Cortes Currents

Max Thaysen/Cortes Currents - On today's Cortes Currents, we're exploring the concept of Conservation Planning. What is it, what's involved and why is it important.

Manda Aufochs Gillespie/ Folk U Fridays - On today’s Folk University Talk Show, Registered Therapeutic Counsellor, Hayley Newell shares with us a deeper scientific and practical understanding of play. By definition play serves no practical purpose. Yet, it is anything but valueless. It lays the foundation of a child’s cognitive development, contributes to their physical health, services an opportunity to work through traumatic experiences and develop emotional resources, and helps kids practice healthy social interactions. The brain doesn’t know the different between real and imagined experiences so play can set the foundation for a great deal of future development.

Manda Aufochs Gillespie/ Folk U Fridays - On today’s Folk University Talk Show, Registered Therapeutic Counsellor, Hayley Newell shares with us a deeper scientific and practical understanding of play. By definition play serves no practical purpose. Yet, it is anything but valueless. It lays the foundation of a child’s cognitive development, contributes to their physical health, services an opportunity to work through traumatic experiences and develop emotional resources, and helps kids practice healthy social interactions. The brain doesn’t know the different between real and imagined experiences so play can set the foundation for a great deal of future development.

Manda Aufochs Gillespie/Folk U Fridays - On June 5th at Folk U Talk Show, Karen Mahon Carrington talked about her climate hope: what it is and how it inspired a new organization and movement.

Manda Aufochs Gillespie/Folk U Fridays - On June 5th at Folk U Talk Show, Karen Mahon Carrington talked about her climate hope: what it is and how it inspired a new organization and movement.

Roy L Hales/CKTZ News - Cortes Island's 2018 Christmas Market Season kicked off at Gorge Hall on Saturday December 1, 2018. There were between 80 and 100 people at any given moment, but it is hard to get an aggregate number because this is also a social event where people go visit and enjoy the food.

Roy L Hales/CKTZ News - Cortes Island's 2018 Christmas Market Season kicked off at Gorge Hall on Saturday December 1, 2018. There were between 80 and 100 people at any given moment, but it is hard to get an aggregate number because this is also a social event where people go visit and enjoy the food.

Noba Anderson/ Cortes Virtual Community Meetings - The June 9, 2020, Cortes Virtual Community Meeting dealt with all things fire, The image is "Wind fire" by Robert Couse-Baker via Flickr (CC By SA, 2.0 License)

Noba Anderson/ Cortes Virtual Community Meetings - The June 9, 2020, Cortes Virtual Community Meeting dealt with all things fire, The image is "Wind fire" by Robert Couse-Baker via Flickr (CC By SA, 2.0 License)

Tara Warkentin/Cortes Currents - In this episode of Cortes Currents, I set out to learn what threats Cortes Island’s bees face. I speak to Sharon Figueira, an aspiring beekeeper, about the most ethical way of getting bees on Cortes. I seek out the advice of Tony Clark, to hear what he’s learned in his twenty-plus years of beekeeping on the island. We also delve deep into the world of fungi with Paul Stamets and find a surprising source of hope for our bees. Here are the four lessons I’ve learned from the bees, and their keepers: