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Celebrate! Add Carrot Pickle to Your Festive Table or Gift Boxes ARTICLES First appeared in Grainews on December 2021 All month I’ve been pestering Mom for stories. You’d think I was five again. But no. Truth is, we’ve been in closer proximity than usual. She’s... 
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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 Cheese and Virtual Rescue Missions First appeared in Grainews on 13 October 2020 Life in a pandemic takes its toll in many ways. One of the noticeable changes is how we spend our leisure time. No trips this year – not that I was actively planning, and not... 
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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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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 Running on Beans First appeared in Grainews on 20 Feb 2018 I am a runner. When the weather allows, I run with my friend, Amy Jo Ehman, along the riversides and bridges of Saskatoon when I’m not scudding through the sand and gravel of our rural roads. Last...