All Blog Posts Tagged 'gardening' (3)

[ permablitz 101 ]

 

permaculture + blitz (german for lightning)

 

the idea is that a community member who wants to have their property, or some community space, permablitzed works out a design and prepares all the materials that will be necessary in advance. a date for the blitz is set and other community members are contacted to join in the…

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The success of urban farming might be in the details. Achieving a safe, environmentally
healthy and socially acceptable kind of urban farming requires re-designing agriculture to
address its current side effects. Some technologies, currently in development, could revolutionize agriculture

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June 21-27 is International Pollinator Week. We need pollinating animals in order for our plant cycle to continue naturally. Maybe we could each promise to buy a bee-, bird-, butterfly- and/or bat-friendly plant or flower and plant it that week. I am planning on contacting Friends of Dufferin Grove to ask if we could perhaps have an area to plant flowers with kids/ anyone who is interested. Anyone interested, contact me at jen.crinion@gmail.com