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In this episode of our Anthropy special series, we speak with Joanna Yarrow, who helps run Human Nature Places, a company creating neighbourhoods that make sustainable living easier. Joanna brings a unique perspective shaped by her upbringing in a Sussex woodland with "Good Life" parents who embraced sustainability before it was fashionable. Her journey from homemade clothes and organic sandwiches to working with IKEA on sustainability reveals how she's navigated the tension between sustainable values and modern aspirations. Joanna discusses how sustainability needs to connect to people's everyday lives to truly succeed, focusing particularly on food and transportation as key impact areas. She offers a refreshing take on joy as an important but overlooked sustainability metric.
Today I am joined by the Tactical Redneck for an update from the Holler Homestead at 12:30PM CT. Spring is springing here and we just had the LFTN Spring Workshop which was a resounding success! I also got tested for my vegetable quality and have some work to do on that. Featured Event: Midwest Preparedness Project Spring Event with Joel Salatin, Bear, and more. https://www.midwestpreparednessproject.com/ Sponsor 1: TheWealthsteading Podcast: InvestableWealth.com Sponsor 2: AgoristTaxAdvice.com Isolation Fencing on new pasture Yarrow is up Baby rabbits 4 wheeler broke Plant brix Wood chip mecca Red clover Poison Hemlock Rose petal Stormy's swelling back down Hoof trimming in the future and youtibe vs reality Voice problem Rams on second rotation Herr Egyptian walking onion Broccoli success Restart the sunflower system in the carport Make it a great week! GUYS! Don't forget about the cookbook, Cook With What You Have by Nicole Sauce and Mama Sauce. It makes a great Christmas Gift! Community Mewe Group: https://mewe.com/join/lftn Telegram Group: https://t.me/LFTNGroup Odysee: https://odysee.com/$/invite/@livingfree:b Advisory Board The Booze Whisperer The Tactical Redneck Chef Brett Samantha the Savings Ninja Resources Membership Sign Up Holler Roast Coffee Harvest Right Affiliate Link
Reverend Freakchild "Om Mani Padme Hum" & "I Can't Be Satisfied" - The Bodhisattva Blues www-reverendfreakchild.org Reverend TJ McGlinchey "Hey Baby" - There Was A Time www.revtj.com Reverend Raven & The Chain-Smokin' Altar Boys "Creature Of Habit" - My Life (Twentieth Anniversary) www.reverendraven.com Reverend Shawn Amos "Boogie" - The Reverend Shawn Amos Love You www.shawnamos.com Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band "Are You Gonna Rise? (For LeVar)" www.bigdamnband.com **************************Kris Angelis "Brighter Blue" - That Song, Hope www.krisangelis.com Grace Morrison "Ghost Of It" - Maybe Modern www.gracemorrison.com Jann Klose "Love You The Most" - Surrender www.jannklose.com Bernadette Connors "White Magnolia" www.bernadetteconnors.com Alice Howe & Freebo "You've Been Away So Long" - Live www.alicehowe.com Shanna In A Dress "Everything & Nothing" - Robot www.shannainadress.comMeghan Cary "Sail Across The Water" - Singg Louder www.meghancary.com*************Push Puppets "This Whole Endeavor" - Tethered Together https://www.pushpuppets.net/Tim McBride & The Divide "Falling Away Again" - Off The Ground www.timmcbridemusic.com Box Elder "Origami Bats" www.boxelder.com The Bad Ups "Better Than You" - Life Of Sin The Human Rights "Roxham Road" - One People https://www.thehumanrights.ca/Feverjaw "The Physical Limit" www.feverjaw.com ***************Bone & Yarrow "Dragon" - s/t Dropsonic "So Long" - s/t https://www.facebook.com/dropsonicofficial/B-Movie "Marilyn Dreams" - Hidden Treasures www.b-movie.org GBD "I Can't Take It Anymore" www.gbdkc.comScott Yoder "Portrait Of Anneliese" https://www.scottmatthewyoder.com
Hideout mayor resigns due to health issues, no ranked choice voting for Heber in 2025 election, Utah Fire Info talks about preparing for wildfire season, Yarrow owner appeals denial of redevelopment project, Park City Song Summit's 2025 festival will feature Goose and Greensky Bluegrass, Park City hires two new deputy city managers, Wasatch Back has positive water outlook after another above normal snowpack year, Union workers submit more than 320,000 signatures for HB267 referendum, UDOT's 2025 projects include work in Summit, Wasatch counties, GOP Gov. Cox instructs Utah agencies to make plans for a possible recession, Summit County sheriff opens citizen academy applications, EU ambassador warns Utah leaders that the state will feel economic impact of tariffs, Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest talks about responsible recreation in the Uintas, Dodger Stadium and Universal Studios among LA28 Olympic venues, NPS celebrates National Park Week with free entry, Park City Transit riders log 350,000 miles in winter ‘Ride On' challenge and 2026 Olympic torches to honor bond between man and nature.
I was thrilled to have a chance to interview Dr. Jacqui Wilkins! I've been following her on social media for some time now, and her posts always brighten my day with their beauty and insight. Our conversation went so many places – from the ways that herbalism can reconnect us with the land and our ancestors, to more technical aspects of how chemical constituents of plants interact with our hormones.I was also really excited Dr. Jacqui chose to speak about yarrow, my plant ally for the year. Yarrow is an amazingly versatile plant with so many gifts that sometimes I wonder, what can't yarrow do? Dr. Jacqui discussed some really unexpected ways of working with yarrow, and I can't wait to try the Heart + Boundaries Oxymel recipe she shared. You'll find a beautifully illustrated recipe card for it here: https://bit.ly/4jb6Leh By the end of this episode, you'll know:► Why yarrow is many people's most-used field medicine► A fascinating way to work with yarrow root► The chemical constituent that yarrow has in common with chamomile - and how the two herbs can be worked with similarly► Seven different herbal preparations for yarrow► How to work with yarrow to help you set and hold your boundaries► and so much more…For those of you who don't already know her, Dr. Jacqui, ND, is a mixed Indigenous Yakama, Irish and Eastern European Naturopathic Doctor, plant medicine person, birth worker, teacher and steward of the earth. She tends to the Xálish Medicine Garden on Vancouver Island, which is the Snuneymuxw Territory, crafting plant medicines through Xálish Medicines, and honoring her mixed lineages of earth and stars. She shares wisdom of earth based practices, plant medicines, ancestral reverence and earth tending—remembering we are nature, not separate from creation. Her intention is to help us deepen connections with the land, our ancestors and all relations, bringing healing, harmony, and a sense of belonging.I'm so excited to share our conversation with you today!----Get full show notes and more information at: herbswithrosaleepodcast.comFor more behind-the-scenes of this podcast, follow @rosaleedelaforet on Instagram!The secret to using herbs successfully begins with knowing who YOU are. Get started by taking my free Herbal Jumpstart course when you sign up for my newsletter.If you enjoy the Herbs with Rosalee podcast, we could use your support! Please consider leaving a 5-star rating and review and sharing the show with someone who needs to hear it!On the podcast, we explore the many ways plants heal, as food, as medicine, and through nature connection. Each week, I focus on a single seasonal plant and share trusted herbal knowledge so that you can get the best results when using herbs for your health.Learn more about Herbs with Rosalee at herbswithrosalee.com.----Rosalee is an herbalist and author of the bestselling book Alchemy of Herbs: Transform Everyday Ingredients Into Foods & Remedies That Heal and co-author of the bestselling book
What if recruitment agency growth didn't mean adding headcount?Helen Yarrow has spent over 30 years in recruitment—and for most of it, she felt like she was falling short of the industry's definition of success.Why? Because she never scaled a big team.Despite launching her business 14 years ago and building a strong reputation in the B2B events space, she carried a sense that staying solo meant she hadn't really “made it”.That belief stayed with her until her 50s.This week on The RAG Podcast, Helen shares how she finally let go of the pressure to scale, and found clarity in building a business that fits her life—not someone else's idea of success.In this episode, we cover:- Her journey from Rec2Rec into B2B events recruitment- The realities of raising a family while running a business- The turning point that helped her stop chasing a model that didn't feel right- Why staying solo might actually be the most powerful decision you can makeIf you've ever questioned whether bigger really means better, this one will resonate.Chapters00:00 Introduction to Helen Yarrow and Jackson Barnes02:58 Helen's Journey into Recruitment06:02 Career Progression and Challenges in Recruitment09:11 Transitioning to Motherhood and Work-Life Balance11:51 Establishing Jackson Barnes and Finding Clarity15:07 The Shift to Conference and B2B Events Recruitment17:52 The Role of Conference Producers20:55 Building a Business Around Family Life24:00 Reflections on Success and Team Building34:51 Redefining Success in Business37:12 The Journey of Solo Entrepreneurship39:34 Reflections on Parenting and Work-Life Balance42:57 The Importance of Self-Awareness45:00 Navigating Parenting Challenges50:20 The Impact of COVID-19 on Business54:58 Finding Fulfillment in Work01:01:12 Marketing as a Game Changer01:03:43 Advice for Women in Recruitment01:07:52 The Importance of Open Communication in the Workplace__________________________________________Episode Sponsor: UntappedUntapped is THE market leader and go-to agency for finding and hiring tried-and-tested offshore talent into UK, US and Australian-based recruitment companies.They're providing top-class TEAMMATES, NOT OUTSOURCES! We use Untapped for Hoxo's own offshore hires, and it's been a total game-changer for our team. No one else can compete with the quality of their network, their in-depth candidate assessment process or their time to hire. If hiring elite-level overseas talent into your business to boost sales and increase productivity whilst saving yourself a huge amount in employment costs isn't on your radar for 2024, it should be!Untapped are hiring recruitment, sales, marketing and support staff into recruitment agencies of all shapes, sizes and specialisms globally and they are growing rapidly!Join the waiting list today so you don't miss out on the next cohort of business-launching hiring projects. https://bit.ly/47GGdvZ __________________________________________Episode sponsor: HoxoRecruiters: are you sitting on a goldmine of LinkedIn connections without knowing how to turn them into real opportunities?Most recruiters spend hours every day on cold outreach and endless scrolling, hoping for replies that never come. But what if LinkedIn could work for you instead?The Hoxo 7-Day LinkedIn Challenge is a simple, step-by-step framework designed to help you:Identify warm leads already in your networkStart meaningful conversations with potential clients and candidates—without feeling pushyShare content that gets noticed and builds trust – without spending hours...
