Abkhazi Garden Relaxing afternoon stroll. The Abkhazi Garden is a heritage home and garden. This charming garden is a love story between Prince and Princess Abkhazi who began building the garden in 1946 and continued to do so for 40 more years. After their deaths the Garden changed hands, and in February 2000, The [...]
The past week I had the amazing opportunity to participate in covenant monitoring at the Howard Horel Nature Reserve on Salt Spring Island with TLC's Covenant Coordinator Larissa Bron, Salt Spring Island Conservancy's (SSIC) Land Manager Rachel Bevington, and SSIC Volunteer Warden Keers Ruurs. This was my first covenant monitoring experience, and I had [...]
A new nature reserve--a forested 62-acre area near Ford Lake, including small streams flowing into the headwaters of Fulford Creek--is now in the hands of the Salt Spring Island Conservancy. The Howard Horel Nature Reserve has been created largely thanks to a generous anonymous donor, with some grant support from Environment and Climate Change Canada [...]