Iyé Blog

📷: Mohanned Ghadban What an enchanting evening filled with boundless joy and heartwarming reciprocity! 🌟 We stand together as a mighty...

People of all ages fill bags with freshly picked fruit and vegetables from within the local region…for which they haven’t exchanged any...

Getting out of our comfort zone and doing art in community 🌈✨🎨 Recently, as part of our Palenke Seniors Program, we hosted an...

In a world filled with fad diets and conflicting nutritional advice, the concept of "primal nutrition" brings us back to our roots, to...

Food has a remarkable ability to bring people together, fostering connections, and creating shared experiences. In a recent workshop on...

📣 Exciting News! 🌱✨ We are thrilled to announce our new Accessibility Plan, aimed at fostering inclusivity and amplifying the voices of...

Check out our latest adventure! We were invited by the Victoria Foundation and Power to Be to host our La Caldosa, Palenke Experience for...

Hey there Palenke Greens lovers 🙂 We're stoked to announce that Palenke Greens is back and better than ever! Our recent workshop was an...

The Transgressing Barriers: Care as a Transformative Practice workshop was incredible! It was all about care and how we envision...

Our recent Productive Gardening at Home workshop was a blast! 🪴 We gathered 18 extraordinary folks of all ages and experiences, to learn...

Black People in Victoria Impacting our Local Food System The role of Black people and their communities in Canada has largely been...

Recently, we at Iyé hosted a gathering to connect with our local small-scale farmers, to meet each other, eat some good food together,...

Growing relationships Building community Shifting narratives Stoked about this collaboration- between us at Iyé Creative, the farmer...

"This work is not about any one of us in particular - it’s about the relationships that are formed and the impacts that emerge when we...

"Growing food is about so much more than simply watering plants. It's a place-based learning opportunity in which they understand to care...

Ata Uto Begá “See you soon” Bembele said in his Palenke language to Zylo, Mama Iyé, and I. I was excited and scared to visit San Basilio...

"...community connections and caring, like-minded people discussing possible solutions are exactly the medicine our world needs. " Since...

Hello readers, For those of you who have not met me, my name is Eric Buhne. I’ve been working with the team at Iyé for a couple of months...