Picture this, it is mid-summer, you are travelling around Campbellton NB, or were you live, and everywhere you look there are plants growing. Local parks have fruit trees and berry bushes, front and backyards are growing, vegetables, herbs and flowers.
Even along the sidewalks there are pots filled with herbs. All vacant lots and spaces have been planted with bright, beautiful, bounty.
There are butterflies floating from plant to plant, bees are buzzing and birds serenading you. the air is filled with a gentle but uplifting fragrance.
Friday, January 23, 2015
Wednesday, January 21, 2015
Why I Volunteer
Volunteering is a giving, growing, learning, sharing and receiving opportunity. I also see volunteering as an opportunity to apply and sharpen my permaculture design skills while helping to build a resilient community.
The Restigouche Community Inclusion Network (RCIN) is a provincial (New Brunswick) not-for-profit organization with the mission of improving the quality of life for people living on a low income.
I am a founding member of this organization and its current President. I have one more year in my mandate as President and have begun to tutor my replacement.
The RCIN has built community gardens throughout our region and is developing with the participation of those gardens a cooperative so they can work together for mutual benefit. RCIN has also started school gardens and the schools are incorproating into the lessons plans, lessons from the garden.
This is work that gratifies, satisfies and enlightens me. I work with committed, enthused and knowledgeable people and this energizes me. This is only part of my reasons for volunteering my professionals services.
The Restigouche Community Inclusion Network (RCIN) is a provincial (New Brunswick) not-for-profit organization with the mission of improving the quality of life for people living on a low income.
I am a founding member of this organization and its current President. I have one more year in my mandate as President and have begun to tutor my replacement.
The RCIN has built community gardens throughout our region and is developing with the participation of those gardens a cooperative so they can work together for mutual benefit. RCIN has also started school gardens and the schools are incorproating into the lessons plans, lessons from the garden.
This is work that gratifies, satisfies and enlightens me. I work with committed, enthused and knowledgeable people and this energizes me. This is only part of my reasons for volunteering my professionals services.
Tuesday, January 20, 2015
What is Enough?
The dictionary define enough as:
adjective pronoun adverb
1.
adequate for the want or need; sufficient for the
purpose or to satisfy desire:
enough water; noise enough to wake the dead.
2.
an adequate quantity or number; sufficiency.
3.
in a quantity or degree that answers a purpose or satisfies a need ordesire; sufficiently.
How do you know when you have enough?
Permaculture Books
My personal library contains a number of excellent books about permaculture and related methodologies. I will, about once a week, talk about a book from my library, not a review so much, but a short note of why I feel the book needs to be read.
However, before I get to the books, I want to talk about a magazine, one that is also a source of excellent books and other great items, Permaculture Magazine. I just recently resubscribed, having been a subscriber several years back, but was moving around and did not get to renew, my mistake.
Permaculture Magazine is published by Permanent Publications in the United Kingdom. Editor Maddy Harland gets the mind working with each issue in her editorial. I could tell you more about Maddy but subscribe to the magazine and find out for yourself.
Each issue contains practical information suitable for anyone who wants to know more about sustainable living and permaculture. issue 82, Winter 2014 contains articles such as Guerrilla Recycling- repairing the unrepairable and Build Your Own raised Beds, for free.
Do not wait drop by the website now and check out this excellent resource.
However, before I get to the books, I want to talk about a magazine, one that is also a source of excellent books and other great items, Permaculture Magazine. I just recently resubscribed, having been a subscriber several years back, but was moving around and did not get to renew, my mistake.
Permaculture Magazine is published by Permanent Publications in the United Kingdom. Editor Maddy Harland gets the mind working with each issue in her editorial. I could tell you more about Maddy but subscribe to the magazine and find out for yourself.
Each issue contains practical information suitable for anyone who wants to know more about sustainable living and permaculture. issue 82, Winter 2014 contains articles such as Guerrilla Recycling- repairing the unrepairable and Build Your Own raised Beds, for free.
Do not wait drop by the website now and check out this excellent resource.
Saturday, January 17, 2015
Local Workshops
I will be conducting tow workshops later this year in March and April. The first will be on the topic: How to maximize your garden yield. The second, on creating a mandala garden. Both workshops will take place at the Campbellton Centennial Library.
Stay connected for dates and times.
Stay connected for dates and times.
Next Article: The Organic Lawn
"Picture
children rolling in the grass and then ask yourself why would anyone
apply synthetic chemicals or perhaps any type of chemical to an area
that is so well used and enjoyed?
The
first step in going synthetic chemical free is to determine what uses
the back yard serves, i.e. what does your family do there?"
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