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    All Together Now
    Jackie Skrypnek
    • Jan 25, 2019
    • 2 min

    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 of the aim in creating Hereabouts was to broaden our experience of community by opening our property up to others from near and far along with their varying perspectives, interests, and circumstances. We hoped the tiny house would draw like-minded people to us while, for others, serve to inspire possibilities around small footprint living,
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    A Trick or Two
    Jackie Skrypnek
    • Oct 26, 2018
    • 2 min

    A Trick or Two

    Summer has come and gone in Alberta and as you may have heard (or experienced yourself!) we actually endured several weeks of winter before autumn arrived. Yes, we were plunged abruptly from August's heat into what felt like a punishing deep freeze in September, our gardens meeting an untimely death. Our raised bed on September 16th Our growing season in the foothills is short indeed and it's easy to despair that it was all for naught when it ends before you can reap what you
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    Return On Investment
    Jackie Skrypnek
    • Feb 2, 2018
    • 3 min

    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 - Hereabouts came about partially in response to my grappling with ideas like this one on investment.) "Ask the questions that have no answers. Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias. Say that your main crop is the forest that you did not plant, that you will not live to harvest. Say that the leaves are harvested when they have rotted into the mo
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