The Community Farm Store Staff:

Nicolette:

Some of you might remember Nicolette from Glenora where she worked with the original owners Octavia and Christoff for almost three years. Returning to the store in 2004 felt like “coming home”. She was a little skeptical about the move from Glenora to downtown when it first happened but looking back she knows it was the best thing ever. “Our growth has been phenomenal,” she reflects, “and yet we still have that feeling of being a small country store community where everybody knows each other and all the staff are the best of friends. It’s like a work party with all your favorite people -- everyday!” 

Nicolette is a long time advocate of creating community and feels that places like the Duncan Garage are very important. “If you create the space, and the space is good, people will come. People need places to meet -- and to be met. The future of our planet depends on it. That’s what we (the CFS) are about.” Her passions (besides her three children Cara 21, Cyrus 18, Anisophia 13) includes going for walks, swimming in the ocean or the Cowichan River, potlucks, dances, good friends, neighbours, gardening and publishing the Farm Store newsletter. Nicolette’s background includes growing up in Calgary, Alberta. She studied at the Alberta College of Art, worked as a journalist and then operated her own printing, graphic design and publishing business for 10 years in Northern Alberta. She has been committed to health, organic food, community development, environmental issues and Waldorf education since her late teens. In Westlock she was the president and founder of the Westlock Environmental Society spending countless hours organizing, promoting and developing programs for recycling, reducing and reusing. In 1995 she sold her printing business and moved to Vancouver Island in 1995 so her children could attend the Sunrise Waldorf School. “I can’t imagine a better place in the world to live” she says. “I count my blessings everyday that I have been blessed with such a great life in such a beautiful place. I just don’t know how it could get any better than this.”

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