New vegan cafe opened its doors in Fernwood/North Park
›› Lauren Gaultier
Don’t be fooled by the new vegan spot that recently popped up on North Park Street, The Fern Café will leave any carnivore satisfied with their hearty offerings. The Fern has your typical café choices including speciality coffees, teas, and baked goods. If you are […]
›› Ruben Anderson
Family Dinner has been held at the Fernwood Community Centre on Monday nights for the past five years—but it is only partially funded.
It is hard to do a good job—at work, at school, as a parent, as a partner, or as a friend—if you are hungry. But everything is getting more expensive and […]
The place to start when starting from seed
›› Heather Leary
While most of Canada is still in winter’s icy grip, gardeners on Vancouver Island are planning their spring, which officially starts with Victoria Seedy Saturday on February 16th. Running from 10am to 4pm at the Victoria Conference Centre, Seedy Saturday offers opportunities for gardeners—and the gardening […]
Invisible need and the case for fresh food
›› Kathryn Juricic
This holiday season, Fernwood NRG is aiming to raise money to provide fresh fruits and vegetables every two weeks for 160 families in need throughout Greater Victoria. Sure, we all get why this is important. But do we really understand the need, the impact? To get […]
Fernwood NRG’s Child Care programs are Victoria’s only location for BC’s new Universal Child Care Prototype
›› Lee Herrin
After months of applications and meetings with the Province of BC, Fernwood Neighbourhood Resource Group’s Child Care Program has been selected as the only Victoria location for BC’s new Universal Child Care Prototype.
This means families in Fernwood NRG’s […]
›› Jessica Ziakin-Cook
Many of us feel the mayhem at the mall and the hullabaloo of the holiday season and miss the essential meaning of Christmas. And yet most of us still shuffle off to shop like sheep every December, spending too much money on presents and other commercial trappings. But St. Barnabas Anglican Church offers […]
›› Lauren Gaultier
After many years of planning, the Vic High Learning Farm was a joint initiative prompted when a former faculty member reached out to Aaren Topley, Capital Region’s Community Animator, of Farm to School BC, for help in creating a sustainable farming program. With much behind the scenes effort, Topley was able to create […]
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