The Complete Guide to Seed and Nut Oils is a comprehensive, beautifully illustrated and photographed, full-color guide to growing, foraging, and pressing nut and seed crops to produce high-quality oils for culinary and other uses. Coverage includes:
A brief history of seed oil extraction
Culinary and health benefits of home-pressed oils versus factory produced oils
Presses and other equipment options for ease, cost, and convenience
How-to for growing, harvesting, processing, and pressing nuts and seeds
Profiles of over 40 nuts and seeds to grow, forage, or source including hempseed, flax, peanuts, sunflowers, walnuts, okra, and more.
Oil processing, storage, and culinary and other uses
Scaling up for community or small-scale commercial production.
Whether you want to produce oils for cooking, balms and salves, self-sufficiency and resiliency or for small-scale commercial or community production, The Complete Guide to Seed and Nut Oils is a one-stop shop to get you started.
https://newsociety.ca/books/c/the-complete-guide-to-seed-and-nut-oils
The Book of Nature Connection is packed with fun activities for using all our senses to engage with nature in a deep and nourishing way.
From "extenda-ears" and acorn whistles to bird calls, camouflage games, and scent scavenger hunts, enjoy over 70 diverse, engaging, sensory activities for all ages that promote mindfulness and nature connection.
With activities grouped by the main senses – hearing, sight, smell, touch, and taste – plus sensory walks and group games, The Book of Nature Connection is both a powerful learning tool kit and the cure for sensory anesthesia brought on by screen time and lives lived indoors.
Whisper in birds, be dazzled by nature's kaleidoscope of colors, taste the freshness of each season, learn to savor the scented world of evergreens, hug a tree and feel the bark against your cheek. Spending time in nature with all senses tuned and primed helps us feel like we belong to the natural world – and in belonging, we come to feel more connected, nourished, and alive.
Ideal for educators, camp and youth leaders, caregivers and parents, and anyone looking to reconnect and become a nature sommelier!
Ditch the plastic garbage & compost bin liners and use newspaper instead.
About 2.8 million tonnes of plastic waste ends up in Canadian landfills annually — equivalent to the weight of 24 CN towers. According to the Canadian government, Canadians use almost 15 billion plastic bags every year and close to 57 million straws every day.
These stats are overwhelming but we can divert a whole lot of plastic when we commit to making consistent everyday changes. One way to do this is to ditch our plastic garbage and compost bags where we can. No more unnecessary plastic lining your bin and going into landfills and no more buying bin liners from the supermarket.
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Best Yellow Flowers For Summer
The best of summer is yet to come! Here’s our ODE TO YELLOW FLOWERS IN AUGUST 🌼☀️💛🌻😊 Whatever you call it — golden yellow, butter yellow, lemon yellow, dark yellow, cream yellow, citrine yellow — it’s the colour of happiness, and optimism, of enlightenment and creativity, sunshine and, best of all, it’s the colour of summer!
Yellow is the most luminous of all the colours in nature … it’s the colour of daffodils, sunflowers, autumn maple trees, baby chickens, finches and bees. It’s the colour that captures our attention more than any other and that’s why it’s important to add yellow to your garden.
Here are some August-blooming yellow perennials to try:
YARROW – loves sun and dry soil
COREOPSIS (Tickseed) – easy to grow with lots of flowers
RUDBECKIA HIRTA (Brown-eyed Susans) – a fast grower that multiplies quickly and can withstand a bit of drought
GOLDENROD– an easy to care for native plant that attracts bees and butterflies and is perfect for creating homemade bouquets. Note that it’s a myth that goldenrod causes hay fever — ragweed, which blooms at the same time, is generally the sneeze-inducing culprit
HELENIUM – a perfect daisy flower for moist soil and late summer colour
HELIANTHUS (Sunflower) – perennial sunflowers have smaller heads than the traditional ones we start from seed but there are many more flowers on each stem
OPUNTIA – a perennial cactus that can grow 30cm high and wide in the full sun with well-drained soil
ORIENTAL LILY – with their large blooms and sweet fragrance, these late-summer blooming lilies are worth the wait!
Yellow perennials can be some of the most beautiful plants in your garden, and best of all they don’t require yearly planting. Once established, perennials will keep coming back from their roots year after year to grace your little piece of earth with their bright flowers.
If you are craving yellow flowers that will shine all summer, annuals like marigolds,
Harrowsmith Radio Episode 1
Listen in to Canadians living sustainably with Harrowsmith’s new podcast.
Episode One: Salt from the Rock and Ice for the Rink
Listen to the whole podcast at https://www.harrowsmithmag.com/
In this, our first episode of Harrowsmith Radio we go just about as far east in Canada as you can get: Bonavista, Newfoundland. There we’ll meet Peter Burt who, along with his partner Robin Crane, launched the Newfoundland Salt Company almost exactly a year ago. Peter, a former St. John’s chef now makes his salt from the pristine waters that flow between Bonavista and Trinity Bays.
Next, we’ll meet a true Canadian hometown winter hero, Michael Buma. Why a hero? Buma built ice rinks in the freezing cold and then wrote about it, and hockey.
So, here we go, ice and salt, that’s a pretty good Canadian winter start for a podcast, don’t you think?
Want more Harrowsmith? No problem. Visit our website. And, you can read stories about Peter and Michael in the Winter issue of Harrowsmith Magazine. On a fine newsstand near you!
By the way, the music in the podcast? It's by good ol' Canadian singer, composer and friend of the 'cast, David Archibald. You can find more of his music at his website, davidarchibald.com.
Harrowsmith Radio Episode 2
Listen in to Canadians living sustainably with Harrowsmith’s new podcast
https://harrowsmithmag.com/ Episode 2 going live on March 1st
The new Harrowsmith video - what do you think?
The Quintessential Northern Soundtrack
The soundtrack on West Little Lake last night after sunset...completely spellbound.