Vendredi Sur Mer "Malabar Princess" Pink Turns Blue "Can't Do Without You" - www.pinkturnsblue.comBone Haus "Silent Hill" - In Mourning Ariel Maniki & The Black Holes "The Veil"Jesse Roper "Danger" www.jesseroper.ca The Cides "This Being Human" www.thecides.com *******************Lorraine Dietrich "Do Or Die" - www.lorraine-dietrich.biz Dedicated Servers "Shades Up" Bow & Yarrow "Dragon" - s/t Offended By Everything "Potential Master"Chris Payn "Pow Pow Pow Pow" www.chrispayn.com Whitehall "Malibu #2" https://www.whitehalltheband.comTeeth Out "Flicker Out" - www.highenddenimrecords.com ************************ALBUM FOCUSExperience the global rhythms of jazz with Putumayo's "Jazz World", a rich tapestry of rhythms and melodies. The album features international artists who blend Brazilian bossa nova, Portuguese fado, French chanson and other regional styles into a captivating musical journey.Lauma (Canada) “C'est ça c'est ça” Nay Porttela (Brazil) “Eu Vim da Bahia”Victoria Sur (Colombia) Se Dice Por Ahí"*************************Brian Grilli "Love Of A Hurting Kind" - Great Big Sky www.briangrilli.com Kierston White "Other Road" Give The People What They Paid For https://kierstonwhite.com Ainsley Costello "Exless" www.ainsleycostello.com Megan Bee "Wish I Knew" - Cottonwood www.meganbeemusic.com Alice Howe "Line By Line" - Circumstance www.alicehowe.com Heather Pierson "Up Here In The Mountains" - Back To The Light www.heatherpierson.com Debra Cowan "Dreadnought Mutiny" - Among Friends www.debracowan.com Closing music: Geoffrey Armes "Vrikshashana (The Tree)" - Spirit Dwelling I hold deed to this audio's usage, which is free to share with specific attribution, non-commercial and non-derivation rules.https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Utah Avalanche Center forecast (3:24), Park City planners officially deny Yarrow redevelopment concept (5:34), Park City School District's Caleb Fine and Isaiah Folau talk about growing from PCSD students to principals of Park City High School and Ecker Hill Middle School (7:36), Park City Councilmember Ed Parigian has a recap of last night's meeting (20:52), KPCW staff on their Race Around The Mountain/Whole Enchilada skiing challenge (30:17), and Park City Chamber CEO Jennifer Wesselhoff discusses the departure of the Sundance Film Festival (34:58)
Latest Utah Avalanche Center forecast, Park City planners officially deny Yarrow redevelopment concept, Wasatch Back ski areas open through Easter, Summit County Council Member Canice Harte recaps Wednesday's council meeting, Utah Avalanche Center Forecaster Dave Kelly explains "repeater avalanches" and recaps the overall avalanche season and the Arts Council of Park City and Summit County previews upcoming gallery strolls and other events.
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Latest Utah Avalanche Center forecast, Yarrow redevelopment proposal returns to Park City Planning Commission, Summit County Manager Shayne Scott previews the agenda for Wednesday's county council meeting, Parkite and event organizer Meryl van der Merwe and Hillari Hamilton discuss meditation and InnerScience Research Fund's upcoming fundraiser, Recycle Utah General Manager Jim Bedell talks about the latest on a location for a new recycling center, "Let's Talk" training returns this week and Song Summit Foundation hosts a fundraiser for youth musicians.
In 1916, the National Institution for Moral Instruction had a contest to see who could come up with the best morality code. For kids. Evolving views on childhood, child labor laws, patriotism, and eugenics influenced this effort. Research: “$5000 Prize Winners Announced Oct. 1” Dean Bennion in Race.” Daily Utah Chronicle. April 23, 1917. https://www.newspapers.com/image/289878324/?match=1&terms=%22Morality%20Code%22%20winner “93 Virtues Make the Perfect Man.” Tulsa World. Dec. 22, 1919. https://www.newspapers.com/image/884436330/?match=1&terms=Iowa%20%22character%20education%22%20 Brimi, Hunter. “Academic Instructors or Moral Guides? Moral Education in America and the Teacher’s Dilemma.” The Clearing House, vol. 82, no. 3, 2009, pp. 125–30. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/30181093 Character Education Inquiry. “Studies in the nature of Character.” New York. Macmillan. 1928. https://archive.org/details/studiesinnatureo0001char/page/n7/mode/2up “Character Education Methos Research.” Atlanta Constitution. Sept. 30, 1917. https://www.newspapers.com/image/26907400/?match=1&terms=%22Morality%20Code%20Competition%22 “The Children’s Morality Code.” Virginia Teacher. March 1924. https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2194&context=va-teacher “College Professors and Others in All States Take Part in Contest to Decide Best Method of Character Building in the Growing Generation.” Washington Post. March 4, 1917. https://www.newspapers.com/image/28849374/?match=1&terms=%22Morality%20Code%20Competition%22 Davis, Emily C. “Why Children Lie.” Springfield Daily Republican. May 20, 1928. https://www.newspapers.com/image/1062989775/?match=1&terms=%22Character%20Education%20Inquiry%22 “Dean Competes in $5000 Contest.” Daily Utah Chronicle. Nov. 23, 1916. https://www.newspapers.com/image/289875150/?match=1&terms=%22National%20Morality%20Codes%20Competition%22 DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR BUREAU OF EDUCATION. “Character Education.” REPORT OF THECOMMITTEE ON CHARACTER EDUCATION OFTHE NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION. Washington Government Printing Office. 1926. https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED541955.pdf “Educational Body Offers Big Prize.” New Britain herald. April 4, 1922. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82014519/1922-04-04/ed-1/seq-12/ “Efficiency Methods Applied to Task of Codifying Ethics.” Times Herald. Jan. 27, 1917. https://www.newspapers.com/image/79883841/?match=1&terms=%22Morality%20Code%20Competition%22 “Educating Body Offers Big Prize.” New Britain Herald. April 04, 1922. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82014519/1922-04-04/ed-1/seq-12/ Fairchild, Stephen G. “Character education in the United States.” University of Georgia, PhD Dissertation. Mary Frances Early College of Education. 2006. https://esploro.libs.uga.edu/esploro/outputs/doctoral/Character-education-in-the-United-States/9949334479002959 Hartshorne, H., & May, M. A. (1930). A Summary of the Work of the Character Education Inquiry. Religious Education, 25(7), 607–619. https://doi.org/10.1080/0034408300250702 Hutchins, William J. “The 5,000 Prize Code of Morals for Children.” The Mahoning Dispatch. September 13, 1918. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84028473/1918-09-13/ed-1/seq-4/ Jackson, Allison. “THE CHARACTER EDUCATION WORK OF MILTON FAIRCHILD: A PRISM FOR EXPLORING THE DEBATE BETWEEN LIBERAL PROGRESSIVES AND CONSERVATIVE PROGRESSIVES IN THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY.” Notre Dame of Maryland University. https://www.proquest.com/dissertations-theses/character-education-work-milton-fairchild-prism/docview/2125417636/se-2 “Keating-Owen Child Labor Act (1916).” National Archives. https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/keating-owen-child-labor-act “New Statement of Old Principles.” Democrat and Chronicle. April 4, 1916. https://www.newspapers.com/image/135312787/?match=1&terms=%22Morality%20Code%20Competition%22 “The plans of the Interstate Character Education Method … “ Kansas Teacher. April 1, 1918. https://www.newspapers.com/image/390015780/?match=1&terms=%22Character%20education%20methods%22 “VERIFIED AND REVISED CHILDREN’S MORALITY CODE.” The Journal of Education, vol. 100, no. 5 (2491), 1924, pp. 130–32. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/42750282 “What a Child Should Do in a Moral Emergency.” Richmond Times-Dispatch. May 21, 1916. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045389/1916-05-21/ed-1/seq-49/ Yarrow, Andrew L. “History of U.S. Children’s Policy, 1900-Present.” First Focus. April 2009. https://firstfocus.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Childrens-Policy-History.pdf See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Utah Avalanche Center forecast, Francis Best Western approved despite community protest, UDOT plan for Kimball Junction traffic focuses on adding lanes, Summit Pride, Park City show support for LGBTQ+ community after state seeks pride flag ban, Park City wants tunnel at Snow Creek Dr. as Yarrow returns to city planners, Youth Sports Alliance Executive Director Emily Fisher and Programs Director Heather Sims have an update on the youth sports programs, Hideout could use tax increment funding to develop Ross Creek, Public labor unions launch campaign to repeal law banning collective bargaining, Snyderville Basin Recreation Director Dana Jones has an update and DABS wants to build another liquor store in Park City.
What feeds the soul? What is it we want when we can't stop wanting? How can we “detox” the brain to feed the soul and support holistic well-being? That's what this episode is about, featuring a common, potent aromatic herb to explore working with essential oils on a transcendent dimension. Yes, I'm going there. Toxins come in many forms—from external pollutants, negative self-talk, or the stress of daily life. By focusing on the self and addressing controllable factors like thoughts and emotions, we set the stage for holistic well-being. And guess what works with emotions? Essential oils and the practice of working with those oils: Aromatherapy. Here's the kicker: aromatherapy is a powerful, subtle modality: less is more. It only takes a small amount of essential oil to communicate with our limbic and nervous systems—promoting emotional and mental balance. This episode goes there: detoxing the mind with essential oils to break through mental loops and find balance.And then there's the poetry. Poetry feeds the soul. Creative expression. Three poems are shared in this episode with the intention of conveying deeper meaning to this work of cleansing the mind and feeding the soul. Now what about those plants and oils? There is a large, global palate of aromatic plants and their essential oils to work with. We each choose our own allies based on preferences. For years Yarrow has been alongside me, in the garden, growing in fields, but I never fully felt its energy, its protective qualities, until this past 6 months or so. This is a wonderful herb for promoting balance and clarity, but it is powerful. Only to be turned to with specific intention for short periods of time. Yarrow stands out for its ability to support detoxing of the mind, acting as a protective shield against negative influences and helping to bring buried emotions to the surface safely. This episode will illustrate how Yarrow's holistic healing properties can soothe both physical and emotional trauma, offering a sense of detachment, clarity, and presence.Links to classes and articles:• Detoxing the Brain Video Class• Yarrow Plant Talk Article• You are Not Your Emotions Article (Myth of the Emotional Brain)• Carolyn Jones
In conversation with Amy Stiffarm, PhD, MPH, we learn about the creation of Senate Bill 319, supporting and promoting doula care in Montana. Learn more about the value of doula care, and SB 319, here:https://hmhb-mt.org/for-partners/doulas-and-birth-workers/https://hmhb-mt.org/2025-doula-legislative-information/Interested in supporting SB 319? Details and resources for providing testimony or written comment: Hearing date/time: Monday, February 24, 2025, 3:00 PMSenate Public Health, Welfare, and Safety Committee, Room 317CMontana State Capitol, Helena MTNeed help with your testimony or written comment? Contact any of the following for more information or support:Dani Vazquez - daniellevazquez11@gmail.comAmy Stiffarm amy@hmhb-mt.orgStephanie Morton - stephanie@hmhb-mt.orgTestifying virtually? Sign up at least two hours before the hearing: http://participate.legmt.govSubmit written comments: https://participate.legmt.govLeave a message for a legislator or committee: Call 406-444-4800Watch the hearing live: https://sg001-harmony.sliq.net/00309/Harmony/enOrganizations/resources mentioned in this episode: Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies - Montana: hmhb-mt.orgCultural Safety Toolkit and Indigenous Birth Preference Guides: https://hmhb-mt.org/native-american-initiatives/Montana Obstetric and Maternal Support (MOMS): https://mtmoms.org/Yarrow: https://www.yarrowcommunity.org/Montana Doula Collaborative: https://www.montanadoulacollaborative.org/Connect with Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Website Facebook Instagram For statewide resources to support Montana families in the 0-3 years of parenting, please visit LIFTS ( Linking Infants and Families to Supports) athttps://hmhb-lifts.org/
Revisit - A to Z of French Herbs - Yarrow In this episode of Fabulously Delicious: The French Food Podcast, we revisit an episode from our third series of Fabulous Delicious The French Food Podcast from the series A to Z of French Herbs about Black Elderflower. Join Andrew Prior, your host and passionate explorer of French food history, as we uncover the rise and fall of François Vatel. Pour yourself a glass of wine, indulge in a decadent treat, and settle in for this deeply moving tale of a man whose life and legacy continue to inspire chefs and food lovers to this day. Bon appétit! Looking to deepen your culinary journey beyond the podcast? Andrew's latest book, Paris: A Fabulous Food Guide to the World's Most Delicious City, is your passport to gastronomic delights in the City of Lights. Packed with recommendations for boulangeries, patisseries, wine bars, and more, this guide ensures you savor the best of Parisian cuisine. Find Andrew's book Paris: A Fabulous Food Guide to the World's Most Delicious City and explore more at www.andrewpriorfabulously.com. For a signed and gift-packaged copy of the book, visit https://www.andrewpriorfabulously.com/book-paris-a-food-guide-to-the-worlds-most-delicious-city Also available on Amazon and Kindle. For those craving an immersive French food experience, join Andrew in Montmorillon for a hands-on cooking adventure. Stay in his charming townhouse and partake in culinary delights straight from the heart of France. Experience French culinary delights firsthand with Andrew's Vienne residencies. Visit https://www.andrewpriorfabulously.com/come-stay-with-me-vienne-residency for more information. Have your own recipes or stories to share? Connect with Andrew on Instagram @andrewpriorfabulously or via email contact@andrewpriorfabulously.com for a chance to be featured on the podcast or his blog. Tune in to Fabulously Delicious on the Evergreen Podcast Network for more tantalizing tales of French gastronomy. Remember, whatever you do, do it Fabulously! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
David Yarrow is one of the most successful photographers on the planet. From photographing lions and elephants to capturing Diego Maradona, John McEnroe, Erling Haaland and Cindy Crawford, Yarrow has crossed in and out of genres. He is exhibited around the world and has shot from Antartica to the Arctic. Here he talks about his life behind the lens and offers forthright insights into the worlds of conservation and fine art.
