
A Brilliant Community Farm Rises from Brambles
Sechelt imports almost all its food. This Indigenous-led effort wants to show a better approach can take root.
From Alaska to California, people are creating successful enterprises that are low carbon, attuned to the ecology, locally rooted. They’re employing, training, producing, sustaining. Here you’ll find regular reports on what works for the economy we need.

Sechelt imports almost all its food. This Indigenous-led effort wants to show a better approach can take root.

How Skipper Otto and other community-supported fisheries are increasing transparency and providing quality seafood to members.

This BC-based vertical farm is growing fast. One reason: tariff and sovereignty threats to Canada.

Small Gods’ Saanich Peninsula-only lager shows what can be done in one small 33-kilometer stretch.

How Sisters Sage brings activism, entrepreneurship, and First Nations plant medicine into the bath.

An ingenious collaboration by shíshálh Nation and Renewal Development shows what can be done.

Saltwater Bakery, run by the Gitxaała Nation, embodies a holistic approach to economic development and community wellness.

Indigenous Habitat Institute founders explain using hemp to build healthier, climate-proof houses.

Searching for a meat substitute, this Vancouver company found one in the rootlike structure of mushrooms.

How the Klahoose converted a closed BC fishing lodge into a place to immerse in nature and culture.