February 2020 Village Vibe

February 2020

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Fresh food supports families The Gift of Good Food is supporting more families across Greater Victoria this year than ever before

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hank you to the 547 people who donated to the Gift of Good Food in 2019. Together, we raised $89,164! This is the most money we have ever raised for the cause. This year, 178 families are receiving fresh produce every two weeks.

It has been a pleasure working with our partner organizations: Bridges for Women, Burnside Gorge Community Association, Esquimalt Nation, Fairfield Gonzales Community Association, James Bay Community Project, Oaklands Community Association, Quadra Village Community Centre, Saanich Neighbourhood Place, Songhees Nation, Sooke Family Resource Society, Vic West Community Association, Victoria Native Friendship Centre, and West Shore Health Services. Each partner organization has selected families they work with to receive the Gift of Good Food.

With the funds raised, we were also able to provide support for families at Artemis Place and Rosalie’s Village as well this year.

Fernwood, you raised the most funds for families in our neighbourhood! The Fernwood Community Centre is supporting 27 families with fresh food.

A huge thanks to our 24 fundraising teams who collectively raised over $28,500.

These funds are supporting 57 families this year. Kudos to you!

Thank you to the local businesses who donated or supported the cause. Shout out to Hoyne Brewing Co., Discovery Coffee, Northern Quarter, Fernwood Yoga Den, Luna Collective, Part & Parcel, Red Barn Oak Bay, Fernwood Inn, Phillips Brewing and Malting Co., Sheringham Distillery, designHouse, Rise Health, Fernwood Coffee Co., Orca Books, Goo Goo Goggles, Realfoto Media, and so many more!

The Good Food Box—packed at the Fernwood Community Centre—supplies fresh food for families receiving the Gift of Good Food. Photo: Chantille Viaud

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Pruning Workshop Saturday, February 22nd at the Fernwood Community Orchard This month, you’re invited to ‘Tree Care and Fruit Tree Pruning Workshop’, a free workshop put on

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by the City of Victoria in partnership with Fernwood NRG. Photo: Mila Czemerys

he City of Victoria is offering a series of free, monthly workshops on tree planting and maintenance as a part of the UNECE global campaign, Trees in Cities Challenge wherein cities around the world are working to catalyze nature-based solutions to climate change.

Victoria is the first city in Canada to join the Challenge!

The City would like to work alongside community to help meet the goal of

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planting 5,000 trees on public and private land by the end of 2020. This can include planting trees on your own private property, volunteering at a community tree planting day in your neighbourhood, and learn about tree selection, planting techniques, pruning, and long-term tree care at the free monthly tree-care workshops.

As a partnership with the Fernwood NRG’s Community Orchard, the City is offering a Tree Care and Fruit Tree Pruning

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Garden Gleanings

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Honouring Lekwungen: Indigenous plant garden page 4

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Workshop on Saturday, February 22nd from 10:00am to 1:00pm. The workshop begins at the Fernwood Community Centre.

Register online at victoria.ca/recreation.

Join the Trees in Cities Challenge in four easy steps: Pledge to plant trees, learn about tree care, record your trees in the Tree Tracker, and learn how to become a Tree Champion.

Visit victoria.ca/treesincities for more information.

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The importance of child care

Published by Fernwood Neighbourhood Resource Group Editorial Committee

Chantille Viaud Brett Gaylor Melissa Faye Reid Mila Czemerys Founding Editor Lisa Helps

Child care centres are

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places for community

Mila Czemerys Chantille Viaud Melissa Faye Reid Christina Chan Heather Leary Kayla Siefried

Alex Harned Mark Dusseault Bobby Arbess Lauren Gaultier Chet Phillips Carl Cachia

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Chantille Viaud Matt Reznek Bobby Arbess Lauren Gaultier

Mila Czemerys Axel Christina Chan Kayla Siefried

Production Mila Czemerys Contact us

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declaration of principles & values ››

We are committed to creating a socially, environmentally, and economically sustainable neighbourhood;

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We are committed to ensuring neighbourhood control or ownership of neighbourhood institutions and assets;

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connection and support

›› Chantille Viaud When I was growing up, I didn’t understand why my mom spent so much of her energy on the child care centre she was trying to build. I remember stressed whispers between her and my dad late at night, going over financials and floor plans. She was fighting for the first licenced group child care centre in my small town, because she knew families were struggling without one.

