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Freedom is alive

›› Kevin Yee-Chan, Fernwood Yoga Den

And it’s right here, in your heartbeat and your community.

With words like restriction, quarantine, mandatory, and closure becoming part of our everyday vocabulary, it’s no wonder that many are feeling a tightening of fear or anxiety: a contraction.

Initially, it’s easy to perceive this contraction as a force that binds us… […]

By |December 1st, 2020|Buzz, Village Vibe|0 Comments

Build new beds easily this winter

›› Kayla Siefried

Winter is a fantastic time to create new garden beds using an in-situ composting technique called sheet mulching. Sheet mulching is a fantastic way to replenish depleted soils in a garden, turn grass easily into a garden bed, use free ‘waste’ materials to build organic matter, create soil that mimics natural soil layers, […]

By |December 1st, 2020|Garden Gleanings, Village Vibe|0 Comments

A Fernwood Story

›› Susan Sanford Blades

My debut novel, Fake It So Real, was ­conceived around the same time I moved to Fernwood nine years ago and I think this is no coincidence. How could I not be inspired to create in this land of painted hydro poles; this place where a man is lauded simply for blowing […]

By |December 1st, 2020|Artist's Aside, Buzz, Village Vibe|0 Comments

Calling all Fernwood-based artists and artisans

›› CarrolAnn Smedley

The Fernwood Art Stroll Group has begun organizing for the 2021 Fernwood Art Stroll.

It will be held during the month of June in our Fernwood community. If you are interested in opening your yard, or studio for showing, or selling your work, or if you are a performance-based individual or group, we would […]

By |December 1st, 2020|Artist's Aside, Buzz, Village Vibe|0 Comments

The COVID Experience

Change, transition, adaptation

›› Shonna Bell

Creativity, responsiveness, compassion.

It feels constant, exhausting and maybe sometimes invigorating. It feels humble, impossible to predict: make plans, adjust, make plans, adjust, settle in, adjust.

Really, it’s amazing we continue to get out of bed. Maybe we don’t, that’s ok too.

We show up, we watch the news, we interpret the guidance to […]

By |December 1st, 2020|Editorial|0 Comments

Stage Wine Bar: A COVID-19 date night

›› Lauren Gaultier

If you are anything like me, this pandemic has put a real damper on your culinary experiences. Dining out has become equally as rare as it is intimidating. In an uncertain fall where BC’s cases are ­continuing to rise and new lockdown measures were looming, I decided to take advantage of Grandma’s offer […]

By |December 1st, 2020|Community Eats|0 Comments

So you want to start a Gift of Good Food Fundraising Team?

Fernwood NRG’s annual holiday fundraiser, The Gift of Good Food launches November 16th and runs until December 31st, 2020. Now more than ever, due to COVID-19, we need community support to raise funds and provide families in-need across the CRD access fresh food every two weeks for a year.

This year, our goal is to raise […]

By |November 13th, 2020|News|0 Comments