2024 Comox Valley Collective Summer
A warm, friendly place In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, isolation was an all-too-familiar reality for many seniors. In Cumberland, however, a beacon of connection emerged when the Cumberland […]
Words by Ryan PartonPhotos by Jenn Dykstra
Comox Valley Collective 2018 Spring
To some, it’s the Village in the Forest, to others simply “Cumby.” But to those of us who crave the mud beneath our shoes, or the intoxicating rush of shredding […]
Words by Ryan PartonImage supplied by DODGE CITY
Comox Valley Collective 2015 Winter
Trail building in Cumberland dates back to the 1980s, when a freewheeling group of tree planters and mountain bikers began carving lines around the local dump, christening them with names […]
Words by Ryan PartonPhotos by Lorenz Jimenez
Comox Valley Collective 2015 Spring
What do you get when unruly people meet unruly bees? If Dave and Andrea Brimacombe, the creative geniuses behind Courtenay’s new Wayward Distillation House, provide any indication, it’s some of […]
Words by Ryan PartonPhotos by Karen McKinnon