Routes & Branches & Beyond show # 277 2023 05 18
I realize that doing a series on Celtic "Spring" may open me to criticisms that I'm just a huckster for some over-priced water company (which are mostly bottle-selling companies), trying to pawn off municipal tap water as a life-giving natural source....
May 17, 2023
Fit To Eat S3E29 Adam Furlong
When we hear discussions about the gradual shift from oil and gas to a more sustainable model of energy, it is often related to a regional or national context. But a similar kind of transition can also happen on a household scale, with effects that ri...
May 15, 2023
Routes & Branches & Beyond show # 276 2023 05 11
Here in the Northern Hemisphere, this is the time of year when the soil in your backyard is saying, "hey, bring on those tomatoes and peppers - it's time to plant them. Don't worry, I'll take care of them. There's no more chance of a frost! You can ...
May 10, 2023
Fit To Eat S3E28 Damien Oliver
Sometimes, after an interview, I find a quiet place along the bay and record some notes, to remember the event. Here's a rough audio clip of what I recorded after today's interview. It was never meant for broadcast, but here goes. "Sometimes people ...
May 08, 2023
Routes & Branches & Beyond show # 275 2023 05 04
Even though your life may be brilliant and full of unmitigated joy, and enriched by fascinating and accomplished friends who dote on your every word, and family who cherish your counsel and honour your presence in their lives, you may still have a smal...
May 04, 2023
Fit To Eat S3E27 Valerie & John Barron
These days if you google "apple," you end up in a tangle of advertising about one of the holiest of tech entities, along with megabytes of solemn adoration from its worshippers. But if you try "apple - the fruit," you'll end up somewhere very differen...
May 01, 2023
Routes & Branches & Beyond show #274 2023 04 27
As a species, beauty seems to have always been a part of our make-up (and occasionally makeup itself can be beautiful). From the pure aesthetics of a finely-crafted clovis point or spear head, to the grand panaoramas of cave art, to monumental archite...
Apr 28, 2023
Fit To Eat S3E26 Mark Bowering
Here's a question for you - If large numbers of us consumers want the taste and health benefits of wild foods, how can farmers replicate the growing conditions that such wild species require, on a large scale? Take wild blueberries for an example. In...
Apr 24, 2023
Routes & Branches & Beyond show #273 2023 04 20
As the days lengthen, the creeks slow down, the buds make their tentative appearances, and this radio series on Celtic Spring drags on and on, we know that we're well into the Season Of Promise (at least in the Northern Hemisphere). So this week on Ro...
Apr 21, 2023
Fit To Eat S3E25 Colleen Hiscock
I am attracted to endeavours that bring different skills and perspectives together - that bring the sciences and the arts into the same space, for example. And food is one of those areas that clearly straddle such arbitrary boundaries. Today our over...
Apr 17, 2023