The Salt Spring Island Conservancy (SSIC) was formed to help the community preserve natural habitats on Salt Spring Island and in surrounding waters. Its core functions are acquiring and managing ecologically valuable land, holding conservation covenants, helping landowners become good land stewards, and public education. Since 1995, the SSIC has helped buy or protect over 3400 acres on Salt Spring Island.

The Tuesday market on Salt Spring Island is a condensed food-only version of their popular Saturday market. It specializes in authentic, local, fresh and seasonal products including a range of vegetables, fruits, meat, eggs, herbs, nuts, flowers, cheese, baked goods, vinegars, jams and more. The market aims to inspire the community to embrace a local food culture that stewards land, nourishes people and honours farmers.

Open Tuesdays, 2:00pm to 6:00pm, June through to the last Tuesday in October.

The Ganges Harbour Wastewater Treatment Plant discharges secondary treated and disinfected wastewater into Ganges Harbour through a 4.8-kilometre outfall at a depth of about 16 metres below sea level.

The Strait of Georgia Central VENUS Instrument Platform (VIP) is the star of the Strait of Georgia Deep Observatory. It hosts sensors measuring marine life and processes that occur in the deep centre of the Straight of Georgia. The VIP is part of the VENUS Observatory, a cabled undersea laboratory for ocean researchers and explorers.

An exciting and unique forensic experiment has been underway since 2006 in the VENUS observatory, a cabled undersea laboratory for ocean researchers and explorers. The forensic experiment, led by Dr. Gail Anderson and Dr. Lynne Bell from Simon Fraser University, uses pig carcasses to try to understand what happens to a body in the ocean. The experiment studies both the decompositional patterns and rates, as well as the marks left by scavengers, in human death investigations.