Norma Kerby
Norma Kerby is a Terrace-based writer and environmental consultant. Her passions include amphibians, natural ecosystems, sustainable living and adaptations of wildlife and people to northern British Columbia. She occasionally writes poetry about the North’s uncertain future.
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Winterizing northern gardens: Pull ’em out, turn ’em over, tuck ’em in.
“Farmer’s Almanac says it’s going to be a cold winter.”
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Winter Cities: Designing communities for whatever way the wind blows
Whoever built my former house did not know or understand the direction of the prevailing wind or how drifts are formed.
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Warmth under snow— Why rising temperatures could mean harsher climate for some species
Broad, deep tracks in the fresh snow followed the logging road ahead of us. “First snow of winter,” my grandfather would say, “and the grizzly bears head for their dens in the mountains.”
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Unseen Labyrinth: Northern BC’s amazing limestone karst topography
The dog slips farther into the hole and it becomes suddenly apparent that we’ve found exactly what we were expecting.
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The straw playhouse: Winter habitat for busy children
“So what did your children do when it was minus forty?”
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The House that Rick Built: back to the land along the Stikine
After spending the winter of 1972 in a tipi north of Terrace, Rick and Barb McCutcheon were looking for somewhere to set up a permanent homestead.
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Super Spuds: Heritage potatoes return to the North
No one was eating the mashed potatoes.
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Sunny Slopes and Garden Growth: Approaching your crops from a new angle
On a moderate, southwest-facing slope near Terrace, the remnants of a 100-year-old orchard grow as ragged witness to the agricultural era in the lower Skeena Valley.
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Storing Fresh: How to keep tasty fruits and veggies for winter
In February, the spaghetti squash in my coldroom was still as crisp as the previous autumn. Even the five large zucchinis had not moulded or withered.
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Sticks, stumps, and twigs: The DIY lumberyard of the North
“How about this one?” The tide was low and we were looking for solid sticks to brace ourselves as we waded across the Tlell River.
READ MORE➦Winter 2018-19: Slow
Slow repairs, slow pace, slow recovery, and much more.
