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Faces of Fernwood: Rik Leaf

›› Brett Gaylor

Over the last 20 years, Rik Leaf has ­produced CDs, TV shows, short films, a travel series, podcasts & worked on ­productions for Metallica, Bryan Adams, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Whose Line is it Anyway?. He is the Creative Director for Tribe of One and the author of Four Homeless Millionaires – […]

By |December 1st, 2020|Faces of Fernwood|0 Comments

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, […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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