Organic gardening
The term organic gardening has been thrown around a lot over the last few years when it comes to gardening and growing food. Someone, somewhere decided that organic is healthier and therefore more expensive because it is harder to grow food without the use of synthetic fertilizers and sprays. The good new is that when […]
SNAP – 2025
Have you been doing your homework? If you’re old enough to vote then you’re old enough to know better as regards the upcoming Federal Election. You deserve to know better. You do a little bit of digging beyond the social media memes, the cartoons, the iffy “facts” and what your friend’s brother’s boss has to […]
Be prepared
My grandparents used to say “Don’t cast a cloot til May is oot”. Which simply meant “don’t go without a coat until May is over”, to be prepared. Or in our case, if the grandparents were around, it meant no matter how warm it was outside we were expected to wear a jacket or a […]
Comparing quality levels
While true that in comparing ourselves to others comparison is the thief of joy, in the world of wine, comparisons are essential. I recently facilitated a comparison wine tasting with a group of local winemakers. I poured three PEC grown wines and two international wines with price being the comparison point and quality being the […]
Insect hotels
I’ve been seeing a lot more attention being placed on having insect hotels in our backyards to encourage beneficial pollinating insects to visit our gardens. Surprisingly, these hotels are really only designed for one type of insect, although it looks like there are several different housing options in the latest designs. Insect hotels are the […]
Speak up
Sometimes it takes a while to get a column onto “paper”. This is one of those “sometimes”. I know what I want to say. I write a bunch of words. I put the computer away for an hour. I read what I wrote. I start over. I don’t want to sound as if I can’t […]
Trade talks
There has been much more talk in the news lately about breaking down interprovincial trade barriers and specifically how that would affect alcohol sales across the country. And on March 5, the federal government issued a statement suggesting changes will soon be made to remove interprovincial trade barriers. As it stands now, each province is […]
Pops of colour
This is such a dangerous time of year for your bank account! Spring is when we come out from our caves and start trying to shake off the cabin fever! Sadly, this is the time of year when we gravitate to bright bold colours in clothing, indoor paints and outdoor decor, mostly because everything has […]
Provincial trade barriers
In 2012, New Brunswick resident Gérard Comeau travelled to Quebec to buy beer at a lower cost than in New Brunswick. He was fined nearly $300 for possessing liquor not purchased from the New Brunswick Liquor Corporation. When he contested the ticket, the case ended up before the Supreme Court, in what came to be […]
March-ing Ahead
In the blink of an eye it’s March and we’re sliding into Spring! Lots of folks look at March as the beginning of the start of the mapping and the planning and the dieting and the exercising and the denying for the beach body they think they’ll have for sure, perhaps maybe, this year—but most […]