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 …
Category: pemberton
Gardening in the time of Covid: local Feasting for Change programs reflect on this year’s harvest
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 …
Planting Garlic Is My Most Potent Annual Prayer
How the annual fall ritual of planting garlic becomes the talisman I'll hang around my neck as we head into an uncertain winter.
Farming for Change: introducing writer-farmer John Alpaugh
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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To be prepared, ask a better question
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, …
Thank-you Bees!
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 …
Rainy August Day in Pemberton – Make These Cookies!
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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The Honour stands of Birken
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 …
Nature’s Gifts
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
Allies in Unlikely Places
Nature-lovers, you might not be as alone as you think. What if Nature loves you back?
