Q&A: Salt Spring Island farmer pens book on sustainable farming for the future

Abey Scaglione, author of ‘Radical Farm: Animals, food and Our Future,’ shares how she thinks communities can reconnect with food and the people who grow it.

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To boost local food production, this Comox Valley nonprofit restores salmon habitat

LUSH Valley takes ‘a food systems approach’ to nurture a resilient future for farms in the Comox Valley.

What’s happening in the Cowichan Valley from Dec. 17  to Dec. 31

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‘Enough is enough’: Penelakut family calls on Island Health to address systemic racism after Lenny Sylvester’s death

Community leaders say his death following a routine medical procedure highlights long-standing racism in the health-care system.

Thinking about building a cob home in the Nanaimo area?

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