement on the kids’ faces as you serve them these flavorful Halloween snacks featuring fresh greenhouse grown fruits and vegetables! MELON MUMMY HEADS Scariness is sneaking up on sweetness. Solara™ Mini Melons are carved for delight and paired with the Jell-O for a party show stopper. TAKE A PEEK AT ALL HALLOWEEN RECIPES 17 JACK-O-LANTERN STUFFED PEPPERS Skip the pumpkin carving this Halloween. Instead, try carving Sweet Bell Peppers and stuff them full of delicious flavors to fill you up before a night of adventure. HALLOWEEN HUMMUS Smokey and spooky flavors merge for the ultimate dippable party flavor burst. Just try to keep your hand off this dip! EYEBALL ROASTED RED PEPPER DIP Come back after Trick-or-Treating to treat your tastebuds to this Roasted Red Pepper Dip. SPOOKY 7 LAYER DIP Fuel up to go Trick-or-Treating with this crowd pleasing 7 layer dip. Bursting with fresh tomato flavor! CREEPY CRITTERS Create your own creepy, crawly critters with a mix of greenhouse grown veggies. Ready to delight kids as they crawl across your table. MUNCHIE MONSTERS The perfect pop-able snack of refreshing & savory in each bite. These munchie monsters will set the stage with delight on your Halloween table. At Pure Flavor®, we understand that water has never been more precious.That’s why we are so invested in greenhouse growing techniques that utilize cutting edge water recycling technology. 18 If you have any doubts about how important water recycling is in agriculture, consider this; it takes about 4 gallons of water to grow one pound of tomatoes in a greenhouse and approximately 415 gallons of water to grow one pound of tomatoes in an amount of water! Are you curious about how this revolutionary technology works? Let’s deep dive into the water at Pure Flavor®’s greenhouses. To help better explain our water recycling program, we spoke with key team members who are responsible for growing & infrastructure at our facility in Leamington, Ontario. John Secker (VP-Growing Operations), Isaak Fast (Head Grower), and John Neufeld (Project Manager) helped explain the system we use at Pure Flavor® to recycle enormous volumes of water each and every day. To start, our Leamington facility uses 1.6 million litres of water per day, and we recycle 35% of the water we feed the plants. While we do utilize municipal water, it is essential that we supplement it with recycled water, as the community’s infrastructure cannot support the volume of water we need. How exactly does the water get recycled? There are a few steps, but it all begins when we water our crops. Each plant is watered through a drip irrigation system from freshwater, and each plant is overwatered to ensure they take as much as they need. In Leamington, our plants are grown in a medium called Rockwool, enough that any water the plant doesn’t use drips down into the trough system that the plants sit on. THE POWER OF H 2 O GROWING RESPONSIBLY 19 The runoff water (or commonly known as ‘Leach’) from plants is collected and starts the recycling journey. At this point, the water is called “dirty leach” and needs to be filtered to eliminate bacteria and other particulate before it can be used again. It is stored in tanks while it is in this state and is filtered as the greenhouses need it. Once the water is filtered through our UV units to disinfect it with ultraviolet light, it becomes “clean leach” water. The UV process, results in no chemicals being used to treat the water. From here, it will have fertilizer & nutrients added to it and be combined with freshwater from the municipality to be given back to the plants. By recycling our excess water, nothing is wasted, and any unused nutrition (plant fertilizer) goes directly back to the plants. Some of the nutrients we add to our water include calcium, potassium, nitrate, iron, magnesium, and copper. The water is tested bi-weekly offsite to ensure that all quality standards we met. We’re excited to expand our water recycling capabilities with the upcoming Phase IV expansion of our Leamington greenhouses. The facility will rely exclusively on rainwater, stored in an outdoor pond, that will hold more than 43 million gallons of water. This storage system is state of the art with the pond liner imported from The Netherlands. It is 163,000 cubic meters and could cover the surface area of 3 football fields. It is the largest pond of its kind to be built in North America! In our new Phase IV greenhouse, we will be growing organic vegetables which requires a filtration system optimal for those products. It will utilize a water pasteurization system, which is used in Kenya to treat drinking water; this method helps protect organics from pathogens and viruses. We are proud to say that we will be the first greenhouse in North America to utilize this system! The pond is fully frost protected and can be used to recycle water 365 days a year. During the winter, the water is pulled from the bottom three and a half feet of the pond - this is a truly ground-breaking system! Fun fact: the entire water recycling process can be complete in about 3 hours time! We hope you have enjoyed our water journey as it is a vital step in growing delicious & sustainable produce. Providing nutritious greenhouse grown fruits & vegetables for families throughout North America with our family and yours for a long time to come is part of our commitment. Responsibly and proactively conserving water is just one step in our growing & sustainability journey. Next >