Have you ever felt drawn to create a sacred space for healing, reflection, or guidance? In this video, we'll explore the rich history and meaning behind altars—why they've been used across cultures and how they can serve as powerful tools for intention-setting in your own life. I'll walk you through simple steps to create a personal plant altar, from choosing a meaningful location to selecting herbs and objects that align with your purpose. We'll look at key plant allies—like Rue, Rosemary, Black Cohosh, Passionflower, Hawthorn, and Yarrow—and how they can support the energy of your altar space. I'll also share a personal story of a time when I built an altar with a specific intention in mind and how that vision became a reality through the daily connection with this sacred space. Whether you're new to working with altars or looking for inspiration, I hope this video provides clear, simple steps to help you create your own. ———— MY ONLINE COURSES
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For this episode of Season 4, I had the pleasure of interviewing co-author team J. L. Yarrow! I had the pleasure of interviewing John and Leanne on their Time Forward Trilogy, their writing influences in the genre, and we chatted about the difficulties in writing a book with the concepts of time-travel. We had a great discussion on how they started writing together and what it is like to write with your spouse. We discussed both book 1: Future's Dark Past and their plans for book 2: Future Unfolds. Make sure to check out their Linktree in the link below and as always please subscribe to our channel! Author Linktree: https://linktr.ee/jlyarrowauthor Podcast Channel Links: Patreon: patreon.com/TFSFP Website: https://thefantasyandscififanaticspod.com/ Youtube Channel Subscription: https://youtube.com/@thefantasyandsci-fifanatic2328 Rss.com: https://media.rss.com/thefantasyandsci-fifanaticspodcast/feed.xml Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2aCCUhora9GdLAduLaaqiu?si=cl-8VWgaSrOGDwJg-cKONQ Facebook Group join link: https://www.facebook.com/groups/402724958101648/?ref=share
The episode that nearly didn't happen for reasons almost too embarrassing to share… but what else is the intro for?
In this episode of Essential Aromatica, Amy converses with Dr. Kelly Ablard from the Airmid Institute about the complex interplay between ecology, the crucial role medicinal and aromatic plants play in sustaining eco-cultural-systems and what the essential oil community can do to support global and local ecologies and the Earth overall. Episode Highlights: The Unique Relationship Between Biology, Aromatherapy, and Chemical Ecology. Explore how the chemicals that facilitate interactions among species are found in essential oils. (Pheromones, Allomones!) The Importance of Ethnobotany via Philology and Biology. Sustaining cultural ecology by preserving indigenous wisdom through recording the oral records of medicinal and aromatic plants. This relates to Plants Shaping Our Lives by Creating Our Environment. From the oxygen we breathe to the food we eat and the clothes we wear, this deep connection to plants underscores their fundamental role in our culture and daily lives. If we don't Preserve Plant Life and Support Ecosystems, More of our Earth will Experience Rosewood's Dire Situation seen in Peru. Its pivotal role in maintaining ecological balance was the reason Dr. Ablard started the Airmid Institute. To understand the ripple effect on an ecosystem of losing key species such as Rosewood proves the necessity to preserve these plants to ensure ecosystem health (inclusive of humans, plants, animals and insects.) Something similar may be happening in Southern California with White Sage, which is over-harvested and illegally harvested to supply a widespread appetite for smudge sticks and other White Sage applications. How Can We Help? Find Analogs. We don't have to work with Sandalwood from India, White Sage from California or even Tea Tree from Australia. Find analogs that you can grow in your backyard, community garden or source locally. Some examples we talk about are Rosemary, Eastern Red Cedar and Yarrow. Think Locally While Supporting Sustainable Global Trade when buying aromatic plants, herbs and essential oils. (Yes, think local and global!) Appreciate the value of sourcing medicinal plants locally and supporting indigenous programs across the world that use ancestral cultivation techniques. Balance local plant use with sustainable global trade to support communities tied to these aromatic plants. Be mindful of Conservation Status and International Trade: The IUCN Red List and CITES activity help protect endangered plant species. As a consumer, understanding the importance of asking about CITES permits and sustainable sourcing when purchasing essential oil is critical. Understand Pharmaceutical and Clinical Research Impact on Plant Ecology and Survival. Pharmaceutical and clinical research contributes to the extinction of some plant species such as Sandalwood and Spikenard; the importance of quality control, safety, and conservation statuses should be noted and accounted for. Foster a Child's Understanding of Ecology by nurturing a love for plants and a sense of place. Support education programs in schools, encourage learning from elders, and involve them in gardening, community gardens, and nature-based activities like hiking. Through the book, “No Place for Plants,” Dr. Kelly Ablard and Frauke Galia highlight the impact of urban development on ecosystems and cultures. The narrative focuses on the vital role of community gardens in urban areas and emphasizes the need for children to connect with nature and advocate for green spaces. Mandatory Curriculum on Ecology and Sustainability for Aromatherapists, which is underway thanks to the Airmid Institute partnering with aromatherapy organizations such as IFPA, CAOA, AIA, NAHA. Learn more: Website: www.airmidinstitute.org Email: kablard@airmidinstitute.org Facebook: @airmidinstitute Instagram: @airmid_institute LinkedIn: Airmid Institute Dasgupta Review: Final Report - The Economics of Biodiversity: The Dasgupta Review - GOV.UK
Ready to embrace the power of plants with your family?In this episode of The Herbalist's Path, I had the joy of chatting with Brittany Williams of Eudaimonia Herbs—a passionate clinical herbalist, educator, and all-around plant-loving mom. Together, we explore the transformative role of herbalism in empowering families, teaching kids how to care for their own health, and advocating for yourself in the healthcare system.Brittany shares her favorite family-friendly herbs, like chamomile, catnip, and Tulsi, and how her children grew up with jars of tinctures and teas lining their home apothecary. We also dig into the deep connection between intuition, plants, and holistic health, offering practical tips to help you feel confident using herbs in your daily life.If you're curious about herbalism, overwhelmed by where to start, or ready to take your family's health into your own hands, this episode is a treasure trove of inspiration, wisdom, and humor.Like the show? Got a Q? Shoot us a Text!
