Food Systems | December 15, 2020
A Foraged Feast 2020
2020 brought with it an intensified desire for food security and for connection to…
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The Nuts’a’maat Forage Forest is an ecocultural restoration project that reimagines the relationships we can have with damaged ecologies and with one another. It is a shared space where we are restoring and cultivating native species that provide us with a diversity of important foods and medicines.
Learn more about this long-term collaboration with members of the Penelakut First Nation to grow traditional foods and medicines.
The Food Forest is a multi-layered diverse garden in which every plant serves several interconnected purposes. The plants are chosen for food production, nitrogen-fixing, creating mulch for soil building, and feeding pollinators. In an effort to mimic a natural forest, the plants are grown in various layers, including: canopy, shrub, herbaceous layer, vining layer, root layer, and ground cover. Compared to conventional farming, a Food Forest needs fewer inputs – including time, water and fertilizer – in order to sustainably produce food and other products.
We grow and sell a variety of trees, shrubs and plants that you can find in our Food Forest. Visit the nursery at the Millard Learning Centre during business hours to purchase edible plants for your own gardening, naturescaping, and permaculture projects.
We produce foods, teas, salts, salves, seeds, and garden starts from our forest gardens. These products can be found at our office and at local markets.
Our Forest Garden Tea is produced from herbs that we harvest at peak ripeness, then dry, blend and package on-site throughout the seasons.
We have a lovely selection of gifts, such as handmade custom Conservancy coffee mugs, organic garden salves, prints and apparel.
We harvest in-season produce such as greens, herbs, edible flowers, root vegetables and berries regularly in order to supply local restaurants and caterers with a diversity of locally adapted crops.
Check out our latest posts on what’s happening with our sustainably harvested foods on Galiano Island and beyond.
2020 brought with it an intensified desire for food security and for connection to…
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Last year’s harvest for our blog took place in the aftermath of a snowstorm….
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