Pemberton Youth and Family Services, Seed to Table, the Pemberton Valley Seniors Society and the Pemberton Youth Centre are teaming up for a fundraiser at the Legion October 12th. This is the culmination of a lot of great work by the kids in our program. Please see the attached invitation. I hope you can make … Continue reading Event: Seed to Table dinner fundraiser
The Winds of Change invites you to share a photo of your dinner to celebrate how much of it came from within a one mile radius (approximately) of your home! Entry is simple. 1. Make a dinner featuring as many local ingredients as possible. 2. Take a photo. 3. Share the photo! Post it to … Continue reading Enter the One Mile Dinner Photo Feast
Julie-Ann Chapman spotted a spider in her backyard, and, not 100% sure of its identity, or its intentions, posted a pic to the One Mile Lake Nature Centre, to see if anyone could help. Naturalist Valeinna Dimma suggested it was probably an Orb Weaver. Briony Penn wrote this up about the Orb Weaver in an … Continue reading Sighted: Orb Weaver
The Village of Pemberton in partnership with the Pemberton Rotary Club has posted a call to artists to submit artwork for consideration for the Village Street Banners. Visual artists can submit up to 3 different entries on themes related to Peace and what it means to them, locally, regionally or globally. Peace begins at home … Continue reading News: Artists Wanted! Design a Peace Banner.
The Village of Pemberton and Lil'wat Nation have teamed up to issue a Request for Proposals (RFP) for a feasibility study to assess the viability of developing shared recreation facilities with the Pemberton Valley for the area that includes SLRD Area C and the Lil'wat Nation. Responses are due by 4pm, Thursday August 30, 2012 … Continue reading News: Proposals Invited to Explore Shared Recreation Facilities for Pemberton and Lil’wat
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
Winter and summer shoe couture, Lil'wat style. Snowshoes made from bent wood and twisted rawhide, and moccasins sewn from salmon skin with hide lacings, make me think the dictionary is missing a few words. Like "indigenuity" - what you get when indigenous meets ingenuity. (Thanks for finding and posting the photo, Johnny Jones.)
Thanks to wildlife watcher, Veronica Woodruff, for posting this picture of the Pemberton orchid, a mountain fairy slipper (Calypso bulbosa). May 30. Some other pictures of the orchid, sighted in the region, below. The Calypso orchid, also known as the fairy slipper or Venus' slipper, is a perennial orchid found in undisturbed forest. The plants … Continue reading Sighted: Mountain Fairy Slipper
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