Downhome Magazine

November 10, 2012

Labrador agriculture well on the rebound

Name it and there’s a good chance that a farmer in central Labrador is raising it. On land throughout the area, where once grew black spruce, caribou moss and Labrador tea, now sprouts row after row of broccoli, zucchini, carrots, potatoes, kohlrabi, turnips, turnip greens, arugula, lettuce, spinach, cabbage, pumpkins, oats and, among other crops, the ‘three sisters’: corn, beans and squash. Oh yes, ornamental flowers, as well.

May 4, 2014

Freedom's a road paved from east to west

The highway that climbed the long, steep hill in front of us looked more like a mountainside brook than a drivable road. Several ribbons of water from a recent rainfall still trickled down towards us, washing ever more sand and dirt from the channels they'd been carving through the gravel since wintertime, leaving some large and jagged rocks strewn across the roadway.

May 5, 2014

Close encounters with a few large neighbours

What I saw was a dark, hairy back level with the bottom of the window, which was almost two meters off the ground. The animal was so close that's all I saw of it in the murky light until I looked to my left and there was a massive head with a wide rack of antlers rising above me. It was a moose - a fairly young one, I believe, but already quite large.