My hiatus went wonderfully. I wrote about 30 pages each day and read and watched lots of movies. It was sort of relaxing. I also learned that a story I wrote for Alberta Venture is now online. You can read about how Alberta farmers are dealing with climate change right over here- >
Tag: agriculture
My experience as a 2012 IFAJ Alltech young leader
I decided one post on my experience attending the conference of the International Federation of Agricultural Journalists (IFAJ) was not sufficient. So you get two posts, gentle readers. Here’s the backstory, my friend Lisa Guenther was the 2011 Young Leader and attended the IFAJ conference last year in Guelph . She was the one who […]
Busy like a….
Bee? I’m well on my way to becoming crazy bee lady. My aunt made me a set of nice placemats out of a bee printed fabric and I bought myself some bee-related art today. I guess becoming a bee lady is more palatable than becoming a cat lady, right? Anyway, I have been very, very […]
The wheels on the bus….
They keep turning and turning. I’m back from a short vacation. I was out in Victoria, visiting family. I also did a reading at the Planet Earth poetry reading series, which was quite well attended. I was busy with my day job, but things are gearing up for April, which is National Poetry month. April […]
What I’ve been doing
Since December, I have become a semi-professional house sitter. I’ve been looking after animals, and seem to have developed some cat caring skills. I don’t really understand cats, but now I’m a little more familiar with them. I’ve also been working a lot on the day job. Farm writing is always busiest from January to […]
Guest editing the National Post Afterword
This past week, I was the Guest Editor for the Afterword, which is the online books section for the National Post. I wrote four posts which appeared on the website this week. Urban beekeeping This post was well received and ended up on a number of urban beekeeping sites around the world! The second post […]