A blog to help you explore Shuswap geography by Jim Cooperman, author of Everything Shuswap, including his newspaper columns with more images and information that did not appear in print, as well as other commentaries and memoirs.
In the heart of Turtle Valley there is a state-of-the-art agricultural operation that is the only one like it in the world. By combining inland …
Shuswap’s globally unique organic coho salmon and cannabis farm Read More »
Thanks to the work of a forest campaigner, Eddie Petryshen, from the Kootenay environmental group Wildsight, we are now aware of the plans to log …
Ancient cedar forest stands at risk in Shuswap’s own “Fairy Creek” Read More »
On November 2nd, the B.C. government announced plans to defer logging in approximately 2.6 million hectares of old growth forest. After two decades of disappointment with …
Cautious optimism for old growth forest protection plan Read More »
The Shuswap benefited greatly when Rev. Michael Shapcott moved here in 2018 to become the Executive Director of the Sorrento Centre, given the valuable contributions …
Sorrento Centre making a difference by addressing social issues Read More »
It was a far different era in the 1970s and early 1980s than our fast-paced, digital, online world of today and many of us who …
More stories from the early days of the Caravan Farm Read More »
Fun, insightful, inspiring and intriguing videos of music, backcountry ski-touring, environmental events, hiking, and biking.
Roots & Blues Retro – a retrospective tour of festivals since 2011
.A brief tour of the 2018 Adams River sockeye salmon run. The soundtrack is a song by Anie Hepher.
Most of the images from the book, Everything Shuswap with an original soundtrack by Sylvain Valle
“Everything Shuswap explores the region’s rich eco-types and its interwoven historical record. It’s a textbook for understanding one of the most beautiful and least understood landscapes and it should be mandatory reading for anyone who lives in or visits the Shuswap.”
– Mark Hume, author of Adam’s River and other books