Today, I'm thrilled to reconnect with Aymann Ismail, award-winning journalist and the visionary behind the PBS documentary American Muslims: A History Revealed. Beyond the groundbreaking stories from the series, our conversation takes a deeply personal turn. Aymann opens up about his new book, 'Becoming Baba,' which explores his journey of self-discovery, his experiences with dating, and how they've shaped his perspectives on love and identity. We also discuss the values he hopes to instill in his children, weaving together reflections on faith, culture, and what it means to leave a meaningful legacy. We revisit stories from the documentary, including the extraordinary tale of Yarrow Mamout, a Muslim enslaved in the 1700s who became a respected figure in Georgetown. Yarrow's story powerfully reminds us of Islam's long history in America and the contributions of Black Muslims to our shared heritage. Exciting News!! Aymann Ismail's new book, Becoming Baba, is now available for pre-sale! Reserve your copy here. Join us for this heartfelt and thought-provoking discussion about identity, love, and our dreams for future generations. Immigrantly is a weekly podcast that celebrates the extraordinariness of immigrant life. We do this by providing our listeners with authentic, accurate insights into the immigrant identity in America. Immigrantly has garnered significant recognition and has been featured in renowned media outlets such as the Nieman Storyboard, The Guardian, The Slowdown, and CNN. We invite you to join us in creating new intellectual engagement for our audience. More information is available at http://immigrantlypod.com. Please share the love and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts & Spotify to help more people find us! You can connect with Saadia on Twitter @swkkhan Email: saadia@immigrantlypod.com Host & Producer: Saadia Khan I Content Writer: Saadia Khan I Editorial review: Shei Yu I Sound Designer & Editor: Lou Raskin I Immigrantly Theme Music: Simon Hutchinson | Other Music: Epidemic Sound Immigrantly podcast is an Immigrantly Media Production. For advertising inquiries, you can contact us at info@immigrantlypod.com Remember to subscribe to our Apple podcast channel for insightful podcasts. Follow us on social media for updates and behind-the-scenes content. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In this video, How to Heal Your Lungs & Recover Your Vitality, I'm sharing my personal journey using herbs to heal my lungs after battling pneumonia. Working alongside pharmaceutical medicines, I relied on a range of supportive herbs—like Mullein, Peppermint, Lungwort, Yarrow, Bee Balm, Cinnamon, and Licorice—to soothe and strengthen my respiratory system. I'll walk you through which herbs helped, which didn't work as well, and what I would approach differently if I had to go through it again. I'll also dive into an often-overlooked but essential aspect of healing: convalescence. This practice, rooted in Ancient Greek medicine, is all about allowing the body the time and care it needs for true recovery. In today's world, we tend to rush through recovery, but focusing on convalescence can make a real difference in regaining long-term health and vitality. Whether you're recovering from a respiratory illness or just looking to strengthen your lungs, I hope these insights and tips help you on your healing journey. ———— Herbal Lung Recipe Ingredients: 1 tbsp Yarrow 3 tbsp Bee Balm or Oregano 1 tbsp Peppermint or Spearmint 1 tbsp Marshmallow Root 1 Mullein Leaf (approx 2 tbsp) 1 tbsp Lungwort 2 tsp Cinnamon chips 1 tsp Licorice root ———— Directions: Add herbs to a teapot with a strainer or a saucepan. Add 2 cups of hot water and let steep for 10 - 15 minutes. Strain and drink to restore lung health and vitality. ———— Where to Buy Herbs https://mountainroseherbs.com/ https://oshalafarm.com/ https://www.herbalist-alchemist.com/ ———— Other Convalescent Tips Take Hot Baths Self-Massage with Herbal Oils Eat Warm Easy to Digest Foods like Soups Make Art Take Naps Journal Your Dreams Move Slowly Stay Quiet
Eliot Schrefer has established himself as a standout voice in YA, including recent Printz and Stonewall Honor recognitions. In THE BRIGHTNESS BETWEEN US, Eliot Schrefer takes us back to the world(s) of Ambrose and Kodiak to deliver another ambitious, genre-bending novel and epic love story that spans thousands of years and the far reaches of the galaxy. BIG NEWS! Elliot Page's production company, Pageboy Productions, has optioned the first book THE DARKNESS OUTSIDE US for feature development. The idea for this sequel came when they asked Eliot (Schrefer) where he might see the story going if it continued on screen. More info can be found here In this sequel to THE DARKNESS OUTSIDE US, a Stonewall Honor Book, New York Times bestselling author Eliot Schrefer delivers another ambitious, novel told in two storylines—one about Owl and Yarrow, the children of Ambrose and Kodiak, attempting to survive on the planet Minerva, and the second set thousands of years earlier as Ambrose journeys across Earth to make contact with Kodiak. Seventeen years have gone by since the Coordinated Endeavor crashed on a distant exoplanet. Ambrose Cusk and Kodiak Celius are now the devoted parents of two teenage children, Owl and Yarrow, in a hardscrabble frontier home. Though life on Minerva is full of danger, the family's bond is enough to make it all worth it—until they learn that the biggest threat to their survival might come from within. More than thirty thousand years in the past, Ambrose wakes on Earth to find that his mission to save his sister was a ruse. His mother betrayed him, and the cruelty of her true plans sets Ambrose spiraling. When he discovers that another spacefarer is suffering his same fate, he will have to decide whether to risk crossing a world at war to reach him. Separated by time and space, a young family and two strangers learn that their lives are intimately intertwined. They race to uncover the unexpected connections that might save them all . . . and perhaps humanity as well.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/arroe-collins-unplugged-totally-uncut--994165/support.
'The Chronicles of Professor Chronomier: The Laws of Time' Chapter 4 - The Triumvirate Written by Dario Knight | Performed by Erika Sanderson Astrid, Yarrow, and Holloway are drawn back to the Enforcers' base, where a terrifying siege orchestrated by more than one shadow from Astrid's past is taking place... Music Credit: Title: Killers Music: Kevin MacLeod License: CC BY 3.0 (http://goo.gl/BlcHZR) Download: incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/mp3-royaltyfree/Killers.mp3
Join host Renée Camila for an exploration on Yarrow and boundaries. Why is Yarrow renown for boundaries? Where does that spiritual indication come from? What can this indication teach us about understanding plant spirit medicine and learning from plants directly? Follow us on Instagram and Facebook @theherbalhighway. The post Yarrow and Boundaries – November 12, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.
The Horror features a story from Beyond Midnight this week. We'll hear Yarrow, originally broadcast on May 2, 1969. Listen to more from Beyond Midnight https://traffic.libsyn.com/forcedn/e55e1c7a-e213-4a20-8701-21862bdf1f8a/TheHorror1201.mp3 Download TheHorror1201 | Subscribe | Spotify | Support The Horror
Please join me as I speak with TJ Johnson. TJ is a musician, English teacher and Baby Scoop Era adopted person. She writes on Medium as The Onyx Phoenix. She contributed to the anthology Strangers by Adoption. The Onyx Phoenix. – Medium An Open Letter To My Father. An adoptee writes a letter to her… | by The Onyx Phoenix. | Adoptere: Auditing the Narrative | Oct, 2024 | Medium The Onyx Phoenix (@redbyrde1960) | TikTok This conversation is part of our effort to amplify the voices of adopted people and others impacted by adoption during the month of November. Please be aware that this episode includes graphic descriptions of child abuse. Mentioned in the episode: Amazon.com: Strangers By Adoption: 10 Adoptees Share Their Stories of Rejection and Abuse: 9780578495743: Sippel, Doris Michol, Musser, Sandy, Sippel, Doris Michol, Musser, Sandy, Sippel, Doris Michol, Yarrow, Patricia Vivien: BooksHome - Saving Our SistersPound Pup LegacyMoses Farrow The opinions of the host and their guest are just that, their opinions. The host is not a lawyer, therapist or adoption professional. Every state and region had its own child abuse reporting laws and helplines. We are including the link to the national helpline. If you know or suspect that a child is being abused, please report. National Child Abuse Hotline - Childhelp Thank you.
We might see ourselves, as Ursula Le Guin writes, ‘one syllable of a word spoken slowly by the stars'. In this episode we wonder together what is maked possible when we reclaim and retell sacred narratives about being human, as an alternative to the mechanistic views of existence as meaning-free and humans as accidents in a cold unfeeling universe. How might these narratives help us step into a life in which we open to what is around us, and the life-giving qualities in one another? Hosted, as always, by Lizzie Winn and Justin Wise of Thirdspace. Join Our Weekly Mailing: www.turningtowards.life/subscribe Support Us: www.buymeacoffee.com/turningtowardslife Turning Towards Life, a week-by-week conversation inviting us deeply into our lives, is a live 30 minute conversation hosted by Justin Wise and Lizzie Winn of Thirdspace. Find us on FaceBook to watch live and join in the lively conversation on this episode. You can find videos of every episode, and more about the project on the Turning Towards Life website, and you can also watch and listen on Instagram, YouTube, and as a podcast on Apple, Google, Amazon Music and Spotify. Here's our source for this week: One Word Spoken Slowly by the Stars “Aye,” Ged answered. “Light is a power. A great power, by which we exist, but which exists beyond our needs, in itself. Sunlight and starlight are time, and time is light. In the sunlight, in the days and years, life is. In a dark place life may call upon the light, naming it.” … There was a little pause; and Yarrow asked, “Tell me just this, if it is not a secret: what other great powers are there besides the light?” “It is no secret. All power is one in source and end, I think. Years and distances, stars and candles, water and wind and wizardry, the craft in a man's hand and the wisdom in a tree's root: they all arise together. My name, and yours, and the true name of the sun, or a spring of water, or an unborn child, all are syllables of the great word that is very slowly spoken by the shining of the stars. There is no other power. No other name.” Staying his knife on the carved wood, Murre asked, “What of death?” [Yarrow] listened, her shining black head bent down. “For a word to be spoken,” Ged answered slowly, “there must be silence. Before, and after.” Ursula K Le Guin, The Books of Earthsea: The Complete Illustrated Edition (p. 157). Orion Photo by Zoltan Tasi on Unsplash
It was such a pleasure to have Yarrow on the show! Yarrow is a dynamic speaker who is super passionate about building relationships with herbs and their ecosystems. As you'll hear in this conversation, Yarrow sees herbalism as a bridge to help people tune back in to the natural world, and he weaves in nature connection with everything he does.Yarrow spoke extensively about reishi mushrooms - not just how they can benefit us physically, but also how they can improve our mental and emotional health, and how they can help us to better understand and learn from the other beings in the forests they are found in. He also shared many ways reishi can be worked with medicinally, including his incredibly detailed recipe for a Reishi Dual Extraction. You'll find a link to a beautifully illustrated recipe card here: https://bit.ly/4eNNptqHere are just a few ways reishi can be worked with to benefit your health:► As a grounding influence, to help you connect with the nature around you► As a tonic to strengthen your immune system► To improve insulin sensitivity and support blood sugar regulationFor more, be sure to check out the entire episode!By the end of this episode, you'll know:► How reishi can help with your brain health and vision►Tips for finding and harvesting reishi mushrooms ► Why it's so important to make connections with the places where you gather plants, even (or especially!) when the plants are out of season► Six different medicinal preparations for reishi►Why dual extractions of mushrooms are considered more potent than simple dried mushroom powders► and so much more…For those of you who don't know him, Yarrow Willard is a second-generation Clinical Herbalist, living in the unceded territory of the Comox First Nations on Vancouver Island. He is the co-creator of Harmonic Arts, the Wild Rose College of Herbal Medicine and the Canadian Herb Conference. As an online personality and YouTube educator he is known as the Herbal Jedi. His mission is to help empower the modern age with tools and teachings for reclaiming health through deepened connection to the natural world. Yarrow's approach to plant medicine is one of curiosity, connection, and contemplation. His teachings often are infused with old world energetics, modern measurables, and direct plant communications, in a playful and digestible way.I am so excited to share our conversation with you today!----Get full show notes and more information at: herbswithrosaleepodcast.comFor more behind-the-scenes of this podcast, follow @rosaleedelaforet on Instagram!The secret to using herbs successfully begins with knowing who YOU are. Get started by taking my free Herbal Jumpstart course when you sign up for my newsletter.If you enjoy the Herbs with Rosalee podcast, we could use your support! Please consider leaving a 5-star rating and review and sharing the show with someone who needs to hear it!On the podcast, we explore the many ways plants heal, as food, as medicine, and through nature connection. Each week, I focus on a single seasonal plant and share trusted herbal knowledge so that you can get the best results when using herbs for your health.Learn more about Herbs with Rosalee at herbswithrosalee.com.----Rosalee is an herbalist and author of the...
Eliot Schrefer has established himself as a standout voice in YA, including recent Printz and Stonewall Honor recognitions. In THE BRIGHTNESS BETWEEN US, Eliot Schrefer takes us back to the world(s) of Ambrose and Kodiak to deliver another ambitious, genre-bending novel and epic love story that spans thousands of years and the far reaches of the galaxy. BIG NEWS! Elliot Page's production company, Pageboy Productions, has optioned the first book THE DARKNESS OUTSIDE US for feature development. The idea for this sequel came when they asked Eliot (Schrefer) where he might see the story going if it continued on screen. More info can be found here In this sequel to THE DARKNESS OUTSIDE US, a Stonewall Honor Book, New York Times bestselling author Eliot Schrefer delivers another ambitious, novel told in two storylines—one about Owl and Yarrow, the children of Ambrose and Kodiak, attempting to survive on the planet Minerva, and the second set thousands of years earlier as Ambrose journeys across Earth to make contact with Kodiak. Seventeen years have gone by since the Coordinated Endeavor crashed on a distant exoplanet. Ambrose Cusk and Kodiak Celius are now the devoted parents of two teenage children, Owl and Yarrow, in a hardscrabble frontier home. Though life on Minerva is full of danger, the family's bond is enough to make it all worth it—until they learn that the biggest threat to their survival might come from within. More than thirty thousand years in the past, Ambrose wakes on Earth to find that his mission to save his sister was a ruse. His mother betrayed him, and the cruelty of her true plans sets Ambrose spiraling. When he discovers that another spacefarer is suffering his same fate, he will have to decide whether to risk crossing a world at war to reach him. Separated by time and space, a young family and two strangers learn that their lives are intimately intertwined. They race to uncover the unexpected connections that might save them all . . . and perhaps humanity as well. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/arroe-collins-like-it-s-live--4113802/support.
