Salt Spring RE-Fest on April 25th is a joyful, hands-on celebration of community resilience and sustainable living. The festival brings together repair cafés, swaps, markets, workshops, and demonstrations that showcase the circular economy in action.

The Field Files series documents CARL project progress by engaging with different experts who have contributed to project work and publicly sharing their expertise and contributions. This will aid in future project replicability.

See our Educational Portal: Salt Spring Island’s Coastal Douglas fir (CDF) forests are part of a globally rare ecological zone found almost exclusively on BC’s south coast. These forests and associated ecosystems are critical to the health of island communities – watershed health and freshwater availability, resilience from drought, flood and fire, and mitigation of impacts of…

Trees are working for us! How do forests support our drinking water? When we protect forest cover and native plants, we preserve soil health and keep water where it lands.

A list of Common Native Plants for Sunny and Shady Garden Conditions

Invasive species are plants, animals and microbes that are not native to a region and that tend to out-compete native species for available resources. They often form dense populations and dominate ecosystems. After habitat loss, invasive species are considered to be the second greatest threat to global biological diversity.

Heat pump rebates, grants and loans are part of a climate-resilient future. Like many islanders, Sean Goddard is self-employed and a parent. Climate- and other home-based major maintenance and upgrades were out of reach while the kids were young. But, as his children are onto new horizons, he and his partner, who is also self-employed,…

Wildhaven and Transition Salt Spring have partnered to create an early eco-literacy nature immersion program on Salt Spring Island. This video shares from the first 6 months of our pilot project, which is a weekly hands-on immersion experience. We are focused on forest restoration and experimental regenerative methods on Hwmet’etsum and other ecological opportunities around…

On June 14th, 2023, a group of students from the homeschool group Wild Haven spent the day in the field with our lead scientist Ruth Waldick, restoration ecologist Grace Fields, and botanist/restoration ecologist Angeline Emmott. The students learned how to spot a healthy forest and how those characteristics can act as natural firebreaks. Toward the…

During the May Victoria Day long weekend, Transition Salt Spring’s Climate Adaptation Research Lab (CARL), together with restoration ecology students from UVIC, UBC, and the Gulf Islands Secondary School (GISS), worked on restoring the forest understory to create a fire-resistant environment and reduce wildfire risks on the island. The high school students were excited to…