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/

IAG Cargo, the cargo arm of International Airlines Group, is boosting Spain’s aquaculture exports by partnering with Cooke España, one of the country’s leading seafood exporters, as global demand for Mediterranean products grows. #IAGCargo #InternationalAirlinesGroup #CookeEspana #ConstantFresh #Mediterranean #aircargo #aircraft

Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) has expanded its presence in the air cargo sector, increasing its fleet from zero to five aircraft in 21 months. The company launched MSC Air Cargo in October 2022 to strengthen its global logistics network across road, rail, air, and sea. #MediterraneanShippingCompany #MSC #MSCAirCargo #iCargo #road #rail #airandsea #aircargo #aircraft

Melanie Joly plans trip to Middle East, Mediterranean 🇨🇦 #resigntrudeau 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 #NoMoreLiberalsAndNDP 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 #SayingTheQuietPartOutLoud 🇨🇦 https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/melanie-joly-trip-to-middle-east-mediterranean via @nationalpost

"Israel’s military has begun to pump seawater into Hamas’s vast complex of tunnels in Gaza, according to U.S. officials briefed on the Israeli military’s operations, part of an intensive effort to destroy the underground infrastructure that has underpinned the group’s operations," The Wall Street Journal reports Tuesday. Water is being pumped from the nearby Mediterranean Sea. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/israel-starts-pumping-seawater-gaza-tunnels-after-russia-warned-against-war-crime

And unleavened bread, and cakes unleavened tempered with oil, and wafers unleavened anointed with oil: of wheaten flour shalt thou make them. Exodus 29:2 Flatbread and crackers, both made of wheat and oil. Although people like Mercola give it a bad name these days, Olive oil was the dominant cooking oil back in ancient times in the areas of North Africa, the Mediterranean, and the Middle East. Wheat wasn't the scourge to people's guts that it can be today, and bread back then was known as "The Staff of Life". When you look at the numerous nutritional components of a kernel of wheat, you can see why. The gluten-free craze began because of GMO requirements for Monsanto's Round UP. What Round UP does to insects, it also does to the human gut! It is designed to kill them by exploding their tiny gut, and guess what it can do to the human gut after ingesting enough of it?! Cause all manor of gut upset and various IBS issues. One way to help your body deal with glyphosate, the chemical responsible for the so-called gluten sensitivity/allergen, is to eat foods that bind the glyphosate and that help the body eliminate it and refuse uptake of it. This is best done BEFORE your body gets to the severe IBS stage, but can be helpful in aiding your body in healing. I write more about this here: https://songdove.fa-ct.com/wordpress-mu/tame/help-your-gut-help-you-avoid-problems-with-glyphosate/

Even after almost three months, the new Italian right-wing government has still not succeeded in bringing about the promised asylum turnaround. Italy is, as ever, inundated by masses of illegal immigrants who are being landed by numerous “rescue” ships. The facts are that contrary to Italian Interior Minister Piatendosi’s claim that the number of Mediterranean migrants has fallen in the first two months of government, Interior Ministry statistics show that since Meloni took office, migrant boat arrivals have risen massively compared to the same period last year. https://freewestmedia.com/2023/01/18/three-months-into-meloni-tenure-sees-migrant-arrivals-exploding/

Meloni’s government will soon force NGO ships flying flags from countries like France, Germany and Norway to accept the migrants they pick up in the Mediterranean Sea. Italy’s council of ministers was to approve on Dec. 28 a draft security decree that will include a new Code of Conduct for those NGOs and accelerate the processing of asylum requests. One of the big changes the new right-wing government in Rome plans to introduce is that migrants taken on board an NGO boat in an alleged search-and-rescue operation will be required to declare if they intend to file an asylum request once in Europe. If this is the case, the country under whose flag a given ship is sailing will be required to take in the asylum seekers and process their requests. https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/after-100000-migrants-arrive-2022-italy-set-take-action-against-ngo-ferry-boats

After taking office, the Italian government began tightening controls on refugee organizations operating in the Mediterranean. Since then, there have been repeated disputes with the German government and the EU. Under Prime Minister Meloni’s government, Italy has taken a hard line on NGOs rescuing migrants. The new decree now prescribes further rules for civil sea rescuers. These are intended to limit the rescue operations. It makes it more difficult for rescue ships to land in southern Italy. The cabinet clearly wants to limit systematic rescue operations by NGO ships that bring migrants to Italy. According to media reports, rescued refugees should submit their asylum application on board the rescue ships, which should be accepted by the ship’s flag state. https://freewestmedia.com/2022/12/31/sea-eye-demands-protection-from-german-government/

The new Italian Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, wants to keep a promise she made during the elections and implement a change of course in Italian asylum and immigration policy by the end of the year. To this end, a decree is to be passed as soon as possible, which is intended to make it more difficult for so-called “rescue ships” to land in southern Italy. “We have a duty to stop the human trafficking carried out by criminals, which only brings death and despair.” Migration must be “managed and controlled,” said Salvini, who criticized the aid organizations’ operations in the central Mediterranean. “It is unacceptable that migration policy is managed by private associations,” said Salvini. https://freewestmedia.com/2022/12/22/meloni-prepares-decree-to-curb-the-asylum-rush-2/