I’ve been reading about gardening stuff all week this week, so i thought i’d share a few things that i saw. This might all be old news to the experienced gardeners out there, but hopefully helpful to the newbies. My reading has focussed on composting lately, since i want to make some nice [...]
Hi all, i just got this email from the Environmental Youth Alliance (”EYA”).
It’s Seed Season!
EYA will be holding its 8th annual seed exchange on Saturday, April 19, 10-1 at the Strathcona Community Garden (corner of Prior and Hawks). Bring your favourite vegetable, herb, or flower seeds to swap with fellow gardeners from across [...]
Ok, so i’m totally new at this whole garden thing in practice, but i’m currently neck-deep in the search for a new house to live in, and my one big condition is that i have to have room in the yard for a garden. This is sorta phase one of the plan: actually get [...]
I’m currently reading “Energy and Equity” by Ivan Illich. In it, he’s discussing the idea that people who use more than a certain amount of per capita energy tend to be enslaved by the social relations that result from all the of infrastructure and centralized political power that delivers the ability to consume that [...]
Many thanks to christine for pointing out that the wonderful Saltspring Seeds has a Zero Mile Diet seed kit. I like the write-up so much, i’m just gonna repost it here:
This kit is for gardeners or groups of gardeners eager to become more self-reliant in food. The 12 seed packets contained in it are [...]
Just an update with a few interesting blogs and articles i’ve found lately, or that i’ve been re-reading.
Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog. some good stories and links about food security, etc.
Peace, Earth, and Justice News, based in Victoria.
Vancouver Community Gardens google group. There’s been talk of starting an “urban food growers coop” to facilitate increased [...]
This week SFU had a referendum to decide membership in the corrupt Canadian Federation of Students, and i just heard that it was a success. They needed a minimum of 5% of all students to vote, and ended up getting around 20%, plus they needed a simple majority of voters and they got 67%. [...]
I’ve been thinking about starting a local food diet, but it seems rather hard to find things at the store that are local. A lot of the organic stuff seems to come from the US, especially california (about +1500km away), and even most of the nonorganic stuff is from the US too. Some [...]
I went out tonight to a meeting of the Vancouver Public Space Network’s Greenspaces Committee. I met 7 very interesting and enthusiastic people and talked about green stuff with them. I wanted to hear about what they hoped to work on in the coming year, and i also wanted to pitch my ideas [...]
Many of the problems that we face today are kept alive by powerful groups that span boundaries and nations. Whenever there’s a turn towards a solution, we are hampered by large media conglomerates, huge corporations, international trade bodies such as the IMF and World Bank and other enforcement mechanisms such as those in NAFTA, [...]