Friday, we took a quick trip to the South Shore. In Mahone Bay, we stopped for coffee and a cinnamon bun at the LaHave Bakery. We discovered that it is now The Nosy Crow Bites and Brews. Many of the stores were either for rent or sale; presumably, the impact of COVID-19 on a small community dependent on the Summer tourist trade.
In Lunenburg, we stopped at Lunenburg Bound bookstore. I picked up the last copy of George Monbiot’s book Feral, published by Penguin Canada in 2013. Heather found Zach Loeks’ book The Permaculture Market Garden with a Foreword by Joel Salatin, published by New Society in 2017.
‘Most market garden books start with plants, production techniques, marketing protocols and the like. This one dares to address the most basic climatic, topographical even community nuances into the process.’ p.vii.
The Introduction in George Monbiot’s book, Feral, admonishes the environmental plight of Canada.
‘The positive environmentalism I developed in Feral is intended to create a vision of a better place, which we can keep in mind even as we seek to prevent our government from engineering a worse one.
‘I will be happy if this book helps to stimulate new thinking about our place on the living planet and the ways in which we might engage with it. Nowhere, I believe, is in greater need of that than Canada’ p.xix.
That was written seven years ago.
Later, on Friday evening, somewhat inspired by Monbiot, I turned to watch the Netflix Movie ‘Into the Wild’, the film based on Jon Krakauer`s 1996 book of the same name. It tells the story of Christopher McCandless who hiked across North America into the Alaskan Wilderness, in the early 1990s.
This weekend, I continue with my reading of Feral.
Acknowledgements
Heather and Siqsiq were my companions on the trip to the South Shore. Edward, later, added the graphics.
References
George Monbiot, 2013. Feral: rewilding the land, the sea and human life. University of Chicago Press.
Zach Loeks, 2017. The Permaculture Market Garden: a visual guide to a profitable whole-systems farm business. New Society Publishers. Foreword by Joel Salatin.
Netflix movie, 2007. Into the Wild. Produced and Directed by Sean Penn.
First, Kent Thompson, 
From Danielle Robinson, a copy of her PhD thesis defended at the University of Guelph 
This Saturday, I received their 
This week, Michael Bond’s book 
Postscript
This compares with the four varieties in our small orchard: NovaMac, NovaSpy, Liberty, MacFree.
This led to the following exchange with Edward Wedler.
This week, I picked up the book ‘A Sense of Humus’ from the post office in Bridgetown (Lawrencetown is closed). It had been sent to me by Jane Nicholson. She thought that I would enjoy it. Written in 1943 by Bertha Damon.
Meanwhile, Saturday, we went for a drive to Annapolis Royal and Victoria Beach. At 
It includes interviews by Christopher and Judith Plant with Gary Snyder, Peter Berg, Murray Bookchin and others. First published in 1990, with a Foreword by Kirkpatrick Sale. I found it hiding between 
I was teaching Biogeography and Computer Mapping in the 
In the McGinnis book, there is an excellent chapter by Doug Aberley.
They are offering a surprise package of five books on any topic you are interested in for $60 includes delivery. I should send my $60, my topic would be ‘Bioregionalism’.
Mary was born in Poland in 1923. She was sixteen when Hitler invaded Poland at the start of the Second World War. Eventually, she arrived at Pier21 with her husband, Mike, in 1951. They moved to New Brunswick in 1961.
Meanwhile, Heather continues to organize our book collection. This brought to my attention, Mike Carr, 
Eventually, I turned to the bookcase, and rediscovered the 
In these unusual times, it is the small details that catch one’s attention. Going to the grocery store is a different experience. Once a week, I stop at 
Two years ago, I was in England and picked up Nan Shepherd’s 
