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Joined:
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15/08/2011 |
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Last Updated:
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11/10/2011 |
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Location:
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Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada |
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Climate Zone:
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Cool Temperate |
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Gender:
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Female |
| P3 Permaculture Design Certification |
| Type: Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) course |
| Teacher: Graham Calder |
| Location: Antigonish, Nova Scotia |
| Date: Jul 2011 |
Teaching university students about local food and Permaculture
I am working with another woman to teach 10-12 students about local food. We meet for 2 hrs once a week during the four month course. Last night we introduced them to the concept of permaculture and also had them help at St. Mary's Community Garden wher
Introducing Permaculture to 25 middle school students
As part of my volunteer activities at the Fredericton food bank, I had the opportunity to speak to 25 middle-school students this morning about what permaculture is, and how we will be using permaculture design at the new location.
Mint under the apple tree
A neighbour was kind enough to pass along some mint for my garden. I put it under the apple tree. I am also waiting for some comfrey from someone else that I know and will put comfrey under each of the three fruit trees.
St. Mary's Garden Raised Beds
Am co-ordinating with the head gardener at St. Mary's to use hugelkulture on their new raised beds. We will innoculate new logs before we put them in the beds, and thus cultivate mushrooms as well as veggies. Work will be done May 27th. I will take pho
Driveway-to-hugelkulture raised bed conversion
Confiscated half the gravel driveway for my garden. Have created four raised-bed circles around a six foot circle. The raised beds will be dug out 30 cm and then hugelkultured. I've put the newspapers, cardboard, and logs in one, and am waiting on comp
Hazelnut Tree
Natasha gave me a nut tree when I visited her a few weeks ago, and I finally got it in the ground today. Step one to creation of an edible urban landscape. I also took the compost from the bottom of the composter and spread it over newspaper under m
Planting nut trees
Went to visit Natasha and she had some nut trees she wanted planted inbetween her apple trees. We planted 3 trees together.