On The Road

Krystal on August 29th, 2010

This weekend I found myself in Calgary for a convention which is completely unrelated to this post except that it brought me to Broken City for a show on Friday night. I needed something to do and figured supporting live music was a good bet. I dined alone huddled under a heater upstairs until the [...]

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Krystal on August 5th, 2010

We are still picking raspberries. My God. Still. I need a scale to weigh just how many kilos of raspberries we’ve picked. A bloody lot. Raspberries, berries in general do not travel well and by the time the bucket is full and the berries are rinsed they are pretty much mush. Which makes good fruit [...]

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Krystal on August 2nd, 2010

Our affiliations with food fascinate me. What we eat, when we eat, how we choose it, historically and on an individual basis are all things that I (pardon the pun) am hungry to learn. I do not eat very much. It’s not a diet or weight thing, I certainly eat when I am hungry I [...]

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Krystal on July 29th, 2010

This is quite frankly brilliant. If I had a cell phone my problems of finding local food where ever we find our selves would be over. www.realtimefarms.com Add info for your area and tell your friends

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Krystal on July 23rd, 2010

I now know why cattle farmers never seem to particularly ‘like’ cows. It always struck me as odd that you would be engaged with an animal every day and seem to have no attachment to it. But now I get it. I don’t like cows. They are dumb and difficult. Recently up at our practice [...]

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Krystal on June 28th, 2010

SO many stories to tell. Summer is finally here, Solstice has passed the moon is full and the days are long and warm. We’ve had a great spring for mushrooms and the local morels are pouring into our tummies and the dehydrator. Grass is tall because of all the rain which is good news for [...]

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