Collective Space
166 Station Street V9L 1M7 Duncan, BC, Canada

After an excellent Legalize Community #1 Session, we are ready to do #2! Please join us by becoming a member at www.cowichanvalley.org and you get all past, present, and future events in this series. We will keep going as long as there is interest. At least 2 more workshops being planned at this moment! Sometime in March: Building Community on Stolen Land by Jared Qwustenuxun Williams Sometime in March: Marketing for Local Social Enterprise with Tad Hargrave... ... More to be announced!

Join us with Mark Lakeman and others to explore what it will take to legalize community and address some of the crises' around affordable housing, food security, ecosystem regeneration, and much more.

Hey Community! Seedy Saturday is moving online this year. Looks like some great workshops from the good folks at the CGC! Lets celebrate seeds and the returning of the light!

Hey folks! If you have a bird feeder, please take it down for at least two weeks! There is an outbreak of salmonella spreading across Vancouver Island right now, and lots of birds have been affected. "Pine siskins have come down from the northern forests in larger numbers than usual this year because of an insufficient cone crop in those forests to feed them. Some have salmonella and they are flocking in large numbers at people’s bird feeders, which is causing the salmonella to spread quickly among them because the disease is highly contagious among flocking birds, she said. There is a call for action (among the birding community) and people with bird feeders, including suet feeders, in the area should take them down for at least two weeks. Wildlife experts have assured the community that birds have enough food in the wild."

Official Video for We Need Each Other by Raamayan & Safiya Carroll Labelle produced by 3 Time Grammy Award Winner Chin Injeti Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/...track/6XLkbe8hG5oSZ5c9TzYEix This video was made out of the #WeNeedEachOther campaign, encouraging acts of love and kindness during the pandemic! We hope this video touches your heart in this important time, especially when so many people are at home alone. Right Now, We Need YOU!

All crisis leads back to the way we are with the land and water. There is an intersection where it all connects, and where we can heal this fracture in our humanity: Stewardship. We have failed in our duty as stewards of the land and waters of this planet, across the globe. We can see this with climate change, massive ecosystem collapse, escapism into technology, mental health crisis, affordable housing crisis, addictions crisis, stolen indigenous land crisis, food security ...Continue reading

We are failing our community, but we don't have to. We all know there is an affordable housing crisis. Yet, land stewards who allow tiny homes that fit in the landscape are evicted, while developers bulldoze and flatten entire ecosystems to build townhouses. We all know there is a food security crisis. Yet, farms are only allowed a "single family dwelling" or two at most; while most farms go to hay for horses, left unused, or grown with monocultures because that is the only ...Continue reading