Quark
Quark is a wonderful smooth dairy product rich
in protein and lactic acid. Once you learned how
to make kefir (described in last issue), the next
easy step is quark. Pour the kefir through a
cheesecloth and hang it for 24 hours. Once you
have a firm paste, refrigerate. Whisk in fresh or
frozen berries from your garden to make a re-
freshing quick snack or dessert. To make a sa-
vory bread spread, add chives and sea salt; it is
also great on baked potatoes. Keep the juice
from the drained kefir and use it in your soaked
grains or kimchi making.
Basic Omelette (makes 12)
¾ cup flour
¾ tsp. salt
1 cup water
4 eggs
¼ cup water
1 Tbsp. olive oil
water, and olive oil to the dough and mix until
smooth. Cover and let it rest for a half hour.
pour in enough dough to cover the oil. Fry the
dough on both sides, and then keep it warm in
the oven on a plate.
Ground Beef Omelette (makes 12)
1 Tbsp. coco fat or beef or pig lard
2 cloves of garlic
3 carrots, chopped
2 celery sticks, chopped
fresh herbs like rosemary, thyme, and lovage
1 Tbsp. tomato paste
2 Tbsp. flour
¾ cup boullion (bone broth if you have it)
sea salt and pepper for seasoning
onion, garlic, carrots, celery, herbs, and tomato
paste. Stir to combine. Mix in the flour and
boullion, stir, and simmer for 30 minutes. Add
sea salt and pepper to taste.
Myths Unveiled
silent about the connection between nutrition
and these problems.
virtually every nutrient, is a potent witch's brew
that breeds unhappiness, depression, anger, and
lack of impulse control. No amount of regula-
tion, control, medication, or armed protec-
tion can halt the downward
slide of a population that rou-
tinely, even exclusively, con-
sumes processed foods. Truly, we
are paying the price of decades of
our culinary traditions.
fats from grass-fed animals, and including gly-
cine-rich bone broth and healthy biofilm-
building lacto-fermented beverages (like kombu-
cha) and condiments (kimchi), is the solution to
out-of-control behaviour. But, of course, very
few have embraced this solution, at least not yet.
(Sally Fallon-Morell).
ucts. The reason is today's mainstream food is
produced with chemical fertilizers, pesticides,
herbicides, and often genetically modified seeds
that produce vegetables lacking in minerals and
vitamins. These are all very important for
proper brain function. A healthy mind is calm
and happy.
significant decrease in bullying and violence.
food! Remember all food, good and bad, will
affect your child's brain and, therefore, behav-
iour.
A Walk Through Your Pantry/Medicine
Cabinet:
GET RID OF: Conventional icing sugar. Not
only is white sugar from genetically modified
sugar beets used to make icing sugar, cornstarch
is also added to keep it from caking. Cornstarch
is also made from genetically modified corn.
You want to keep away from any GMO prod-
ucts.
REPLACE WITH: Make your own icing sugar
from certified organic cane sugar. Only use icing
sugar occasionally. Remember, sugar has no
nutritional value and actually robs your body of
vitamins, minerals, and even enzymes.
Brought to you by Jasmin Schellenberg
Inspired by and resourced from " ourishing
T r a d i t i o n s "
the past visit
you could help real
scientists learn about
our world? There's an
to modern technology. o longer do
researchers have to depend solely on
grad students trooping through the
bush, sampling only what their fund-
ing will cover, to gather data for their
studies.
the world out their back door and
adding to the sum of human knowl-
edge via computer. It's called Citizen
Science.
sizes, finding new stars, and more.
Learning more about the environment
might motivate observers to make
more contributions and decisions that
affect the environment for the better.
there are tons of projects you can get
involved in, and they're tailored to all
ages and levels of expertise. Many of
them are tracking the effects of cli-
mate change. Citizen Scientists are
seeing specific, localized changes that
might not be noticed otherwise, and
which help researchers see trends and
patterns that help them understand
what might lie ahead.
to follow the health of bird popula-
tions through long-term monitoring of
nesting activity. They provide valu-
able information on changes in the
environment, as birds are good indica-
tors of the condition of the habitat
t h e y
April, thousands of Feeder Watchers
count the kinds and numbers of birds
at their feeders, then submit their ob-
servations. Bird studies Canada's
website has more details
Lab of Ornithology program that's
nine parts education to every one part
science. It's a good way for city kids
to become familiar with a common
bird, and learn about scientific obser-
vation. The Cornell Lab of Ornithol-
ogy also runs projects tracking several
other species of birds.
tor the health of frogs as they face
pollution, habitat loss, an aggressive
fungal disease, and other stresses. You
can help by spending as little 20 min-
utes twice a week observing the frogs
breeding in wetlands near your home.
For more information, visit
environmental changes like global
warming, the loss of species, or the
decline in native pollinators? That is
the question Project BudBurst seeks
to answer. Participants monitor the
phenological events of native plants,
like the date when Pacific trillium
blooms, black locust leafs out, or
woods strawberry puts out fruit. For
more information, visit
timing of plant and animal lifecycle
events such as bird, fish, and mammal
migration; emergence from hiberna-
tion; and, the leafing, blooming, and
fruiting of plants. Global warming is
causing a resurgence in interest in
phenology, as the growing season
lengthens, winters shorten, and fears
grow that some wildlife adapted to
live with one another get out of sync
(think bees pollinating flowers or
migratory birds feasting on spring
bugs).
when they try to identify fungi. By
some estimates, fewer than five per
cent of the world's species have been
described adequately by science.
Mushroom Observer is a long-term
project to connect expert mycologists
and amateur mushroom hunters on the
Web, so they can help each other
identify hard-to-recognize mushrooms
and collectively build knowledge. For
more information, visit
everywhere around the world to get
wet and gather water quality data in
their communities. (Last year, one
million people in 100 nations were
expected to participate.) The organi-
zation provides easy-to-use test kits,
so amateurs and students can partici-
pate.
Healthy by ature is a collaborative
project of Scout Island ature Centre
(scoutislandnaturecentre.ca), the Wil-
liams Lake Environmental Society Air
Q u a l i t y
Cariboo-Chilcotin Conservation Soci-
ety (ccconserv.org). We're dedicated
to bringing nature back into people's
lives, for the benefit of the whole com-
munity of life.
interesting and rewarding especially