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The first Syntropic Agro-Forestry Course took plac The first Syntropic Agro-Forestry Course took place in Kitgum, Uganda from September 13th - 19th with our team on the ground participating and Refarmers Project Manager Patrick Paul Kidega facilitating this inaugural free course for the community. Roland van Reenen came from Kenya to teach the course with help from Patrick and two other teachers from Kenya. Over 36 students attended, 11 of them were women! These students are school teachers and community organizers who will take these skills back and enhance the agricultural practices where they live and work. 15 of those students will be sponsored to train as teachers in a more advanced course coming up in October. Infinite thanks to our partner @abundant.earth.foundation for sponsoring this life-changing course and the upcoming teacher training. The area they developed for the hands-on training was one of the largest syntropic food forests that Roland has ever established measuring 20m x 60m. The students planted 220 trees including orange, mango, guava and neem as well as all sorts of vegetables like kale, eggplants, green peppers and local varieties like otigo diii, obuga, akeyo, malakwang and otigo lwaka. In the last photos you can see that within a week, the seeds have already sprouted and starting growing strong! Many of the students hope to start small businesses, become educators or continue their careers as teachers with a deeper knowledge of the importance of environmental protection and treating the soil with care so that it may produce an abundance of food for many generations to come.
Join us for Neighburhood Food Week! We've been bu Join us for Neighburhood Food Week! We've been busy planning this incredible event with our collective project @vancouverurbanfoodforest happening from September 20th to the 26th in Hastings-Sunrise, Vancouver Sḵwxw̱ ú7mesh (Squamish), xwməθkwəyə̓ m (Musqueam) and səli̓lwətaɁɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) territory. All the events are free and take place in local parks, community gardens, plazas and centres. The first incredible day is loaded with awesome sessions! Starting at 10am we have the Opening Ceremony with Elder Kat Norris and right after that a workshop on traditional and medicinal uses and preparation of Devil's Club with Gitxsan cultural facilitator Leona Brown. Then we have a workshop with Jim McLeod from @hives4humanity called To Bee(keep) or Not to Bee(keep). These three events are all happening in what is commonly referred to as Oxford Park at 2050 Wall St. Find out more by scrolling through the photos and register at vufff.org/foodweek or use the link in the @vancouverurbanfoodforest bio! Some of the events will be live-streamed on Facebook so be sure to check that out if you can’t attend in person! The @vancouverurbanfoodforest Facebook page has all the info in the events section. See you soon neighbours!
Even the smallest urban gardens benefit placemakin Even the smallest urban gardens benefit placemaking and enable people to leave their bubbles temporarily to experience a nurturing connection with the natural world that ultimately has the power to change the world ;) To paraphrase this inspiring quote by Buckminster Fuller, “Reform the environment and not the person; being absolutely confident that if you give people the right environment, they will behave favorably”, small changes can have huge ripple effects in the bigger picture. We’ve got a bunch of little urban gardens growing under the wing and unity of the queen of our gardens, the middle-of-the-street roundabout garden which we have been stewarding for 5 years now. She hosts the Wall St. Seed Library and many Indigenous plants that native pollinators love as well as a variety of perennial herbs, self seeding kale and collards…too many plants to name really! Rewilding and Re-Indigenizing the cityscape, regenerating health and sprinkling seeds of cultural change in our community is what these gardens cultivate above, beneath and beyond the concrete. A few meters up the street is our newest garden, our three sisters guerilla garden. The sign says it all so scroll through the pics to see how well this homage to Haudenoshonee companion planting garden is growing right now. The corn is getting taller by the day, some baby pumpkins are starting to form and we just planted the beans so there will be more updates to come! Then we have our other guerilla garden which is two years old and still learning how to grow food. Sometimes if a piece of land has only grown non-native grass for a long time, it needs a few years to harness the right microorganisms to be able to grow food properly. Thanks to our mentor, teacher and partner Brandon Bauer for sharing this important garden wisdom with us. And finally we have our community burlap sack gardens down the street which we’ve already featured so check them out in previous posts, they are amazing! We hope this will inspire you to take action today. Every little garden, sharing library or wildflower seed thrown in a sidewalk crack has the capacity to create big waves of systemic change.
“Education is the most powerful weapon you can u “Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world.” Nelson Mandela We use opportunities like our placemaking burlap sack garden demonstration in Vancouver’s East Village to plant a little seed of learning. We accompanied the sack gardens with some signs in reusable plastic sleeves to display our Burlap Sack Garden Step-by-Step Guide developed with @abundant.earth.foundation You can find out about all this and more in our monthly email newsletter which just went out. Check it out via the link in our bio or at refarmers.org/news/and be sure to sign up for this once-a-month update on all things Refarmers! . . . . . #seedoflearning #plantaseed #monthlynewsletter #junenews #eastvancouver #vancouvereastvillage #gardennews #sackgarden #burlapsack #growagarden #placemaking #placemakinggarden #urbangarden #tinygarden #tinygardenmovement #growchange #growcommunity #educationisaweapon
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