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Learn how to make a cob oven

Join this hands on Cob Oven Building Workshop with Beth Cruise
Two Sundays Workshop: June 17th & July 8th from 10AM to 4PM
To register call: Carolyn at 250-370-0686
Cost: $75 before June 9th & $85 after
 

I am very excited to be able to host this workshop….see attached.  Many thanks are owed to Beth as she is offering […]

By |June 3rd, 2012|News|0 Comments

Fernwood Art Stroll

Studio tour 2012
Saturday, June 23rd, and Sunday, June 24th from 11:00am to 4:00pm

 

Trounce Alley, by Shawna Bate

Skull, Photograph, by Elaine Sale
 

Fernwood artists open their private studios to share, show and sell their original works of art. Come and join us! This event is free for all ages!

Maps of our 5th annual studio tour can […]

By |June 1st, 2012|News|0 Comments

Design your pole

Photos by Liz Rubincam

Design and Stencil Making Workshop
Tuesday, May 22nd from 6:00pm – 8:00pm

NOTE: Date changed from Saturday, May 19th to Tuesday, May 22nd due to long weekend

Fernwood Community Centre (1240 Gladstone Avenue)

 

Emily Grav of the Paint Box School of Art will be hosting a Design and Stencil Making Workshop on May 22nd from 6:00 […]

By |May 11th, 2012|News|0 Comments

The Great Fernfood Scavenger Hunt

Fernwood NRG is calling on all of you to become detectives!
 

The importance of local organic food is well known these days; urban agriculture is popping up all over. Many people in cities have started to raise chickens and grow produce in all kinds of spaces! We want to see what great urban agriculture initiatives we […]

By |May 2nd, 2012|News|0 Comments

Belonging Victoria Homelessness Summit

Greetings!

Join Belonging Victoria on April 21st for an afternoon of community building, connection and workshop in preparation for Belonging: A Victoria Youth Homelessness Summit in October, 2012.  We will be sharing information on our initiative and then creatively making use of our time by collectively participating in a World Café session lead by local youth […]

By |April 18th, 2012|News|0 Comments

Blossoms at Springridge Common

 
Springridge Common is showing signs of Spring…
 
Crocus
 
Red Flowering Currant
 
Purple Sprouting Broccoli
 
Damson Plum Blossoms
 
Indian Plum
 

By |March 23rd, 2012|Garden Gleanings, News|0 Comments

Last Class of Fernwood University

 

March 27th, 2012 at 7:30pm

Lesson 4 (rescheduled): Economic Power to the People: How to create and support neighbourhood employment.

Speaker – Rob Wipond, Focus magazine

Rob Wipond is a community issues journalist for Focus magazine, and has frequently done research into and written about local and regional economic and business development. He also co-wrote the Consensus Statement […]

By |March 23rd, 2012|News|0 Comments