In farming, no two years are ever similar, with hits, misses, trials and tribulations. You often add a few experiments, delete a few duds, and try to improve infrastructure and efficiency. Nature is fickle however, and like anything in life, …
Fall in Pemberton: a Full Fridge and Pantry!
Hello everyone and happy fall. Welcome back to routines and merino wool clothing! Yay!! There are lots of new faces walking around town. This makes me happy. A few years ago it seemed everyone was leaving this valley. This is the …
A Recipe to Keep Vampires At Bay
A little garlic, judiciously used, won’t seriously affect your social life and will tone up more dull dishes than any commodity discovered to date. ~ Alexander Wright, ‘How to Live Without a Woman’ (1937) It’s that time of year where garlic goes …
Navigating through all the Greenwash
Theres no doubt people in these parts are more and more concerned and conscious about what they ingest. After all, you are not only what you eat but also what your food ate. The organic food industry is a multi-billion …
Sky Camp Kohlrabi
There’s something to be said for being in the right place at the right time. Over the consumption of tasty beverages at the Beer Farmers, my girlfriend was casually asked if she’d like to host a bunch of mountain bikers …
Literary Locavores: when Pembertonians head to the Whistler Writers Festival in 2018, talk turns (obviously) to food
Two Pembertonians will take to the stage at the 2018 Whistler Writers Festival on Friday, October 12, from 6:15pm, for the reading event Cooks with Books: Passionate Locavore Edition. Traced Elements contributor Nidhi Raina’s samosas and chutney have become famous …
Zucchini – two ways
I recently bumped into a friend who has a veggie patch and she asked if I had any recipes for zucchinis as she had lots growing. She also wanted to know what it was with Pemberton that zucchinis grew so …
Tory Pearson explains where Pemberton’s first “community supported homestead” experiment began
This is a story about the founding of the Wamhily CSH (Community Supported Homestead). What that is and why, is held in the story below. I hope this tale speaks to you and reminds you, as Field of Dreams profoundly …
