Events

We need to stop thinking of farmers markets as temporary events, a short-term solution for farmers until they “get big”, or as tourist attractions. We need to treat farmers markets as a key piece of our local food system which can be a permanent marketing solution for farms of all sizes. We need to develop local policies that support people accessing the market, from transportation (local bus systems) to permanent year-round market venues with attached storage. We need to also support local food in our schools and hospitals, recognizing that people get well faster and think better when they are well fed.

preserving the bounty to increase your food security, and supporting farmers markets to keep the food system viable.

The news is so bad. War in Ukraine, Sudan, Gaza. The pain and grief and loss are so immense that they are hard to fathom, especially from our safe and comfortable lives in Canada. We see the difference between our lives and those whose homes have been destroyed, whose families are missing or dead entirely, whose entire cities have been pulverized, who have fled with nothing more than the clothes on their backs and have nowhere safe to go. We can gain a tiny piece of understanding from our experience with wildfire – the displacement, the fear, the helplessness and...

What's happening upstream? Mining's toxic legacy of tailings ponds, breaches and spills has a huge impact on salmon and watersheds all over BC. Pipelines leak into the soil and water, tailings ponds breach into rivers and lakes - and all of it spells trouble for watersheds all over BC, and the salmon that sustain our entire ecosystem. Come out to hear Jamie Kneen of MiningWatch Canada explain what's going on in BC and how communities around the world are mobilizing to stop Canadian mining companies' degradation of lands, water and indigenous rights. While mining only indirectly affects the Shuswap, the...

Join us and some special friends to celebrate winter! We're having our annual Open House on Saturday, December 9 from noon to 3:30pm. Hot drinks (something unusual and special is in the works) Bonfire Beer Samples and holiday shopping with: PURE Dutch Baking for all your cookie needs Cambium Cider with traditional ciders OM Naturale body care Left Fields woolly things - yarn and rovings plus knits and felting! And of course you can stock up on growlers, tees, hoodies and glassware for gifts or for yourself.