More gorgeous weather this November in our gardens. We soak up the sun and keep busy with winter preparations. One of our yearly...

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

Our students have returned and the Garden Clubs have begun! We were all excited to see the many surprises that grew in our absence. A...

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...

With the return of warmer weather - we are being positive, our students have been eager to get out and share in gardening experiences....

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...

Gardening can be a bit dirty but well worth it. During the month of March the students were busy bees learning - yes, soil is alive! Our...

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

February was a time of great sunshine and very little rain in our gardens. We are so grateful to have received two water catchments from...

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...

We have been so excited to return to our gardens after Christmas; curious to see what our kale, arugula, mustard greens, romaine,...

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...

November was a wet and chilly month. We had so much fun exploring, learning and playing in the gardens, undercover area and life skills...

We've had a busy October at our Food Forest with over sixty two students and 5 elders participating in our programs weekly! We harvested...

Happy Fall Harvest from the Wickaninnish Community School Food Forest! Back to School Our students have returned, garden clubs have begun...