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Our monthly e-newsletter just went out! Find out Our monthly e-newsletter just went out! Find out about all the amazing things that go on each month at Refarmers and stay in the loop about upcoming events! Our seed library at Wall & Eton in Vancouver is getting a lot of attention these days, our Tiny Gardens contest with @abundant.earth.foundation is on until June 20th, we opened up another Village Savings & Loans Association (VSLA) women’s group in Kitgum, Uganda and lots more news! This month's newsletter is available at the link in our bio or refarmers.org/news/ and also at this link where you can subscribe at the top left corner: https://mailchi.mp/f60d3e48e4ea/april-news . . . . . #seedlibrary #shareseeds #eastvan #eastvancouver #monthlynewsletter #aprilnews #gardenstories #urbanagriculture #growfoodeverywhere #regeneration #growcommunity
Foodscaping! You don’t need very much space or a Foodscaping! You don’t need very much space or an ideal location to grow food! On either side of this driveway we are growing rhubarb, potatoes, hazelnuts, apples and plums. As with mostly anywhere in Vancouver, the invasive but delicious and nutritious Himalayan blackberry is also rampantly growing here. This is a wonderful example of low maintenance perennial gardening (other than the potatoes which are grown as annuals but we just threw them in there without too much care and last year we had an amazing crop!) Try foodscaping or guerrilla gardening in your area or around your building! Most people won't even notice you have food growing there and when they do they are totally in awe and usually inspired! Of course, you should be careful of pesticide use by landscapers and other contaminants that could be found in the soil but for the most part, the food you’ll grow in these urban areas is much healthier than anything you’ll find at a conventional grocery store.
Celebrate Earth Day with a Tiny Garden Contest! Celebrate Earth Day with a Tiny Garden Contest! Enter 2 pictures or a video of you creating your Tiny Garden between April 22 to June 20, 2021, for a chance to win $300 (USD)! Visit www.tiny-gardens.org/contest for entry rules! Swipe through to see examples of Tiny Gardens in this post and view the event poster. The first photo is courtesy of our incredible friends @iye.herstories as part of their Palenke Greens Burlap Sack Garden Initiative in Victoria, BC! This new Tiny Gardens initiative and the contest is sponsored by our friends at @abundant.earth.foundation & @refarmers ! Please share widely!
“This is how our grandmothers are maintaining th “This is how our grandmothers are maintaining their gardens! As you can see we have reason to strongly believe that we are on the right channel!" - Patrick Paul Project Manager Patrick Paul Kidega has been visiting the grandmother gardeners from our Grandmothers Kitchen Garden Project. He regularly visits them as all 100 plus families are some of his neighbours in the village where he lives. The difference now is that the rainy season has started and many of them have begun planting and renewing their gardens again all on their own. After the initial garden installation, they are financially independent, have saved seeds, made compost and revamped their gardens for this upcoming growing season! Some have expanded their gardens and many are now running small food related businesses having joined forces with other women gardeners in our new VSLA (Village Savings & Loans Assocaition) initiative to amplify their efforts. We are so proud of this incredible community based project where the community are the drivers of their own change co-creating a project that fits their specific needs and speaks to their unique challenges. The women elders and youth changemakers together are changing the world through food growing!
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