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Javan In Courses, Earthworks, Food Forestry, Gardening, Health, Past Courses

Pawpaw: North America’s Tastiest Fruit

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Javan In Featured, Food Security, Gardening

Microgreens earn $600 a Week

Learn how to earn money by growing one of the easiest crops possible.

Javan In Property Design, Urban Planning

Help requested for the BC Permaculture Mapping Project!

We are looking for an individual with strong web development skills, including Javascript, PHP, HTML and CSS. Specifically, we are looking for a developer who is familiar with the Google Maps API, MarkerCluster and Wordpress.

Javan In Food Forestry

Reflections on Food Forester Richard Walker

“I am only interested in Excellence,” he declared. “We create a Food Forest with High Intent, and move forward with Skillful Execution. Skillful Execution; this is the fun part.”

Javan In Food Security, Quality Living

What is a Permacutlure Design Course to me?

Ask 10 people what Permaculture is, and you are likely to receive 10 different answers. You might get a similar variation when you ask what a PDC is. A PDC is a Permaculture Design Course, but it might also refer to a Permaculture Design Certificate, which participants receive upon completion of the course. For myself, the answer has changed over time.

Javan In Farming, Gardening

Asphalt and Asparagus: Growing food in the city with Curtis Stone

Busting up through the pavement like asparagus, over 80 people came out to listen and ask questions of Curtis Stone, a Kelowna urban SPIN farming.

Javan In Gardening, Health

It bled radioactive orange and came from the garden…

Warts.

Yup, that’s the start of this blog. Warts. Geez I wrote it again.

A good friend of mine this year relayed to me his conventional medical and unconventional journey of wart removal, nitro gylcerine to “freeze”, duct tape, a host of other attempts that I fear not to post here less someone attempt them as well.

His affliction was large and still is in a pretty visable spot, just under his right wrist. Not a lovely sight when first shaking hands.

Javan In Urban Planning

A Chemical Reaction: And a pretty amazing reaction from the crowd.

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When I was asked to go and speak on a panel after the showing of A Chemical Reaction in Saanich, not once but twice in one day I only had one question, “You want me to talk about lawns?”

A little bit of a redundant question I’ll admit but my philosophy about lawns has been largely “GET RID OF THEM”.

Suburbia schematics have “lawns” identified as “recovery zones” for automobiles. That’s right those areas of great input outside your home are classified as “recovery zones” in urban planning because of our focus on…. the automobile.

Between that and the fact that the maintenance, installation and industry of lawns is the second largest agriculture in North America (yea it’s seriously the second largest) I have no great love of a agriculture that requires huge amounts of time, energy, water, money and resources while yielding nothing I can eat, sell or otherwise use save for the two time I can remember actually laying down on my turf for recreation.

Javan In Food Forestry, Quality Living

What “An Evening with Richard Walker”!

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Permacutlure is the answer to the meaning of life.

Apparently the answer to the meaning of life isn’t 42, it’s 48.

48 inhabitants from Vancouver Island attended and we filled the rafters at Community Micro Lending on Douglas St on May 13th for An Evening with Food Forester Richard Walker. As we neared the start time people just continued to fill into the space making a cozy and intimate room of some of the premier food activist, gardeners, instructors and farmers in the area.

Javan In Farming, Quality Living

Creston farm living wants YOU!

front Every once in a while the email inbox offers up a gem.

In April I heard from two lovely people in Creston, BC who in their own words, “finally bought the old farm of our dreams.” Attached to their statement of their farm was a call for support, “Can you help us link up to hardworking, land yearning young couples who may want to try working with us on the land?”

Ummm, wow, and yeah I’ll do what I can.

Multiple emails later, images and conversations I’m please to present their request to you the potential hardworking, land yearning young couple(s) who are looking for land. Email permaculture