I listened to a podcast yesterday with the incredibly original and thought-provoking writer Sophie Strand. Strand is interested in the intersection between ecology, storytelling and myth, and as someone with chronic health challenges, she has really potent and fascinating takes on wellness that I'd love to explore more here. But for today, this offering felt … Continue reading What do you offer to the compost pile? A Samhain ritual

https://www.youtube.com/embed/zP4ZLUy8T4U On September 1, 2022, Lil'wat Health and Healing proudly presented this continuation video of the community's water celebration. It starts with Kúkwpi7 Gélpcal, Lil'wat's Cultural Chief, sharing that a celebration of water starts with thankfulness, gratefulness. Every family is precious, and they're all here because of water. Water is responsible for everything. Water can … Continue reading Lil’wat Nation celebrates water

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cj1qAIxrEkw/ I was at the Squamish Lil'wat Cultural Centre, visiting the Ancient Medicine exhibit, when I saw Shayla Wallace's photography featured as part of that exploration. Back in 2016, Shay had agreed to be a guestagrammer for the Wellness Almanac, and then become a regular photo contributor, for a few years. I was so stoked … Continue reading A week in the life: Shayla Wallace’s takeover

There is a scheduled power outage for the Village of Pemberton on Sunday, 30 October from 9am - 5pm, that will affect the entire area -- see https://www.bchydro.com/power-outages/app/outage-list-planned.html#planned-521980323 Customers in the following communities will experience an interruption of power in the following additional cities - Birken, Darcy, Lillooet, Mount Currie, Pemberton, Squamish, and Whistler ****Large … Continue reading No point spending the power outage on the the 30th on the couch – here are some alternatives

November is notoriously grim, a time for hunkering down (or fleeing for the desert), which might be part of the success of the Squamish running store, Capra's November 30 x 30 challenge. Over past years, while sitting on my couch bemoaning the rain, scrolling through instagram, I'd notice gleeful posts from friends, mud-spattered, flush-cheeked, from … Continue reading Join Indigenous Women Outdoors, and half of Pemberton, for the Capra 30 x 30 challenge

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Much has changed in Pemberton since I first moved here... and my roots are shallow ones, as a settler and immigrant. The population has quadrupled (and even back then, long timers could be heard grumbling "who are all these (fifty) new people?") Being the fastest growing community in BC is not a new title - … Continue reading Lumpy’s Epic returns, October 30. Proceeds to the Spud Valley Nordic Association

I was standing outside the Squamish Lil'wat Cultural Centre when the Reconciliation Canoe was completed. I'd been there for an event, when Heather Paul interrupted our lunch to let us know that the canoe was finished and team-members were singing and drumming to mark the moment. I'd already taken a tour with Q̓áwam̓ Redmond Andrews … Continue reading The Reconciliation Canoe received an awakening ceremony last Saturday

Earlier this month, Anna Helmer was awarded FIRST in the Frank Jacobs Award category for Opinion Column at the Canadian Farm Writers Federation 2022 Awards ceremony, honouring Canada's best and brightest agricultural journalists, broadcasters, communicators and photographers. Now, one of Pemberton's perennially favourite farmers, writers and people, is not only a published author, she's an … Continue reading Congratulations to local writer Anna Helmer for winning best opinion column in the Canadian Farm Writers Federation Awards