Why is biodynamic viticulture sometimes associated with dark magic or the occult? Why is using wine in religious rituals as a sacrament considered normal for many people, but taking it beyond that is not? Why are wines from England becoming increasingly popular? In this episode of the Unreserved Wine Talk podcast, I'm chatting with Jo Penn, the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, about her latest novel, Blood Vintage, set in an English vineyard. You can find the wines we discussed at https://www.nataliemaclean.com/winepicks Highlights What were the most memorable aspects of the Pinot Noir tours Jo attended in South Otago while living in New Zealand? Which New Zealand foods pair best with their Pinot Noirs? What is Jo's new book, Blood Vintage, about? Which wines would Jo and I pair with Blood Vintage? How did Jo find the inspiration for writing Blood Vintage? What's behind the rise of English wines? How did a high school performance of Euripides' "The Bacchae" influence Jo's writing of Blood Vintage? What are some of the ways that people can get injured or die working in a vineyard? What did Jo learn about biodynamic winemaking from visiting Limeburn Hill Vineyard? Why is biodynamic winemaking sometimes associated with the occult? How might you experience the differences between the taste of a biodynamic wine versus a conventionally produced wine? What was the most surprising thing Jo learned about winemaking while writing Blood Vintage? Key Takeaways Jo shares her experience visiting a biodynamic vineyard, where various preparations were made from animal stomachs, intestines, and skulls, as well as plants like Yarrow and chamomile. Some people hear about these practices and think they're strange. Others view the vineyard as an ecosystem where they're trying to infuse a sense of place into every single drop of the wine. In both Christianity and Judaism, but taking it further to a different plane of consciousness, like some of the ancient Celtic celebrations tied to nature and fertility she explores in the book, is often considered outside the norm. Climate change has made the south of England similar to the Champagne region in France in terms of the warmth needed to ripen grapes. The UK now produces about 8 to 10 million bottles annually from 800 vineyards. English sparkling wines are winning the awards, and in many blind tastings, they're often placing ahead of French bibblies. Champagne producers are also buying English vineyards. About Jo Penn Jo Penn is an award-winning New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of horror, thrillers, dark fantasy, crime, travel memoirs, and short stories. She's also an award-winning podcaster. She has a Master's in Theology from the University of Oxford. Her latest novel is Blood Vintage, a folk horror story set in an English vineyard. To learn more, visit https://www.nataliemaclean.com/305.
Slushies, waves abound in this lively discussion of a poem by Martha Silano and two more by Jane Hilberry. The way stream of consciousness can crest and fall, sound waves, the missed and caught waves in real life (including runs of luck or the lack of it), not to mention the different ways in which we experience poetry– the gang rides wave after wave. We regularly find that our process of reading poetry aloud causes one or more of us to experience a poem anew. Sometimes it provides clarity that wasn't there when it was confined to the silence of the page. Sometimes it brings up questions. As always, we were grateful to have the trust of two amazing poets willing to share our discussion of their work. (We were going to call this episode “In Bed with Marion & Kathy” and we'll let you find out why by having a listen!) At the table: Kathleen Volk Miller, Marion Wrenn, Jason Schneiderman, Angelique Massey, Lisa Zerkle, Dagne Forrest, Vivian Liu (sound engineer) Martha Silano's six books include This One We Call Ours, winner of the 2023 Blue Lynx Poetry Prize, and available from Lynx House Press. She is also the author of Gravity Assist, Reckless Lovely, and The Little Office of the Immaculate Conception, all from Saturnalia Books. Martha's poems have appeared in Poetry, The Paris Review, American Poetry Review, The Missouri Review, and elsewhere. She enjoys birdwatching, botanizing, and hanging out with her kids and cats. Learn more about her work at marthasilano.net. The Luck of It What counts is that my car, when it gets broken into, what's gone is replaceable, like that leather jacket my friend Alison threw at me when she left for California. Please take it! (I got a new one for Christmas). Once, when I left it unlocked, someone spent the night in my Hyundai. All in all, I was happy to offer a place of refuge, especially on account of nothing stolen, not the extra pair of socks, not my maroon hat or hand sani, the only tip off being the empty bottle of Sprite. Sprite! I mean, you're kidding me. My husband jokes how I get so excited about the crumb that drops on my plate from that giant chocolate croissant in the sky, tells me I'm like a housefly with a tiny chunk of pizza it can't believe it's had the good fortune to land on. And look! It's even got a little dab of pepperoni juice! It seems I set the bar low, and maybe he's right, though when I ran track, the field part kind of scared me. In tenth grade, when Suzanne Glester broke the state record in the high jump, I could barely keep myself from looking away as her contorted body landed in a heap on a thick mat that never seemed thick enough. Honestly, I'm just glad I'm not the guy on Next Door who posted about the lonely chicken: I see her wandering around. Seems like she need another little hen. Do any of you have one you'd like to re-home? Or the woman who shared someone's been racing their car up Juneau. making a hair pin turn onto Seward Park Avenue. It literally rattles our windows. I'm tempted to respond I feel your pain, but having rattling windows means you live in a home? I guess what I'm trying to say is that when two guys were about to kick in our basement window, I happened to stroll by with a bag of dirty Huggies for the bin. Yep, a load of dirty diapers saved us. Jane Hilberry is just weeks into retirement after a happy 35-year teaching career at Colorado College that began with Medieval and Renaissance literature and ended up in Creativity & Innovation. So far retirement involves mostly sleeping and swimming, but she aspires to write poems, paint, and make small objects for sheer delight. Her books of poems include Still the Animals Enter and Body Painting (Red Hen Press) and a chapbook co-authored with her father, Conrad Hilberry, titled This Awkward Art: Poems by a Father and Daughter (Mayapple Press). Paintings and small objects can be found on Instagram @jhilberry. I might have planned badly My friends are ga-ga over their grandkids, over the moon! Pictures on their phones of the toddler pushing the vacuum, the dog sleeping wrapped around the child. My god, I was driven. I translated every word of Beowulf, working out each noun's case ending, nominative, accusative, genitive, dative, or a vestigial instrumental. I spent my twenties in a library carrel until 2 a.m. closing. I could regret it now, but there was no stopping that one, whoever she was. Baby, I'm going to be seventy soon, and eighty. Coastal Cali At the intersection, a stream of newly washed Benzes and Bentleys. A man in a camel coat surveys a café patio: "I'm dressed inappropriately,” he says. He's crew for Hollywood Medium. Against the roar of leaf blowers, Que tiempo hace hoy plays on someone's radio. It's breezy, seventy-five. Meanwhile, at the water, surfers lift and fall, surge and sink. The dark triangles of their heads and shoulders move like fins in undulating circles, till one rises, twists and vees, rides the wave into a bloom of foam. What is this world? wrote Chaucer, What asketh man to have? Xanax for the rough days. I can't identify the flora— Yarrow? Ice plant? —or remember the gods of the sea. Zephyr? Poseidon? No one here calls it the sea.
The world is a lot, but then what's new? In this episode I wanted to share a few ways in which I am staying grounded this summer, including excellent book selection, gentle rituals and activism that is doable and kind on my nervous system. I hope it's a helpful space for you to think about your own summer and orient towards the pleasure & joy that is available to you. Here is info about the tech day I mentioned: https://pinkwellstudio.com/magic/ Thank you so much for listening! Love, Yarrow
Fire blight, whey, fire ants and raid - today on Homestead Happenings! Featured Event: Oct 3: Escapeology with Sonny Puzikas: https://selfreliancefestival.com/product/fight-hacker-escapeology/?aff=nicolesauce Sponsor 1: AgoristTaxAdvice.com/Webinar Sponsor 2: TheWealthSteadingPodcast.com Forage Nothing new but keeping my eyes on the elderberries and looking for goldenrod Yarrow is looking stressed Livestock Duck molting season Rats Ram Preps with the super mega zapper and another $1k in fencing supplies Havent moved rabbits yet Feeding Livestock dogs once a day Vet visit today in the pasture/barn Grow Fire Blight in the Orchard, Fire Ants It rained and will rain a ton next week (Planting beans for the fun of it) Pepper Plants Chard is doing well but stressed - calcium and whey foliar spray Harvest Meals Smoker Saves on AC Planning based on what is on hand - sautee, salad, sauce Holler Neighbors/Community The Great Tomato Trade of 2024 Infrastructure Pond Update Ask about the tomato wall? Finances Making a little money from hipcampers: $80 Make it a great week! GUYS! Don't forget about the cookbook, Cook With What You Have by Nicole Sauce and Mama Sauce. It makes a great Christmas Gift! Community Mewe Group: https://mewe.com/join/lftn Telegram Group: https://t.me/LFTNGroup Odysee: https://odysee.com/$/invite/@livingfree:b Advisory Board The Booze Whisperer The Tactical Redneck Chef Brett Samantha the Savings Ninja Resources Membership Sign Up Holler Roast Coffee Harvest Right Affiliate Link
I'm so happy to bring another interview your way - I spoke to my former client Uma Girish about her business journey. Here is some of the beautiful ground we covered: Finding clarity and beautiful flow in one's work Trusting periods of grief and growing our intution Leaving social media and finding other ways to build community Our hopes and dreams for the future Uma Girish is a Spiritual Mentor, Author, and Human Design Guide. She is deeply inspired to empower women to live their authentic lives by stripping away at what's not them. She works in the areas of grief, loss, healing the mother wound, and finding clarity on one's purpose. Uma's website: https://umagirish.com You can also find her on Substack at umagirish.substack.com You can find my shiny & updated website over here: https://pinkwellstudio.com/ Thanks for listening! Love, Yarrow
In this Screw It Just Do It session, I sit down with renowned wildlife photographer David Yarrow. David shares his philosophy on capturing the natural world with authenticity and respect. He discusses his most challenging shoots, the importance of patience, and the ethical considerations every photographer should uphold. Tune in to hear fascinating anecdotes and gain insights into what it takes to create compelling wildlife photography.
