Dawn Johnson shared this post earlier last month over at the new local website Traced Elements, where a host of food-loving folk are sharing the ways in which food (growing it, cooking it, foraging for it, sharing it…) grounds and empowers them. Where there's enough cross-over between the topic covered and The Wellness Almanac, we're reposting here. It … Continue reading Resilience and the Mysterious Morel Mushroom
I received my free BRCA cancer screen test this week. Here's a description of the study I'm participating in. You may want to participate as well. The current criteria for gene testing in Canada have fallen behind more progressive countries. I would have qualified automatically in both Iceland & Australia for example. My own oncologist … Continue reading BRCA Cancer Gene Test Study
Richenda Grafton posted this to Sea To Sky Road Conditions on June 17 at 7:34am, and I was struck by her positive tone, despite the massive frustration driving the post. I have been in a hurry for years, so I am sympathetic to that crazed adrenalized feeling of wanting to get where you're going, get stuff done, get back, … Continue reading Take the heat out of summer traffic and slow ‘er down. Even when school’s out, the 30km/hr limit still applies in downtown Pemberton and Mount Currie.
The Canada Day Spud Run is ten kilometres long but in my mind I covered several hundred. Our course marshal led us across the highway to the start and already my thoughts began roaming as they took me back to a few early mornings running various trails behind this same woman. As we rounded the corner at … Continue reading Spud Run Rambles
In early June, just as Market season was kicking off, Naomi Martz of Four Beat Farm agreed to add ONE MORE task to her long long to-do list, and instagrammed for us for the week. Naomi is three seasons in to running a predominantly horse and human powered certified organic mixed vegetable farm, but, just … Continue reading It’s Market Day! Get psyched with this behind-the-scenes from Four Beat Farm
Location, location, location: In running, as in real estate, it’s all about location -- well, that and a few other details but as I started my most recent trail race, I thought, “If I go far enough, long enough and big enough, I just might win my age category.” This idea occurred to me when I … Continue reading Choose Your Trophies
Over at the new local website Traced Elements, a host of food-loving folk are sharing the ways in which food (growing it, cooking it, foraging for it, sharing it...) grounds and empowers them. We repost Meesh Moran's piece, on making your own wild rose jam, here. by Meesh Moran For me the art of slowing … Continue reading Meesh Moran’s recipe for Nootka Rose Jelly
Just over a month after completing the Vancouver Marathon, Unity runner, local dad and Wellness Almanac guestagrammer Kyle Peters is bringing a Sun Run to Mount Currie. What an awesome way to herald the solstice! Volunteers or donations of water, snacks and prizes are welcome. **LET US GATHER** Lil'wat Sun Run June 21st, 2018 … Continue reading Fresh from the Vancouver Sun Run, Kyle Peters brings a taste of the experience to Mount Currie, with a Lil’wat Sun Run set for June 21
How do we co-habitate? Find out, at this free workshop at the Pemberton Community Centre, presented by the Coast to Cascades Grizzly Bear Initiative.
My son heads off to kindergarten in September. Game-changer, friends say. You don’t get as much time as you think, say others. I can’t wait to learn to read, he says. What just happened to the past five years? I think. He will catch the school bus, from our driveway, through Mount Currie, to school. … Continue reading Stucum Wi: Wanosts’a7 Dr. Lorna Williams walks in wisdom, Part 2
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