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There is an audible and growing buzz in the region around growing a culture and economy nourished by good food. Everything is being re-examined about our current global food system.

The next time you dig into a baby green salad at Macan鈥檚 Pub at the Victoria Golf Club, you might notice the satisfying crunch of produce that has been grown just steps away, picked fresh that morning.

The arm of a backhoe reaches up and yanks down a chunk of steel and concrete, leaving only a skeleton of the grandstand from which crowds once cheered on the horses at the old Sandown race track in North Saanich.

Ty James picks a hearty mustard green from a pot of soil on his two-acre farm in Saanich鈥檚 Interurban area, on a street aptly named Spring Road.

Maybe this is what it felt like when the Berlin Wall fell. 鈥淚s it true, Heinz, is it open?鈥� 鈥淛a, you go first.鈥� No point sticking one鈥檚 neck out.

Shar Wilson was full of excitement when she heard that the Songhees Innovation Centre was gathering steam.

On Jan. 19, Premier John Horgan announced $10 million for improvements on the road to Sooke, and promised more to come. There are dozens of roads around sa国际传媒

A Central Saanich farm鈥檚 decision to grow marijuana on a mass scale creates flashpoint as legal pot looms

BIRTHDAY TUESDAY: Authority figures of one sort or another will at times give you a hard time over the next 12 months but you are not the sort to buckle under pressure.

BIRTHDAY MONDAY: Venus, your ruler, links with Neptune, planet of spirituality, on your birthday this year, which means you will be inclined to look for the good in people rather than the bad. That's great but stay in touch with reality too.