Month: September 2016

I grew up eating home-preserved food; Mom spent a lot of time in the kitchen with a pressure cooker and we all learned to pack jars with salmon, crush fruit for jam and blanch tomatoes for canning. We even canned salmon while camping! Some of my friends are spending a lot of time harvesting, canning and … [Read more…]

Some people prefer to live somewhere that has obvious seasons; hot summers, dramatic fall foliage, cold and snowy winters, and a clear shift to spring. On the west coast of Vancouver Island, the seasonal shifts are more subtle. I prefer that, because to me it is symbolic of how our human lives change. We are born, … [Read more…]