Good Land Permaculture

Successful install of a permaculture food hedge at Cecilia Ravine Community Garden today, thanks to all the volunteers!

Had a great time at the Food Forest workshop in Ness Creek, thanks Hatchett and Seed!

Great Interview with Toby Heminway by Rob Avis of Verge Permaculture. Well done!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KDJ88rkwM8

Verge Permaculture interview w Toby Hemenway (Gaia's Garden) Rob Avis of Verge Permaculture interviews Toby Hemenway, author of Gaia's Garden.

Really looking forward to spending some time with Jill Dalton and the LifeCycles Project this Saturday - going to be co-facilitating the 'Planning your Food Garden' workshop at Northbrook Farm from 10am-12pm. For more info check outhttp://lifecyclesproject.ca/?action=initiatives_au_workshops

LifeCycles Project Society LifeCycles is a nonprofit organization dedicated to cultivating awareness and initiating action around food, health, and urban sustainability in the Greater Victoria community.

Click here to save bees - 24 hours left! Pesticides are killing bees and threatening our food supply. In 24 hours, shareholders at the biggest chemical producer, Bayer, could vote to stop their toxic production. Massive public pressure has forced this debate, now let’s make sure they vote to save the bees. Sign the emergency petition!

Good Land Permaculture loves Madrona Farms. We are going to transplant some of their comfrey to our apple trees soon. http://www.labocacenter.org/Projects/PermacultureDesign/Learning/OrchardSystems/AppleGuilds.aspx

Apple Guilds La Boca Center For Sustainability

Final Day to register for the Four Seasons Permaculture Course: April 13th. Sign up this week and permablitz your mind!

Good Land's Easter Dinner is in the slowcooker! Pork chops from the family farm (organic outdoor raised, h**p fed pigs), leeks from the garden, home-brewed Apple Cider, and a bay leaf from mom's tree. Happy Hopping!

Oh the wonders of Kale. At the Good Land, our favourite way to eat Kale is to tenderize it. Wash it, cut into bite size pieces, and put a little oil (we use Good Seed H**p Oil!), a little bit of apple cider vinegar or lemon (acid) and a bit of sea salt and then massage it all with your hands and wait 10 minutes to eat. The kale is tender and sweet! If you want to go more deluxe, you can add toasted walnuts, crumbled goat cheese, or anything else of your choosing. Yum.

Kale-evangelist ( and MG) Sharon Hanna provides more than eighty simple but superb recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks. Wilted Kale with Caramelized Parsnips, Pizzocheri Noodles with Greens and Fontina, Kale and Potato Torta and Kale in Coconut Milk with Salmon Candy will blow kale skeptics out of the kitchen. This garden-to-kitchen guide gives readers all they need to know to grow this super-sustainable crop organically—as edible landscaping, on balconies and boulevards. Best of all, learn how to teach kids to love kale—both growing and eating it—with inspiration derived from this author’s many years as an award-winning coordinator of an inner-city school garden program.

We are back from our amazing trip in Mexico and getting super excited about our upcoming Permaculture Design Certificate! Lots of interest so far - please remember to register so we know how many folks to plan for!

Came across this little ditty in our search for tropical composting tips. A little humour for all your permacomposters. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AerWF8HdvxI

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