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We need collective action, partnerships and mutual We need collective action, partnerships and mutual aid to make great positive changes in the world today. These photos of our permaculture earthworks project for a food program at Kakamgea School for the Deaf in 2019 which we established as part of our East Africa Permaculture Project team, illustrates the great feats that collective action and human power can achieve on the ground. It is a metaphor for what Refarmers achieved in our first official year in action thanks to our amazing partnerships. (The 2nd and 3rd photos are the swales doing their thing after the first big rainstorm and what the food forest looks like today) We could not have done any of what we did in 2020 without the support of our beautiful partner organizations! We are so grateful for all the game changing folks we got to meet and work with in 2020. Be sure to check out all their amazing work and give them a follow! These are the people who are changing the world! @abundant.earth.foundation and ED @hannahapricot Eckberg supported us in every way possible since the beginning of 2020. @seeds_of_tao gave us a platform to speak about our work on their podcast and have been there giving us moral support since we met them in the spring of 2020. Our friend Blake at Wylder Trees & @inkspoon_clothing provides our web-hosting and spent many hours teaching us all we needed to know about how to build our website. We were able to extend our social media reach thanks to the help of @humanswhogrowfood who posted a story about Refarmer MP and resulted in hundreds of new followers at the very beginning of our journey as an organization! That was such an amazing boost since so many of you became donors and we are eternally grateful for that! Our friends at @over_grow_the_system graciously share our content which is indescribably helpful and we are honoured to be a part of their work! @kiwassa Neighbourhood House have been our partners in planning a new food forest project in a public park in our Hastings-Sunrise/East Vancouver neighbourhood which we have yet to unveil. More to come soon! Continued in comments
These Ugandan Grandmothers play an integral role i These Ugandan Grandmothers play an integral role in the lives of their biological and adopted grandchildren by being the sole caretakers of up to 26 children. Learn more about our Grandmothers Kitchen Garden Project and the highlights of our first year in action in our most recent monthly e-newsletter. You can also find out about our upcoming events and stay in the loop about all things Refarmers by signing up for our once-a-month newsletter. We’ve included a few pics from our newsletter in this post to pique your interest! The link in our bio will bring you to our website where you can sign up in the footer of each page or use this link: https://mailchi.mp/4b9d326b8a58/good-growing-monthly-newsletter #monthlynewsletter #2020highlights #gardennews -#gardennewsletter #permaculturegarden #permaculture #grandmothers #grandmothersgarden #regeneration #generationregeneration #regenerativegardening
What an inaugural year! Refarmers really found its What an inaugural year! Refarmers really found its voice in 2020. The pandemic forced us to slow down and think small and local. We were just at the beginning of our journey as an organization only having registered as a Canadian Non-Profit at the end of January 2020 when everything suddenly came to a halt. We took this as a beautiful opportunity to ground ourselves exactly where we were and dig our roots deep in our own communities focusing our attention right at home. For some of our Refarmers, that home was in Kitgum, Uganda and for others it was in Hastings-Sunrise, Vancouver, Canada. Through this, we developed and are still exploring a new vision and approach for the future of our projects which is based on “scaling down”. Now, our work in East Africa and East Vancouver are united under one of the 12 permaculture principles “Use Small and Slow Solutions”. After walls went up in so many directions, we found out what it was to feel like we had all the time in the world. The changes freed us from indoctrinated pressures to succeed and we began to listen better to the community’s needs and our own needs. We had lost access to funding (so we thought!), we couldn't travel, so we took a deep breath and shelved our big dreams and just lived the moment which resulted in intentional, mindful and present actions like starting a seed library out of an intuitive sense to be of service which had huge ripple effects in many communities in Vancouver and Vancouver Island. In response to COVID-19 back in April, Patrick Paul Kidega our East Africa Project Manager and an unpaid volunteer, had the vision to create fifteen 10m x 3m kitchen gardens for the neediest families in his community. He wanted to practice his permaculture designs at the same time as providing some relief from impending food shortages and this humble small action turned into 103 kitchen gardens with positive impacts that directly improved the lives of over 1000 people! The Grandmothers Kitchen Garden Project was born and so was our exceptional Ugandan Refarmers team: John, Ali, Tommy, Milton, Lino, Jimmy, Alex and Sundaya. Continued in comments
This holiday season we are thinking about all the This holiday season we are thinking about all the beautiful people who found it in their hearts to support a young and new organization. You believed in us from the beginning of this challenging journey to make the world a better more connected and community oriented place through food growing. We appreciate your support more than words can say. You are now part of our Refarmily. The Grandmothers and their families and the entire REFARMERS team extend our warmest gratitude and wish you a love, compassion and equanimity in 2021.
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REFARMERS is a Canadian Registered Non-Profit Incorporation Number S0072619