The 10 Foot Diet
A look into my backyard and how this growing season yielded some of the best ingredients for your pizzas!
One of the greatest teachers in my life so far has been my garden. Every year I learn new things about how to make the plants grow healthier, the food grow tastier, and the bugs friendlier. This year was no exception. While it was a year of extreme temperatures, and food was slow to ripen, this year’s crop yielded quite a bounty that went straight on to your pizzas!
In order to maximize the growing season in Calgary and to grow enough delicious ingredients for the pizzas for my customers in time, I had to start the gardening season early, by starting the seeds inside. These little fellows grew up nice and strong and yielded some of the sweetest tomatoes I’ve had, which go atop the House, Prosciutto & Arugula and Pesto pizzas.
My little babies getting some sun.
Once I was able to move everybody outside, I made sure to use layers of rich organic compost for fertilizer. This whole garden is chemical free, with soil that is nurtured using the no-til method, and watered with rainwater, by hand when it’s thirsty. While it takes a bit more work, the joy that comes from growing beautiful, nutritious, incredibly delicious tomatoes, cucumbers, basil, arugula, garlic, and so much more is totally, absolutely worth it..
Tomatoes and the pizza truck
Lastly, we can’t forget about the hardest workers in the garden- my bees! These little fellas tirelessly worked all season long to keep things pollinated and now we are using our own honey harvest to top your Quattro Formaggi! What other pizza place can say that? You’ve never tasted anything like it, I guarantee it. Big love to those mighty little workers for all they do.
So now, the season is winding down. It’s almost time to put everyone to bed for another winter’s sleep. I will use what I learned this year and take it into next year for an even better crop and an even more rewarding growing season. You want to talk about the 100 mile diet? How about the 10 feet diet- from my garden to your pizza, much of it grown 10 feet from the food truck, which is parked in my yard in Glenbrook. Lucky you;)
There’s No Place Like Home
Behind the scenes of our pizzeria as we took our food truck off the road in 2020 to “pizza in place”!
A busy friday night in the trailer
Summer is almost here again! We are over a year into creating a whole new business concept for what we think is Calgary’s best pizza from the humble digs of our permanent location in Glenbrook. Like many businesses in Calgary, we had to respond to the restrictions and changes that COVID threw at us last year. So, we got creative, and thought, even though we are a food truck, let’s just…not… drive… and stay put. Not visit locations, not cater much, and just simply serve pizzas to the good folks of South West Calgary. And we did it! Even in the dead of winter! A year later, the garden is growing, the pizza is cooking, the Google reviews are building, and we are feeling so happy about the love that we’re vibing on from our amazing community of customers we have built… by taking our show OFF the road.
Danny’s backyard garden where fresh pizza ingredients grow!
We want to give a particular shout-out to some of our most dedicated customers that have been so generous with their words and reviews. Firstly, to our self-proclaimed super-fan, @lovegastrogirl for her consistent support and amazing reviews. Every time she orders, she takes time to show local business love by doing a post for us, listing all her favorite flavors and photos- even on National Take-Out Day! She has an honest, hilarious Instagram account that will tell you how things are in the food scene in Cowtown. AND she sure did coin the hashtag #Dannyscarbsarethebestcarbs :) :) Big love Gastro Girl! You’re the best! And check out this awesome blog post by @hittingthesauceyyc. We so appreciate how you totally get that quality ingredients make a quality pizza. Great writing, @hittingthesauceyyc! Can’t wait to see you both again… there’s still so many pies for you to try!
And to all the amazing customers in Calgary who have taken the time to support our family-run business, write us a Google review, and show us the love. We love you back. And we plan on showing you this by continuing to make the best Neapolitan pizza we possibly can. Thanks for supporting local, YYC, and for supporting us! You’re the best. :)
