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Green Living

Come on a forest adventure with us…

May 12, 2013

Would you like to join us for a walk in the woods? Come on, it’s fun! Here’s something neat! What is it? Looks like a big bug. But there’s nobody inside… Wait, there’s more of them. Lots more! Now I remember, these are the skins of dragonfly larvae. They grow and grow in the water, [...]

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Wild Food, Wild Knowledge

May 4, 2013

There is a path we walk frequently, my girls and I. Since we moved we walk that path every week or two, stopping to play in the stream or hang over the fence and chat with the donkeys. And ever since I went on a wild food walk with a new friend, local naturalist and [...]

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Nettle Season

April 29, 2013

We’ve been enjoying nettle season for a while already here, but those of you in cooler climates may still be waiting for the weather to warm up enough for the nettles to sprout. Whether you’re at the end or the beginning of nettle season, going nettle hunting is fun. Just make sure you remember to [...]

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Rufous Hummingbird

April 27, 2013

One of the really lovely things about our new house is making discoveries in our yard and the forest around us as it springs to life. Identifying trees as they put out leaves and blossoms, realizing that we have a volunteer rhubarb in our back garden, and that the area around where it is growing [...]

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Putting down roots

March 9, 2013

Nothing says new beginnings like planting seeds. It is a symbolic act but also a very real, tangible one. A hope for the future, an investment in possibilities. A prayer for sunshine and rain. A promise of work to come. Yesterday I made some real progress towards a successful garden this year. I finished fortifying [...]

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Should your child manage their own Halloween candy stash?

November 1, 2012

Oh, Halloween. Of all the holidays we celebrate, this one is such a mixed bag. It is a day to honor the dead, after all. It can’t be all sparkles and unicorns (unless you’re 5, in which case it just might be). Kids love Halloween and parents, well, parents have more concerns. There’s the risk [...]

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Weekend Links

October 13, 2012

My links this weekend are all political, which is unusual for me. But I feel so strongly about protecting the coast of my beautiful province, and I think every Canadian needs to know what is going on right now. Chairman Harper and the Chinese Sell-Out – The Tyee Appallingly, the treaty would give Sinopec, one [...]

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Nature Refuge

April 14, 2012

Last week we went out wildcrafting nettles.  We walked along, gently pinching off a few fresh new tops in each cluster.  As we walked, we talked about gathering only what we needed, making sure we weren’t pulling up or trampling the plants.  We spotted dandelions, some pretty snails, and little hiding places in the bushes [...]

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Clothing the Mama

February 24, 2012

Shopping. Whether you love it or hate it, it’s a fact of life. Right? I used to like shopping. In my early 20s I finally graduated from University and got a job that paid me enough to have some disposable income. And on my lunch breaks or on my way home from work I’d pop [...]

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Dreamtime

February 21, 2012

Pre-kids, I was a dreamer. Kind of a philosophical dreamer, but also a literal one too. I’ve always had vivid, colourful dreams that I could usually remember. Often I would remember more than one dream a night. I studied dreaming in a high-level undergrad psychology course, which made the entire 4 years and a big [...]

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Winter Walks

January 11, 2012

You know what I really love? Yes, morning toddler snuggles and hot cups of tea and reading a good book in bed.  All of that.  But I also really love going for walks in the windy, cold forest. I know, right?  Crazy. But on a Thursday morning in January, we’re the only ones on the [...]

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Dig up the garden bed and call me in the morning…

October 23, 2011

A sunny autumn weekend! We went for a walk in the woods, spotted a baby Pileated Woodpecker, marveled over mushrooms, raked leaves, weeded the veggies left in the garden plot, dug a new bed and planted some raspberry canes. Totally satisfying.

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Eating Meat in a Vegetarian Household

October 16, 2011

When I met my husband eleven years ago, I was a university student living on boxes of mac and cheese (eaten straight from the pot), bagels, cheap sandwich meat, yoghurt and apples. I’d been raised in a straightforward meat & potatoes kind of family, which never really ventured at all into ethnic foods. And then [...]

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