Celestial Navigation: A Lost Art of Finding Our Way
We are all navigators. To find our way from one place to another, we often look for landmarks or use maps when we are traveling...
Wild Traditions
From Rags to Rugs: An Enduring Form of Folk Art
On a wintery Monday morning, I walked through the doors of a local recreation centre at the end of Toivo Street in Thunder Bay. About...
Great Lakes Surfing, Northern Ontario-style
While most of us embrace the onset of winter with conventional coping mechanisms (fleece-lined pants, cozy slippers, a good book, a hot mug of tea),...
Hunting with Hawks: The Heritage and Tradition
Flight has always captivated the human imagination. We marvel at birds, masters of the sky, who defy gravity and soar into a layer of the...
Farming in the North: Stone-ground Flour and More
If you’re passing through Thunder Bay, you may not expect to find fields of corn, soy, rye and barley along the highway southwest of the...
Shrubs, Bitters and WildCrafted Cocktails
Last month, I tuned into a live webcast to learn how to make a sugar-reduced version of the Spanish summer classic, sangria. This drink is...
Superior Fishing: Bringing the Fish Back Home
Friend of the author Kirsti Harris displays her custom made fillet knife after fishing an unknown lake for walleye. | KIRSTI HARRIS Like most natural resource...
10 Tips for Sustainably Foraging Food
Foraging for wild foods can be a useful tool to engage with the landscape, but with all its hype in today’s mainstream media—from Facebook groups...