As per Maslow's hierarchy, we're all aware that food and shelter are fundamental needs. But it's easy to forget...

In the spirit of coziness, I offer you this simple recipe. Originally meant as a dessert, I see it as a perfectly legit breakfast...

The gifts of the land can feel remote and gratitude for them requires a conscious effort, a little prompting...

Let's get real for just a moment about what's going on with our food system – and then let's get busy fixing it. Shock and anxiety over...

Winter probably gets the least love of all the seasons. In the fall, people utter ominous grumblings that it's "on its way", continue to...

You know how the interior of big franchise stores are so familiar, so uniform from one to the next that, once inside, you couldn't say if...

Part of the delight of travel is picking up on the little curiosities of another culture; how they do things differently (and to stretch...

Hereabouts B&B is going to start 2023 off with a little shut-eye, a nap of the kind that restores and reinvigorates. You see, my husband...

I recently heard humans described as an "overabundant, renewable resource" by author, filmmaker, and champion of localization Helena...

Do you have a favourite wild food? I think mine may be stinging nettle. Each spring I scan the landscape for signs...

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.