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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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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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Boots on the Ground
I recently heard humans described as an "overabundant, renewable resource" by author, filmmaker, and champion of localization Helena...
Jackie Skrypnek
Oct 23, 20223 min read
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Get Your Nettle Eyes On
Do you have a favourite wild food? I think mine may be stinging nettle. Each spring I scan the landscape for signs...
Jackie Skrypnek
Jun 15, 20223 min read
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The Winter Larder
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...
Jackie Skrypnek
Jan 7, 20222 min read
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Plant the Water, Then the Tree
Here in Alberta our weather woes typically involve cursing our frozen fingers as we scrape icy windshields or groaning when May rain...
Jackie Skrypnek
Aug 19, 20214 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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Sweater Weather
In June when I wrote about our new backyard greenhouse, the fresh white paint inside had barely dried and the young plants, still tidy...
Jackie Skrypnek
Nov 20, 20202 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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Vegetables Guaranteed
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.
Jackie Skrypnek
Jun 6, 20202 min read
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For Certain
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:
Jackie Skrypnek
Mar 23, 20203 min read
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Skeptical of a Cucumber
If soil is the earth's microbiome, is producing food without it a good idea?
Jackie Skrypnek
Nov 20, 20193 min read
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