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Published date April 10, 2022
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...
Published date March 30, 2022
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...
Published date March 27, 2022
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,...
Published date March 6, 2022
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...
Published date August 29, 2021
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...
Published date August 24, 2021
A few weeks ago I subscribed to Crisper Kits plant based meal kits. Like most meal kits, their whole thing is centered around delivering a kit of pre-portioned groceries (produce, spices, sauces, etc) and recipes every week. You choose how many meals you want (they have 5 options every week),...
Published date August 5, 2021
Here I am again, excitedly planning out some meals from our recently arrived Dismantling White Supremacy box. It helps me a lot to have a few ideas of what to do with our veggies, and last week’s missed box totally reduced our green vegetable consumption significantly, so I’m very excited...
Published date August 4, 2021
I’ve been following Unreal Deli (IG) online for a year or two, and have been curious about trying their products ever since. They looked really good, and I liked the variety of plant meats they had – things like corned beef, turkey, and now steak slices, but they were primarily...
Published date August 2, 2021
On the weekends we tend to leave the house as a family and Go Do Things. Sometimes that involves driving a couple of hours to a Provincial Park and spending the day hiking or hanging out on the beach or going to a farmers market or farm stand to pick...
Published date July 31, 2021
When I posted about this box to twitter last week, it seemed to make some people upset. I don’t know if it’s the name that triggered their ire, but they complained about the price of this box and shared my post so that I could get a bunch of angry...