Sun, 28 July 201910:00 AM – 4:00 PM The Salt Spring Island Eco Living & Home Tour Take a tour of Salt Spring’s most innovative green homes, farms and gardens! An inspiring self-guided day trip featuring innovative West Coast homes, off-grid living, tiny homes, permaculture landscapes, and more! Talk with homeowners and contractors and get […]
The 20th Annual Salt Spring Island Apple Festival
Sunday, September 29th, 2019 9:00am to 5:00pm The 20th Annual Salt Spring Island Apple Festival Salt Spring Island, BC grows over 450 varieties of apples organically, with an apple history dating back to 1860. Buy your ticket at Fulford Hall or the Ganges Tourist Information Centre and get the Festival map, released at 9a.m. There […]
Restoring the Gardens Beneath our Driveways
Since we realised we didn’t need to own a car, even here in the countryside, on an island, we also saw that we didn’t need a driveway either, not really. An astounding expanse of the world is paved over for the needs of the car, and we’ve begun the process of reversing that brief but […]
Slow Laundry
The world over, people line-dry clothes. It is the work of minutes by hand that could never be equalled by a machine, not when one counts the embodied energy in each process. It is an act of simple living that has been overpowered by shame in hanging out one’s laundry, an act of simplicity that […]