Category: Wellness

Calling all food-loving dreamers: Root Ventures applications to be part of a four month long business incubator due January 8

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Root Ventures: Pemberton Valley Food & Art Entrepreneur Start-up Program encourages and supports new food or art businesses through building knowledge, capacity and by providing mentorship. The program seeks to support burgeoning food and art-based ventures (non-profit organizations, businesses, solo entrepreneurs) in the Pemberton Valley (including the Pemberton and Lil’wat Nation communities) with the development … Continue reading Calling all food-loving dreamers: Root Ventures applications to be part of a four month long business incubator due January 8

Seasons Grieving

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As we approach another season of Festivus I remember those who are no longer with us. For my family, Christmas was always a time to be together, laugh and eat really delicious food. When we would snuggle up on the couch and spend quality time. Holidays are a time for celebration where traditions are made … Continue reading Seasons Grieving

Anna Helmer’s Creative Non-Fiction Column for December

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The shortlist of self nominated, self-awarded, self-indulgent and perhaps of interest only to self Awards for the 2016 season at Helmer’s Organic Farm are as follows:    Crop Flop: Celeriac Doomed from the start. The first set of terribly delicate, freshly sprouted, faintly visible and hand-seeded starts got mistakenly baked by an unseasonably powerful February … Continue reading Anna Helmer’s Creative Non-Fiction Column for December

The complete Christmas calendar – or at least, an attempt at wrangling all the community festive events into one list

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UPDATED on Sunday December 4, 9pm. If I've missed any, comment below or email thewellnessalmanac@gmail.com and I'll update this page! Saturday, December 3: the St David's Uniting Church Annual Christmas Bazaar, at the Pemberton Secondary School is underway!   Ready for your tree? You can pay for your You-Pick Christmas Trees at Lil'wat Gas Station to … Continue reading The complete Christmas calendar – or at least, an attempt at wrangling all the community festive events into one list

Vicki Powell’s first ever instagram takeover (with her first ever phone)

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I just found out that Pemberton physiotherapist (formerly of Local Motion, and now of her home-based Tall Poppy Therapy), Vicki Powell, went to the rival high school to mine. This might not seem strange to you. But I grew up in Brisbane. So I'm 5000 miles from these kind of random encounters. (Which is why I also … Continue reading Vicki Powell’s first ever instagram takeover (with her first ever phone)

Polek Rybczynski offers a little inner forest illumination in today’s feature photo

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What I love about our photo contributors and their offerings to the blog is the way they invite me to stop in my regular tracks and look more closely at the world around me. That's a big part of the reason that we've dedicated the weekend posts to photography - to offer a little stillness, … Continue reading Polek Rybczynski offers a little inner forest illumination in today’s feature photo