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Fishers and Farmers First appeared in Grainews on 12 October 2021 Articles Early fall, and I am on a West Coast holiday with Mom, revisiting the foods, places, and faces of her youth. Mom is a retired dryland farmer, and like me, she misses the ready access to fish... 
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Articles Water First appeared in Grainews on 25 September 2018 Dave is mourning the passing of the lake that almost surrounded our house for seven years. It covered fifteen acres at its peak, in fact a large slough, but ‘lake’ dignified what was a difficult situation.... 
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Canadiana Classics, Part I: Nanaimo Bars: A Fat Slice of History ARTICLES First appeared in Grainews on April 2022 I lived in Vancouver in my twenties. Yaletown didn’t exist yet, other than as hulking rows of empty warehouses to be bicycled past quickly. Granville... 
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Lentils from the Ashes of War ARTICLES First appeared in Grainews on 5 April 2022 In 1923, Jirys Ya’qūb Sallūm kissed his wife and young sons goodbye in the town of Qar’awn, located in the Biqa’ Valley, in the French protectorate of Lebanon and Syria. Speaking only... 
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Lemon Tree Very Pretty First appeared in Grainews on March 2020 Articles I’m standing in my auntie’s orchard on a mild afternoon, the temperature about 18 C. In Canada, it’s deep winter, but here in California, the citrus trees have bloomed, and the fruit is ripe.... 
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Articles In Good Company First appeared in Grainews on 9 April 2019 We arrived for a preliminary visit at the farm in June 2010, a month ahead of our move-in date. Over-anxious? Eager? Yes, both, but mostly we came early to help my aging parents move out – into a...