I think every writer goes through this period of enormous self doubt….and I’m struggling with it right now I think. I have about ten posts that I have written …rough drafts…..and I never quite allow them to become REAL. Hopefully winter will make me brave! New things going on: Baby has a couple of new […]
Late May our first child was born in the wee hours of a warm muggy morning. We happened to be adopting but I was lucky enough to have been there for her since the beginning, and was also lucky enough to be part of her birth. As you can imagine we have been busy since […]
This year I didn't get to do my usual slew of floral jellies but I am going to get to do my berry jellies and jams. I thought I would share the cloudberry recipe. Cloudberries are the arctic most beloved of berry! They are also called salmonberries (though they are a different berry) or Akpiks […]
This year I decided to try and to begin to improve my soil from the get go. Our soil here is very nitrogen and nutrient poor. It also lacks organic material. Most of the wild arctic plants grow in the thin topsoil layer that consist mainly of dead plant material and rabbit and ptarmigan poo […]