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    • Southern Style
  • alpaughjohn
    • Working Hard
    • Farming for Change: introducing writer-farmer John Alpaugh
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    • Dad’s Cabin
    • Alpine Cattle Drives
    • Farmers Staycation: why the best place to find the Millers is on the Miller’s farm
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    • Herbal Hallucinations: is this all a dream?
    • Earth-tending
    • The Hands That Feed Us
  • Becca Wilson
    • My First Time Gardening
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    • Food and Feelings: Intentions for 2019
    • Food and Feelings: Fromage
    • Food and Feelings: Caesar Trail
  • catherinekarpman
    • Making a difference one seed at a time…
  • Kera Willis
    • Plant Yourself: A Recipe for Being Here
    • Courting Wonder
    • Old Fashioned Egg Nog
  • csobchak
    • Rooting for a Rutabaga renaissance
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    • Cookbook Club – Why Gathering is as Nourishing as Food
    • Three Things Cindy Coughlin Learned This Summer about Getting Dirty
  • dawnjohnson2013
    • Resiliency and Mysteries of the Morel Mushroom
    • Unexpected Lessons on Permaculture and Community
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    • April Kitchen Sadhana
    • A Pemberton Food Story
  • eiherbalist
    • Perceptions of the Heart
  • Erica Osburn
    • Chicken Casserole for these Dark Times
    • Amazing Pemberton Apple Muffins (and healthy too)
    • Rainy August Day in Pemberton – Make These Cookies!
  • fourbeatfarmer
    • A Farmer’s Ode to the Cabbage
    • And GO
    • Smells of spring, sweat, and soil
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    • Turning the Page on Winter! — Rootdown Organic Farm
  • gpmdesign
    • COVID Trends – No-Knead Bread
    • DIY – Maple Granola
    • Perfect for a cold day – Slow-Cooker Creamy Chicken With Biscuits
  • Gus Cormack
    • 10 Lessons learned from 10 years of homesteading: Sweetwater Lane Farm reflects on their decade milestone
  • Melissa Darou
    • (Now you can) get your greens salad
    • Munchy Munchy Cookbook for kids: review
    • The Vibrant Life: Cookbook review
  • jenniehelmer
    • Telling the Bees of the Legend of Lisa
  • jharvey625
    • A love affair with coffee
    • Food for Thought
    • Why Everyone Should Have Backyard Chickens
  • kerryteitzel
    • Kerry Teitzel reviews new cookbook American Sfoglino by making pasta by hand, and discovers it’s actually easy
  • Kristine
    • Ode to the Cherry Tomato
    • Where’s the Beef?
    • Monkeying Around With Dessert
  • Leala Selina
    • Chic’weed: A weed so chic you will love it like a flower.
    • Fine & Dandy Syrup
  • Lisa Severn
    • An end to the fits and starts
    • Take Only What We Need
    • Calgary Eats: A Cookbook Review
  • Michelle Beks
    • Lettuce Talk
    • Small Potatoes
    • If It Ain’t Broke It Will Be
  • meeshmoran
    • The Do Over
    • Happy Anniversary, to me.
    • The Last Squash
  • Michi Hunter
    • Squamish Farmers Strip Down For Fundraising Calendar
  • mikoiko66
    • The Honour stands of Birken
    • Chickenisms
    • Acclimatization, zones, and how plants adapt to weather
  • nettedgem
    • Thoughts on plastic bag bans from an organic potato farmer
    • The Biodynamic Farming Experience for the Celestially-Challenged, chapter 2
    • Farm Story: The Biodynamic Ice-Break
  • nlee80
    • With love to the #1 Tomato Grampa
    • AW NUTS: Nancy Lee finds out just why Nuts are so Expensive
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    • Nature’s Gifts – Chanterelles
    • Thank-you Bees!
    • Nature’s Gifts
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    • Mindful Morning Musings •
    • The power of sharing your story.
  • onceafarmgirl
    • Appreciating the Neighbourhood Chicken Lady
    • Bees? Why not!
    • A day off work is never really a day off
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    • A Bee Journey Vol 2
    • A Bee Journey Vol. 1
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    • The trouble with procrastination
    • Don’t date a farmer if you want to lose weight
    • Patty B, Pemberton Wedding Duck
  • Pemberton Multicultural Network
    • Garden Journals
  • Lisa Richardson
    • Gardening in the time of Covid: local Feasting for Change programs reflect on this year’s harvest
    • The apples of our eyes
    • Planting Garlic Is My Most Potent Annual Prayer
  • ryaletham
    • Haskaps and Thimbleberries: Our Babies’ First Foods
  • sarindahoilett
    • Living Cuisine – Sarinda Hoilett welcomes strawberry season, with foods that heal and rock your taste buds
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    • Nonna’s Kitchen Table: Mangia! I Love-a You!

