The Winds of Change is a collaborative public policy initiative of the Mount Currie Band and the Village of Pemberton to reduce the harm associated with drug and alcohol misuse and promoting healthy lifestyle choices as an alternative. Broadly speaking the WINDS OF CHANGE is a harm reduction strategy guided by the following vision statement: … Continue reading Job Opportunity: Event Coordinator Wanted
My snow pea harvest seems to be coming to an end. They've done their bit to add nitrogen to the soil, and provide weeks worth of snacks. I love that the French name for the pea is mangetout, as in "eat all." I didn't even get so far as to look up recipes to use snowpeas. They … Continue reading In the Garden: Snow Peas
CUYSTWÍ MALH UCWALMÍCWTS - Let's all go speak our Language! My 2 and 4 year old friends are learning Ucwalmicts at day-care. Ucwalmicts is the first language of the Lil’wat, and other Interior Salish people. Linguists, working together with Lil’wat, created a writing system with which the Lil’wat community is recording and teaching its language … Continue reading Word of the Week: Ucwalmicwts
I recently read this article by Zero Mile gardener Carolyn Herriot in Common Ground magazine, about what to plant for a winter garden. June - August are the best times to plant out winter crops including: May/June: Sprouting broccoli, Brussels sprouts, winter cabbage, kale, collards, chard. June/July: Root vegetables – beets, turnips, rutabagas, celeriac, parsnips, … Continue reading Winter Gardening on the Zero Mile Diet
Sliammon Nation youth, Ta'Kaiya Blaney, made headlines when she wrote a song to speak up against the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline. "If we do nothing, it will all be gone." The 11 year old from North Vancouver recalled, at a rally outside the Vancouver Art Gallery in March this year, how she was chased from … Continue reading Inspiration: Speak Truth to Power. Or Sing it. Even if you’re only 11 years old.
After 20 years growing U-pick strawberries in Pemberton, Allen and Tonette McEwan have wound down their strawberry farm after a super short final season. The McEwans estimate that in that time they grew between 200 and 300 tonnes of berries to feed our appetites for sweetness! But they haven't left us without a source of … Continue reading Q+A: Strawberry Farmers, Allen and Tonette McEwan, say farewell.
Pemberton celebrity farmer and newspaper columnist Anna Helmer will be the guest speaker this Tuesday at the Museum's summer Tea and Tales. taking time out from shepherding fields of potatoes into life to chat about modern farming. Tea & Tales runs every Tuesday from July 10th, 2012 through until August 21st, 2012 from 2pm to … Continue reading Event: Anna Helmer features at Museum’s Tea and Tales
A pretty clever trick to pit cherries without getting permanently stained hands... all you need is a glass bottle and a chopstick.
Featured in this week's Question are local youth, Tashayna Peters from D'arcy and Attila Nelson from Mt Currie, who have just returned from a four-month stint in Africa after being selected as two of 10 participants in this year’s International Aboriginal Internship Program administered by the Victoria International Development Education Association (VIDEA). Now home, they … Continue reading Shout-Out: Humanitarians Tashayna Peters and Attila Nelson