Although the importance of child care was imprinted on me, it wasn’t until I had my own child that I really understood its significance. When I became a single parent of a 2-year-old, it became a critical piece to my survival. The early childhood educators

weren’t just looking after my child, they were supporting me. If I hadn’t had quality child care, or the subsidy that went with it, I would not have been able to afford to stay in the same community where my family was, or work at a full-time job. My child care centre was my community hub, it was where I met other families, received advice and guidance, and where I felt most connected.

I am so proud to now work at the only centre in Victoria, right here in Fernwood that is able to offer quality child care for $10 dollars a day. It has been life changing for families, and transformational for our community. Child care centres are more than just places that look after kids.

They are places that support our whole community.

My mom continues to be an advocate for child care, and now teaches new early child care educators. I now understand why she fought so hard for so long, and I will honour her by doing the same and making

Chantille and her son Sebastian. Photo courtesy of Chatille Viaud

sure that families in Fernwood have the same kind of support and community that I had when I needed it most.

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Eclectic as ever, the Belfry announces the line-up for the 2020 Spark Festival Four new plays debut at

We are committed to using our resources prudently

the Belfry this March

and to becoming financially self-reliant;

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We are committed to the creation and support of neighbourhood employment;

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We are committed to engaging the dreams, resources, and talents of our neighbours and to fostering new links between them;

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We are committed to taking action in response to neighbourhood issues, ideas, and initiatives;

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We are committed to governing our organization and serving our neighbourhood democratically with a maximum of openness, inclusivity and kindness;

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We are committed to developing the skills, capacity, self-worth, and excellence of our neighbours and ourselves;

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We are committed to focusing on the future while preserving our neighbourhood’s heritage and diversity;

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We are committed to creating neighbourhood places that are vibrant, beautiful, healthy, and alive;

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and, most of all, We are committed to having fun!

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›› Mark Dusseault Joe saved whales off the coast of Newfoundland. Laura moved to Trump’s America.

And back in Canada, two groups of artists trundled across the country to talk to people, aged 1 to 100—you’ll be surprised and delighted by what they learned.

Spark is as eclectic as ever and this year we are offering half-price tickets to anyone under 30 on the four big shows - Busted Up - A Yukon Story, Destiny, USA, KISMET, things have changed and Between Breaths.

It all kicks off with a free all-ages hootenanny / dance party on March 9th.

Artistic Fraud of Newfoundland is bringing their extraordinary play, Between Breaths, to Spark. Based on the real life story of Joe Lien, a researcher who saved more than 500 whales from fishing nets, “Between Breaths will bring you to tears and leave you in awe,” says NS Reviews, Halifax.

Laura Anne Harris didn’t want to move to Syracuse but she fell in love. Destiny, USA weaves together three stories: moving to the US, working as a relay operator for the deaf, and dealing with her mother’s illness in Canada while she has to live in America.

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Emelia Symington Fedy and Daryl King in KISMET, things have changed. Photo: Matt Reznek

Whitehorse’s Open Pit is bringing Busted Up: A Yukon Story to Victoria. Six actors portray over 30 real-life Yukon characters who share their stories of colonialism, natural resource extraction, racial discrimination, and a deep love of the wild.

Ten years ago, four artists in their late 20’s and early 30’s travelled across the country to interview 100 people, aged 1 to 100. Now, a decade later, the same team set out to find the surviving people and interview them again. What they discovered on the road is

revealed in KISMET, things have changed: a complicated yet intimate portrait of change.

The festival closes with a one-off performance by high school students enrolled in Belfry 101. They come from public and private schools across the region and always create a gem of theatre.

Spark also features dozens of free events—plays readings, miniplays, and cabarets—take one in to get a taste of Spark.

Ticket and show information is available on our website, belfry.bc.ca/2020-sparkfestival/ or at spark festival.ca.

News and views from the heart of Fernwood

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New Fernwood NRG Strategic Plan Fernwood NRG to host listening campaigns and seeks support from local community

›› Melissa Faye Reid Fernwood NRG is creating a new strategic plan this year and we need your help. A strategic plan is process to determine the direction of an organization based on the needs of the community it serves.

Fernwood NRG will be facilitating a series of listening campaigns in the spring with the intention of connecting stories, building relationships, and identifying issues within the neighborhood. With this information, Fernwood NRG will create a strategic plan to reflect the needs of the neighbourhood.

The listening campaigns will be hosted by trained leaders who will facilitate discussions between community members.

