A moment to catch up with everyone! Life has been going lickety-split so far this summer, and with berry harvest staring us down the barrel, we are wondering how we're going to get it all done. The smoke that's rolled into the valley is the reason I have time to write just now. Forecasts have it lightening up a bit this weekend, which is good because we are at the Penticton Ribfest Friday afternoon through to Sunday. Why is a natural health practitioner at a meat-focussed event??? Because God created humans as omnivores, both in our mouths and in our guts. We recently held our first wildcrafted high tea and it went over smashingly well! The attendees were suitably amazed at the spread they saw, flavours they tasted, and several remarked about how full they felt. One of the attendees was vegan and a couple were vegetarian, so it had been requested that no animal products be at this particular event. But otherwise, the layout, the presentation of the space we were in, and the guests made it one for the history books! We've also been out foraging, and dismayed to see just how dry our zones have become. We did another advanced foraging workshop up in Vernon in partnership with Noodlelegs, and did some actual gathering during our time together. We gathered various herbs for the workshop itself where we ended with cups of fresh tea by the tailgate of the truck. It was a nice way to end the day. The Fall schedule is taking shape. We will be at the Kelowna Farmer's Market more frequently in August while also trying to dive head-first into the berry harvest. I hope to have the website calendars updated before the end of July and then will post a new Where We'll Be Card as well. If you are wondering about a date for a workshop or event from the booking card, do reach out in the meantime to ask what's available. We can look at our pencilled in calendar and get back to you. For the full update with photos, click here: https://naturalhealthgodsway.ca/2026/07/23/from-wildcrafted-high-tea-to-foraging-forecasts-newsy-update/

In the vein of yet another go big or go home event, today was supposed to be kitchen day in our house! The catch however, occurred in a new addition to my cheese sauce that began late winter 2026, just before spring. Ashley suggested looking into making hummus from chickpea flour. I counted out how many cups of carrot I rough-pureed, and had 13.5 cups, or roughly 27 times the recipe I'd used last time! Out of curiousity, I weighed the various containers, and discovered I've made over 8kg of spicy carrot chickpea hummus! Ashley got curious, and came up with a slightly rewilded herbed chickpea hummus, throwing in catnip. Mint is a common cooking herb in the Middle East and in the Mediterranean region as well. It's flavour blended very nicely with the besan in finger dipped taste tests. I've written down her recipe for future use! We had a great time at Creative Chaos this past weekend! We look forward to establishing a presence at the Kelowna Farmer's Market this summer. We might need rope tied to our ankles to make sure our trajectory doesn't leave orbit! Monday's foraging run had a fun discovery!  Purple/magenta baby cones looking for all the world like little spiky flowers, are appearing at the tips of ponderosa pines in our region!  Ashley stopped to take several photos. We also began our sage harvesting early again this year.  Here's hoping we get enough to last through to next spring. For the full adventure and a few photos, click here: https://naturalhealthgodsway.ca/2026/06/10/of-carrots-hummus-fairs-and-markets-i-hear-the-engines-revving/

This is a VERY busy blog post today! From fairs and foraging, to opportunities and scrambling! If you like to stay current with what we are up to, this is one article you don't want to miss! There are a few photos from Monday's foraging run in here as well: https://naturalhealthgodsway.ca/2026/06/02/ren-fair-creative-chaos-foraging-and-efforts-to-catch-up/

This passage occurs after the Great Flood. The last statement regarding the blood is why we drain our meat before eating it. One of the things I teach, is the benefits of animal-based foods in the human diet.

A lot going on in this particular newsletter-style blog post. From workshops and trail tours to foraging runs and upcoming fairs we'll be at, there's lots to catch up on here, as well as photos of various wild herbs in the area. Join the adventure by clicking here for the full report: https://naturalhealthgodsway.ca/2026/04/20/more-foraging-escapades-two-workshop-trail-tours-upcoming-events-this-spring/

Four articles just got a very important update, and I'm starting with the controversy around the most common way people today understand the compound being discussed. But salicylate, or salicylic acid, has recently been shown to revert cancer cells back to their original regular cell DNA programming! These days, we typically associate this compound with aspirin, which is a synthetic drug derived from salicylate found in willow bark. Dr Mercola published an article today with the bombshell research, and I had to include it in the following four articles, along with a partial list of foods that are known to contain salicylate as one of their phytochemicals. If you or someone you know is concerned about cancer, these articles are for you: Controversy Strikes the Grocery List Again! https://naturalhealthgodsway.ca/2022/02/19/controversy-strikes-the-grocery-list-again/ Keytruda – Part 3: Three Drugs That Drain the Bank, and the Foods that Do Similar Tasks https://naturalhealthgodsway.ca/2024/02/11/keytruda-part-3-three-drugs-that-drain-the-bank-and-the-foods-that-do-similar-tasks/ Foods that Beat Back Pancreatic Cancer https://naturalhealthgodsway.ca/2023/02/03/foods-that-beat-back-pancreatic-cancer/ Cervical Cancer – It doesn’t have to be a life or death decision! https://naturalhealthgodsway.ca/2026/02/25/cervical-cancer-it-doesnt-have-to-be-a-life-or-death-decision/

If you've ever made cinnamon rolls, now there's Pine Rolls!!! In the vein of go big or go home, I took the eggless giant cinnamon roll recipe from last year, and made a few adjustments to it. To find out what those adjustments were, and to get the full recipe, click here: https://naturalhealthgodsway.ca/2026/04/09/giant-pine-roll-recipe/

So April 6th was our first spring foraging run. We came back with a bit of yarrow, but not without gathering a full cloth grocery bag of fallen, still-green, fir sprigs! Then we spotted a Ponderosa pine with very loose bark layers. These layers are what I've been experimenting with as a cinnamon-like spice. Looking around at the base of a few pine trees reveals that the trees shed this layer regardless. We can either let it go to waste and become forest fire fuel, or we can do our part in reducing fuel for forest fires while also reducing our need to buy imported goods from overseas. Discovering that Lamb's Quarters are a spinach substitute whether raw or cooked, is another ingredient that doesn't need to be trucked the last mile if it is found growing nearby, or only the price of the gas spent to go get it, which for us, is equal to the cost of gas running to the store. Of course, the fewer runs to the store, the less gas spent. Money saved all around. Maybe this week I'll get around to trying out powdered pine bark in place of cinnamon in a cinnamon roll recipe. If it works, I'll share the recipe and call them pine rolls instead. We will be at the Vernon Wellness Fair April 11th and 12th, with a sniff sample available of Wild Apple Spice. If you live in the Okanagan, hope to see you at the fair, and we look forward to more foraging runs, workshops, etc, as the year progresses. Don't forget that we are available for various bookings this year. See the booking card below: For the full foraging report with photos, click here: https://naturalhealthgodsway.ca/2026/04/06/first-spring-foraging-run/