Yikes, it’s the end of August! If you can’t get down there, here’s a virtual tour of the farm I am managing at Earthwise Society in Tsawwassen. See video below.
James

Interested in organic veggies, grown and harvested by hands you know? Contact me through my work email: farm@earthwisesociety.bc.ca
Next Saturday at Earthwise, Grow Local Fair – Sept. [...]

When you get a letter in a self-addressed envelope from a literary magazine, the one you submitted to in a contest, you know you are getting a rejection letter. I thought it was a pretty compelling story – about a guy who has a hole in his heart plugged because he keeps having strokes. Mixed [...]

Just in case you were wondering how things are going on the bottom in the Gulf of Mexico these days, you can catch the live action as BP attempts their new cap thing-a-majigger. This is kind of like trying to hook up your spray nozzle on your garden hose when the tap is turned on [...]

Pat – A Bread Affair

I was at the Kits market last weekend and met Pat, owner of A Bread Affair, who showed me his 100-mile-bread. The blueberry hazelnut loaf uses all local, organic ingredients, except for the salt which comes from Unity Saskatchewan. there is something wholesome and grounding about this local bread; it [...]

Jennifer and Manny

Some people say, if you want to get something done, give it to a busy person.

Upstart baker Jennifer Young is busy. Not long after graduating from law, she had a baby then started a baking business and when it was getting going she began a new job articling in law. She says [...]

May 23 – First day at the Market

I volunteered as bike valet – the first day of Kits Farmers Market and even though it was a chilly and drizzly beginning to the market season, there were lots of hardy shoppers and enthusiastic vendors. All of the early season veggies were available (Chinese greens, asparagus, [...]

Here is the Bridge to Cool Event. This is one of global the 350.org events (click to see some photos of some of these events)

Here is some video of being there.

There are two inspiring web initiatives trying change influence climate change politics. World leaders are set to meet in Copenhagen on Dec. 7 this year and we need to send our voices to them demanding real and substantial measures. The consequence of a weak resolution at this meeting are dire. This meeting has the potential [...]

Ok so it’s a week on since Web of Change and what does it all mean? For me it was an opening to the potential of new media to create fundamental change. Facts are I’m always a skeptic and consciously or unconsciously I attended WoC with the veil of skepticism wrapped securely over me. [...]