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Hello Friends! It's been a while! As many of you k Hello Friends! It's been a while! As many of you know, we have been focusing on our project @vancouverurbanfoodforest for the past couple of years but now our Refarmers hiatus has come to an end and we are back with some exciting new projects! Our lead permaculture designer Brandon Bauer is back in the field in Kenya with local partners JB & Lillian from @practicalpermaculture_africa (PPIK). Here is the latest from Brandon, “We have finished the first project at Magarini Children’s Center. It was very successful!" Magarini is an orphanage and primary school of 350 children in southeastern Kenya near Malindi. “Originally our goal was to just rebuild the swales system I had developed in 2019. Our plan was to split the parents into workable groups of 5-10 so we could approach the project in a systematic fashion. However, after meeting with the local parents of the children at the center it became apparent that they, not only remembered working with me, but also wanted to be there every day. Partially because they had all been dependent on the water system I had installed in 2019, partially because we committed to teach them daily about permaculture practices, and lastly because of Lillian.” “Let me take this moment to discuss Lillian. Since 2019, when she was our cook on the Refarmers/PPIK project at Dream Farm in Uganda, she has become a powerful women’s empowerment activist. She has started a women’s empowerment collective that now spans 30 villages across Kenya, teaching permaculture to the women in those communities for economic sustainability and development. She has become an incredibly powerful voice for women in Kenya and Tanzania, including spending 3 months at Nashipay another permaculture project developed by PPIK in a Masai village and school. When she speaks the women just light up! So needless to say we had 20-30 parents working with us every day of the project, most of which are women. We were able to rebuild the swales in just 2 days, with 1 hour of classroom time per day. So we decided to move forward with garden bed building, but just between swales 1&2.” Continued in the comments…
Come share, exchange, borrow and take seeds in the Come share, exchange, borrow and take seeds in the traffic circle garden at Wall Street & Eton Street on the ancestral lands of Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) nations. Come meet your neighbours in the middle-of-the-street garden and build bridges bonding over food growing and seed sharing. If you are a new gardener, you are welcome. Come get some seeds to try out organic food growing on your balcony, windowsill or street garden! Once again, we have revamped our seed box/seed library after a year of enduring the west coast elements of heavy rain and climate change induced intense summer sun. Our cardboard seed box usually meets the end of it’s lifespan at this time of year. This time we replaced it with a plastic drawer found at the local second hand store and we feel this one may last a little while longer! We usually use eco-friendly materials but plastic passes the test when it’s second hand. Hope to see you soon you at the little seed box neighbours!
It's that time of year again members and friends! It's that time of year again members and friends! Mark your calendars for our Virtual Annual General Meeting, coming up on February 17th at 9am PST/12pm EST. Come spend an hour or so with us and find out what we've been up to from Refarmers MP and Patrick. Learn about Syntropic Agro-Forestry from Refarmer Dee Dee and we will open with some thoughts on Black History Month from Refarmer Charmaine. Message us here or send us an email at contact@refarmers.org if you would like to join us at the AGM. You don't need to be a member to attend but won't be able to participate in the voting. If you would like to become a member, go to the website link in our bio and it’s under the heading “Join” See you in a couple of weeks Refarmily!
The Refarmers team in Kitgum, Uganda has been teac The Refarmers team in Kitgum, Uganda has been teaching a course on "Integrated Syntropic Agro-Forestry and Backyard Gardening" to the grandmothers from our Grandmothers Kitchen Garden Project from 2020/21. This week they conducted field training after spending some time learning theory. They will implement fruit trees in the kitchen gardens we established in previous years, for fruit tree growing as a cash crop and give them another source of income as most of them still live in extreme poverty. If you would like to support this work, we can always use donations as the fruit trees have not been purchased yet. You can donate at https://refarmers.org/donate/ or at the link in our bio. Thank you so much friends! And thank you to @agroforestryrc for supporting the team from the beginning of this syntropic work and in implemeting the garden seen in the photos as a demonstration for future learning.
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