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Gardening in the time of Covid: local Feasting for Change programs reflect on this year’s harvest

Lisa Richardson November 18, 2020

Thanks to Belinda Geisler, the program coordinator for Stewardship Pemberton's Feasting for Change initiative, for putting together this reflection of this year. This spring I was so nervous, wondering if it would be possible to run any of the Feasting …

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The apples of our eyes

Lisa Richardson November 10, 2020

Longtime champion of local food, Glenda Bartosh, turned her attention to apples this week, and discovered that our very own Traced Elements regular, Mike Roger, is quite the apple man. Glenda gave us permission to repost her column here. Photo …

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Working Hard

alpaughjohn October 26, 2020

The hard work of farming is even harder when the weather turns. John Alpaugh comes to the end of his first season farming, and ponders the nature of work and the reward of satisfaction.

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Planting Garlic Is My Most Potent Annual Prayer

Lisa Richardson October 23, 2020

How the annual fall ritual of planting garlic becomes the talisman I'll hang around my neck as we head into an uncertain winter.

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Nature’s Gifts – Chanterelles

nurture1nnature October 7, 2020

October might have caught you by the surprise. Embrace it, by going mushroom hunting. Kristina Bland effuses over the joy of chanterelle season.

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Farming for Change: introducing writer-farmer John Alpaugh

alpaughjohn October 6, 2020

What better place to wait out a global pandemic than working on an organic farm in Pemberton? John Alpaugh reflects on how he landed here.

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Bring your own bubbles: how to make a ginger bug (wild fermented soda) ie your own healthy pop

Lisa Richardson October 5, 2020

I didn't want to buy Soda Stream cartridges, so I made my own bubbles. It still makes me ridiculously happy. And it's easy, too.

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To be prepared, ask a better question

Lisa Richardson September 29, 2020

I've been wrestling with the task of getting a 72 hour emergency preparedness kit together for years now. And still have made no real progress on that grab and go bag. On Thursday, as kids headed off back to school, …

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An end to the fits and starts

Lisa Severn September 19, 2020

I recently, well 33 days ago, signed up for a creative workshop that asks that you ship something every day for 100 days. It's hard. I am a "do it when the muse shows up" creative. And, this course teaches …

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Thank-you Bees!

nurture1nnature August 31, 2020

From 20 hives, our own Nurture in Nature bees have been busy buzzzyy... Our own honey is now available in our Farm-acy Stand and with the wax caps from the honey combs, came an exciting learning day of rendering the …

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Rainy August Day in Pemberton – Make These Cookies!

Erica Osburn August 21, 2020

Torrential rain here in Pemberton today. A good day for baking. These cookies I adapted from a John Bishop recipe from his cookbook At Home. They are great for road trips. I have not had luck with PB cookies lately …

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Chicken Casserole for these Dark Times

Erica Osburn December 14, 2020

Yes, it has been a weird year. And these are the shortest and darkest days of the year to boot. Right now I am craving calorie-laden stodgy food and damn the consequences. Lighter fare will appeal when the days brighten …

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Amazing Pemberton Apple Muffins (and healthy too)

Erica Osburn November 15, 2020

This is the time of year when the freezer can be very full (a good problem to have). If there is deer meat to go in, something must come out. In my case, the many bags of apples I peeled …

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Picklepalooza: preserving high summer for my Future Self (and friends)

Lisa Richardson August 15, 2020

It's not really cost-effective, this pickling and preserving business, I realize, as I empty another $20 bottle of Bragg's apple cider vinegar into a pot. My husband keeps checking in, nervously asking "Are you having fun?" because these evenings are …

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Laughing Crow’s farm monster is alive!

Lisa Richardson August 12, 2020

When I interviewed Kerry and Andrew last year, for a story about local farmers, Andrew shared his idea that the farm is a kind of mechanical beast that they build up every year, that eventually lurches to life. I loved …

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The Honour stands of Birken

mikoiko66 August 8, 2020

The Birken / D'Arcy corridor is unique to the Sea to Sky Region. Unhurried, non-commercial, safe, sparsely populated and relatively unchanged throughout the nearly 3 decades I've lived here. In fact, there is less here now than there was back …

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Chic’weed: A weed so chic you will love it like a flower.

Leala Selina July 4, 2020

With the botanical name of 'Myosoton aquaticum' it becomes clear that there is more than meets the eye when acquainting oneself with the perennial weed known as 'Chickweed'. These triumphant little wonders that grow in nitrogen rich soil pack a …

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Nature’s Gifts

nurture1nnature June 29, 2020

Nurture in Nature invites you to come into deeper connection with the microseasons and appreciate what's edible and wildly delicious all around you, with a free Zoom webinar on Tuesday June 30 at 6:30pm

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Chickenisms

mikoiko66 June 11, 2020

I know from the demand  following the pandemic, there are lots of new chicken raisers out there now. Many of them it seems are females (nurturers) trying to get their reluctant partners (practical) to get on board and help them …

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Allies in Unlikely Places

Lisa Richardson June 10, 2020

Nature-lovers, you might not be as alone as you think. What if Nature loves you back?

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