Author Archives: Rhona

Spent the weekend testing the limits of heat endurance and my sunscreen at the Vancouver Island Music Festival in Courtenay. Steven Page was solo-ing after leaving Barenaked Ladies. Arlo Guthrie played for us on his birthday and was repaid with … Continue reading →

I’ve split myself into two blogs – I wanted to see if I could prune some of my more garden-specific thoughts into my Random Garden blog – but then there’s farming which has to do with food and also growing … Continue reading →

This last was a spectacularly warm weekend in Victoria, perfect for the fifth Organic Islands festival. On Saturday the Terralicious team talked us through a sneaky way to ply your family with vegetables. Tina and Dayle concocted a couple of … Continue reading →

There has been a fair amount of coverage of the plight of Canada’s literary magazines over the past few months, which risk an untimely end if the wrong-headed Canada Periodical Fund comes into being as proposed in February: their long-term … Continue reading →

This week’s excitement was helping out Terralicious, the gardening & cooking school at Haliburton farm. There was a hungry crew to feed lunch to, while they worked to restore the wetlands area that’s attached to the farm and which the … Continue reading →