Contributors wanted.

Are you passionate about wellness? Nature? Food? Gardening? Family? Community?

In a little over six months, The Wellness Almanac has shared photos, local news, insights, seasonal recipes and observations, and advice like how to pickle beets, pit cherries, tell a bobcat from a coyote, harvest seeds from your flower garden, understand the sobering effects of coffee, know why and where to keep your Xmas shopping local, plant a winter garden, wow dinner party guests with harvest box recipes, say “sunflower” in Uc’walmicts, and understand why stress is no joke – in short, exploring a range of ways to come to a personal definition and practice of wellness.

Coming up in the New Year, TheWellnessAlmanac.com will offer more seasonal recipes (including a One Pot Winter Warmers series of local’s favourite soup recipes), profiles of front line health workers, feature work from local artists, and continue with regular columns from community members.

Here’s how community members from Mount Currie, Pemberton, Area C, D’arcy, and Samahquam can contribute in 2013:

• Write a guest opinion column – personal essays on some aspect of wellness or community, max 300 words
• Pitch us a regular column idea
• Share a seasonal recipe (especially One Pot Winter Warmers)
• Send us information and promo posters for upcoming events
• Give a Shout out of recognition or thanks
• Photo from the region (Submit a photo or use the hashtag #WindsofChange on Instagram, to let us know you’d like to share an image on the site)

Email TheWellnessAlmanac@gmail.com with comments or submissions. Or get in touch via the facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Winds-of-Change/295753483773077), or send a tweet to @Winds4Change.)