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In this episode, host Craig Dalton interviews Dean Dahl, the founder of Good Ride Gravel, about his journey into gravel cycling and the upcoming gravel event he is organizing in Chilliwack, British Columbia. Dean shares his background in skateboarding and mountain biking and how he found a similar sense of adventure and exploration in gravel cycling. He discusses the unique characteristics of the Chilliwack area, including its diverse terrain and the growing gravel cycling community. Dean also explains his vision for the Good Ride Gravel event, which focuses on creating a community-oriented experience that celebrates both the sport of gravel cycling and the natural beauty of the region. He highlights the different routes available for participants, ranging from a beginner-friendly 50-kilometer ride to a challenging 150-kilometer route with significant elevation gain. Dean emphasizes the importance of sustainability and community engagement in organizing the event and shares his plans for a lively post-event atmosphere with local sponsors providing ice cream, craft beer, coffee, and food. Good Ride Gravel Support the Podcast Join The Ridership About the Guest(s): Dean Dahl is an event organizer and gravel cyclist based outside Vancouver, British Columbia. He grew up in the Vancouver area and has always had a passion for outdoor activities. Dean has a background in skateboarding and mountain biking, which eventually led him to discover gravel cycling. He currently resides in Yarrow, British Columbia, a small town just outside of Vancouver, where he enjoys the quiet and scenic surroundings. Dean has experience organizing events in the nonprofit sector and has a deep understanding of the cycling community. He is the founder of Good Ride Gravel, an event that aims to bring together gravel cyclists of all levels and create a vibrant and inclusive community. Episode Summary: In this episode, host Craig Dalton interviews Dean Dahl, the founder of Good Ride Gravel, about his journey into gravel cycling and the upcoming gravel event he is organizing in Chilliwack, British Columbia. Dean shares his background in skateboarding and mountain biking and how he found a similar sense of adventure and exploration in gravel cycling. He discusses the unique characteristics of the Chilliwack area, including its diverse terrain and the growing gravel cycling community. Dean also explains his vision for the Good Ride Gravel event, which focuses on creating a community-oriented experience that celebrates both the sport of gravel cycling and the natural beauty of the region. He highlights the different routes available for participants, ranging from a beginner-friendly 50-kilometer ride to a challenging 150-kilometer route with significant elevation gain. Dean emphasizes the importance of sustainability and community engagement in organizing the event and shares his plans for a lively post-event atmosphere with local sponsors providing ice cream, craft beer, coffee, and food. Key Takeaways: Dean Dahl's passion for outdoor activities, including skateboarding and mountain biking, eventually led him to discover gravel cycling. Chilliwack, British Columbia, offers a unique mix of flat, smooth trails and challenging mountainous terrain, making it an ideal location for gravel cycling. The Good Ride Gravel event aims to bring together gravel cyclists of all levels and create a vibrant and inclusive community. Participants can choose from three different routes, ranging from a beginner-friendly 50-kilometer ride to a challenging 150-kilometer route with significant elevation gain. The event will feature a lively post-event atmosphere with local sponsors providing ice cream, craft beer, coffee, and food. Notable Quotes: "I realized this is actually a lot like the feeling I used to have as a skater... discovering strange little places and hitting obstacles. I get that same feeling when I'm gravel riding." - Dean Dahl "We want to be able to provide something that is an amazing opportunity, a gravel adventure that has a high-end component to it." - Dean Dahl "We're celebrating gravel, but we're celebrating you as an individual. And we're celebrating the fact that you want to be a part of something good." - Dean Dahl Resources: Good Ride Gravel - Official website of the Good Transcript: [TRANSCRIPT] [00:00:00] - (): Craig Dalton: Hey Dean, welcome to the show. [00:00:05] - (): Dean Dahl: Hi there Craig, it's good to be here. [00:00:08] - (): Craig Dalton: Yeah, good to finally connect. I'm glad to see you got a sip of water right in before we started recording. I thought I had a sneeze teed up, but it seems to be holding itself. Well, you're welcome [00:00:17] - (): Dean Dahl: to go for it. We can edit that out, right? [00:00:20] - (): Craig Dalton: Yeah, exactly. Although the listener knows that I'm not much of an editor, so it is what it is. [00:00:27] - (): Dean Dahl: Getting live and real. On the podcast. [00:00:30] - (): Craig Dalton: Let's set the stage a little bit. Where are you, where are you talking to me from? [00:00:33] - (): Dean Dahl: Yeah, I'm from, uh, I live in Vancouver or just outside of Vancouver, British Columbia, and, um, yeah, my name is Dean Dahl and been out here in a little town called Yarrow, British Columbia. **** - (): And, uh, it's about an hour, if there's good traffic, east of Vancouver in, uh, the Fraser Valley. [00:00:54] - (): Craig Dalton: And did you grow up in Canada? [00:00:56] - (): Dean Dahl: Yeah, I did. So, I grew up in the Vancouver area, uh, recently moved actually out of the city, um, about five years ago. Um, me and my wife and our kids moved out here and it's quite a different, uh, change. **** - (): It's quiet out here, uh, kind of like, uh, sort of semi rural farming kind of community. With lots of great outdoors, but nothing happens after 9 a. m. or 9 p. m. Sorry. And, uh, being in the city, like I was right in East Van in the thick of it. And, uh, I was used to living life after 10. P. m. So it's a change, but you know, the scenery is great. **** - (): So that's awesome. And lots of good biking, which I'm sure we'll talk about [00:01:35] - (): Craig Dalton: for sure. Yeah. I'm always interested to explore like how people found the bike. Obviously, you know, many of us had bikes introduced to us very early on in our lives, and it would give us a sense of exploration and freedom from a population perspective, there's very few of us who take that through line into our mid lives and are still riding a bike. **** - (): So what was your journey to the bike? Like, and, you know, we can ultimately get to how you found gravel cycling. [00:02:02] - (): Dean Dahl: Oh yeah, sure. Um, off and on, like probably everybody listening to this, uh, had the classic BMX bike or whatever little cruiser thing and made jumps with it and got my nose banged up a bunch when I was a little kid, which is all kinds of fun stories in themselves, but whatever. **** - (): Um, My, I was just actually thinking about this the other day. My uncle was a really interesting character in that he had a real passion for serving young people. And, uh, he lived in the same town I did, and he actually started up a small group for, for teenagers and young kids. And he would take us on camping trips and hiking trips and, uh, overnighters and things like that. **** - (): And, um, kind of set up his own organization with it. And I remember going on, um, You know, in the Pacific Northwest, we have a whole bunch of what we call the Gulf Islands here, all up from Seattle, up the coast, all the way to Alaska. They're beautiful. And around Vancouver, uh, he had arranged this, uh, this bike tour for us to go when I was in grade 11, around one of the local Gulf Islands. **** - (): And, uh, I got a road bike for it and. Put panniers on it. And it was kind of my first expression of being able to be on the road, packing, gearing up stuff. And I thought, this is amazing. So from that point on, I got really interested in bike riding, but that was, you know, fun. But then, um, I kind of got distracted by skateboarding and turned into like a course skater for years and years. **** - (): Um, and, uh, did a little bit. Uh, on the side of that, I discovered mountain biking in kind of the mid nineties, I guess, and bought, uh, you know, an old Kona hard tail thing and lived on the North shore at the time and was doing mountain bike racing a couple of seasons there and got just really exhausted from. **** - (): pushing my bike up the hill and then slamming as I was riding down it. So that was a short lived season. Uh, but it was still really fun. Like I was talking to you, Craig, before, um, I realized now that a lot of the mountain biking I did in the past was actually gravel riding without drop bars. I remember having a picture of John Tomac Um, on my wall at some point and him, I thought he was so cool because he was mountain biking and yet he was, he had drop bars on his mountain bike and I was like, those are dark bars. **** - (): Like I had when I was touring around salt spring Island and he's riding a mountain bike. Like I'm right, like I want to ride a mountain bike and myself. He brought those worlds together and I didn't click at the time what was going on, but now that I'm gravel riding a lot, I think, yeah, yeah, that's cool. **** - (): That that's, that's the deal. [00:04:46] - (): Craig Dalton: Yeah. It's funny when you think back to that period, it's like, why didn't it click then? And I think there's so many like little reasons why it wasn't right until sort of your, your 2014 era for the bikes to actually come together and form the basis of what is gravel riding today. **** - (): Uh, it's super interesting. And I love those old Tomac photos for sure. [00:05:10] - (): Dean Dahl: Yeah. Well, you know, I w I wonder if, uh, mountain biking had to find itself or discover itself and had to really move away from all things road bike so it could find its own identity and now maybe it's mature enough that people can dip in and out of that road style, the gravel style without a feeling, I guess. **** - (): Threat to mountain biking? I don't know. [00:05:30] - (): Craig Dalton: Yeah, who knows? Who knows? I'm interested, you know, you mentioned your, your passion for skating for many years. Do you see there, like, any similarities between skating and cycling in terms of what it delivers to you? Or are they two just distinct areas of your brain and body? [00:05:48] - (): Dean Dahl: No, uh, well, I think that, um, for gravel cycling and skateboarding, there's actually a lot of similarities and I'll talk to them about them in a second. But in terms of my experience going from skateboarding into cycling, not that I've stopped skating, but I do it a lot less, that ground is not getting any softer as I get old. **** - (): Um, I just got into road biking because I realized that I'm not skating as much as I needed to, to keep fit. And I needed something that was low impact. So I got a road bike and just started racing and that was amazing, but it was a totally different rush except from hill bombing, which felt the same. Uh, but then gravel biking came along and I realized this is actually a lot like the feeling I used to have as a skater. **** - (): Like, Going to the city with my crew, uh, going on a road trip and looking around the dark corners and alleys of a city and out in these strange little places where you can find these cool skate spots and you're right, you're rolling to them and from them and you're hitting. You know, whatever obstacle and thinking, Oh, this is amazing. **** - (): I get that same feeling when I'm gravel riding, like I'll ride for my house. And I'll be like, Hey, I've never seen that part of the hill before. I should go check it out and see if there's any trails there and riding with my friends. And we're discovering, Oh, let's try this. Oh, it's a dead end. Let's turn around. **** - (): Let's go do this. And it just felt like, you know, when I was 10 years younger, skating cities and. That kind of thing. So I would say that there's a not really, really, really a practical line, but really an emotional feel that I get from gravel riding that connects to skateboarding. [00:07:29] - (): Craig Dalton: Yeah, that lands with me. **** - (): I mean, I think as I think about designing routes for my own personal use in any given week, there's some creativity in looping together the trails, the roads, the mountain bike, single track sections, and. A given route in a given area of our little mountains here can feel radically different depending on how you approach it and what you tie together with it. **** - (): And I think much like skating where bringing your crew on an adventure, like you're taking the lead and you're like, Hey, I found this spot and then let's skate over to this spot. Gravel ride route planning and bringing a group out there. I think it's quite similar in that you just want to show them a new way to experience the, you know, the terrain around your house. [00:08:17] - (): Dean Dahl: Yeah. Yeah, totally. And it's really fun actually. Um, as I've gotten into gravel riding, I'm, uh, connecting, uh, through Instagram, but a whole bunch of different ways with skaters that I used to skate with back in the day that also bought gravel bikes and, uh, that are cruising around and they're hitting trails in the city and doing things. **** - (): Actually, you want my one friend just posted on Instagram, uh, on his gravel bike. He's got a really nice titanium gravel bike, but he's like riding downstairs and like, um, doing little ollies on banks and stuff. And I'm like, dude, you're skating on your bike. That's hilarious. It's hilarious. that escape deal, but he's doing it on a gravel bike. **** - (): Right. So he's got the same adventure. [00:08:59] - (): Craig Dalton: Yeah. I love