I am that person. The one in a restaurant who looks at the dessert menu first before deciding whether or not to order a starter. I am the person who would much rather have a chocolate bar over a packet …
Soup’s On – Recipes that Make it Easy to Eat Your Veggies in Winter
Winter survival tip #1: make soup. It makes your house smell good, nourishes the soul, and sneaks veggies into your kids without them even realizing.
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Farmers Staycation: why the best place to find the Millers is on the Miller’s farm
For some reason most of our family breaks from farming are taken on the farm. Actually there are several reasons for it - like checking the cows, checking the fences, checking the back field, scouting for saw logs and firewood …
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Nidhi Raina’s Bad Boy Rutabaga & Turnips
Yes, we live in Spud Valley, but let's not overlook the other root vegetables that also flourish in Pemberton's silt-rich soil. Today, local cook and the wizard behind Nidhi's Cuisine, Nidhi Raina, gives turnips and rutabagas their due. I've never …
Rural Matchmaking
Last week, I filled out an adoption application for an older Dachshund named Sammy who is down somewhere in Surrey BC. I did the paperwork on behalf of my sheep Vinnie, who lacks the opposable thumbs, concentration and linguistic skills …
The dirt on how the PR girl met the farmer
Whistler girl meets Pemberton farmer; best to show all your dirt up front.
Anna Helmer’s Farm Story continues
Deep winter confessions from Pemberton's favourite farmer. Lavish plan-hatching and mild delusion meets work in someone else's root house. (Just don't call it mindless.)
Traced Elements and Stay Wild invite you to Cook Book Club, February 22
Here's how it works. You make a shareable plate, from the selected cookbook, and show up, to Stay Wild, at 7pm, on Thursday February 22. You meet a bunch of other people, sample a bunch of other dishes, and decide …
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The Dirt on Food and it’s Power to Heal
A manifesto, of sorts. To reclaim the table. And map food stories, from the heart of the Pemberton Valley. Grow. Make. Eat. Restore the planet. Without guilt. Without pressure. With joyful messy experimentation, scrappy gardens, candour and dirt.
