OUR Blog: 2020 CSA
Learn, and Wonder
Healing Herbs: Lavender – CSA Week #7
This week’s healing herb is Lavender (Lavandula), one of my favourite and most often used herbs. Some words that come to mind when I experience lavender are divine, luxurious, mysterious, calming, and sensual. Lavender’s Latin name stems from lavare which means “to wash”, which describes one of it’s earliest uses. Lavender’s fragrance is reason enough […]
Healing Herbs: Marjoram – CSA Week #6
Marjoram (Origanum majorana) means “joy of the mountains” in Greek, and in European countries has traditionally symbolized youth, beauty and happiness. In Greece, wild marjoram covers the slopes and gives off a sweet, peppery fragrance which was supposedly gifted to the plant by the goddess Aphrodite as a symbol of luck! A few drops of […]
Kitchen Exploration: Raspberry Vinaigrette – CSA Week #6
With all the salad greens you’ve been getting lately, you might be wondering what you can do to jazz up your weekly lettuce, arugula, and other fresh greens that come in your box. You may or may not have googled ‘lettuce recipes’ only to be met by the stark reality that salad is salad, and […]
OUR ECOVILLAGE Volunteers: Ardell
Ardell has been volunteering with O.U.R. Ecovillage since September of 2019, helping with garden and farming work, as well as with grant writing. The first of July she and her 14-year-old daughter became on-land residents. Ardell is self-employed, coaching graduate students in completing their dissertations in education, social sciences, and leadership programs, including methodology critique […]
OUR Educational CSA – Week #6
A Note From OUR Team: WHAT IS A CSA? If you’re unfamiliar with what a CSA is, it stands for “Community Supported Agriculture.” The function of a CSA stays true to its name. It’s a farm in which individuals purchase a “crop share” during the winter and early spring, before the season begins. Then, throughout the […]
Let’s Get Wild: Go Into the Dark – CSA Week #5
This week I invite you to explore the world in the dark at night, using your night vision and bringing more awareness to your other senses. If it’s available to you, see if you can explore a natural area such as a hiking trail. If there are no natural areas nearby, you can still explore […]
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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.
OUR ECOVILLAGE is committed to regenerate land and all ecosystems while acknowledging and respecting Indigenous knowledge that ensures thriving for all beings; we call this Permaculture.
OUR ECOVILLAGE is dedicated to continuously educating ourselves and our communities about the history and peoples of OUR bio-region, to assist in decolonization and re-villaging as a path towards peacemaking, from local to global.