it. I love it. We're going to get into a great gravel event that you're organizing for this may, but I wanted to tease out earlier in your life, You know, Had you been producing events and had you had any experience doing events before kicking this one off? [00:09:16] - (): Dean Dahl: Yeah. Um, I've, uh, I'm kind of an event planner. Um, a lot of my career has been spent in the nonprofit world. And, uh, so I actually kind of helped found a skateboarding nonprofit within a larger nonprofit organization. Um, so I was doing a lot of skateboarding events and doing a lot of fundraising events for the larger umbrella organization as well. **** - (): And, uh, as I got more into my career, I became better at it. So I kind of moved up into more senior circles in those nonprofits that I was working for. So a lot of the events that I was running, um, especially towards the end of my nonprofit career, uh, were, um, fundraisers and, uh, they were the classic peer to peer, you know, I'm going to do this a hundred kilometer, uh, cycling event and I'm going to raise money for this cause it's going to be great. **** - (): And so I did, uh, a lot of those. And over the years, I kind of honed that to doing a lot more kind of bespoke tours where we'd get a small group of people. They'd raise a lot of money each and it wasn't a huge amount of people because we thought we could provide a better experience by doing something smaller, uh, really intentional with our, uh, with our friends that would want to ride with us and we'd still raise a lot of money and it was great for the organization. **** - (): So I have a history in that, um, and, uh, that. I guess. And well, as well as that, the last couple of years, I was hosting specific gravel races. And again, they had a fundraising component to them, uh, but they were a lot more in the, they were increasingly becoming more sport oriented. And, uh, that was partly intentional on my part. **** - (): And we can talk about that later, but I found that there's a, an odd space that the cycling community, specifically the gravel community sits in where it's, um, uh, It's attractive to both people in the nonprofit realm who see something like a gravel event as something dynamic and a vital, like a community with lots of vitality in it. **** - (): And they want to be a part of that because it's an exciting thing that can represent their nonprofit through which they can raise money. So that's one way of looking at that community of cyclists. The other is through the business realm that sees it as, Oh man, this is a great marketing opportunity for me to sponsor races or to put my name on it. **** - (): Our brand on this cool new community. And, uh, for my, from my perspective, the races that I was organizing, I just really felt like the organizations that I was helping produce these events for didn't understand the community of cycling and they weren't treating it well enough. They weren't going through the due process of looking on the race calendar. **** - (): Are we intersecting with another race that's happening in the same city? Are we actually doing the due diligence to get permits properly, to make sure the police know about our presence on the road? Are, do our cyclists know how to ride properly on these, on these trails? Um, And I'd get calls from mountain bikers or gravel cyclists after and be like, Hey, what's going on? **** - (): I heard about this event and people on the, you know, on my favorite trail are complaining about all the cyclists on the trail. I just realized, Oh man, through a good intention of doing a nonprofit work, raising funds through cycling, we're actually doing a disservice to the community of cyclists. Through it. **** - (): And I really wanted to address that in the events that I do to be able to create an event. That's actually not just something that you show up to do your race and you're gone and not something that you show up to because you have this other thing that you're raising money for, but to have something that really honors the community and says, this is something amazing. **** - (): We're all passionate about this. Let's build a community and let's make this community amazing. So that's a long answer to your story about my history and running events. [00:13:06] - (): Craig Dalton: So, I mean, let's name, let's name, let's talk about good ride gravel. Yeah. Like let's talk about one, you know, you talked about some of the motivations about why you created it, but let's kind of dig into that. **** - (): Let's dig into, What's your vision for this event this May? [00:13:24] - (): Dean Dahl: Yeah. Uh, we are basically hosting a kind of a sport forward event that really focuses on the community of gravel cyclists. Uh, there's a, uh, an increasing amount of them here in the lower mainland in Metro Vancouver area. And, uh, they are an emerging group and they are. **** - (): Kind of, kind of referencing back to my skateboarding days, they feel like a skate scene in a sense in that it's just this new thing and people are trying to discover what it's all about. And they're really stoked on being able to do things that are, you know, really gnarly in some cases and really smooth on the other adventuring, like what you're talking about. **** - (): And we want to be able to provide something that is an amazing opportunity, a gravel adventure that has a high end component to it. So you can come, you can race it. We've got podium prizes with cash. Um, so those people on the sharp end of this, uh, of the scene, uh, we've got a couple of pros coming, which is great. **** - (): And they're pushing their community to come and enjoy it. But on the other end, we have people that have never really tried gravel cycling again. But during COVID they bought a gravel bike and they've been riding it for a couple of years. And now COVID is kind of, we're kind of finding our way past COVID and these people want to get involved in events. **** - (): They have this passion for cycling. Now they want to find the community connected to that passion. And so whether they're pro cyclists, whether they're sponsored racers or whether they're just those adventure people that want to get out and ride for an entire day and see if they can do it, we're all going to come together at the same point. **** - (): And we're going to focus on, Hey, this is actually a community thing. It's more than just a race. We're celebrating gravel, but we're celebrating you as an individual. And we're celebrating the fact that you want to be a part of something good. And so that's kind of what it's about. And on top of that, I really believe that when people get together, they want to feel like they're a part of something bigger than just themselves. **** - (): And so we have a fundraising component to it. I found this really cool, small nonprofit in the city that we're doing this event called Restorative Cycle, and they just work through a restorative justice process to help people that have been, um, that are underserved in the community or that have had issues, uh, in the criminal, um, system. **** - (): In the past, um, to help them back on their feet by providing bikes for them, programs for them, uh, even like bicycle repair. So we're going to be able to sponsor that group and raise some money for them. But again, it's about a community getting involved to benefit a larger community beyond it. So that's kind of the nature of what the good ride gravel is about. [00:16:02] - (): Craig Dalton: Gotcha. And so for this particular event, you're coming at it as a sort of solo operator. You're not confined by previous relationships you had that were defining the event. This can be your baby and your vision, right? [00:16:17] - (): Dean Dahl: Yeah, definitely. That's very freeing in some cases and you know, probably as you know, if you've organized events before, that's also like, Oh, crazy time. [00:16:27] - (): Craig Dalton: Super scary. Yeah. Yeah. A hundred percent. I have a lot of, a lot of respect for anybody who holds up their hand and, and organizes events because it's, it can be thankless work and you just hope that the event day goes off well and you get those, uh, vibes of appreciation from all the riders who have a great day out there. [00:16:45] - (): Dean Dahl: Yeah, and you know, it's been fun Craig listening to your podcast and hearing from the other guests that you had their joys and struggles in finding their way through organizing these events running these races been really fun to hear the stories from the people that you're talking about. About these events. **** - (): And I really, um, I really feel what they're feeling. So I sit right in that too, but I love it. And again, for this event, it's our first year doing this specific event. Uh, our team has run events before, so we're familiar with cycling with gravel cycling, but we're trying something new. And so we're. Being honest that we don't have a lot of resources to make this happen, and we don't have a lot of time because we all have other things that we're doing. **** - (): I'm not going to make a full time career out of this race. I want to do things along with this. So we're going to keep it sustainable. We're going to start small and we're going to do it really well. And, uh, from there, we're going to evaluate and see, okay, what can we do next year to incrementally build this up? **** - (): You know, we want to be, I don't want to burn anybody out, including myself. And we want to make sure that our people that come really, really enjoy the vibe of it and feel like, yeah, I could do this again. I could bring a friend next time. [00:17:59] - (): Craig Dalton: Yeah. Let's talk about the community of Chilliwack BC. Why, why there, what's so special about it from a community perspective and also a terrain perspective? [00:18:09] - (): Dean Dahl: Yeah. Uh, Chilliwack is again, like it's an hour outside of, uh, Vancouver, British Columbia. It's kind of right on the border. Actually from my house, I can see into the United States, uh, which is kind of fascinating. So it's literally right on the edge and it borders at the very end of the Eastern Fraser Valley, which is a massive river Delta of the Fraser River that comes down into the ocean. **** - (): So, um, there is a really unique mix of a Dead flat, um, kind of prairie as the Fraser dumps out into the ocean and also it's on the very eastern or the western border of the Cascade mountain range, which goes down into Washington state. And so you get this really interesting, uh, and almost drastic. **** - (): Confrontation where you'll be riding flat, flat, flat, flat, flat for a long time. There's lots of dike trails around here that are like buttery, smooth, perfect for riding on. It feels great. And then all of a sudden smash you're right on better mountain, which is like, you know, mountain bike heaven for a lot of people in the Vancouver area. **** - (): And you're climbing serious terrain right now. And it just doesn't stop. And then you're at the forest service roads and. You could literally ride forever from there. Like Canada is a big place and it goes on forever. So there's that really interesting scenario of, uh, you know, something that's really, um, smooth and flat and fast, and also something that's really technical and aggressive, um, for that. **** - (): So in terms of the, uh, the, uh, the draw it has, it's an emerging community. It's a, it used to be a small kind of a farming city that's turned into a bedroom community of Vancouver. A lot of people are commuting from Chilliwack and Abbotsford, the Eastern Fares Valley to Vancouver, similar to what has gone on with Squamish. **** - (): And a lot of people call this like the next Squamish, Vancouver's new backyard. In that it's close enough that you can live here. It's a bit cheaper than living in the city and yet you're far enough away that you feel like, Oh man, there's a lot of terrain to explore. Lots of forest service roads, you know, let's just go out and have some fun. [00:20:18] - (): Craig Dalton: Yeah, sounds ideal for those Vancouver based riders and around there who maybe don't know where to go up there to have this as a jumping off point for their exploration of that valley. [00:20:28] - (): Dean Dahl: Yeah. [00:20:30] - (): Craig Dalton: When you think about the three different routes you've laid out, what were the different goals there? And maybe you can sort of talk about each route in terms of the distance and the amount of climbing you're going to be doing. [00:20:41] - (): Dean Dahl: Yeah, sure. And sorry, I don't know miles that well I'll be in kilometers meters. Yeah. So maybe put in the show notes, you could put all the mile or the Imperial stuff. Uh, yeah, we got three routes this, uh, this, for this event in May. And, uh, starting off as we just got our party ride, it's 50 kilometers. It's. **** - (): Dead flat. It's all on these beautiful, buttery, smooth dike trails. And uh, it's going to be just a fun tour. We've got kind of a bit of a lollipop route that goes out and back, explores a couple different communities. Uh, but it's pretty much all off road. There's a small portion at the beginning, a couple of kilometers that you have to ride on the road, and then it's just all flat gravel. **** - (): And it's meant to be just something, Hey, I've never done a gravel event before. Oh, I just got this bike and I feel a little nervous, but, um, can I do this? Yeah, I can. It's 50 kilometers. I'm, I got all my friends along. Um, it's going to be great. So we've got a bunch of snack stations and, you know, photo booth kind of things, you know, fun stuff to make it feel like, Oh, this is a fun little event. **** - (): And it's again, that entry thing that people can do it and feel like, okay, I'm ready for something more challenging next year. So that's our 50k. We just call it the good ride. And, uh, then