Healthy lands and waters – the foundation for a healthy community.
In May of 2024, BC Parks Foundation, in collaboration with the Metchosin Foundation, announced the creation of a nature reserve in the heart of the Bilston Creek watershed. This newly protected land includes dry Coastal Douglas-fir forest and associated ecosystems. “This is a story about natural spaces and wildlife that are facing big odds, and the great people that are saving them,” says Andy Da ...
We are pleased to release the 2023 edition of the Metchosin Foundation newsletter, containing updates on our many activities over the past year and ongoing projects. Please download and share!
The Metchosin Foundation is excited to announce the launch of the Bilston Conservation Corridor Project, a collaborative effort to protect ecosystems from Metchosin's hilltop headwaters to Witty's Lagoon. Click here to learn more!
by Valerie Jaeger Water Always Wins was the title of the keynote presentation at the Metchosin Foundation’s AGM on September 7th. Erica Gies, author of the bestselling book by the same name, gave a talk at once sobering yet hopeful, spiritual yet practical and always enthralling. While the vision of the Metchosin Foundation is ‘Healthy lands and waters – the foundation for a healthy commun ...
The Metchosin Foundation and the Metchosin ArtPod have collaborated again to produce the latest in our series of nature-inspired art cards, this one featuring common local mushrooms! The 2022 Mushroom Art Card set features the artwork of local artists and field guide descriptions by our local authors of the new book Mushrooms of British Columbia -- Kem Luther and Andy MacKinnon! The Mushroo ...