From the SpudRun start (8:30am) to the Canada Day parade (11am) to the afternoon Community Market and Celebration at the Community Centre (noon - 3), Pemberton's 2015 Canada Day events will be rounded out with paddleboard yoga at the new Paddle Barn. pajama shopping (shopping for PJs or shopping in your PJs? this is, in … Continue reading Dogs, Trails, Flag-Waving and Parading the Pleasure of being Canadian: Canada Day in Pemberton looks like this
Look for the berries in July. You can make them into jam. And the thimbleberry leaf makes a good toilet paper substitute when you’re out in the woods!
Halfway through our month-long immersion in native plants, I hit a point of overwhelm... There's so much to know! And these 30 feature plants are the tiniest fraction of species. The Native Plant Garden at One Mile Lake Nature Centre, alone, was planted out in 400 different plants. Then, I spoke with Dawn Johnson, and … Continue reading Signs of spring: the bodacious, liliaceous False Lily of the Valley
We're halfway through our 30 day immersion in local plant knowledge, and happily, I can now recognise the Coastal Douglas Fir by its gnarly-thick bark. Thanks to a great conversation with Dawn Johnson about the project, I also realise that it's okay to approach this kind of learning in small chunks. It won't all stick … Continue reading You are invited to unlock the landscape with language
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