And it’s April … just like that. On the coast there’s always a chance for nasty weather, but April is usually a good time to really get...

Finally … it’s time to plan! As the weather warms, it’s time to get your seed packets out and start sowing. There are a few guidelines...

Happy new year! It’s late January and the start of the 2023 growing season. Although it is cold, rainy, and dull out there, there are...

Tofino Community Food Initiative has a workshop coming up in December! Since the weather outside can some days be frightful, we’re taking...

TCFI’s Harvest Celebration at the school garden this past month was a wonderful community event with lots of folks coming together to...

Fall has arrived in our gardens! Days are getting shorter, a wind is rustling in the changing leaves of the trees, geese are flying back...

One of our easiest local foods to forage in late summer on the west coast is himalayan blackberry. Rubus armeniacus is listed with the...

Welcome to August! Responding to the heat, midsummer flowers are blooming everywhere, snapdragons and nasturtiums, petunias, and late...

As seen in the July 2022 issue of Tofino Time. Tofino Community Food Initiative is a nonprofit society started by local gardeners in...

Hey West Coast Gardeners! My favourite month of the year, the brightest month, is here; June! I read a great book this past month called...

Well, that was a cold April! I remember last April paddling across Kennedy Lake in a bikini, picnicking and swimming with my family. Not...

Let’s hear it for volunteers! After moving a homemade compost mound onto my food growing beds in the greenhouse, a fascinating diversity...

Here we go. Ready or not, the growing season is upon us! By now we have seen all the early Spring flowers popping up around our towns and...

Happy new year and blessings for the best growing season ever! Now that the winter solstice is behind us, we will start to see some of...