via the SLRD. This year, in the interest of participant safety, Pemberton Meadows Road will be closed to vehicle traffic from 10am - 2pm on Sunday August 21 for the Slow Food Cycle Sunday event. The road will remain open for slow moving farm vehicles. The road will be closed from Taylor Road to Camel's Back Farm, just past … Continue reading Road closure planned for Slow Food Cycle Sunday, 10-2, August 21
I am sorry to say that I have left the writing of this Wellness Alamanc article to the very last minute. It’s an effective, although perhaps not very innovative way to generate extra stress in life. I don’t think I could handle the pressure of trying to come up with brand new ways to mismanage … Continue reading The pros and cons of downtime
In the spring, Stewardship Pemberton Society was invited to a workshop in Vancouver: Finding Common Ground hosted by the Sustainable Food Systems Working Group who aim to get more BC food on more BC plates. Long story short, the B.C. Agri-Food and Seafood Strategic Growth Plan put forward by the Provincial government aims to increase domestic … Continue reading Collaboration (as told by the stars)
On the chance that anyone else is trying to figure out why they find term “science based” is so instinctively irritating (it’s hard to argue with it) and even exclusionary (since when did science get it right all the time?), I share this quote, attributed to Albert Einstein: The intuitive mind is a sacred gift … Continue reading The tired farmer falls down a rabbithole and hopes you value honest hard labour enough to pay for organic local carrots
When they flew in 800 avocadoes from Mexico for the television commercial, to make sure they had one absolutely perfect fruit, Jenna Dashney knew that the money she was making wasn’t going to make this sit right. “You couldn’t even give them away to the crew afterwards, because they were constantly being fed by a … Continue reading Slow down for your supper – with Jenna Dashney, the Farmers’ Market’s new chef-in-residence
Jenna Dashney, Food-Lover, pastry chef, chicken mama, took over the Wellness Almanac instagram account this week, as the "mini-poopers", her all-chickens, all-the-time instagram persona. Below, is Beardy. A pirate-chicken who liked getting around on people's shoulders, all the better to eavesdrop on you with, me-hearties. Lovely little egg-cubators... I had to give them their moment … Continue reading The chickens have taken over
I think this entry will consist mainly of pictures and a loosely connected, rather random series of thoughts and seasonal observations. It’s the type of thing from which good stories are grown. For now, we’ll have to make do with the planting of the seed. The season has started with a bang. The mixed vegetable … Continue reading Anyone else suffering Spring Overreach Syndrome?
This article will take the form of unapologetic “Dear Diary”. Sometimes a writer is well advised to embrace the obvious in place of more sophisticated inspiration. Indeed, in place of it altogether. The following entries are mere highlights from the last month or so. Dear Diary: I need new work pants and I think I’ll … Continue reading Dear Diary – a month in the life of an organic farmer
It is very tempting to write about the weather this month. I don’t suppose it would make much of an article though- suffice it to say, the rain might eventually be interrupted by the sun and the mountains could appear when the gloom ceiling lifts. Sunlight, though it may be the enemy of shady dealings, … Continue reading Is that a big splash of passion on your organic vegetable? You better believe it.
From time to time I go to work on the neighbouring conventional seed potato farms. At this time of year, the growers are starting to dig into their piles of spuds and fill truckloads for delivery to potato farms all over the western states and provinces. It begins in January with the California trucks and … Continue reading Roothouse helper wanted? Call Anna.
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