Kitchen Exploration: Catching and Storing Energy – CSA Week #9

Kitchen Exploration:Creatively Catching and Storing Energy in the Kitchen There are so many amazing foods that are coming in this week’s box that it’s hard to pick which to write about this week! We gleaned apples and plums from a friendly neighbor’s garden. We are finally harvesting more magnificent potatoes, and we pulled some beets […]

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Healing Herbs: Nasturtium – CSA Week #9

This week you have been given a little potted Nasturtium plant (Tropaeolum majus). These are the spicy orange flowers you have been receiving in your salad mix each week, so I thought it’s about time we talk about them! Nasturtium flowers have a peppery taste, and as a companion to your other plants they actually […]

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Kitchen Exploration: Use and Value – CSA Week #8

Kitchen Exploration:Using and Valuing Diversity by Cooking for Each Person’s Needs One of the Big Ideas in the BC Curriculum for English Language Arts is that “people understand text differently depending on their worldviews and perspectives.” When I listened to our elder Peter read the story,  Old Turtle and the Broken Truth, during Learning Circle this […]

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Healing Herbs: Raspberry (Rubus idaeus) – CSA Week #8

Raspberry (Rubus idaeus) is beloved for its luscious red berries and is native to many parts of Europe. The leaves of the raspberry plant are used in classic herbal preparations to support a woman’s health tonically (meaning it can be taken regularly) and especially during their moon time and during pregnancy. The leaves are considered […]

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OUR Educational CSA – Week #8

Hello CSA members! I know we mention this every week but that’s because it is important to us ~ Thank you for helping us reduce waste and consumption as much as possible and returning jars, containers, egg cartons and your plant pots for us to reuse! The baking containers we have been using are actually […]

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OUR ECOVILLAGE is situated on unceded Indigenous lands. The Coast Salish Peoples are the guardians of these lands and waters where we live, work, pray, and play. Quw’utsun (Cowichan) is a historical place of gathering and Na’tsa’ maht Shqwaluwun/”one-heart one-mind” for many Indigenous peoples.

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