Routes & Branches & Beyond show # 285 2023 07 13
One of the primary meanings of "range" is a wide variety. So it is appropriate that this season on Routes & Branches & Beyond we're featuring a series called "Summer on the Range." And variety is no stranger to this show. Indeed, Not to labour the ...
Jul 13, 2023
Routes & Branches & Beyond show # 284 2023 07 06
Today on Routes & Branches & Beyond it is the second show of a series called "Summer on the Range." Now, you could easily be misled by this title. You may, for example, think that it refers to summer recipes for stovetop cooking. Which may seem odd ...
Jul 06, 2023
Routes & Branches & Beyond show # 283 2023 06 29
There is something in the human soul of music lovers that oft craves the new - just in case there is some combination of notes and rhythms there that go beyond what has been experienced thus far. Mathematically, we could likely compute the number of p...
Jun 29, 2023
Routes & Branches & Beyond show # 282 2023 06 22
Summer is a season to head out on the range. Now, when I say "range," I'm not referring to a kitchen stove, or even an open, grassy expanse that you pasture cattle on and ride through astride a trusty, noble steed, posing for tourists as you go. No, ...
Jun 22, 2023
Fit To Eat S3E31 Windy Heights Farm
What do cattle, sod, 16 kinds of mushrooms, chickens, lard pigs, vegetables, hay, geese, bees, a CSA, and an education centre all have in common? If you answered that they are all at Windy Heights Farm, you'd be correct. Anita and Gerard Walsh and th...
Jun 20, 2023
Routes & Branches & Beyond show # 281 2023 06 15
Here we are finally. You've run the race and made it to the finish. It's the last episode of Celtic Spring - the lucky 13th episode - the baker's dozen (which is an odd term - maybe it only refers to bakers who go bankrupt due to inaccurate accountin...
Jun 15, 2023
Routes & Branches & Beyond show # 280 2023 06 08
The ways we measure things here in Canada are a bit of a mixture. We have eagerly embraced metric measures in some matters, but we still have obscure hold-outs - like "a dozen." What's that about? I even hear people sometimes talking about "a fortni...
Jun 08, 2023
Fit To Eat S3E30 Shawn Dawson
If you're a standard meat & potatoes person, or you're stuck in a rut getting all of your food from a grocery store, then it's time to get out of that cage and spread your wings. So today's special on the menu includes learning about the best time t...
Jun 05, 2023
Routes & Branches & Beyond show # 279 2023 06 01
You've likely heard the expression, "put a little spring in your step." I'm a bit confused about what this means. In my experience, stepping on a spring is decidedly painful. So there must be another explanation. But instead of wasting time ponderi...
Jun 01, 2023
Routes & Branches & Beyond show # 278 2023 05 25
Who was it who said, "what is old is new again?" Probably several people - maybe at least one every generation. A kind-of-similar situation exists with music. Sometimes new releases rely on old motifs and themes and riffs - making these all sound ne...
May 25, 2023