Join us on Saturday, February 24 at 1703 Fernwood Road, 10am to 12pm
›› Ana Simeon
In times of great change and uncertainty, your well-being—even survival itself—may depend on being part of a caring community and having neighbours who have your back. Strengthening this web of connections within a community—and between the people and the land they depend on—is what constitutes resiliency.
If you’re interested in resiliency, food security, and community, you are warmly invited to drop by the Fernwood Homesteads Open House.
Fernwood Homesteads is an initiative by the tenants and landlord of three properties on the corner of Fernwood and Balmoral who teamed up to conserve water, restore a patch of habitat, grow food, and build community.
We are a mixed bunch: families with teens and pre-teens, roommates, and an older couple. Several of us garden and are passionate about food security. Others bring creativity and a spirit of playfulness to neighbourhood occasions such as Hallowe’en. We barter and gift produce, water each other’s gardens, do earthquake drills together, and—on the rare occasions when Victoria experiences a taste of real Canadian weather—have snow-shoveling parties.
This year—with the help of the Resilient Streets Initiative—we have decided to host a tour of what we have created together. There will be a demo of the various water conservation features (both high- and low-tech), a tour of our year-round food gardens, and a restored patch of Garry Oak meadow. All Fernwoodians are invited!
Please join us on Saturday, February 24, between 10am and 12pm, in the backyard of 1703 Fernwood Road. That’s the red and white house right on the corner of Fernwood and Balmoral (entrance to the backyard through Balmoral Street). Refreshments will be provided.
