Fill Your Home with the Love of Rescued Pets!
Valerie Furge My husband and I share our home with a dog, four cats and a number of fish. All (not counting the fish) have come from a variety of shelters under a variety of circumstances – each different but with the same underlying theme – cats and dogs...
A Pet Story: Olive the Other Reindeer
Last year, or maybe even in 2012, we’d published a photo of “Olive the Other Reindeer” on our pet page, a DunRoamin’ rescue who was looking for her forever home. A few days ago, I ran into Marilyn Lewis and we got to talking pets and she told...
NB…The Garbage Province
A few weeks ago Blackfly reader Sharon Geldart sent us a photo file containing numerous pictures of the crap and garbage she is finding every day and every time she goes for a walk. I’d planned to publish these photos ASAP, and as The Old man in the...
Perth-Andover Resident Has Poem Selected for Mindscapes
Tinker resident Chris Fitzherbert has had a poem accepted for display at the upcoming Mindscape Exhibit in Miramichi later this year. Mindscapes New Brunswick is a Canadian Mental Health Association initiative which strives to empower people who have lived the experience of mental illness. It offers these people a...
Heavy Equipment Training in NB
High Velocity College, a heavy equipment training school based in Camrose, Alberta, has begun operations in New Brunswick. The college is currently based in the Tobique Fisheries Building at Tobique First Nation. Fifteen students have been enrolled in the 12 week heavy equipment operations course, and are halfway...
Hops….A Multi-Purpose Plant!
Hops are not just for beer. They make a beautiful and hardy ornamental plant for your garden, and the plant has a long history of use as medicinal herb as well as a beer ingredient by many different cultures. Hops are a vigorous, climbing perennial plant that is...
HOPS: Opportunity For An Aleing Economy?
By Francine St.Amand HOPS is one of those niche agricultural crops that is showing up more and more in NB’s rural landscape. When Joe Gee started up a vineyard on his farm in Carlingford last year, I realized that HOPS cultivation was something I wanted to learn more about....
P-A Community Garden Update
& The Amazing No-Dig No-Till Lasagna Garden Method The Perth-Andover Community Garden is now ready to go! It’s been tilled, and plots are marked out and several plots are still available and are free! The Community Garden has a Facebook page for meeting notes and updates, and if...
Snippets!
This is/will be an anthology of snippets! Little things – fragments! Like – there are no regular changes in the sky, the heavens, the zodiac, that occur in seven days and correspond to a week! Sardine – there’s no such actual fish. By age 15 the average teen, nowadays,...
“Trash Talk”
the old man in the hat The Province of New Brunswick must act. Failure to do so may result in serious bodily harm. How so? From time to time I travel with my partner who periodically shouts “Pigs”, which immediately and abruptly wakens me from my quiet...