Health

The Med Diet

Here’s one diet that’s not a fad.

From EAT: The Super Foods

Green, white, red, black: a rainbow of colour was on display this past weekend at Victoria’s fourth annual Tea Festival. Billed as North America’s largest tea exhibition, it was impressive to see just how many independent tea importers and suppliers are based here in British Columbia, each covering their own specific areas of expertise. 

When most of us think of a vegan diet, we think of a somewhat suspect, spartan diet. Jessica, however, sees it as a pathway to strength, endurance, and a long and healthy life. 

On July 10th and 11th this year, I headed to Glendale Gardens for the 6th annual Organic Islands Festival and Sustainability Expo. Along with a throng of eco-conscious Victorians, I garnered solutions for how to "Live Green and Buy Local" from 150 vendors and visionaries while wandering between apricot trees and ornamental beds of grass.

The air around us was specked black with bees as we stood in the lot behind Babe's Honey Farm and watched an apiarist lift honeycomb frames from a box hive. Each frame crawled and dripped with calm yet industrious honeybees, (while my inner child, who'd once been stung inside the mouth by a courageous bee, squirmed at the sight.)