How secret poetry appreciators and others need places to act out their wild imaginings Here’s a sneak peek at tomorrow’s Pique back page. Exclusive to subscribers! (You can read it there at https://www.piquenewsmagazine.com/local-news/opinion-culture-is-a-real-estate-problem-11557490) Kerry Dorey, Jay Molloy and I had this idea. Officially, we’re the Society of Secret Poetry Appreciators, but you should know that…
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The Art of Farming
The Art of Farming ran in the debut issue of Edible Sea to Sky magazine. Photos by Brenda Bakker. At Laughing Crow Organics, the empty spring field is Kerry McCann’s blank canvas Every year, the impossible goal to provision 600 households starts with the same blank canvas: bare earth, covered in snow, and a new…
Lift and drag: on being voted Pemberton’s Favourite Writer
The Best of Pemberton issue that Pique newsmagazine puts out, landed a month ago. Everything is moving slowly in me these days, so it took a while to formulate a response to being anointed Pemberton’s Favourite Writer. As a friend recently shared, compliments tend to make one’s mind explode. Well, specifically the phrase that The…
Riding Back in Time
As we rode away from the trailhead, the guide turned back to throw a cheerful bit of advice over her shoulder. “You might as well turn your phones to Airplane Mode now. Save the batteries for the camera.” Searching for a signal would drain them dead, since there’s none to be found once you ride…
The Dirt on Food
“Fuck calories,” says Krista Scott-Dixon (@stumptuous). “Fuck vitamins. Fuck ‘willpower’. Put real cream in your coffee. And have an avocado too. Your relationship with food and eating is your relationship with life.” Her book, Fuck Calories and Other Dietary Heresies rethinks nutritionism manifesto-style – it’s a 41 page debunking of dieting BS, distilled down to…
Counting birds, wrangling hawks: how Pemberton’s go-to bird guy help me find my way home
If a cold and hungry hawk is going to get itself entangled in the netting of your chicken coop, attempting to source itself a nice New Year’s Day dinner, the best possible scenario is to be John Tschopp’s neighbour. The 40-year Pemberton resident unwittingly designated himself as my go-to guy for any bird-related questions, when…
Live well in your places
I rediscovered a favourite journalist/writer this week, in the kind of happy happenstance that doesn’t occur for Presidents, when a rain day cut climbing short and led us to the Squamish library for an afternoon at the magazine stacks with the latest issue of Vanity Fair and a profile of Barack Obama. Prior to snagging…
Locavore’s Dilemma: four bags of salad for dinner? And no tomatoes.
Local honey, a bag of fresh greens and peppery little radishes – that was my haul from the first Pemberton Farmers Market for the season. (Wednesday nights, 4pm-7pm, outside the Pemberton Valley Grocery store.) So, now we’re fully stocked on salad greens – exposing the joy and the challenge of eating locally, in season –…
Chasing the light – shooting the Economic Development Commission campaign
Spent Monday night chasing the light, working with photographer Robin O’Neill, to capture the second “story” for a campaign for the Pemberton & District Economic Development Commission. This shot of our kick-ass local models was eliminated from the final cut, mostly because of the vertical orientation, but it sure fit the branding requirements of showcasing…
A Busy Week in the Co-Laboratory
Spent the week in the laboratory, cooking up a little creative campaign, alongside some of my favourite collaborators, photographer Robin O’Neill, designer Lisa Komuro, and the gorgeous Megeney/Lambrecht clan. The creative will roll out this summer and is anchored by a website showcasing the Potato Nation, and all its growers, makers, movers and shakers.
Lisa Richardson Bylines 