Raw Honey vs Pasteurized “Honey”
Honey has been valued by people for thousands of years for its flavour, nutritional value and healing properties. Honey is anti-microbial and was used in ancient times for both dressing wounds and as a preservative for herbal medicines. In fact, raw honey has such amazing natural preservative qualities...
How the Honey Bees Got Their Stingers A Cherokee Legend
Back in ancient times when the people were more pure and could converse with the animals and the Creator would visit with them, the people asked the Creator for something that was ‘sweet’ to the taste. So the Creator sent the Bee, but the Bee had no stinger. Down...
The Georgetown Conference…Rural Redefined!
The great myth of rural Atlantic Canada is that she is a region whose best years are behind her. Her people are too old, the story goes, and too dependent on failing traditional industries and too dependent on the government. There’s definitely truth in those words…those us of who...
6th Annual Larlee Creek Hullabaloo
Perth-Andover August 16-18, 2013 This year the “Little Festival That Could” promises to be bigger and better than ever! Gathering together as a community to listen to live music has been one of mankind’s greatest loves throughout the ages. If a person could sing or play an instrument, they...
“Rain, Rain Go Away!”
The old man in the hat Rain. I am some glad that we have had bountiful rain. All this rain makes the lawn grow. The lawn. Who invented the lawn. Let’s blame the Albertans. Lawns are just an Albertan conspiracy to force us to spend our hard earned lucre...