Pemberton is nicknamed Spud Valley for good reason. Potatoes are the number one crop grown in the valley. The soil here is amazing for growing all kinds of vegetables but potatoes especially love it. The families who immigrated from Ireland …
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If It Ain’t Broke It Will Be
Farming is not for the faint of heart. Oh sure, as you drive up the valley and see all those beautiful farms, crops growing, people happily hoeing, tractors making the rounds, it all seem so peaceful and idyllic. There is …
Food and Feelings: Caesar Trail
There’s a scene from the movie Now and Then where all of the girls are joyfully riding their bikes around their town. Often when I’m riding my bike with my friends, around Pemberton, I pretend I’m in that movie. Perhaps …
Food and Feelings: Spring Rolls
In July of 2012, I moved to Pemberton. I followed my heart from Vancouver to the magical town of Pemberton where my then-boyfriend (now-husband) lived. I fell in love with the town. How could you not? The only problem that …
Passion Prevails
My childhood subconscious began manifesting my green thumb life long before I understood the benefit of my compost chore or using the excuse, “I’m thinning them out” when caught eating baby carrots. When you grow up surrounded by gardeners you’re …
Burn Your Plan
If you are driving out in the meadows this week and see a black and white horse with a brightly coloured wing, apple, and heart on her side, you are not losing your mind. You are seeing my plan as …
Southern Style
Blackbird Bakery's Raven Burns is unapologetic about her love for wheat. But when the cupboard was bare, she dug out some gluten-free flour to share this GF skillet corn bread recipe from her Appalachian home.
Cook Book Club ushers in the spring, March 21, 7pm-9pm, featuring Oh She Glows Every Day
Cook Book Club has a very simple formula for fun. Cook Book Club happens once a month. You make a shareable plate, from a selected cookbook, and show up, to Stay Wild, at 7pm. You meet a bunch of other …
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Food and Feelings: Jerk
Some foodlovers don't really cook. Blair Kaplan Venables can own that. It just makes her more discerning in her shopping. So when she recommends jerk rub, sit up and listen.
The Imperfect Table
Imperfectionism, scruffy hospitality, cook book club, it’s all an invitation to reclaim the table as a gathering place. Even when we’re too busy to entertain. Especially then.
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