If you are a business, organization, or community member in the Fernwood neighbourhood, we want to invite you to

be a part of the listening campaigns and support you to host your own. We will provide training to community members interested in being involved in this process.

By broadening our reach of the neighbourhood we can better hear the diverse voices of the community. By creating a culture of listening, we hope to root our organization in relationship and action.

Please connect with Melissa, our Events & Engagement Coordinator, if you are interested in being involved or wanting to host a listening campaign, contact melissa@fernwoodnrg.ca.

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feature:

Honouring Lekwungen: Indigenous plant garden

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ast February, I brought plans to a monthly meeting of my housing co-op to create a garden that honours the plants of Lekwungen territories. My intentions are to restore some of the native biodiversity on the weed-stricken failed lawn at the front of the co-op on the hilltop of Balmoral Road; my home on unceded Lekwungern territory. I view this work as a personal act of reconciliation and the work of restoring Indigenous plants to the landscape.

This is one of many facets of what it means to be a good guest on lands that have been stolen, degraded, exploited, and where the first inhabitants—human and more than human—have been displaced and struggle

of the Songhees Nation. I let her know it was my intention to honour the plants that have been the neighbours and relations of Indigenous peoples on the homelands of the Salish Sea. Florence Dick thanked me for honouring the ancestors of the Lekwungen people. The co-op contributed some funds and I received a matching grant through the City of Victoria’s My Great Neighbourhood Grant program.

There was no breaking ground on the dry, rock-hard terrain on the north side of our co-op building. The history of lawn mowing and the roots of a pine and a giant Sequoia tree bound the soil into an impenetrable hardness that I couldn’t get a spade through.

My intentions are to restore some of the native biodiversity on the weed-stricken failed lawn at the front of the co-op on the hilltop of Balmoral Road; my home on unceded Lekwungern territory. to recover and return to the land-base.

For all the good things we love about the Fernwood neighbourhood, there is a conspicuous absence of even the smallest remnants of the Indigenous landscapes.

The vision was a garden that—when grown in—would be a small oasis of the original botanical wealth and associated wildlife of the land before colonization. The garden would have signs that would welcome the neighbours and educate them about the Lekwungen plant names and uses.

On my plant wish list—known in English—were Garry oaks, Ocean Spray, Oregon Grape, Salal, Snowberry, Mock Orange, Kinnickinnick, Twinberry, more coastal berrying shrubs, Salmons and Thimbles, blue Fescue bunchgrasses, Yarrow, and so much more. The floral diversity of these lands we occupy is really quite staggering!

The co-op membership was keen for a garden with a decolonization theme and I immediately reached out to Florence Dick

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So I took this as an invitation from the land to build up a new loamy soil horizon amenable to the acid-loving native plants of this coast through the process of sheet mulching.

I made a concentric double ring of beds around a central woodchip circle for gathering and looking at the garden. I threw down sheets of cardboard I rummaged from the Long & McQuade dumpster to keep the lawn from growing and to start the process of turning lawn into meadow and woodland loam conditions.

On my birthday in July, I invited friends to join a wheelbarrow brigade to help spread ten yards of organic materials: composted cow poop, leaf mould, needles laced with fungal mycelium, and sandy topsoil soaked in water to seal moisture.

Then, we raised the beds—almost a foot deep—which were ready for planting.

Travelling back from Sooke River one day, I noticed a giant earth-mover at the entrance of a driveway in Langford. Past the

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giant excavator was a recent, massive gaping clear cut that extended up and across a hilly ridgetop farther than we could see. Felled Arbutus trees littered rocky knolls. Nighthawks screeched overhead. Broken-hearted, our jaws hung open in disbelief at all the destruction allowed to happen—even after the CRD climate emergency declaration!

After some of our mid-summer rainfalls, I returned to that wreckage a few times in the process of building the garden—a lone gardener pushing a wheelbarrow and shovel through a barren wasteland. I felt I was making a miniscule dent in salvaging some of the countless understory plants that were flourishing in the availability of sunlight from the clearing of the trees before they were removed.

After the dusk of the long summer days, I could be seen as a curious hunched figure in the dark transplanting Sword ferns, Heucheras, Mahonias, Salals, and even a rare Rattle-snake Plantain into the deep, receptive beds of the garden; a new refuge for these residents of the so-called coastal Douglas fir forests. Rocks and logs, patches of moss, and even a two-pronged deer antler from the Langford clearcut were added as natural garden elements.

