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  • Earth Day Poetry!

    If you’re in Vancouver next Saturday April 20, please come to our reading! It’s at the Capilano Branch library, 3045 Highland Blvd, North Vancouver (Registration link: https://nvdpl.ca/node/5884/register) Please pass the word to North Shore poetry pals!

  • Winter Market, Vancouver

    I’ve made a couple of delicious visits to Riley Park Winter Market and here are some of the sights I’ve seen…..

    My first foray was in early March, when Vancouver had received an unwelcome dump of snow. Which didn’t deter shoppers or stallholders!

     

    Market stalls and people with snowy foreground

    Baker at market stall
    Lisa Virtue, baker
    Different varieties of winter squash displayed in boxes
    Lovely winter squash
    Cabbage and assorted radishes in boxes at vegetable stall
    Exotic radish varieties
    Carrots and root vegetables on display at market stall
    Roots!
    Different boxes of apples on display at market stall
    Organic apples
    Customer filling bag with stinging nettles at market stand
    Self serve nettles
    Mobile cheese seller
    Say cheese…
    Whistler Harvest mushroom seller with boxes of mushrooms
    Mushrooms!
    Cardboard box with mushroom assortment
    Shiitake, Lion’s Mane, Oyster, Maitake (Hen Of The Woods)

  • Roots & shoots

    Rainforest, mossy trees
    Vancouver has an abundance of parks, and I’ve been enjoying many a forested stroll in Pacific Spirit, but also got a nice walk in somewhere up the side of Cypress Mountain, on the north shore, which has many trails.

    At Pacific Spirit Park I’m particularly taken by the determination of young trees to grow from the stumps of the old giants who were long felled here. The elders nurture the new growth until they dissolve, leaving the youngsters to sort out their root system which is far above ground level.

    Tree roots covering a stump Roots covering a stump Roots covering a stumpRoots covering a stump

     

     

     

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Book cover of Rhona McAdam's book Larder with still life painting of lemons and lemon branches with blossoms in a ceramic bowl. One of the lemons has a beed on it.

In her latest collection, Rhona McAdam navigates the dark places of human movement through the earth and the exquisite intricacies lingering in backyard gardens and farmlands populated by insects and pollinators, all the while returning to the body, to the tune of staccato beats and the newly discovered symmetries within the human heart.

Enjoy

“…A beautiful, filling collection, Larder is a set of poems to read at the change of the seasons, to appreciate alongside a good meal, and to remind yourself of the beauty in everything, even the things you may not appreciate before opening McAdam’s collection….”

Alison Manley

Rhona McAdam is a writer, poet, editor, and Registered Holistic Nutritionist with a Master’s in Food Culture from Italy and a deep-rooted passion for ecology and urban agriculture. Her work spans corporate and technical writing to poetry and creative nonfiction, often exploring the vital links between what we eat and how we live. Based in Victoria, BC, and available via Zoom, Rhona is always open to new writing commissions, readings, or workshops on nutrition and the culinary arts.

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