Sherwood Park Seedy Saturday
2019-03-09 11:00 - 16:00 (America/Edmonton) | Glory Lutheran Church, 22577 Highway 16, Sherwood Park, AB, Canada
Come visit with us at Seedy Saturday in Sherwood Park!
Join us for a day of learning about everything related to gardening, purchase seeds for the up coming season, sit in on free information talks, and participate in the seed, book, pot and plant swaps.
Swap table acceptable items.
seeds, plants, garden books, garden magazines, cook books, pots/containers, also welcome any other gardening related items that are clean and in good repair such as tomato cages, stakes, row labels, and garden tools. Let’s keep usable items out of the landfill!
***New For This Year***
The Recipe Wall!
Bring a copy of your favorite recipe to put on the recipe wall. Everyone can use their phones to take a picture of the recipes that interest them and print off at home. Just one more great way our community can share and take care of one another.
SEED VENDORS
Wildrose Heritage Seed Co – Heirloom seeds
Herbal Roots – Heirloom seeds, lavender, Smudge sticks, seed storage boxes
Harmonic Herbs – Heirloom seeds
Sandy Acres – seeds and seedlings bees wax wraps, healing salves,
Edm Native Plant Group – native plant species
OTHER SELLING BOOTHS
Deborrah Huges-Gahr Pottery – decorative handmade pottery planting pots
Natures Elements – Landscaping services
Genisis Permaculture – permaculture services
Chandra’s raw honey and bee pollen
Myco Innovations – mushroom growing kits
Country Road Greenhouses – Elle pots, Seed starter, bag pots
Good Note community farm – basketry
Garden tower and Juice plus
INFO Booths
Strathcona County Ag – Urban ag, community gardens, school gardens & more
Edmonton Horticulture society – info on horticulture and the society
Edmonton Permaculture guild – promoting EPG events and initatives
Strathcona in Bloom Society
Natures Elements – landscaping
Genisis Permaculture – permaculture, gardening, landscaping.
TALKS
Speaker Space 1 (meeting room by bathrooms)
11:15 – 12:15 Donna Mackey
Donna will be talking about how to compost and different compost systems, building and maintaining healthy soil, proper way to use mulch and different kinds of mulch
12:30 – 1:30 Melisa Zapisocky
Information about Urban agriculture in Strathcona country, edible gardens, school gardens and the community gardens around the county.
1:45 – 2:45 Chanchan Wang
How to grow mushrooms at home. Information about the mushroom growing kit and how to use it.
3:00 – 4:00 Amanda Chedzoy –
One hour Q & A on caring for trees. From fruit tree to ornamental trees, pruning and planting and everything in between. Bring your questions and Amanda will spend a full hour answering as many as she can.
Speaker Space 2 (left side of sanctuary)
11:15 – 12:15 Dora Berry
Vegetable Garden Designs:There are many ways to grow food in our climate for your small yard or your acreage! From ground plots to raised beds and many alternatives in between, we will discuss how to build these edible gardens, while utilizing sustainable methods, as well as incorporating ways to extend your growing season!
12:30 – 1:30 Michael Moore
Michael Moore – Harvesting the rain.
This presentation by Michael will cover harvesting the rain in rain barrels and catchment systems as well as how-to design swale systems right into your yard/acreage/farm that will harvest the rain; regenerating dry, parched soils, placing water into the ‘Soil Bank’ that will serve your land for years to come. These methods also work for property that is inundated with too much water, setting up opportunities for the water to Slow-Soak-Sink instead of wash over you
1:45 – 2:45 Dora Berry
Companion Planting: Teaming up certain species of plants will aid your edible gardens in multiple ways: From attracting pollinators & predatory insects, to repelling pest insects, to improving soil nutrients and structure, to creating microclimates & vertical supporters! Learn which companion plants support each other to maximize the productivity and health of your garden ecosystem!
3:00 – 4:00 Michael Moore
Designing the work out of our gardens (Perennial Food Systems)
This presentation and discussion will delve into the design elements that we can use in our gardens, acreages and farms to double our output, build healthy soil and veg all the while creating a regenerative system that works with you.
-How to Design and plant a Perennial Food Systems (Food Forests) Full of grapes, apricots, pears, plums, cherries, haskap, flowers, herbs & medicinals
-Polycultures bring health and wellbeing into your garden by increasing edge, diversity, insectaries, & companion planting.
DOOR PRIZES
Bundle of seed packages $35 value – from Wildrose Heritage Seed Co.
Handmade pottery herb pot – Deborrah Huges-Gahr Pottery
2 bundles of lavender – Herbal Roots Greenhouses
3 mini smudges – Brandie Harrop
Mushroom growing kit – Myco Innovations
$50 gift card from TreeTime

Introduction to Permaculture
2019-03-16 09:30 - 16:00 | Grant MacEwan University, 10700 104 Ave NW, Edmonton, Alberta, T5J 4S2, Canada
Please Join Edmonton Permaculture for a full day Introduction to Permaculture!
