There’s something about foraging for food that’s extremely satisfying, especially when the “loot” is so abundant you find yourself grinning at every turn. This happened to me while foraging for fiddleheads just outside of Fredericton.
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For many Saltscapers, a summer rite of passage is clam digging, finding softshells, bar clams, razor clams, and quahogs to enjoy in a boil on the beach or in assorted dishes at home. New to the hobby? Marcel Saulnier can help.
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On a brisk morning in late November, Carl and Lynn Zimmerman watched in excitement as a crane hoisted their new home from a truck and settled it on a slab on their lakefront property near Bridgewater, NS.
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Ah, fiddleheads. They're showing up now in markets and stores, and they are such a divine taste of spring. I keep cooking them and then forgetting to take photos of the dishes!
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Fire. It’s the stuff of nightmares, of dreams. Humans have clustered around its warmth since time immemorial. It can sustain life, or take it away. It’s neither solid nor liquid nor gas. And with fire comes those who challenge its supremacy: firefighters.
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Book clubs, stargazing, birdwatching; three things anyone can do anywhere, from the Cape Breton Highlands to Baie des Chaleurs, in the sweetly short season that is summer in the Maritimes. But there is something special about doing them here, in Yarmouth.
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The only thing gardeners enjoy more than their own plants are other people’s gardens, and there is a massive and magical one on Hwy. 3 in Brooklyn, N.S., just before Liverpool. Here you’ll find Cosby’s Garden Centre, and something more.
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Along the Nova Scotia side of the Bay of Fundy the tide rushes in every 12 hours, and can reach an incredible height of 16 metres (53 feet). This part of the province’s coastline provides a unique view of millions of years of earth history.
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Some are skeptical of supposed supernatural phenomena, but whether your hair stands on end when a guide describes apparitions in the attic or if you scoff at the thought of souls restless after some dastardly deed, ghost tours are rewarding in other ways.
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There are no potatoes left on Prince Edward Island. I think I must have eaten them all. Well, they may still have thousands of acres but my potato-loving appetite left a big dent in the last crop.
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On a recent trip to Newfoundland my wife and I visited the UNESCO World Heritage Site of L’Anse aux Meadows. We also explored the isolated French Shore on the Great Northern Peninsula. The French Shore Tapestry of Conche rivals the famed Bayeaux Tapestry
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The Bay of Fundy is one of the world’s great natural wonders. With its enormous tidal changes, unique rock formations, fossil beds, unmatched whale watching, it’s been attracting tourists since long before the opening of Fundy National Park in 1950.
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Scallops grown here are sweet,” says Melanie Bourgeois as she pulls a live three-year-old mollusc from an aquaculture net and slices it open with the shell of another. She carves off the round, meaty muscle and hands the half shell to me.
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When it comes to window treatments, one size doesn’t fit all. Choosing the best drapes, shades or blinds for your home is an important, but often under-valued decision. Good window dressings can help insulate a room, save your furniture from sun...
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The National Garden Bureau in the United States designated 2021 the Year of the Sunflower. Some of us would argue that every year is the year of the sunflower, as our gardens aren’t complete without a few (few dozen, or few hundred) plants smiling at us.
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Say you're a Japanese textile artist who has earned acclaim for the giant children’s play structures you crochet by hand. You met a former art student turned investment banker in Tokyo, get married, & go into business together; where would you set up shop?
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Like cake at weddings, a good feed of lobster is a traditional part of Maritime parties. We break out the shellfish at birthdays, holidays and when friends “from away” come to visit. And in southeast New Brunswick, lobster is the force behind festivals.
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On a recent visit to Newfoundland, my sister and I veer off the Trans-Canada Highway close to Glovertown, about a three-hour drive from St. John’s, on to Route 310 and followed our nose into the Eastport Peninsula.
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Smoking herring for a living was an integral part of daily life for the Arseneau family and many other Madelinot for generations, but in the last decades of the 20th century, islanders nearly lost the trade and the knowledge necessary to run it.
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What do fish and brewis, cod tongues, toutons, Jiggs’ dinner and moose meatballs have in common? They are just a few of the delicious dishes served in Labrador and Newfoundland.
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