When life gives you leaves, make leaf mold. When life gives you food scraps and garden clippings, make compost.
›› Margaret Hantiuk
Recently I attended an interesting course on soil science at our Compost Education Centre. I was reminded how important autumn is to gardening here in Victoria.
We have the opportunity to build up our garden soil […]
Workshop Wednesday, September 24 from 7:00pm – 9:30pm
This workshop will offer an introduction to the amazing world of mushrooms and cover everything you need to know to grow your own mushrooms where you live. We’ll each inoculate a 5 gallon bucket of oyster mushrooms to take home-like in the picture!
Learning to grow mushrooms is a […]
This weekend, we are pleased to be hosting the 9th Annual Victoria Anarchist Bookfair, located on unceded Lekwungen Territory in Victoria, British Columbia. The Bookfair is for anarchists and non-anarchists, with participants from all over North America and beyond.
The Bookfair always includes workshops on a wide range of topics. We seek to challenge colonial attitudes, introduce […]
This fall, filmmaker and educator Morgan Rhys Tams is working with the Pandora Arts Collective and the Fernwood community to create a:
COLLABORATIVE COMMUNITY ANIMATION PROJECT
Using stop motion and rotoscope animation techniques, community members, young and old, are invited to contribute to an animated film by painting, colouring, and drawing onto their very own sections of a […]
>> Peter Levett
Through the cooperation of Victoria VeloTech and Fernwood NRG, data from the weather station on the roof above the Cornerstone Cafe is now available online as part of the Vancouver Island School-Based Weather Station Network. Fernwood NRG is the fourth weather station in Fernwood to connect to the network, joining stations at Victoria […]
›› Michael Shamata
Seven wild Rez Sisters, two estranged Best Brothers, Vanya and Sonia and Masha (his sisters) and Spike (Masha’s boy toy), one theatre director and one Greek goddess. Plus one Greek god, one Bollywood dancer, one lesson in lighting design and 14 musical theatre triple threats.
That’s the Belfry Theatre’s 2014-2015 Season in a nutshell. […]
>> Lee Herrin
This past month, Spring Ridge Common(s), the “garden” at the corner of Chambers Street and Gladstone Avenue in Fernwood failed in its ambition to be an “edible urban oasis.” There is no doubt that edible plants abound at the site. However, these past few months it became more of an oasis for drug […]
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