By the arrival of the fall rains, the garden was now fully planted. The time had come to put in pathways, split-rail fencing, signs, and to celebrate the place-making, restoration, and botanical re-indigenization of this tiny nook of the neighbourhood on the Swenghwung family territories with members of the local Songhees and Esquimalt nations, co-op, and Fernwood residents.

Thanks to Florence Dick at Songhees Nation, the Mitraniketan Housing Co-op, and the City of Victoria’s My Great Neighbourhood Grant program for supporting this project.

To volunteer with the finishing stages of this project, and for info about the official garden opening and ceremony dates, call me at 778-700-2602.

Standing with respected Songhees elder Joan Morris in the garden. Photo courtesy of Bobby Arbess

Plant List Trees: Garry Oak, Quercus garyanna Shrubs: Tall Oregon Grape, Mahonia aquifolium Dull Oregon Grape, Mahonia nervosa Mock Orange, Philadeplhus lewissii Salal, Gaultheria shallon Ocean Spray, Holdiscus discolor Twinberry, Lonicera involucrata Salmonberry, Rubus spectabilis Thimbleberry, Rubus parviflorus Common Snowberry, Symphoricarpus albus Indian Plum, Oemlaria cerasifomris Nootka Rose, Rosa nutkana Baldhip Rose. Rosa gymnacarpa Kinnickinick, Arctostaphylos uva-ursi Ferns: Sword Fern, Polystichum munitum Maidenhair Fern, Adiantum pedatum Grasses: Roemer’s Fescue, Festuca idahoensis ‘Roemerii’ Herbaceous plants: Yarrow, Achilea millefolium Nodding Onion, Allium cernuum Common camas, Camassia quamash Great camas, Camassia leichtlinii Entire-leaved Gumweed, Grindelia integrifolia Shooting star, Dodecatheon hendersonii Western Trillium, Trillium ovatum Vanilla leaf, Achlys triphylla Goat’s Beard, Aruncus Dioicus Rattlesnake plantain, Goodyera oblongifolia

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Heart & Hands aims to become non-profit

The Heart & Hands community acupuncturists in the doorway of their sunny yellow clinic building on Cormorant Street. (From left to right) Christina Chan, R.Ac., Veronica Palmer-Jones, R.Ac., Susan Shields, R.Ac., Sarah Strohan, R.Ac., and Jenica Geisler, R.Ac.. Photo courtesy of Christina Chan

›› Christina Chan How do we build community wealth by fostering community health? By focusing on providing accessible, inclusive services for the public good over profits.

Heart & Hands Health Collective is a grassroots community acupuncture and holistic health clinic, founded in October 2010. We have become an essential holistic health care service and referral hub in the North Park neighbourhood and beyond, providing up to 900 acupuncture sessions monthly at $20 to $50 sliding-scale rates. Through inclusion, we are supporting the health and well-being of the Victoria community as well as filling in the gaps of the healthcare system.

We are boldly sending the message that acupuncture is a tool for positive social change.

From February 15th to March 20th, 2020,

Heart & Hands will be running an online crowdfunding campaign called ‘Help us build H&H 2.0’. The objective is to raise $15,000 to cover the cost of our upcoming 2020 property tax and administrative fees necessary for a transition to non-profit.

Victoria is becoming less affordable.

Property taxes continue to rise.

Becoming a non-profit will allow Heart & Hands to decrease our operating costs so we can put our money where it matters: back into the community. The hope is that the success of this fundraiser will be an investment in the longevity and sustainability of this organization. Our ultimate goal is to continue to support access to compassionate and affordable holistic health services in the Greater Victoria area and beyond.

For more info about our services, mission, and upcoming online campaign, please visit heartandhandscommunity.ca.

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community eats:

Three bakeries of Fernwood ›› Lauren Gaultier We all know Fernwood is a hub for cool cafes—we have no less than five. Did you know that we are also the home to some incredible bakeries?

Origin Bakery, on Pandora Avenue, was opened by co-founders and long-time friends Marion Scott & Tara Black in Fernwood in 2010. This entirely gluten-free bakery puts those with celiac disease at ease—never having to ask again if there is cross-contamination. Origin offers up a broad range of gluten-free breads, cupcakes, cookies, pastries, and more. In addition to gluten-free, Origin accommodates other dietary restrictions with baked goods like their vegan Vega bread. This bread was initially created to help a celiac customer who couldn’t have rice and has since become their best seller! Check out originbakery.com for a comprehensive list

of products and ingredients.

