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Healing Herbs: Rose
Rose (Rosa acicularis) brings to my mind thoughts of budding love, matters of the heart, softness, beauty, and desire. fIn herbal medicine, both the petals and fruit (rosehips) of the rose are used. Not surprisingly then, rose petals are a good supportive tonic for the heart, and the scent of rose contains phenylethylamine-related compounds […]
OUR ECOVILLAGE Cooperative – General Newsletter Outreach
Having rounded the equinox and feeling the chill in the air….OUR team is finally surrendering to the fall season and BIG changes! We have moved through perhaps 3 of the most challenging seasons on the land since spring 1999 – and yet in terms of positive change it has also heralded in times of […]
OUR Eater’s Manifesto
O.U.R. Vision is to joyfully share food as medicine for O.U.R.selves, O.U.R. land and for O.U.R. broader worlds socioeconomic, ecological and political systems. O.U.R. core approach works toward collaborative respect with all of O.U.R. living companions: animals, plants, micro-organisms and of course humans. We try to keep O.U.R. food affordable, accessible and healthy. O.U.R. […]
Immune Boosting Turmeric Celery Soup – OUR CSA #18
Ingredients 3 tbsp. extra virgin olive oil or coconut oil 2 medium-size yellow onions, chopped 10 stalks of celery, diced 2 garlic cloves, chopped 2 tsp. GF ground turmeric 1 tsp. GF dried sage, or 5 fresh sage leaves chopped 1 tsp. sea salt or to taste ½ tsp. GF coarsely ground black pepper 6 […]
Healing Herbs/Fruits: Elderberries – OUR Educational CSA Week #17
Soon, the coughs, sniffles and sneezes will be flying and drugstores will be well-stocked with the usual cold and flu remedies. If you tend to gravitate toward natural treatment options, you’ve probably seen elderberry products on the shelves season after season. From cough syrup to lozenges, gummies to immunity juice shots, this rich source of […]
Healing Herbs/Fruit: Elderberries – CSA Week #17
Soon, the coughs, sniffles and sneezes will be flying and drugstores will be well-stocked with the usual cold and flu remedies. If you tend to gravitate toward natural treatment options, you’ve probably seen elderberry products on the shelves season after season. From cough syrup to lozenges, gummies to immunity juice shots, this rich source of […]
Reframing the Precautionary Mandates as Caring – CSA Week 16
Nobody likes to have their sense of freedom diminished. Freedom gives us a sense of being powerful and full of possibilities. It’s important to remember that every freedom is linked to a responsibility. Currently, the freedom of medically vulnerable people is dependent on the responsibility of healthy folks to protect them. Here at OUR […]
Kitchen Exploration: When Food is Medicine – CSA Week #16
WHEN ‘FOOD IS MEDICINE’ COLUMN (Brandy’s New Passion Project): So given we are moving into cold/flu season, given we are living in the midst of a global Pandemic, and given we have so much need for nutrient rich, antiviral/immune boosting, and good heart medicine foods….well I thought I would unleash some creative passions in the […]
Healing Herbs: Quince – CSA Week 16
Quince (Cydonia oblonga) are close relatives of apples and pears, but not everybody enjoys eating them fresh due to their tough skin and high tannin content and astringency that can only be mellowed out through cooking. Its cultivation can be traced back to ancient Greece and Rome, and though it is considerably less common today, […]
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Land acknowledgment
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.