ALL Month: March 2022
JIPSI TREE
It all began when JoAnne McElroy simultaneously left both her teaching and tree-planting ...
A GARDEN FOR EVERYONE
When you enter the Gardens on Anderton, you are greeted by a volunteer host who offers a smile, an orientation, a ...
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BURNING QUESTIONS
When we invite young people to visit the engineered landfill at the Comox Valley Waste Management Centre, we ask ...
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GREENING YOUR MONEY
When Kermit the Frog said, “It’s not easy being green,” he wasn’t talking about investing, but he might as well ...
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WHY WE RISK
I don’t remember the summit of Mount Colonel Foster.
I know I stood on it with my friends, Chris and Sean. I ...
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NEITHER SEEN NOR HEARD
Not long after I moved to Cumberland, when it was easier to get lost in the forest, I was riding my dirt bike down ...
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FELLOWSHIP OF THE FOREST
“Expect mountain bikes, hikers, runners, dogs, children, and elders on these trails.”
—excerpt from the Interim ...
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SEAWEED, SVP
Seaweed is a food resource long celebrated by traditional coastal peoples across the globe, including throughout ...
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THE TEACHING THAT NATURE PROVIDES
In a field next to the ruddy red barn of the Black Creek farm owned by Margaret Douglas and Fred Hinz, a group of ...
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ALWAYS ASKING QUESTIONS
If you’ve ever spent time with a toddler, you’ll know they ask “Why?” about seven thousand times a day. When my ...
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FEATURED ARTIST: SHELLEY VANDERBYL
Born in Hay River, NWT, Shelley has lived in Edmonton, Switzerland, and five Canadian provinces.
Her work, both ...
FEATURED PHOTOGRAPHER: ANIUEMILIA
Originally from Poland, Ania of AniuEmilia Photography has lived on beautiful Vancouver Island for 30 ...
LIVING LARGE
Most people are shocked when they learn our family of five lives in a tiny home. “How many square feet?” they ask ...
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VIDEOGRAPHERS AND FILMMAKERS
SCOTT BELL
Scott Bell is an outdoor adventure filmmaker who has a commitment to capturing the beauty of the ...
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Featured Artist: Terri-lynn Papagiannis
Terri-Lynn Papagiannis (TL PAPA) is an artist and art educator, born and raised on Vancouver Island. At a young ...
Featured Words: Neall Calvert
River Love
After yearning for decades
to say I love you and mean it, today
on my practised water’s-edge ...
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Featured Photographer: True Dennison
True Dennison has been in love with photography and film for as long as she can remember. Growing up on the ...
Art, Medicine, and Soap
“I never knew what I wanted to do,” Valerie Lamirande confided to me. She had dabbled in photography, woodwork, ...
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Q̓ʷalayu House
Like the daily ebb and flow of the tides along the shores of Vancouver Island, there is constant movement of ...
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Leña Residency
Nestled amongst the towering forest on Galiano Island and backing onto Bluffs Park, Leña Residency is a retreat ...
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Experience Tahsis
Located on the West Coast of Vancouver Island within the traditional territory of the Mowachaht/Muchalaht First ...
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Inspired by Nature
Island Clayworks would like to acknowledge that we operate our business in the traditional territory of the ...
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It’s In The Details
Building custom homes in Campbell River and the surrounding area is a gift not every craftsman gets to experience. ...
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Healthy Hives
The honeybee, or apis mellifera, is what we call a pollinator. Flying from flower to flower collecting nectar and ...
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Riding Off-Grid
When I moved to Vancouver Island in 2009, finding like-minded “horse folks” to ride with was top priority. I ...
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Little River
My family and I have lived on the northern end of Quadra Island for two years. We moved here from Manitoba, and ...
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The Gardening Movement
THE GARDENING NARRATIVE
HEATHER KELLERHALS–STEWART
Behind every widely held belief there is a narrative—true ...
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Building a Technology Hub
The Campbell River Area Angel Group (CRAAG) was founded in February 2019 when Campbell River Economic Development ...
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Paddling Adventures
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
— Mary Oliver
“Shhh, listen … ...
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Traffic Jam
Oh no! What? Wait for another traffic light? Simultaneous laughter, as our eyes connect, and we realize we have ...
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Small Farm, Big Ideas
In a way, a farm is like the ocean, a fixture of the landscape, yet in constant motion. Every season brings a part ...
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Vertical Madness
When you walk into the cavernous room at Robron Centre in Campbell River—which feels part warehouse, part ...
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Burrell’s Bog
Thanks be to Ron Burrell, a former provincial Forest Service Manager, who, in the early 1990s, took on the job of ...
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In Motion
Stay home, we were told. Travel was not advised. Flooding closed highways. Fires forced road closures and ...
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