>> Aaren Topley
The garden at Vic High is waking up after a deep freeze and is ready to start growing. In their garden you might walk by on Gladstone Avenue, Vic High students have been able to learn about traditional food systems and connecting with the land from the people’s territory they reside on.
Last year, […]
More small businesses & housing coming for Fernwood Village
›› Lee Herrin
In 2013, Fernwood NRG purchased two properties in the core of Fernwood Village (1310 Gladstone Avenue and 2009 Fernwood Road). As well, we obtained an option to purchase 2013 and 2017 Fernwood Road for redevelopment as affordable housing apartments. Overall, our vision was to add […]
Project studies if soils are safe for inner city gardening
>> Marika Smith
The Healing City Soils Project has had a successful first year! The project, a partnership between the Victoria Compost Education Centre and Royal Roads University offered free soil testing for heavy metals such as lead, arsenic and cadmium at 137 garden sites across Victoria […]
>> Margaret Hantiuk
Spring is just around the corner! That has us thinking about what we are going to plant in our gardens. Here are some tips for our neighbours in Fernwood’s food hub.
Here are some simple hints to make the task easier. They are simple ideas that if followed, make a huge difference in having […]
>> Ross Currie
Have you seen the Black Cat around Fernwood?
Have you seen the Black Cat around Fernwood? It takes the form of a hand-poke tattoo studio and community art space opened up in August, owned and operated by Cate Webb.
Webb got into hand poke tattooing by way of stick and poke. “I got into stick […]
Good food is needed not just at Christmas, but all year long
>> Alex Harned
December is officially here! After many months of waited anticipation, it is finally permissible to engage in the bounty of holiday cheer. Frosted snowflakes and Rudolph sightings are commonplace in downtown shop windows, glowing strings of lights line the neighbourhood streets, and […]
>> Lee Herrin
Fernwood NRG has hit a number of milestones in the past few years: the organization turned 35 in 2014, FernFest turned 20 in 2015, and both the Village Vibe and the Cornerstone building (in neighbourhood hands) turned 10, also in 2015. And just this past month, the Cornerstone Café hit the 10 year […]
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