Patisserie Daniel, on Cook Street, has been a staple in Fernwood for more than 25 years. This European style bakery, named after Chef Daniel Vokey, is known to many as a great place for beautifully handcrafted cakes and pies. That’s not all they make!

They have a wide range of danishes, tarts, croissants, and cookies. As a bonus, Patisserie Daniel is open 7 days a week so you always have somewhere to turn to get your baked goods fix. Find out more at patisseriedaniel.com.

Mount Royal Bagel Factory, on Grant Street, is another long-standing Fernwood staple specializing their baking efforts on— you guessed it—bagels! This local business was founded by friends Mark Workman & Elliot Silverman, native Montrealers. They found Victoria was lacking in the bagel department and decided to open up shop.

With more than eight flavours, a variety of

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Baked goods from Fernwood’s bakeries (left to right): Patisserie Daniel, Mount Royal Bagel Factory, and Origin Bakery. Photos: Lauren Gaultier

cream cheeses, and sandwich offerings, we are happy they brought a little Montreal flavour to the streets of Fernwood. Visit them on the web at mntroyalbagel.com.

For mouth-watering food photos, follow @originbakery, @patisserie_daniel, and @mountroyalbagels on Instagram.

If you want to be the office hero or the weekend host with the most, pick up

some of my recommended crowd pleaser favourites: 1. Origin Baker y: Cookies and cupcakes 2. Patisserie Daniel: Croissants 3. Mount Royal Bagel Factory: Cheese flavour bagels and/or cinnamon flavour bagels Happy eating!

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Your gardening year Greater Victoria starts at Seedy Saturday Acting Together ›› Heather Leary As the snow becomes a distant memory, thoughts turn to the planting season just around the corner. The best place to start is Seedy Saturday Victoria, running from 10am to 4pm on February 15 th at the Victoria Conference Centre.

Born as a seed exchange event, Seedy Saturday has grown into Victoria’s premiere seed and garden event, offering gardening supplies, information, seeds, and plants for everyone from small space and patio gardeners to those managing large garden spaces.

Presentation and workshop topics include container gardening, growing food in pots, growing a pizza garden, incorporating edibles into an ornamental garden, making compost, and more. Victoria Master Gardener Association members will be in attendance to answer gardening questions.

Over 60 vendors offer a huge range of gardening products from tools and compost bins to plants, seeds, compost boosters, and more. Vendors are keen to share their gardening know-how to help attendees make the most of their gardening efforts.

Also in attendance are a number of garden societies, clubs, and educational programs.

Gardeners are invited to bring home grown vegetable, herb or flower seeds and tubers to donate or trade. Gardening books and magazines can also be traded at the Seedy Saturday Book Exchange.

A children’s activity area will offer hands on activities to inspire young gardeners.

Admission is $8 and includes presentations, workshops, and activities. Attendees under 16 years old are free. Cash and credit cards are accepted at the door. Details are posted at victoriaseedysaturday.ca/vss.

Restoring civil society, reweaving our common stories

›› Chet Phillips Whether we’re talking neighborhoods or nations, it’s hard to believe we participate in a common story unless we also feel invited to play a meaningful role in the telling, in the dialogues and decisions that weave together a sense of shared meaning in the world.

Greater Victoria Acting Together (GVAT) is an organization comprised of 27 diverse organizations (and growing every week): unions, conservation and climate groups, faith groups, business communities, and frontline service organizations, united by a common goal: we can only build the power

we need to address the greatest challenges facing Greater Victoria together. We know that an inclusive, functioning democracy isn’t something we can hire a proxy to maintain for us. We can’t just elect city councilors and MPs we like and call it a day. The down and dirty work of building and sustaining relationships and reweaving a sense of hope and common purpose depends on all of us.

Whether we’re taking on the lack of affordable housing, access to mental health care, or the need to maintain a livable climate on Earth, the real work of GVAT is the work of inviting you to come forward as agents and authors of our democratic story, in which all of us are both listeners and tellers. To get involved in one of our action research teams working to identify solutions and get our elected government to support them, please contact me at chet@gvat.ca or go to gvat.ca to learn more.

