Prince Edward Island Stay With Us

06/01/2024

So we know costs for everything has gone crazy, so this year we opened early and tried offering pre-season discounts and two night stays. We are amazed at the amount of people including islanders loving our place. To see availability and prices you can check us out on Airbnb or Vrbo.

Vrbo:

https://www.vrbo.com/en-ca/cottage-rental/p3491298vb?dateless=true

https://www.vrbo.com/en-ca/cottage-rental/p3491250vb?dateless=true

https://www.vrbo.com/en-ca/cottage-rental/p9847876?dateless=true

Airbnb:

https://www.airbnb.ca/hosting/listings/editor/881906445126871251/details/photo-tour

https://www.airbnb.ca/hosting/listings/editor/883480230015193157/details/photo-tour

https://www.airbnb.ca/hosting/listings/editor/883480230015193157/details/photo-tour

04/01/2024

Sun and Ice, PEI

04/01/2024

Some images of this year’s ice storm

02/17/2024

02/17/2024

North Rustico Harbour February Day

02/15/2024

Discounted Park Pass

It is early yet, but remember that Parks Canada offers an early bird pass at reduced rates. Typically the pass goes on sale April 1st to June 15th. As an example the early bird family pass is $54. 50 versus $87.25 at least that is what is shown as of this posting date.

https://parks.canada.ca/pn-np/pe/pei-ipe/visit/tarifs-fees

02/15/2024

Sustainable or just eco-fake?

Recently I was asked what makes us or something sustainable or “Eco?”.
In response I went on to list some of the things we practice on our site, that I felt distinguishes us.

Our aquaponics garden, that has been operating for several years
Rainwater catchment tanks, that we use for watering our gardens and trees.
A clothesline used to dry our laundry from the cottages. The passive solar house built with recycled tires, or the timber frame cottages built from local harvested lumber, orchards gardens etc...

As I reviewed our efforts, I felt reasonably confident of our differentiation. But still I wondered how I could better defend the question of sustainability? Maybe it was time to re-review what sustainability really is? To do this I started looking on the net for accepted definitions.

Sustainability:
“meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.” (United Nations Brundtland Commission)

Sustainability:
"relating to, or being a method of harvesting or using a resource so that the resource is not depleted or permanently damaged" "relating to a lifestyle involving the use of sustainable methods" (Merriam-Webster Dictionary)

Sustainable development: a moral precept as well as a scientific concept. It is closely linked to peace, human rights, and equity as much as to ecology or global warming. And if it obviously concerns the natural sciences, economics, and politics, it is also a cultural issue. Founded on the values particular to one society or another… (UNESCO)

Sustainable development: development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.” (The International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)

An image available throughout the internet shows three interconnected circles with sustainability reached where all three circles overlap. What is unique about this image and definition is the inclusion of economic. To be sustainable a practice or policy needs to be economically feasible. Economics and money has always been the "dirty words" in sustainability. But if you go hungry or broke being green are you truly sustainable?

Do I have a conclusion, or answer to being sustainable, probably not. If large international organizations don't seem to agree on a definition how can we? But I do know that being sustainable can come in many forms from national to community to corporate to individual.
A single parent struggling to find healthy food is not going to approach sustainability the same as government or large corporation. I think that we can make a difference based on both individual and group efforts and decisions. That is probably my answer if asked again we are trying, we are improving each year, and we love what we do and feel good about most of our decisions and yes we are not perfect.

06/05/2022

Early morning island walk, apple blossoms and morning sunrise

10/26/2021

An island fall sunrise, so very red. The images are not edited, it really was this brilliant.

09/18/2021

Harvesting Oysters with Rakes

09/05/2021

Another Brackley Beach sunset

09/05/2021

Taking time to listen to the magic of the ocean -PEI

05/30/2021

Cherry blossoms on PEI