On a grey morning near the Comox Valley, where cedars crowd the roadside and foxes slip through ditches, a small...
Survival
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Mid-May showers – real showers, those that we haven’t seen in a couple of years, it feels like – have...
The irony of surviving is that for all the work you do to stay alive, all you really want is...
A lot can change in the course of a couple weeks. Now, many of us find ourselves adjusting to living,...
After a several-year drought of morels in our area, this spring has brought us a flush of mushrooms. Be it...
I’m all for living in the moment (and I’ll preface this by saying, please don’t come for me after this...
In the world of wilderness skills, there is almost always a natural progression of mastering one and then moving on...
If biophilia is the innate affinity of human beings with the natural world, then is that why we do it?...
Foraging, be it for plants, berries or mushrooms, is one of the most accessible ways to experience the outdoors. It...
Fireweed (Chamerion angustifolium) has to be one of my favourite wildflowers. Scattered throughout many environments, the sea of deep pink...