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Food & Shelter
As per Maslow's hierarchy, we're all aware that food and shelter are fundamental needs. But it's easy to forget...
Jackie Skrypnek
Feb 273 min read
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Sweet Thanks
The gifts of the land can feel remote and gratitude for them requires a conscious effort, a little prompting...
Jackie Skrypnek
Oct 10, 20243 min read
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Feeding Ourselves Afresh
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...
Jackie Skrypnek
Apr 20, 20243 min read
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Let Winter Do its Work
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...
Jackie Skrypnek
Jan 5, 20242 min read
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Get Your Garments Out Where We Can See Them
Part of the delight of travel is picking up on the little curiosities of another culture; how they do things differently (and to stretch...
Jackie Skrypnek
Apr 28, 20234 min read
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Town and Country
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
Jackie Skrypnek
Apr 23, 20213 min read
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At Home in the World
The pandemic has invited us to swap travel in search of excitement elsewhere for a renewed inhabitance of our own place in the world...
Jackie Skrypnek
Jul 27, 20203 min read
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Fire in the Belly
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.
Jackie Skrypnek
Jan 23, 20202 min read
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Partake
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.
Jackie Skrypnek
Jun 16, 20193 min read
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All Together Now
"We need to create a vibrant and tight knit community around our food systems in order to achieve substantive change." -Zev Friedman Part...
Jackie Skrypnek
Jan 25, 20192 min read
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Dig in to December
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...
Jackie Skrypnek
Nov 30, 20183 min read
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Return On Investment
(Do excuse me if this post seems dubiously tangential to the operation of Hereabouts B&B! In my mind these things are all related -...
Jackie Skrypnek
Feb 2, 20183 min read
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The Sun As Anchor
Christmas is fast approaching and I think we can all agree that the experience goes beyond one of pure peace, love, and joy. There's...
Jackie Skrypnek
Dec 14, 20173 min read
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Start Where We Are
INDIGENOUS: "produced, growing, living, or occurring naturally in a particular region or environment" "Someone who learns to use all...
Jackie Skrypnek
Jan 21, 20173 min read
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