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News and views from the heart of Fernwood

garden gleanings:

Greens in the coastal garden

My winter greens harvested from the Compost Education Centre gardens. (Top left to right) 2 types of kale, parsley, mizuna. (Centre left to right) ‘Giant Red’ mustard, ‘Red Russian’ kale, chickweed, mustard. (Bottom left to right) Corn salad, ‘Tokyo Bekana’ mustard, miner’s lettuce. Photo: Kayla Siefried

›› Kayla Siefried Just a week ago, I harvested 11 different varieties of greens from the gardens at the Compost Education Centre. It was incredible to take in the variety and beauty of the greens freshly harvested and consumed in mid-January! We live in a particularly unique climate, where it is very possible to have many a fresh salad in the winter.

But, not all greens are well suited to wintertime temperatures. That’s where seed variety and selection comes in. With Seedy Saturday events happening all over the region in the coming month, it’s a great time to plan all the way to next winter’s harvest! Victoria’s is on February 15th and if you can’t make that one check seeds.ca for others in the region.

Some fun winter greens to look for when you’re attending your local Seedy Saturdays are: mache (also know as corn salad), kales

of many varieties are usually a safe bet, as are winter varieties of lettuce and spinach.

When you are looking for cold hardy varieties of greens, read the seed packages or ask the seed farmer you are buying from.

Usually the seed will have an indicative name or description like ‘Winter Density Lettuce’ or ‘Siberian Kale’. Both of these are varieties of greens that will sustain cold temperatures easily. Remember, while these plants will persist through cold winters and grow quickly and abundantly come spring.

They won’t necessarily put on much growth in the winter as they do not have enough day light. You need to plant enough of these plants in July and August so they are large enough—and abundant enough—to be harvested all through the winter. So, get planning your summer garden for all the tomatoes and cucumbers you’d like and don’t forget to also plan for your 2021 winter garden!

Physica Health ››

Physica Health is a new physiotherapy and osteopathy clinic located in the heart of Fernwood Square. We offer one on one treatments that are customized to you and your injury. The 350 square foot studio was designed with the patient in mind, offering a relaxed environment in a private setting.

The goal of the clinic is to bridge the gap between rehabilitation and performance.

By creating an interdisciplinary team we make sure you are getting the treatment you need. Our goal is to empower you to optimize your physical health.

Carl Cachia is a physiotherapist with

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MONDAY Fernwood Family Dinner $5 donation/drop-in Nuu Chah Nulth Drumming (Closed Group)

5:00pm – 7:00pm 7:30pm – 10:00pm

TUESDAY Breastfeeding Solutions Seniors High Tea & Yoga Nobody’s Perfect VSSC Dodgeball

Register*, free Drop-in, $2 Register*, free Preregister with VSSC

10:00am – 1:00pm 11:30am – 2:00pm 6:00pm – 8:00pm 6:00pm – 10:00pm

Register*, free Order at thegoodfoodbox.ca Preregister with VSSC

11:00am – 1:00pm 1:00pm – 8:00pm 8:00pm – 10:00pm

WEDNESDAY

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FERNWOOD NRG WINTER PROGRAMS JANUARY - APRIL 2020

a Masters in manual therapy and sports physiotherapy fellowship. With over 16 years of experience, Carl optimizes your recovery by using IMS and acupuncture, manual therapy, soft tissue release and custom exercise programs to help you get stronger and move better.

Giorgio Caiterzi is a sports osteopath with 20 years of experience. He uses fascial manipulation, crainiosacral, taping, and joint manipulation to help get you back to your sport.

At Physica, we also offer gait (walking) analysis and custom bike fitting services to improve your performance. We offer direct billing to all major insurances. Visit physicahealth.ca for more info.

Best Babies (6-12 months) Good Food Box Pick-up VSSC Dodgeball

THURSDAY Family Resource Program Best Babies (0-6 months) VSSC Dodgeball

Drop-in, by donation Register*, free Preregister with VSSC LGBTQ Narcotics Anonymous Drop-in, free

9:30am – 11:30am 11:00am – 1:00pm 6:00pm – 10:00pm 7:00pm – 8:00pm

FRIDAY Mother Goose (2 & under) Free Family Legal Clinic Seniors’ Lunch (55+)

Drop-in, free Register*, free $4/drop-in

11:00am – 11:45am 11:00am – 1:00pm 12:00pm – 2:30pm

Closures January 1 and 2, February 17, April 10, 2020.

*Register for in-house programs at the Fernwood Community Centre front desk

SPECIAL EVENTS Community Orchard Pruning Workshop Saturday, February 22 Vinyl Fair - March 7

For more information & to register contact: Fernwood Community Centre 1240 Gladstone Avenue, Victoria, BC V8T 1G6 250.381.1552 x100 | info@fernwoodnrg.ca

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