trendspotting by Susi McMillan | photography by www.nuttycake.com TASTES OF FIR Get ready for the host season. Convenient comfort foods for easy entertaining or soulful gift giving – some are made with the unique taste of local Douglas fir. Locally made on the Peninsula with a true sense of Canadian spirit. Yummy eh? Douglas […]
Trendspotting: Different Shades of Green
article by Barry Mathias | photography by Tafe Real Estate Services This attractive, recently built, 6,000-square-foot house is set back from the road with an expansive stamped concrete driveway in front, and is cleverly positioned in the middle of a gently sloping site on a quiet treed road in the Deep Cove area. “My wife,
Seaside Homes: Dream House for NHL Star
by Yvonne Bulk, Patio Gardens – So what about those home remedies and gardening tips? Are they true or false? Before tossing your coffee grinds and egg shells, give this article a read. Some of these tricks may not be scientifically proven (yet); however, many a gardener might swear by them anyway. Are your pots
West Coast Gardener: Gardening Tips & Tricks
by Krista Rossato, id8 Design – The past few months have brought record-breaking global temperatures, reaching milestones we were hoping to never see. As I read the news that the average temperature across the Northern Hemisphere reached a dangerous 2°C above the mark that had long been set as “normal,” I instantly thought about the
On Design: Cool It – The Warm Side of Design
by Doreen Marion Gee – The benefits to children of being active, moving and exercising go far beyond what experts could ever have imagined. “Physical Literacy” is as essential to the overall well-being of children as being academically literate. Nobody knows this better than the staff at Panorama Recreation Centre. A 2011 ground-breaking paper, Physical Activity,
Physical Literacy at Panorama Recreation
