Wondering when to start your seeds? Dreaming of garden bounty already? Be you procrastinator or planner, West Coast Seeds has a gorgeous planting chart for our region, that can help you plan out your veggie patch. You can even order a poster-size version for yourself. (Click on the image to go through to their order … Continue reading Seasonal Observations: Garden Planting Chart
Some seeds like celeriac, onions and fennel, need to get a seriously early jump-start on our growing season... which is why my West Coast Seeds catalogue has been sitting on the coffee table since December. What shall my garden grow this summer? Now is the time to start dreaming.
As any addict can tell you, there's power in ritual. Professional athletes understand this. Grads understand it. Church leaders employ ritual. Sports fans get it, too. The function of a ritual is to make the abstract more real to us... to take something hard to grasp out of the ether, and feel it viscerally, in … Continue reading Out with the old, in with the new: the Power of a New Years Eve ritual
There's a twitter experiment that caught my eye last winter, called @icheckafter. It's basically a pledge to not roll out of bed and reach immediately for your iPhone or laptop. I realised that the first thing I do when I roll out of bed (while husband is making me coffee. Nice.) is rinse my sprouts. … Continue reading Bringing the Garden Inside for Winter: Sprouting
As featured in the Village of Pemberton's Community Update this week, community members celebrate the season in a range of different ways. Members of the Pemberton Multicultural Network shared some of their approaches, to blending new and old traditions. Cristina’s Christmas is very different from her celebrations in Mexico because here she only celebrates with … Continue reading Celebrate the Season, Your Way
Guest post by Dawn Johnson, from the Stewardship Pemberton Society. Well, that didn’t take long! I am ALREADY scheming out next year's crops. With the end of the garden season I always feel sort of a sense of relief that I can stop obsessing over my plants, and start obsessing over inside stuff. However, now … Continue reading Cold Frame Love: How to Garden even in the Winter
We're approaching the one month countdown to Christmas. If gift-giving is part of your tradition, why not make the shopping more pleasurable, and keep it close to home? Saturday, December 1: Xit’olacw Community School Annual Christmas Craft Fair, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. at Xit’olacw Community School Gymnasium. Saturday, December 1: St David's annual Christmas … Continue reading Christmas Shopping Round-Up
Well, I think that's officially It for the garden. I have a stash of frozen pesto from my basil and cilantro harvest, and a little ziplock bag of dill stashed in the freezer, but I'm really going to miss the splash of green and injection of flavour that my little herb patch added to the … Continue reading Bringing the Garden Inside for Winter : Kitchen Herbs
‘Wellness’ denotes a state of balance and harmony. There is current evidence supporting ancient belief that human health and wellness require harmony and balance between our physical bodies, our minds, our spirits and our environment. ~ Herbs for Health and Healing, Q+A with Evelyn Coggins Introducing a brand new column from Pemberton herbalist/phytotherapist, Evelyn Coggins. … Continue reading Thoughts on Wellness: a new column from Evelyn Coggins
A friend showed me how to ensure I march into next spring with a sense of wealth and abundance - harvest seeds from my garden! The cosmos, which splashed pink all around the yard for months, are starting to wither. And in their place, leaving tiny little starburts of prickly-looking seeds. Left to dry on … Continue reading Sighted: Seeds, galore
The Wellness Almanac 