Have you ever wondered why we love using scallions, onions, leeks, chives and garlic in our cooking? This family has a pungent flavor and is rich in sulfur. This affects our lung health by encouraging warmth to move energy through our bodies. It helps resolve blood stagnation, reduce clotting and expel coldness. It also purifies […]
Category Archives: HEALTH & WELLNESS
Local Whole Wheat Bread
For the last several years, we have been working to localize our food. One aspect is that we began milling our own wheat last fall, after discovering Sloping Hill Farm in Qualicum Beach was growing wheat. To find a source of wheat so close to home justified the $320 investment in a flour mill. You […]
Momentum To Learn About Food
Food information is everywhere now. It beckons to us from magazines (thanks Synergy) and television shows and commercials. Documentary movies teach about farming practices and corrupt politics of food companies. Non-fiction books about food choices such as the The Omnivore’s Dilemma have become best-sellers. Since food and water, and all things agricultural, sustain our lives, […]
You Had Me at “Hello”
When I lived in Victoria, I used to run the trail around Elk and Beaver Lakes in the mornings before work. As a practice, I would always say “hello” to my fellow outdoor enthusiasts sharing the woods with me in the wee hours of dawn. I felt it odd not to, as many times we […]
Dr. Weston Price-An Early Nutrition Pioneer
Dr. Weston Price and his wife, Florence, traveled around the world in the mid 1930’s searching out people living a primitive lifestyle. Dr. Price located groups which were still eating a diet that they had been consuming for thousands of years. They took a series of photographs of the various people, measured a number of […]