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...
Sprout Film Mini-Festival…Making the Invisible Visible
What is “normal”? Society tends to turn a blind eye to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) so that they become invisible. The Sprout Film Festival is an event that is hosted annually in New York City that features films that provide insightful looks into the histories, struggles...
25th Blessing Anniversary of St Mary of the Angels
On Sunday, June 8th St Mary of the Angels celebrated the 25th anniversary of the building that was erected after the flood of 1987 inundated their former church on West Riverside Drive. Bishop Emeritus Gerard Dionne, who is now 95 years old, told us “Before that historic flood,...
The Modern Knowledge Tour
Have you ever heard that old joke that goes “They must think I’m a mushroom…. They keep me in the dark and feed me cow manure?” Everyone can relate to this on some level, but most people don’t realize that this little joke accurately describes how our world is...
Busman’s Holiday at The Bistro!
So….what do you do to relax and unwind when you take a break from the kitchen when you are a gourmet chef and you work every day? You go out to dine someplace else, of course, at a fine restaurant serving gourmet cuisine that another chef prepares for...