Message from the President The Edmonton Permaculture Guild and our Board of Directors would like to thank you for supporting our annual Resilience Festival. This year’s event explores what it means to weave the threads of our communities into a resilient fabric. Resilience is a wonderful metaphor. It expresses in a single word the qualities […]
Resilience? It Depends
Contributed by John Freebury Too often I am so preoccupied with crossing the river that I never think to examine the stones which make the crossing possible. What rubies, opals, diamonds, and sapphires. Do you see them? Last week I was at a dinner party and began a conversation with one of the Resilience Festival […]
Food Security & Permaculture
We Have The Tools Food & Permaculture By David Blume I wrote this in response to a post in the bioregional listserve from a woman at ATTRA who said something like “Of course you couldn’t feed the world with such a hippy-dippy, hunter-gatherer, landscape system like permaculture.” Well that got me a little steamed so […]