Emma Cox is the program manager for the Squamish Food Bank. In this video, she explains the big increase in demand for services the past few weeks - in Squamish, before COVID19, they would typically provide 60 hampers every two weeks to people needing assistance. That has grown to almost 200 hampers each week - … Continue reading This #GivingTuesdayNow, give a little foodbank love

For the past month, Pemberton local Shelley Tsujimara took her Excel sheet wizardry to the task of tracking what local businesses were open,and what adjusted services they were offering. It's a fantastic resource and now it's even easier to check in on what's happening and where you can source things (without buying on Amazon, because, … Continue reading What’s Currently Open in Pemberton?: Free app makes it easy to find out what local businesses are up to

The other morning, my kid woke up with an idea in his mind. Literally, the first words out of his mouth, still prone and pyjama-clad, were: “I’m going to make an Inukshuk. Where’s the LEGO?” As someone who enters the day like a hard drive in need of defragmentation, files all scattered and hard to … Continue reading Life is now a million LEGO pieces and it’s okay to name this loss

The first week of April sent John Tschopp out with his camera, to the serenade of frog song. The Mountain Bluebirds are competing with the Tree Swallows for the perfect nest box. Not far away was an American Kestrel in his wedding suit. A hint from a neighbor gave me a chance for some pictures … Continue reading Spring songs – birds spotted in April

The Squamish Food Policy Council, as part of  Squamish CAN (Climate Action Network) is working on a regional online map of food assets. A food asset is a place where people can grow, prepare, share, buy, receive or learn about food. Community organizations and schools are included because they are places where community members can … Continue reading Help map our region’s food assets

What do you do when Mom is a former nature-camp teacher and you're home-schooling? Go foraging for nettles and learn about how plaintain and dock can treat stings. Thanks for sharing your forest know-how, Felix and friends.

Earlier this month, Cindy Coughlin shared this post on her blog. I love her monthly musings and am happy she's happy to share it here. Because recurring dreams? Yes. And dance parties? Hell yes. Three Things in Uncertain Times by Cindy Coughlin I have a reoccurring dream that can best be described as a loss … Continue reading Shake What Your Momma Gave You – Three Things In Uncertain Times – a guest post by Cindy Coughlin

Are you a follower of the Lil'wat7ul Culture Centre on Facebook? We're happy to share today's language lesson - how to talk about the weather - as recorded to the First Voices app and shared by the Culture Centre. Rain!   Snow! Wet snow! Rainbow! Thunderstorm! The last snowfall in spring. So many wonderful words … Continue reading Let’s talk about the weather. In Ucwalmicwts!

I know there's an app for everything, but I'm trying to be less attached to my phone when I'm in nature. I have thousands of photos of plants I snapped, to try and identify them, but the most effective thing I've done recently is take a bit of paper and pencil in my pocket and … Continue reading Encountering my first forget-me-nots, thanks to a new guidebook, Popular Wildflowers of Coast British Columbia

https://youtu.be/d0T7UP1U1Ts   I've become a bit of a fan of Martin Shaw over the last year. He speaks and writes of being of a place, of courting a place, and listening to the stories that are held in the landscape itself, of giving yourself permission to be deep, not spread shallow and wide. For those … Continue reading What does it mean to be “of a place”?