Want to learn more about Stewardship Pemberton? Or are you curious about what goes on inside the One Mile Lake Nature Centre? Join SPS on the evening of May 10th for their Open House & Annual General Meeting and check out all they have to offer, including the awesome Lillooet River Watershed Model!
This was one of the beautiful prompts offered last month by Stewardship Pemberton's Climate Action Coordinator Andrea Blaikie in an Earth month takeover of their instagram account. There is a creek that runs behind my house, and I have watched, over the years, as it has transformed the landscape it runs through. I also have … Continue reading Water is a Transformer
On April 20, the province of BC announced that the BC Parks Day-Use Pass Program will return for Joffre Lakes Provincial Park (May 6), Golden Ears Provincial Park and Garibaldi Provincial Park (June 14). I read about this at the Outdoor Recreation of BC website, where they announced their disappointment in this move... and am … Continue reading You still need a day pass to access Joffre Lakes Park this summer and this is why that sucks
Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Awareness Day or Red Dress Day is today May 5. How do we get from the Red Dress to true redress? How do we make sure that all Indigenous women are treated as sovereign and sacred and can move safely through the world? Shirt by Nicole Bell of Almost Famous Designs, … Continue reading She is Someone
Yes, it rained the other day. (Me so happy! My new little herb patch/physick garden is now freshly watered.) AND, this is an unsolicited public safety announcement to say, even so, please rethink your desire to burn up all your garden waste. That, my friends, is a practice that should be retired, as belonging to … Continue reading It’s time to reinvent your spring burn-off practice, because climate change. Also: Wildfire Prep Day will chip it for you, May 6
Learn to grow what you love to eat, with the Grow it Forward Vegetable Garden beginner workshops at the Pemberton Creek Community garden, Sunday afternoons from May 7. $10 a session, register at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/grow-it-vegetable-workshop-all-ages-welcome-tickets-620422258677. Contact Deborah at growitforwardgarden@gmail.com for more information or if you have any questions. Come out to the Pemberton Creek Community Garden … Continue reading Want to get gardening but not sure where to start? Start here this Sunday!
Based on the Wellness Almanac archives, this little one is a wee bit early, but pretty much right on time, showing up on Sunday afternoon for my dawdling pleasure, and acceding to my request to take a photo, which had me grovelling in the ground awkwardly trying to get my iphone to focus on the … Continue reading Well hello fairy slipper, calypso bulbosa, so nice to see you again.
Reading this post the other day from Jared Qwustenuxun Williams on Facebook made me think of some of my wonderful friends, who stopped waiting, cleared their throats and stepped into a scary place. So much love and respect for all of those working to sing life back into their languages, by letting it be sung … Continue reading The meme that changed Jared Qwustenuxun Williams’ life
I was in a roundtable meeting last month where community culture providers wondered how to best let people know about the great programs and initiatives they have running... Social media has effectively collapsed broad community into narrow little silos and filter bubbles (argue if you want, but I'll just refer you back to Tristan Harris … Continue reading Subscriber secrets: how to stay in the loop with community news
We have snuck four (count them!) poems into our month of blog posts, in a nod to National Poetry Month (and also with a nod to our dear poet-in-residence Lois Thevarge, who is taking a pause in her creative output to tend to her health, and whose weekly posts I do miss. Good wishes to … Continue reading A pause for National Poetry Month
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