Canada: Pender Island couple only eating what they can grow and catch in BC
Five months into their year-long quest — and well into winter — Lowey and Hall say they’re happier, healthier and a lot wiser about the food most of us take for granted.
By Darron Kloster
Victoria Times Colonist
Jan 11, 2021
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Nothing is ingested that isn’t hatched and hewn from their half-acre patch on Pender, harvested from the Salish Sea or grown and given by neighbours. To start the quest from scratch, they gave away all their store-bought food.
Five months into their year-long quest — and well into winter — Lowey and Hall say they’re happier, healthier and a lot wiser about the food most of us take for granted.
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“It gets you out of your comfort zone,” says Hall, 38. “We started to think a lot about where our food comes from.”
Hall says working in stressful jobs that led to a lifestyle of unhealthy eating prompted the “complete 180.”
The couple both worked at Poet’s Cove Resort on Pender — Hall as general manager and Lowey, 24, in the hotel spa — but left their jobs after the pandemic hit in March and dried up their hours. They collected pandemic benefits from the government for a time, but have since both worked odd jobs to make ends meet.
They live in Hall’s family cabin, which his parents purchased in the 1980s, and have turned it into a self-contained little farm with chickens, turkeys and pigs, a large year-round garden and an ocean on their doorstep where they fish, trap prawns and crab and rake in the seaweed.