we have our, what we call our very good ride. I don't know, they're cheesy titles, but whatever. And it's a hundred K and it is kind of a medium course. **** - (): It starts to explore that terrain that I was talking about. Up the side of mountains. So you're starting on, um, you're doing about, I don't know, five or six K to access the first forest service road. Then you start climbing. It gets a bit intense. You come down, it's great. And then you hit a really heavy climb. **** - (): You're going to max out at 20 percent on that climb. And it's a mixed terrain, a bit of a technical downhill. And then you get to celebrate the fact that you did those two climbs and that technical stuff with that. gravel dike thing and you're doing the same lollipop route that the 50k people did. So you get a really kind of even mix of, um, some, you know, good single tracks, some good forest service road with the smooth kind of finish, uh, to bring you to the event village again. **** - (): The big one, which we call our crazy good ride is, um, it's going to be 150 kilometers and it's about, uh, just over 2000 meters of elevation, probably 2200 meters of elevation. And that elevation is serious. Like it, uh, it, it's a good. Wall in front of you, uh, great forest service roads with all kinds of mixed terrain. **** - (): You're just right from the start going hard and going up and down and up and down and experiencing everything out here. It's wet. It's like rainforest. So there's no big sprawling gravel roads. It's like, okay, you've got the tree canopy. You're in this Emerald green forest and there's moss and ferns everywhere. **** - (): And you're riding mixed terrain, some mud, some gravel, some dirt, All kinds of stuff and it's up and down, up and down, up and down. And, uh, again, you've finished all that after about 90 kilometers, a hundred kilometers, and then you get to ride that really smooth. Um, Dyke lollipop thing to finish again, um, to, to, you know, sprint to the finish, so to speak. **** - (): So it's a good mix of both for everybody. You get the smooth terrain if you want to just take it easy for the day and do the 50 or you get the hardcore experience of, man, I can't believe I did this for the 150. [00:24:07] - (): Craig Dalton: Yeah. It's kind of interesting the way you're describing it. I was thinking about, you know, if you're at the pointy end of the sphere, attacking all that aggressive terrain. **** - (): To begin with for the first a hundred K and then having this relatively in perspective, tame terrain for the last 50 K, it's just going to be really interesting to see how it pans out. Like there's a group of merge from the forest and the climbing, uh, together, or, you know, or the technical riders separating themselves from the pack and then doing a 50 K time trial on the smooth terrain to try to bring it home. [00:24:42] - (): Dean Dahl: I know. Well, it's very interesting because if you can keep a pack going somehow through that last, uh, that last climb, the last one that's, it's about 450 meters of elevation and then a technical, there's about two kilometers of technical single track to get you back down. To the flat. Um, if you can stay in a group there, then you can draft and it becomes an entirely different race because the last 50 kilometers, it's all, it's, you almost need to be a good road rider to make that happen if you want to finish first. **** - (): Right. So, yeah, [00:25:12] - (): Craig Dalton: yeah. It's one of those interesting races. I really enjoyed, for example, my conversation around the rule of three. Growl in Bentonville, Arkansas with Andy Chastain. And it's just fascinating to kind of game play out if you are racing these things. Cause a lot of us go in it and we're just kind of out there to enjoy the ride and test ourselves to see if we can, you know, achieve a crazy good ride. **** - (): But for those at the front end of the spectrum, it's, it's pretty interesting to kind of game play out where your skillset lies and technical riders are going to have to bury themselves to get enough of a lead that. A pack won't hunt them down in those last 50 K. [00:25:50] - (): Dean Dahl: Yeah, yeah, it's totally true. So it'll be really interesting. **** - (): And again, you know, you're, you're right. Not everybody's going to be racing this, uh, but it's got a great race ability at the front end of the sharp end. Like you say. So it's good. And I've got it all staggered out. So, um, people won't be arriving at the same time in case there's a sprint, but close enough that we'll all be in the event village after the event together. **** - (): And people can celebrate racers coming in and adventurers coming in at the same time. So, [00:26:21] - (): Craig Dalton: yeah, that was going to be my next question. Just sort of around the race village and what kind of post event atmosphere and shenanigans you have planned for riders. [00:26:29] - (): Dean Dahl: Yeah. Yeah. Um, again, it's a fairly small event. **** - (): We're only. Capping it at 200. So, and that's intentional because we need to be able to start small and be sustainable, make sure we do this right. Um, and then we'll start expanding it from there. Uh, but we've got a lot of great sponsors locally. Um, I have a lot of friends in the area and they all are small business owners and they're like, yeah, this is amazing. **** - (): I want to be a part of this. So we've got an ice cream. This, uh, uh, boutique ice cream place just down the street from where we're going to be starting, uh, has a massive ice cream set up and they're handing you an ice cream cone, you know, and you cross the line. We've also got a local beer craft beer sponsor. **** - (): That's going to be giving everybody a pint. If you're showing up to race, if you're you register, you got to celebrate with a pint from this brewery. And, uh, we've got a local cafe as well that actually a coffee roaster, that's going to be providing coffee at the event village. And we've got a local cafe that's actually going to be setting up a cafe in the middle of absolutely nowhere on our course at the top of one of the biggest climbs. **** - (): So you're going to finish this climb and you're going to just feel like you totally. Destroyed yourself and you're going to turn the corner and there'll be tables there. They'll be doing pour overs, there's croissants and scones. They've got the tables, all that kind of stuff for you. So it'll be a fun, really kind of a neat surprise. **** - (): So the event village is actually spread through the course, so to speak, uh, which will be really fun. We've also got a food truck, uh, I'm going to be having donors and falafels for everyone as well. So, you know, we're just trying to bring the hype and, you know, I'm talking to sponsors locally and just saying, Hey, kind of like what Andy said, actually, in, when you're talking with him, he was so interesting in that he was talking about how he just wants to be able to create a great thing and just let sponsors dictate how they want to bless the event. **** - (): And, uh, I like that style and I think I'm kind of going for that style too, or. Somebody's got a food truck that serves falafels and doners and shawarma. I'm I'm down. Let's do that. Let's let's figure something out. Right. [00:28:33] - (): Craig Dalton: Yeah. You [00:28:34] - (): Dean Dahl: have a cafe. Let's set up a cafe in the middle of the route. That'd be amazing. **** - (): So yeah, so that's kind of the event village feel. [00:28:41] - (): Craig Dalton: That sounds awesome. When you think about the community, is this the type of community? And I often like think and talk about this. Like when you have a rural community and you stand up an event like this, yeah. All the businesses around town are like, bring it on, like no downside. **** - (): This is awesome. Anything that will bring people to the community. Does Chilliwack have that vibe? Or is it still close enough to Vancouver where there's a little bit of like, actually, we don't want a lot of more people discovering us. [00:29:09] - (): Dean Dahl: Yeah, there's a bit of that vibe and, uh, Chilliwack, again, like I said, it's a, it's an emerging community. **** - (): It's probably, you know, close to a hundred thousand people. So it's actually not a small town. I mean, well, maybe that is a small town compared to some places. Um, but it, uh, yeah, it sits in an awkward, uh, Spot and it's discovering itself and there's some really great things happening and there's also a oh man A lot of people from the city are moving out here, you know It's the roads are a lot less quiet than they used to be our trails you know, I used to ride my horse on this trail all the time and now there's You know, people running all the time and cyclists all the time. **** - (): So there's a bit of that thing. And also, um, again, Chilliwack is discovering itself in terms of how to be a community as it grows. And it's fascinating. Like, yeah, I love the idea of watching, um, cities grow and the urban planning idea fascinates me. And I'm seeing it on a local level in this city, which has got some really great, um, potential, uh, to see people really want to adopt this as their spot. **** - (): At the same time trying to struggle with the people that have always lived here who are saying well we don't want it not in our town like we don't need another race we got two races already so there's both the yes let's get involved let's do this and also the well just do your thing and that's kind of it that's kind of a Vancouver thing too the west coast of Canada is very much like uh yeah you just do your thing and you know just leave me alone and just do it whatever. **** - (): So [00:30:41] - (): Craig Dalton: that brings up a question around land access, you know, any issues around getting on the land that you want to, that you're going to do the event on? Is it land that we can go out and ride today? [00:30:53] - (): Dean Dahl: Yeah. Uh, well, that's a great question. And we are actually really excited because we are actually on the lands of the Stolo people, the traditional ancestral people, the Solo nation and the Swahili nation. **** - (): And, uh, they have been really gracious in being allow us right down to being able to use some of the roads in their community that we can pass by on our route. Um, so we're very excited to be able to, um, kind of honor these communities and recognize them at the same time as being able to practically make use of the, the roads in their communities at the same time. **** - (): So that's good beyond that too. Um, we're actually working with. Five different jurisdictions of ownership are stewardship of the various lands that we're going to be on everything from the city of Chilliwack to the regional districts to different communities that have different park zones and things. **** - (): So the permitting process is extensive, and I was actually working on that a lot this morning just before talking to you. Um. It's exciting to do because you get to spread the word about a cool event and these people are like, yeah, that's amazing. Have you dotted this T by or dotted this I by the way, but what you're doing is great. **** - (): Keep it going and fill out this form. As long as they [00:32:07] - (): Craig Dalton: keep saying yes, it's [00:32:10] - (): Dean Dahl: when the [00:32:10] - (): Craig Dalton: fourth land manager says no and you're just like, wait, I have this great route that needs your section of land. [00:32:17] - (): Dean Dahl: Yeah, that's totally true. But you get through that. You just got to take your time and, uh, you pay a little bit of money along the way for it, but you just do the due diligence, right? **** - (): And you, you know, respect the process and then it's all good. [00:32:33] - (): Craig Dalton: Yeah. Well, I love what you're working on up there, Dean. It looks like a great event and from everything you've described, looks like an amazing piece of Canada that we should be exploring on our gravel bikes for sure. And I love, I love that you come with a different sports mindset as well. **** - (): Obviously you've been around bikes your whole life, but having that skateboard influence, I always think it's interesting and refreshing when event organizers have. A totally different context for what an event can be. Like you can only imagine as a cyclist, like what a skate event might look like versus a cycling event. **** - (): So bringing that unique mindset, I think is, is something new and great that you're bringing to the gravel community. [00:33:16] - (): Dean Dahl: Yeah. I mean, it's all I know is like skate scene and my experience in cycling. So I'm just going to do what I do, but we'll find out. It's cool or not. And my team is, they're, they're not skaters, uh, but you know, they're like, Oh, that sounds cool. **** - (): Let's do that. That'd be amazing. I've never seen that in a sailing race before, but whatever, it'll be great. I love [00:33:37] - (): Craig Dalton: it. Yeah, for sure. Well, best of luck. We'll make sure everybody knows about your event on May 11th ticket. There's still some slots available, so we'll put a link to registration in the show notes for everybody. [00:33:49] - (): Dean Dahl: Yeah, that'd be amazing. Craig, great to talk with you. Love your podcast. Keep it going. I know that's a lot of work and, uh, but keep at it because you're exploring something really interesting. And like I said before, the community around gravel cycling is so vibrant and it's growing and, uh, you know, you're a great voice to represent all kinds of things in this community. **** - (): So thank you. [00:34:13] - (): Craig Dalton: Yeah, I appreciate the kind words and I appreciate you sharing everything you did today. Thanks, Dean. [00:34:17] - (): Dean Dahl: All right on.
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