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 ...
Reflections from a younger resident.
As I hear my feet crunch on the frosty ground beneath me ...
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 ...
Paul Vroom grew up on Vancouver’s North Shore, ripping the slopes of Mt. Seymour. As a kid, he loved hanging out ...
Comox Valley Transition Society (CVTS) was founded in 1987 by a group of caring community members concerned that ...
Imagine two scenarios. The first is a quiet suburb of single-family homes—the Canadian dream—but with vans, ...
There is pure magic when the storm winds begin to blow from that direction. The sky glows and the air smells ...
One of the oldest buildings in the Comox Valley stands silent vigil on the highway to Campbell River. You can see ...
Words & Photos by
Jim Whyte
A group of women were gathered around a propane fire pit on Kye Bay in the fall of 2022. The sun was setting; they ...
The mountains beckon me throughout the year, but somehow their call in winter is different and holds a special ...
Words & photos by
Joanne McElroy
My name is Doris Wagner and I was born in Innsbruck, Austria. I grew up with parents who loved the music of our ...
Words & photos courtesy of
Doris Wagner
As we go into our 10th year of publishing this magazine, I am stepping out of my comfort zone. It’s often assumed ...
Publisher's Introduction & Photo by
Jenn Dykstra
Tyler and I stood crouched at the start line in Winnipeg this past April. Snow blew sideways, but our nervous ...