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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.
Happy Holidays Refarmily! Our latest newsletter Happy Holidays Refarmily! Our latest newsletter just went out. You can view this season’s updates at this link https://mailchi.mp/f233c3886eef/happy-solstice-holidays-new-year or you can click the website link in our bio and go to “News” in the menu bar. It's been 3 months since Refarmer Patrick Paul Kidega and Roland Van Reenen from @abundant.earth.foundation hosted the first free Syntropic Agro-Forestry Course in Kitgum, Uganda. The fruits and vegetables are growing incredibly well! Corn, watermelon, all kinds of greens, peppers, cucumbers and so much more are already being harvested by the children at the school where the demonstration food forest is located and also by community members. We also wanted to highlight Refarmer Patrick's own demonstration food forest at his home. He invites neighbours to come harvest bananas, papayayas, greens, ground nuts and so much more from their garden. Community members are encouraged to learn from the demonstration kitchen garden to emulate in their own gardens. Enhancing soil health using compost and manure, planting a diversity of crops, harvesting water and many more skills are shared from Patrick's home garden and are making an impact in his community. Real change happens at the community level and is driven by community members themsleves. Patrick's efforts are a true testament to what can be done when communities come together to be the drivers of their own change on their own terms without resources, financial or otherwise, coming from outside of their own community. Thank you for all your love and support in 2021 friends! See you in the New Year!
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We operate on the unceded, traditional and ancestral territory of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) and sə̓lílwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.

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