My work for cetaceans began in the 1990s. Using my love of ocean sailing and racing as a platform, I raised ...
Words & photos by
Michael Reppy
Through conservation efforts and education, humans have finally made space for our supernatural neighbours, the ...
Woodturning, one of the most ancient of crafts, is a way of producing wood creations using razor-sharp chisels and ...
Words & photos by
Jim Whyte
Colonialism has taken many forms and has had many legacies. Beginning in the 1840s, settlers on what is now called ...
Universal access
Julie and Ramesh Lad moved into their new home in February 2022. The home, which was custom ...
“The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not ...
SOAKED AND STOKED
Founded in 2017 by friends Marie-France Roy and Alicia Gilmour, the WestCoast Triple Plank ...
Words & photos by
Sara Kempner
FROM YOUTHFUL OBSESSION TO THRIVING BUSINESS
I first became obsessed with woodworking in junior high. I ...
Beyond Kayaking
I first saw a presentation about West Coast Expeditions (WCE)’s guided sea kayak adventures ...
The beautiful sound of kwak'wala flows from the mouths of fluent speakers, filling the air and my heart. Among our ...
If your knowledge of chicory is limited, allow me to introduce you to this family of vegetables full of complex, ...
My name is Ryan Rasmussen and I help people with cancer looking for a holistic approach to treatment. I support ...
“Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed, that’s all who ever have.”
— ...
Cultivating stillness
We experience so much in our lives. Sometimes life’s momentum is so fast that we miss ...
“A river is water in its loveliest form; rivers have life and sound and movement and infinity of variation, rivers ...
The story of the Awakeneers starts more than 30 years ago on an off-grid homestead in the mountains of BC where ...
Words by
Isa McKenty
Photo courtesy of
The Awakeneers
Our devices can bring music and news from almost everywhere in the world. But most of the content is ...
When I first rolled off the assembly line decades ago, I couldn’t wait to hit the road for a life of adventure. ...
Words & photos by
RJ Herron
LIVING FROM LINEN
I’m Karla, and I create linen. That’s right, I start with a handful of unassuming flax ...
BEYOND THE PLATE AT HA’ME‘’S (RE)OPENING
The eagerly anticipated (re)opening of Ha̱’me‘ Restaurant, in its ...
Words by
Camilla Sampson
Photos courtesy of
Ha̱'me'
In 1979, a certain smell sustained the herring gillnetters of British Columbia. It hung from their bibs and clung ...
A steady stream of people stops in front of a typical home in Courtenay’s Old Orchard neighbourhood. They come by ...
As the editor of the Strathcona Collective, it is my privilege to help writers and community members throughout ...
A BEAUTIFUL MOSAIC
This is my first time writing in my own magazine. Writing has never been a passion of ...
Words & Photo by
Ian Adams
Finding a family doctor or health care professional is difficult enough in urban centres, but it’s even harder for ...
The ROAM team has selected some of their favourite winter items that we think everyone should know about. All are ...
In the summer of 2023, approximately 70 local emergency services personnel from the Comox Valley were deployed to ...
The earliest inhabitants of the Comox Valley lived lightly on these lands for millennia and didn’t capture their ...
i will always choose the trees
if i have to choose
between society
or the forest.
it makes sense
to me in ...
As I’m writing this, it’s October 24, and it’s snowing—the earliest snowfall I have experienced in the Valley—and ...
Reflections from an older resident.
Congratulations to the Comox Valley Collective on ...
Changing seasons, changing times
As I hear my feet crunch on the frosty ground beneath me and feel the crisp ...
Born and raised on Hornby Island, Kali Wexler is a self-taught Canadian wildlife conservation and nature ...
Jared was born and raised in Saskatchewan but spent his adult life in various pockets of British Columbia before ...
The Comox Valley has undergone some big changes since we published our first issue back in December 2014; many of ...
Words by
Zoë Cooper
Illustrations by
Alex Maertz
When I catch up with concert pianist Sarah Hagen, she is sitting on the floor of an airport concourse, halfway ...
In October 2023, I had the chance to speak with Wedlidi Speck. Wedlidi is Kwakwaka’wakw, Nuu-cha-nulth, and ...
Interview by
Dave Flawse
Photos courtesy of
Wedlidi Speck
I’m here to talk about winter squash: the wondrous genetic diversity they display, the dedicated farmers who grow ...
I was asked to share my story with you, and to keep it short at that. Bit of a hard ask for an old clock, but I’ll ...
Men’s broadly defined health issues—heart troubles, diabetes, liver disease—are deadly. So is depression. Many of ...