Thanks to Shannon Didier for sharing this information. The Pemberton Fruit Tree Project is a Stewardship Pemberton Society ‘Feasting For Change’ initiative. The project aims to harvest fruit from private trees that would otherwise go to waste, or act as a bear attractant. The fruit will be equally distributed between the homeowners, volunteer pickers, and … Continue reading The Pemberton Fruit Tree Project needs pickers, trees
Halfway down the valley, in the dark, something slithered onto the floor, irrevocably, undoubtedly, lost somewhere in the vehicle. Logically, I know things are not really lost, just misplaced, but if you don’t retrieve them immediately, they slip out of your consciousness and might as well have vanished. It is hard enough to recall the … Continue reading The Noise in the Car
The Whistler Film Festival has opened up its 2016 Aboriginal Filmmaker Fellowship for up to six emerging Aboriginal Canadian film artists with short film, webisode projects or television pilots. Recipients will attend a three-day creative and business immersion experience to be held from December 1 to 3, 2016 during the Whistler Film Festival + Summit, and gives … Continue reading Fellowship opportunity for Aboriginal filmmakers, apply by August 29
This is going to be so fun. Check out all the details at the event's Facebook page.
In the spring, Stewardship Pemberton Society was invited to a workshop in Vancouver: Finding Common Ground hosted by the Sustainable Food Systems Working Group who aim to get more BC food on more BC plates. Long story short, the B.C. Agri-Food and Seafood Strategic Growth Plan put forward by the Provincial government aims to increase domestic … Continue reading Collaboration (as told by the stars)
Gary and Zoe went for an adventure yesterday and my biggest takeaway from the photo Gary offered for today's Wellness moment is "why go anywhere else?" Anyone else game to take on a hyperlocal adventure challenge? What if we made 2017 the year in which we tried to do all our adventuring within the Squamish-Lillooet … Continue reading Gary Martin’s photo sings the praise of hyperlocal adventures
A beautiful journey is about to get underway. This is the itinerary.
The public participation component of the Breeding Bird Survey that took place on Saturday June 11 suffered under the rain, reports John Tschopp. Volunteers had to pass up some locations altogether because of steady rain. On Sunday, the weather window sent John out scouting some of the missed locations. He advises: The Lazuli Buntings are … Continue reading Counting birds in the rain
On the chance that anyone else is trying to figure out why they find term “science based” is so instinctively irritating (it’s hard to argue with it) and even exclusionary (since when did science get it right all the time?), I share this quote, attributed to Albert Einstein: The intuitive mind is a sacred gift … Continue reading The tired farmer falls down a rabbithole and hopes you value honest hard labour enough to pay for organic local carrots
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