Love the Land

Welcome to Love the Land Adventures in Land Based Learning and Ethnoecology and the ways we can work together to continue good stewardship practices.

Love the Land Tour

Love the Land Adventures in Land Based Learning and Ethnoecology is a walking tour in the salnachiya (forest) of xwesam-stelkaya (Roberts Creek), the shared homeland of the Shishalh and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh peoples. This story starts with an introduction to these two potlatch tribes and their lands, waters and ways of living as an ecologically sustainable society.

We recognize that these people of the land have worked together in stewardship and management by collaborating and working by effective protocols for thousands of years. We will consider how this beautiful landscape faces climate change and loss of biodiversity and the effects of excessive/extractive harvesting and pollution.

As a generation we are in a unique position and opportunity to come together as a community, both indigenous and settler, to experience, inquire and learn the ethnoecology, of the place we call home.

Experience

Cultural focus: How different peoples living in different places relate to the ecosystems around them, and their ways of living as part of the environments they belong to.

Duration: 1.5 hrs

Guided tour: This experience includes an Indigenous cultural ambassador and may include Indigenous tea service.

Accessibility: This is a leisurely paced walking tour along paved sidewalk and gravel paths. Third Wheel can be provided when requested in advance.  Our company has access to one third wheel.  This would be required for parts of the trail where the gravel is a bit loose.

Rates

$85.00 Adult, $70.00 Child/Youth

  • GST applied at payment

Groups

  • 20 - 29 Guests $68.00/guest

  • 30+ Guests $63.75/guest

  • Address: 3110, Sunshine Coast Highway, Roberts Creek, BC (map)

Locations

“Just wow! I took copious notes. Her stories were fresh, traditional, uplifting, educational and I had no idea I’d be so enthralled! If you’re in Vancouver and Stanley Park is on your list, don’t miss this experience! You will be better for it.”
— Mavis, July 2023

What to bring

  • Good walking shoes

  • Layered clothing - dress for the weather

  • A water bottle on warm days

  • A water-resistant jacket on light rain days

We embrace all weather

  • If weather is extreme with respect to rain or wind we will contact you to reschedule your experience

Guest protocol

  • Tours start promptly

  • Arrive 15 minutes prior to tour start

  • Late guests or missed tours are not reimbursed

  • Individual booking cancellation: 48 hours notice prior to tour is required and a 20% administration fee applies

  • Group booking cancellation: 10 days notice prior to tour is required and a 20% administration fee applies

  • Cancellations with less than the required notice are 100% non-refundable

  • Explore the land through an Indigenous lens.

  • Indigenous owned and operated since 2002.

  • Love the Land.