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‘within easy reach’ … a poetry book about wild edibles and local foods
all about my new book:
within easy reach by Jane Spavold Tims
(with a foreword by Freeman Patterson)
Chapel Street Editions, Woodstock
May 2016
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includes poems and pencil drawings about
eating local foods and gathering wild edible plants
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poetry about picking berries, gathering herbs and roots, gardening, fishing
local markets, beekeeping and salad greens
explores how easy it is to bring local foods into your diet
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considers the barriers to eating local and gathering wild foods
explores abandoned gardens
poisonous berries and berries in bottles
includes poems about our history of eating wild foods
and about New Brunswick’s special local foods:
maple syrup and fiddleheads
coastal plants like goosetongue greens and samphire
land-locked salmon
notes on each plant – characteristics and uses
seventeen pencil drawings
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this book will remind you of your own experiences picking berries
a tribute to every age of our lives – dancing in the school gym and picking berries with arthritic hands
it will recall the habits of your ancestors
a beautiful book – rests open in your hands as you read
a font so easy on the eyes
I hope you will love within easy reach
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Jane Tims
2016
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fiddlehead season in New Brunswick
This time of year in New Brunswick, the fields and riversides are turning green. The leaves of the alders are the size of a mouse’s ear and that means fishing in the streams. The small leaves of the red maples are like green stars against a blue sky. And bouquets of fiddlehead ferns are unfolding in the wet meadows and along the shores.
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Fiddleheads, the young coiled leaf fronds of the Ostrich fern (Matteuccia Struthiopteris (L.) Tod.), are a local delicacy in New Brunswick. Steamed, with a pat of butter, they are the perfect vegetable for a spring meal. Fiddleheads are one of the edible wild plants featured in my book ‘within easy reach’ (Chapel Street Editions). I will be launching my book at 7 pm on June 9, 2016 at Westminster Books in Fredericton. If you live in the Fredericton area, I would be so happy to see you there!
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For more information on the fiddlehead, see https://janetims.com/2012/05/19/making-friends-with-the-ferns-2/
Fiddleheads along the Saint John River in the Grand Lake Meadows
‘within easy reach’ – a chance to win the cover art
This is reminder that I am offering a chance to win the painting on the cover of my book ‘within easy reach’.
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To win this painting, you have to do three things.
- Purchase my book through my publisher’s website (www.chapelstreeteditions.com)
- Leave a comment on any of my Blogs (www.nichepoetryandprose.wordpress.com or www.janetims.com or www.janetimsdotcom.wordpress.com) with the words ‘within easy reach’ somewhere in the comment
- Be prepared to send me, via email, a scan of your purchase receipt.
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The cover painting ‘brambles’ is done in acrylics, size 10″ by 10″, with gallery edges.
February 29, 2016 ‘brambles’ by Jane Tims
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Your name will be entered once for each book purchased. The contest will run for the first five weeks following the publication date of within easy reach (until June 7, 2016). At the end of the contest, anyone who has purchased a book from the publisher and left the comment as described above will be entered for the draw. I will notify the winner and let the readers of the blog know who has won.
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I hope you will enjoy my book. And some reader will be the winner of the painting ‘brambles’!
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Copyright Jane Tims 2016
update: ‘within easy reach’
The date for the release of my poetry book ‘within easy reach’ is very soon! The book includes my poems and drawings about edible wild plants and other local foods. It will be available through my publisher Chapel Street Editions and through Amazon. I’ll be posting details of how and where to order the book and information on where I will be reading during the next weeks.
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During the first month of ‘within easy reach’ book sales, I will be offering you an opportunity to win the painting on the front cover of the book. The painting, called ‘brambles’, measures 10″ by 10″. It is done in acrylics and has gallery edges.
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I will post the details about how to get a chance to win the painting within the next few days.
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February 29, 2016 ‘brambles’ Jane Tims
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I hope you will love my book, as much as I loved creating the poems and drawings!
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Copyright 2016 Jane Tims
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