Those of us who have been tuned in to the world of local and seasonal eating for a while probably have a complex, somewhat compli...

The Bide-A-While birch syrup family portrait. It may very well be that we have reached peak birch here at Bide-A-While.   The sap...

One swallow does not a summer make, the saying goes, nor does a warm, sunny day or two in March guarantee that spring is here to st...

March is a difficult month.  It promises spring, but often belongs equally, if not more so, to winter.  It makes you think of gardening...

 I'll be leading a session on sourdough bread basics at this year's Hay River Transition Initiative's Traditional and Gre...