Have We Forgotten How Remarkable It Is to Have Enough? There is a moment at Thanksgiving when the food finally reaches the table. After the shopping, peeling, chopping, stirring, roasting, and last-minute rush to get everything hot at approximately the same time, the serving dishes begin to arrive. There may be turkey and stuffing, potatoes and vegetables, cranberry sauce and gravy, followed later by the pie that everyone insists they are too full to eat until the plates app

Twice a year, the earth appears to pause and balance itself. Day and night meet at the autumn equinox, each taking roughly half of the twenty-four hours, before darkness begins claiming a little more of the day. It sounds wonderfully orderly—as though summer has finished its shift, autumn has arrived precisely on time, and the celestial accounts have all been neatly balanced. Life, of course, is rarely that well organized.

British Columbia can be difficult to summarize because it is too large, too varied and too strongly shaped by geography to fit neatly into one description. The coast, the Interior and the North each have their own character, yet throughout the province there is a recurring relationship with land, distance, weather and adaptation. That may be why Allana’s story feels like such an appropriate introduction to British Columbia. She did not arrive as a tourist looking at the moun

Some changes are so slow that we barely notice them. Others can happen in a moment. But whether a cycle lasts a few seconds, a season, several years, or a lifetime, change does not simply appear out of nowhere. It moves through a process.

The season is changing. Your movement can change with it without disappearing.

There are almost an endless number of essential oil combinations that can be created, but creating a beneficial and well-balanced blend is not choosing three oils that sound appealing and putting them together. We consider the purpose of the blend, the aroma, the strength, the method of use, the people who will be using it, and ingredients that may need to be avoided or adjusted. Sometimes we make a small change to a recipe, and others the person and situation become the star

It is also especially useful if you live somewhere else in Canada and are wondering whether we can still help you. You do not have to live close to Nova Scotia to have a conversation with us. We work with people remotely, ship across Canada, and can discuss products, custom formulations, and appropriate service options no matter where you are located. Sometimes ten minutes is all it takes to answer the question that was keeping you from reaching out in the first place.

Long before European settlement, the Mi’kmaq were living from the land and waters of Mi’kma’ki, drawing food from the ocean, rivers, forests and changing seasons. Fish and shellfish, eel, game, berries, roots and edible plants all formed part of traditional foodways, while smoking, drying, roasting & boiling allowed foods to be prepared and preserved according to what was available at different times of year. That knowledge of the land and sea forms the beginning of the food

Air is one of those things we rarely think about until something changes. We notice it when wildfire smoke rolls in, when a room feels stuffy, when traffic fumes are heavy, or when we step outside and suddenly realize how fresh the air feels. And yet air is with us every moment.

Where would pickups be easier for you? One idea we are considering is moving the regular pickup point to somewhere such as Bedford Place Mall or Sunnyside Mall, where parking is easier, and access may be more convenient for many of our customers. We could also consider a location in Sackville, and we are looking at the possibility of creating another pickup or drop-off option in Elmsdale. But there may be another solution we have not thought of yet.

There are times when we know something in our lives needs attention, but we cannot necessarily put our finger on one single thing that needs to change. We may recognize patterns that keep repeating, feel disconnected from parts of ourselves that once felt very familiar, notice that certain areas of life seem to take far more energy than they should, or we reach a point where we know it would be worthwhile to stop and look at ourselves more closely.

We use the word energy all the time. We say we have none left, that someone changed the energy in a room, that certain foods give us energy, or that getting outside and moving can somehow make us feel more alive. Most of us recognize these experiences immediately, but we rarely stop to ask what is actually happening, why our energy can change so quickly, or how much of what we feel each day may be influenced by what we eat, how we move, and the people around us,

For most of us in Canada, water has always seemed abundant. We turn on the tap and expect it to be there. And most of the time it is! But increasingly erratic weather is changing the way we need to think about water. Long dry stretches can be followed by sudden heavy rain — sometimes so much, so quickly, that instead of soaking into the ground, it rushes away.

How do you let your child become their own person without losing the relationship that helped them become one?

When we send a child back to school in September, most of our attention naturally goes toward the things we can see and prepare for. We make sure the shoes still fit, find the backpack, buy the supplies, figure out who the teacher will be, wonder whether any familiar friends will be in the classroom, organize lunches and transportation, and, particularly with younger children, spend at least a little time wondering how that first morning is going to go.

Throughout the world, we are being impacted by supply chain issues and staffing problems. You can imagine that Casaroma is having its...