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April 10, 2022

Weekend Maple Tree Visit at Purple Woods

Our small human recently celebrated a birthday and we booked a cottage near Presquille Provincial Park, and had a lovely little time. While we were in the area, we also took the opportunity to check out the Purple Woods Maple Festival. We heard about it while taking part in an...

March 30, 2022

Bloomer’s Copycat Cobb Salad

I don’t know about you, but in 2014-2015 I basically lived at bloomers every Tuesday morning. I’d make sure to buy coffee and food on the regular, but I would park myself in a booth, and sit there with my laptop for several hours. It was not usually super busy...

March 27, 2022

Coburg, Ontario – The Market and Smør

We’ve been spending more time in Northumberland County lately, in preparation for moving to the woods (to some degree or another) and one of our visits included a stop into a very lovely independent grocery store. I will come back to take more pictures when it’s a little less busy,...

March 6, 2022

Peterborough, Ontario – Nateure’s Plate

The past few months we’ve been spending a lot of time looking around rural Ontario – and luckily, some of those trips have taken us through Peterborough. In doing so, got us to Nateure’s Plate for the first time. Nateure’s Plate has been open since 2018, but somehow it took...

October 25, 2021

Barrie, Ontario – Mexhico

Continuing our trip home from North Bay, and past the 2.5 Provincial Parks we’d end up visiting, we passed through Huntsville and charged our car for a few minutes and popped into the food coop in Huntsville I had wanted to visit for a while, which was unfortunately an abysmal...

October 10, 2021

Parks and Food Trucks

Continuing on from our North Bay trip, we got up Sunday morning, packed into the car, and got on the road. First stop, South Bay Provincial Park (traditional territories of Michif Piyii, and Anishinabewaki). Or so we thought. Normally I do a more thorough check of our destinations, but didn’t...

October 5, 2021

North Bay Roadtrip – North Star Diner

Last weekend we decided to visit North Bay – specifically to eat the East Coast Brunch brunch at the North Star Diner, and because I have a fondness for North-Central Ontario. Currently , I’m eager to take any excuse to travel a bit further than our usual 2hr radius away...

September 25, 2021

Arden, Ontario – the Coachman at Eco Acres

Eco Acres is a large expanse of mostly undeveloped land in the forest with some off-grid cabins and bunkies in Arden, Ontario. It’s just around 3 hours away from Toronto, and 2 hours away from Ottawa. Back in the late autumn of 2017 we stayed at a bunkie called The...

September 17, 2021

Earl Rowe, Fry Trucks, & Getting Outside

A recent weekend was spent at Earl Rowe Provincial Park – which also just happens to have a pretty decent fry truck nearby, so we took care of a few things we like to do on the weekend at once. Parks, Fry Trucks, and road trips. We’ve visited Earl Rowe...

August 29, 2021

DWS Box August 26 – Some pictures and Recipes

Every week, one of the highlights is the dismantling white supremacy box we get from FoodShare Toronto. This week’s box was full of really delicious things, including more perilla leaves, red garden egg, and sharp purple radishes. I like this box, because the greens are always the freshest you can...