It's a funny time of year to try to connect to place through food. Our recent record-setting cold spell has cast such a deep, icy...

Here in Alberta our weather woes typically involve cursing our frozen fingers as we scrape icy windshields or groaning when May rain...

Every year when it comes time to replenish my garden soil I'm reminded of how we city folk rely on country folk to make our world go 'round

Sure, I'd like to be visiting family on Vancouver Island where the cherry blossoms are already opening, or dashing outside barefoot to...

In June when I wrote about our new backyard greenhouse, the fresh white paint inside had barely dried and the young plants, still tidy...

The pandemic has invited us to swap travel in search of excitement elsewhere for a renewed inhabitance of our own place in the world...

Here we are in a new season - and in some ways a new world entirely - and I'm happy to report our little food-growing addition is complete.

Here's what's keeping me grounded and hopeful; what's acting as both a balm and a way to be deliberate about the future:

We've been cooking up a new little project for our urban plot at Hereabouts - a wee space for soaking up the sun and growing more food.

I find the best kind of motivation is a beautiful vision of what could be, a glimpse of the world as I want it to become.

If soil is the earth's microbiome, is producing food without it a good idea?

Back at our campsite, we proudly laid our haul out on the picnic table. We washed and strung morels like beads on necklaces to dry.

We're at the tail end of winter and the pantry's almost bare. Well, likely not bare at all given our access to the modern supermarket,...

"We need to create a vibrant and tight knit community around our food systems in order to achieve substantive change." -Zev Friedman Part...

Earth is leaning away from our star as though playing a bit coy, backing off as though it just needs a little space before it can draw...

Summer has come and gone in Alberta and as you may have heard (or experienced yourself!) we actually endured several weeks of winter...

"By this action, what am I saying 'yes' to?" -Charles Eisenstein, The Yoga of Eating Deep into last winter I had my doubts we'd ever feel...

Those of you in milder climes may find it hard to believe, but here in our Cochrane yard, approaching the end of April, just about the...

Well, we've done it! We've seen ourselves through another winter. Sure, it's not fully behind us yet, but the darkest and the coldest of...

(Do excuse me if this post seems dubiously tangential to the operation of Hereabouts B&B! In my mind these things are all related -...