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The Transformation of Our Urban Home
The Transformation of Our Urban Home
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Commenced:
01/09/2008
Submitted:
26/02/2011
Last updated:
07/10/2015
Location:
227 Fonda Way SE, Calgary, Alberta, CA
Website:
www.vergepermaculture.ca
Climate zone:
Cold Temperate





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Alicia Cheatwood Andrea Olson Ann Orr Ann Samuels B. Santifer R. Beckins McLean Blank Kimono Briana Lyon Bron(wyn) Elliott Christian Douglas Crystal Young Dan West Denise Grant Eoghan O'Driscoll Collins Flordeliza Harris Frank  Wolf Gail Calloway Geoff Capper Geoff Lawton Gordon Williams Hillary Farm Howard Story Jana Macanb Jay Strauss Jevin Barton Joakim Pettersson Jorge Crespo Kathy Bowing Kathy Parsons Kelly June Hutcheson Kenton Zerbin Khulthum Russell LÁszlo Wein Laurie J Sykes Lee Robertson Leslie Waldner Liam Phelan Lu Zhao Lynn DeVlieg Maddie Hoffmann Mari Korhonen Maria Svennbeck María Luz Cardozo Marie Jones Megan Bridge Misty Coruscate murat  çölkesen Mustafa Fatih Bakir Nick Huggins Nick Sikorski Nicola Chatham Nora Bouhaddada Paul Ciaramitaro Pete Blake Rene Michalak Ricardo Alwares Selena Fraut Starr Brainard Stephanie Ladwig-Cooper Stephen Koen Sven Horner Velvet Ginnis Wen Rolland Yone Ward

Photos of Verge HQ in 2011

Since Fall of 2008 we have been developing our urban homestead in the cold temperate climate of Calgary, AB, Canada. From the tricky chinook winds, to massive hail storms, to -30 or colder, there is a lot to take into consideration here.

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