Archive for July 2011

At the End of September I am going to take a Forest Garden Design Intensive course in Nashville Tenessee. This course is taught by Dave Jacke. Dave Jacke co-authored the premier book on cold-climate forest gardening.

For the last few years Tim and I have been working hard to learn and create forest gardens here at All Sorts Acre. Forest gardening is a new type of gardening in cold climate areas. In many ways it is more challenging than in warmer climates. That is why I am going to learn from the man that wrote the books on the subject, literally.

As you can imagine these courses are expensive and rare. In an effort to raise money for the course and flight down to take Dave Jacke's course I have created a Food Forest CSA.

The shares range from $10 - $315 and offer a number of different items.

CLICK HERE TO FIND OUT WHAT IT IS!

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 If you don't want to become a member of the Food Forest CSA, then please consider donating to help us bring this knowledge here to southern Ontario!

I found this on Facebook. I have sent an e-mail in a small effort to do something about it. You should too.

The Indonesian rainforest is being destroyed. Iconic species such as the Sumatran tiger, (400 left in the wild) and the Orangutan, are being wiped out at an alarming rate.

You know why?

So we can have soft, fluffy toilet paper.

Even if you don't shop at IGA, or buy their brands, don't be fooled. Name brand NON-RECYCLED toilet paper is a huge industry.

It is destroying our forests both around the world and here in Canada. Surely we can all switch to recycled toilet paper. PLEASE!!!

This video is disturbing. It show a Sumatran tiger slowly dying due to a snare trap. Take notice, this is so we can to wipe our behinds softly.

By MICHAEL TORTORELLO  of the New York Times

Published: July 27, 2011

AS a way to save the world, digging a ditch next to a hillock of sheep dung would seem to be a modest start. Granted, the ditch was not just a ditch. It was meant to be a “swale,” an earthwork for slowing the flow of water down a slope on a hobby farm in western Wisconsin.

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Permies at Work

And the trenchers, far from being day laborers, had paid $1,300 to $1,500 for the privilege of working their spades on a cement-skied Tuesday morning in late June.

Fourteen of us had assembled to learn permaculture, a simple system for designing sustainable human settlements, restoring soil, planting year-round food landscapes, conserving water, redirecting the waste stream, forming more companionable communities and, if everything went according to plan, turning the earth’s looming resource crisis into a new age of happiness.

It was going to have to be a pretty awesome ditch.

That was the sense I took away from auditing four days of a weeklong Permaculture Design Certificate course led by Wayne Weiseman, 58, the director of the Permaculture Project, in Carbondale, Ill.

The movement’s founders, Bill Mollison and David Holmgren, coined the term permaculture in the mid-1970s, as a portmanteau of permanent agriculture and permanent culture.

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