My yard is a festival of dandelions. There is nothing to be gained by declaring war on this. But everything to be gained by researching all the medicinal and nutritional benefits of dandelion and declaring it my most successful garden …
Author: Lisa Richardson
Soil Matters
"EVERY FARM HAS ITS OWN PERSONALITY," says Amy Norgaard, a soil science student at the University of British Columbia, and former farmhand and market manager with Ice Cap Organics. Her two-year-long Master's thesis, which she will defend in late spring, required …
Food Security in the Sea to Sky corridor is not just about farmland
Traced Elements contributor, change-agent and local gardening guru, Dawn Johnson spoke recently on food security in this podcast with host Kim Slater, for the Community Foundation of Whistler's Vital Signs project.Listen to the conversation here.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcpkfA-eTjA Global food security is not …
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Pemberton farmers featured in Patagonia’s Winter 2020 catalogue: What the Farmers Know
Turns out the crucial work of tending to the land balances nicely with the release of deep winter rollicking in the mountains. If you ever need to remind yourself to look up from the grind and enjoy life, go skiing …
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Vegan eggnog recipe courtesy Pemberton’s wizard cocktail concocters
Not only are Tyler and Lorien at Pemberton Distillery absolute wizards (and trailblazing legends) in the organic craft spirits industry, their ten year old distillery provides a creative outlet for their growing and making tendencies - motivating picking and planting …
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Unearthed: why mushrooms are the perfect symbol for the Dark Season, and why it’s totally okay for you to do LESS this Christmas
Sometimes when I tell myself to breathe, it triggers panic – as if by drawing attention to this innate, unconscious, automatic action, breathing in and out suddenly becomes improbably difficult. Meditation, swimming laps, yoga… all these experiences often contain a …
A question of growth
My garden is a bit of a shitshow. And so am I. It's probably dangerous to connect these dots - that how you grow is a pretty accurate reflection of your personality. I don't operate in a linear way. But …
It’s time to Slow Food as if the future of food depended on it. Sunday August 18!
Thanks to Carlee Cindric, the tireless event producer with Tourism Pemberton, behind Slow Food Cycle Sunday, for taking time out from organizing, to share this reminder of what Pemberton's signature home-grown festival is all about. Connecting consumers with their food and …
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Why the Farmers Market is more than just a shopping experience
In the spring, I sprinkled a small mason jar of biodynamic preparation 500 under my fruit trees and around my garden beds, just as Anna Helmer had shown me. There didn’t seem to be a very specific science to it, …
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Frontier Thinking: Everything you do happens at the place where your ideas meet your idea of the world
This is the time of year when the farm machines roll full-tilt out of winter hibernation. At least, that’s how Andrew Budgell speaks of it. Co-owner of Laughing Crow Organics, one of Pemberton’s small scale organic mixed vegetable farms, Budgell …
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