This year at Slow Food Cycle, 13 farms and venues will participate creating a 22-kilometre roundtrip, with food experiences on offer including handmade sausages, mini donuts, bannock, shaved ice and popsicles, to fresh French fries, perogies, kombucha, twice baked potatoes, tacos, fish and chips, empanadas, and a variety of baked goods. The Lions Club will kick … Continue reading Tour the farms: here’s the Slow Food Cycle Sunday 2017 map of vendors
Hello convenience shoppers. I am talking to you. (That bag of pre-mixed-and-washed salad you are tossing in your cart? You’ll get no judgment from me.) But please, let me try to convince you, even if you’re an entry-level do-it-yourselfer, that it is possible to reclaim kitchencraft. All you need is a couple of mason jars, … Continue reading Reclaim Your Pantry: easy things to start making yourself
We don't normally invite return guests to our instagram account, but when Corinne Stoltz Orava finished her week posting for the Hooves and Horses event, with the offer to reprise her role as a guestagrammer when the paragliding Canadian Nationals sailed into town, we knew she could provide us a bird's eye view that we … Continue reading Paragliders on Instagram: looking back (and down) from the Pemberton Canadian Nationals 2017
Be sure to register your children (or yourself!) for the Cedar Weaving workshop (roses or bracelets, cost $10/person, spaces limited) or for Storytelling with Tanina! (Reply here, send us a message or email at pfmmarketmanager@gmail.com) And look for our Children's Treasure Hunt and Activity Sheet! via Pemberton Farmers Market
When Levi Nelson entered his piece, Anthropology, for the IDEA Art Award competition in March this year, he only told the judges half the story. The contest winner would have their painting bought for $5,000 and installed at the Joseph and Rosalie Segal Family Health Centre, the mental health wing at Vancouver General Hospital. It … Continue reading Talking totem poles, with Levi Nelson
It makes intuitive sense to a 3 year old - leave a place better then you found it. Leave a trace of love. Photo by Polek Rybczynski.
I ran into a friend in town the other day, parking her bike outside the grocery store. She looked refreshed, her hair was wet - she looked like she was on vacation. She wasn't. (She's a mom, so it's arguable that she's never on vacation...) "Just finished my Pemberton triathlon," she joked. She'd ridden her … Continue reading Summer biathlon out-takes. Photos by Victoria Saddleman
I wonder if, the next time my kid asks me for something, I can point him towards this - is there another way, to fill that need, that desire for a shiny thing... More to the point, I wonder if the next time desire rises in me, I can take a breath, pause, and … Continue reading Think before you buy, is there another way?
I've been thinking of learning to fly. They say you can do anything you put your mind to so that's going to be it. I don't need to soar to great heights. About four meters off the ground would be enough, it appears. That would give me a "bird's eye view" of everything without taking … Continue reading A Different Perspective: why Connie Sobchak wants to be able to fly
Our instagram project is meant to make the world smaller and larger at the same time - a way to discover people from the community and realize how beautifully they see things, how rich this little neighbourhood of us is, for the people in it. My name is Dana Andrew and I am taking over … Continue reading Did you catch Dana Andrew’s week on instagram?
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