Making the dream of sustainable living a reality
The dream of “living off the land” helped influence my decision to move to the Shuswap fifty-one years ago and live on a rural property …
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Visualizing a better future for the Shuswap
It may take a year or two, but eventually the pandemic will likely be gone and life will return to some level of normalcy. While …
The many benefits of community forests
photo courtesy of Black Press The community forest program began in British Columbia in 1998, when the government amended the Forest Act to allow for …
Assessing the local impact of increasing inequality
There is a line-up at this Salvation Army food bank every morning Recently our local CBC Radio West provided coverage of the new Oxfam …
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High school woodlot forestry program a success
There are just two high schools in British Columbia that manage their own woodlot and one of them is in the Shuswap. Charles Bloom Secondary …