Food
Not Pecan - Paint Swatch Contest Honourable Mention
Prince Rupert-based Caroline Dudley submitted this entry to our Paint Swatch Writing Contest.
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Slow Burn
What happens when you process chilis for a deer sausage recipe with just one glove? Haida Gwaii-based Allison Smith has the story...and the heat-haunted memories that go with it.
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The Good Life
The green of lettuce, the yellow of fresh egg yolks, and the red of the soil after processing livestock. Life in the North has long been about self-sufficiency and today young families continue to choose a lifestyle where everything that ends up on the dinner table comes from just out the back door. Sarah Artis dabbles and joins a pair of families trading the 9 to 5 for something a bit more hands on.
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Haida Gwaii: The Board Game
Incorporating Haida cultural history, Nang K’uulas develops a new strategy game
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Beginnings
Check out Northword's latest publication, a collection of northern stories and amazing images.
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Fishing for Future
Opening day on the Skeena came late this year. Kitsumkalum fish monitors were there working with recreational anglers to gather data. Britta Boudreau takes us to the river, and gives us a glimpse of what’s at stake if the salmon stop swimming, and who is working to protect the resource.
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The Last Salmon Stronghold
Salmon are a way of life in northern BC. This season’s closures of the sockeye and Chinook fisheries on the Skeena River are causing ripples of fear for a future with no fish in the rivers. Dan Mesec investigates the issues, and the potential cultural implications of declining stocks.
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The Path of the Herbalist
Imagine dried herbs, ground-up roots and powdered barks carefully labelled and arranged in neat wooden boxes, dried berries wrapped in a deer skin pouch or willow bark being boiled in a cast iron pot over an open campfire.
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Mobile Eateries Drive Home Local Food Movement
When you tuck in behind the wheel on your next journey along a northern BC highway, there’s a pretty good chance you will already have your favourite pit stops planned out.
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Growing the Northern Tomato
If a northern gardener is going to be caught bragging, chances are good that it will be about their tomatoes.
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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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Smokin’ Good Fish: Many ways to smoke a salmon
A slight breeze rustles the aspen leaves, and on it drifts the distinct scent of a northern summer. It could be a campfire or a Bar-B-Q, but when the days are long and when the salmon are running, the smell of smoke carries with it the flavour of curing fish and the promise of good eating throughout the winter.
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Medicinal flower power: More than just a pretty face
Flowers are widely viewed as something decorative to put in the front yard or to help improve pollination for squash by attracting bees.
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The bitter side of sweetness: Struggling with obsessive eating disorder
Lisa sits across from me in a Smithers coffee shop, sipping a caramel macchiato.
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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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Crop studies: Learning more about the food we grow
In the 1940s and ’50s, federally funded experimental farms in Smithers and Prince George were part of a network across Canada established to trial new crops and develop the nation’s agricultural prowess.
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Rainbow Carrots: New farmers bring promise to north coast agriculture
“So how did you become so enthusiastic about being a farmer?” I ask Anita Hein, owner of Anita Farm in Jackpine Flats outside Terrace.
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Dandelions: An underrated northern delicacy
The dandelion is a plant that gives and gives...
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Super Spuds: Heritage potatoes return to the North
No one was eating the mashed potatoes.
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Food Secure: Maintaining access to sustainable nutrition
“So what exactly is food security?”
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Seed-saving——a heritage tradition for the future
Before ordering seeds from a catalogue was common, seed-saving from the backyard and trading with neighbours was a tradition that generations of gardeners followed to keep harvests plentiful.
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Soapberry’s gift: Hardworking shrub gives more than it takes
Plants provide us with so much: fresh air, food, fabric, fuel, beauty… the list goes on.
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Native pollinators: The key to garden abundance
Scream! Swoon! Swat! Squish! It’s the recognizable four-step “get that bee out of my hair” jive.
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Shelving Sunshine: the art of food dehydration
“What are you going to do with all those apples?”
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The Northern Garden Gamble: know when to hold ‘em, know when to sow ‘em
When the robins are back and the pussy-willows are in their prime, northern gardeners emerge from hibernation and start pacing around the piles of snow and sodden earth, trying their best to be patient until spring really arrives so the planting can begin.
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The Salmon Cycle: Keeping Salmon sustainable and close to home
It’s unknown exactly how long the Lake Babine people have relied upon salmon. For countless generations, ocean-run sockeye made its way from the Pacific, up the Skeena River, to the Babine River and its spawning grounds at Babine Lake, sustaining the nation while also providing a resource to trade with other nations.
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Sharing Something Good: Renowned Rupert Restaurant Releases Recipes
It’s not much bigger than your average home’s kitchen and dining room, but Prince Rupert’s Cow Bay Café has a powerful reputation that belies its modest square footage. For 16 years, eating a meal at this cosy gem of a restaurant (if you can get a reservation) has been as much an essential Rupert experience as having your brolly blown inside-out by a gale. It’s a favoured destination for special birthday tète-a-tètes, business lunches for suits from the Port, and dinners to show off its charming waterfront location to family and visitors from away
READ MORE➦Winter 2018-19: Slow
Slow repairs, slow pace, slow recovery, and much more.
