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The Spring 2012 Edition of Soiled and Seeded is OUT!
Soiled and Seeded is an exciting collection of stories, inspiring community initiatives and urban projects well beyond our own backyards. Including broader issues of the environment, sustainability, food and our relationship to the natural world. www.soiledandseeded.com
Permaculture Design Certificate Course
Starting May 25 2012, a Permaculture Design Certificate course with a hands-on focus on Permaculture strategies for small organic farms. Hosted by the Richmond Sharing Farm.
Permaculture is applying ecological principles to human challenges, meeting our needs in ways that leave our environment and our communities healthier, more abundant, and more resilient than we found them. With topics from ecological gardening, Permaculture for small farms, and natural building to community food sovereignty, urban retrofitting, and soil and water conservation and remediation, this 72-hour course will combine classroom instruction with hands-on practica and real life design challenges on a working organic farm and community orchard.
12-Day Course: May 25 - 28 June 22-25 July 27-30
Tuition: $1000, scholarships and payment plans are available.
For more information, contact rin@
More info at Passionate Permaculture.
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The Compost Council of Canada is a national non-profit, member-driven organization with a charter to advocate and advance organics residuals recycling and compost use. It serves as the central resource and network for the compost industry in Canada and, through its members, contributes to the environmental sustainability of the communities in which they operate (learn more)
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