Honeybees are dropping like flies. Around the world beekeepers are reporting massive die-offs of these essential pollinators. Colony collapse disorder (CCD) as it is called […] Read More
Author: Spring Gillard
A crowd has gathered on Granville Street at Helmcken in front of a vacant store. There is a shopping cart there with large buckets in […] Read More
I was having dinner with Andre. Andre LaRiviere. Former CBC Radio producer. Chef and local food writer. Member of the Vancouver Food Policy Council. And […] Read More
The Bike Tree grew out of an idea I had when I worked at the Vancouver Compost Demonstration Garden. We shared the building with an […] Read More
My mother’s mother, my grandmother was born in Russia, in a predominantly German town called Strasbourg on the Black Sea. I grew up eating wonderful […] Read More
Lesley Morris and her husband Skip Pendleton moved from the Fraser Valley to their 11-acre farm in Cawston in the spring of 2002. They had […] Read More
Arthur Wesley “Wes” Barrett Gardener, teacher, friend, salt of the earth. Born June 12, 1937 Trail, BC. Died suddenly January 14, 2007 in Florida. Aged […] Read More
The first time I met Assefa Kebede I was with a group of friends from northern California who were in Vancouver visiting their parents. They […] Read More
I have been harping on my brother, an Okanagan developer, for a couple decades now about building green. I am sure it has very little […] Read More
It seems appropriate to start the new year off with seeds. Little parcels of potential. I read this piece on North by Northwest in late […] Read More