Salt Spring Island · opening soon
Skills, tools, knowledge and time, lent and traded between neighbours. Much of what the island needs is already here, on somebody's porch or in somebody's head. No commission, ever. Folk.Share opens once the first islanders are in, and everything on this page is an example of how it will work.
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Crossing the water
Say where you are going and when, and whether there is a seat or boot space. Or say what needs to come back from Duncan, Sidney or the hospital pharmacy, and who is allowed to collect it. Fuel and ferry are settled between you.
Looked for something and found nothing? We keep a list of searches with no results, and it is what we ask founding members to fill.
Short posts from members and organisations with something on offer. One is pinned by the editor, one is the newest, one is getting attention this week, and the authors rotate. Nothing here is a ranking.
Fulford · Saturday 26 September, 9 am
A morning clearing brambles and pruning the old trees behind the hall. Lunch provided. Bring gloves.
Still looking for
| 6 volunteers | 4 of 6 |
| 2 wheelbarrows | Found |
| 1 trailer | 0 of 1 |
| Someone with pruning experience | Found |
Offered freely, gifted, or available to borrow.
Exchange a skill, a thing, or your time.
Work together without defining the money first.
A thing rented, a skill hired. Arranged between you.
Say what you need. You need not offer anything first.
Founding members
Folk.Share starts with the people who put themselves forward now: what they can lend, what they know, and one thing they need, so the board is worth reading on its first day. Only your first name, a surname initial and your general area are ever shown. Folk.Share is community infrastructure: if it proves useful it will be kept going by donations, an annual drive and sponsors who support it and do not control it.
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Acknowledgement
Folk.Share is made on the unceded territories of the Hul’q’umi’num’ and SENĆOŦEN speaking peoples, who have lived with this island since time immemorial.
In Hul’q’umi’num’ the island is Hwtl’elhum, place of salt. Salt Spring is a translation of it, so the English name on the ferry timetable is the older name in another language. Our map can be switched to the names we have been able to verify, and it says plainly which ones we have not.
The names we do show come from the Salt Spring Island Archives placenames project, compiled by Chris Arnett with named Elders, and from the BC Parks management plans for Burgoyne Bay and Mount Maxwell. Every SENĆOŦEN name is missing on purpose: the fullest source draws its underlined letters as decoration rather than the real characters, so there is no correct spelling to copy, and we would rather show nothing than show a name spelled wrong.
None of these names has been asked for yet. They are shown here as a draft, so we can work out how the map should carry them, and nothing goes further until the nations have been asked.
On Salt Spring the precedent is that a name is gifted by Language Keepers rather than lifted from a source. Before Folk.Share is real, that is the conversation to have.
Organised by Marguerite L.