Hear from Marsha Shack and Melissa Wilk from Win EcoSciences, and Kazimir Haykowsky from Spruce Permaculture covering a range of topics related to the wonderful world of permaculture. Learn about the principles of permaculture, functional interconnectivity, basic design techniques, social permaculture, and ideas for your property!
The Details:
This event will run from 9:30am to 4:00pm at Grant MacEwan University. Sponsored by Grant MacEwan’s Office of Sustainability.
Registration begins at 930am and class begins promptly at 10am. Lunch will be at 1200pm for 45 mins.
*Please note – The food court at Grant MacEwan will be closed but other restaurants are readily available nearby.*
What to Expect:
The day will consist of lecture, group exercises and personal experience from our teachers. All you will need to bring is writing material (pen/paper), your own lunch and an inquisitive heart!
Cost is $50
However if you are a member of Edmonton Permaculture Guild your entry is paid by the guild. To become a member please visit us here . We do ask that you honor your commitment if you register and if you are unable to attend please cancel with as much notice as possible so that we can fill your vacant seat.

Edmonton Seedy Sunday
2019-03-17 11:00 - 16:00 | Central Lions Recreation Centre, 11113 113 Street NW, Edmonton, Alberta, T5G 2V1, Canada
Come visit with us at our table!
Edmonton Seedy Sunday is a seed exchange and sale. We acknowledge that the land on which we will gather is Indigenous territory and has been stewarded by the Cree, Blackfoot, Anishinaabe, Nakota Sioux, and Dene Peoples since time immemorial. Today, all residents of Treaty 6 territory have rights and responsibilities as treaty people to uphold the treaty relationship.
Edmonton Seedy Sunday’s mandate is to:
~ Promote seed saving and sharing
~ Support the distribution of organic and open-pollinated seeds
~ Share information for gardening organizations
~ Encourage a community of gardeners – young and old!
Admission to the event is free! Donations are gladly accepted. Many of the vendors only accept cash — there is an ATM on site but come prepared! The building is fully wheelchair accessible. Transit accessible via Kingsway Transit Centre then bus #125 Jasper Place to stop #1122 WB. Free bike and vehicle/carpool parking in the north parking lot of Central Lion’s Rec Centre.
Swap or donate your organic vegetable, fruit or flower seeds. Please package in a sealed envelope and label with as much info as you have!
Buy some organic (not genetically engineered), heritage, and open-pollinated seeds from local vendors:
~ A’bunadh Seeds, Cherhill, AB http://gardenofeden2010.wordpress.com/
~ Broadview Farm, Sedgewick, AB http://broadviewfarm.weebly.com/
~ Brother Nature Organic Seeds, Victoria, BC http://www.brothernature.ca/
~ Earth’s General Store Whyte, Edmonton, AB https://earthsgeneralstore.ca/
~ Harmonic Herbs, Barrhead, AB http://harmonicherbs.com/
~ Prairie Garden Seeds, Humboldt, SK http://prseeds.ca/
~ Wildrose Heritage Seed Company, Lethbridge, AB, https://www.wildroseheritageseed.com/
Dig in to some nature crafts at the kid’s table!
Swap some gardening books and magazines.
Enjoy free lectures from local speakers:
11:30 am Native Bees & Pollinator-Friendly Gardens with Jocelyn Crocker, YEG Bees
12:30 pm Beginning Gardening with Denise, A’Bunadh Seeds
1:30 pm Home Mushroom Growing with Carleton Gruger, Gruger Family Fungi
2:30 pm Soil! with Mark Stumpf-Allen, Dawn Bolieau, & Thean Pheh
Free demonstrations:
11:30 am Seed saving with John Freebury
1:00 pm Tool Sharpening with Hart Wichern
2:30 pm Cannabis Cultivation with Fred Mills, https://cannabissummit.ca/fred-mills/
Learn about local organizations & businesses and chat with their members about what programs and services they offer:
~ Beanstalk Honey
~ City of Edmonton: Front Yards In Bloom https://www.edmonton.ca/programs_services/landscaping_gardening/front-yards-in-bloom.aspx
~ City of Edmonton: Partners In Parks https://www.edmonton.ca/programs_services/landscaping_gardening/partner-in-parks.aspx
~ Earthly Matters Vermiculture
~ Edmonton Horticultural Society https://edmontonhort.com/
~ Edmonton Native Plant Group Fans
~ Edmonton Permaculture Guild
~ Edmonton Tool Library – NEW!
~ Heritage Homesteading
~ Iron and Thyme http://reforgedironworks.com/iron-and-thyme/
~ Kiwi Nurseries Ltd – NEW!
~ Myco Innovations http://www.albertafarmersmarket.com/vendor/myco-innovations-mushroom/
~ OFRE: Operation Fruit Rescue Edmonton
~ Suzanne Royale
~ Sustainable Food Edmonton
~ Tapestry Farm – NEW!
~ Tower Garden
~ USC Canada – Seeds of Survival
~ Wild Green Garden Consulting
(Please email us at edmontonseedysunday at gmail dot com if you are interested in a display table for your organization.)
Did you know…?
Seedy Saturday and Seedy Sunday events happen in many communities from coast to coast to coast! Find more Seedy exchange events at http://seeds.ca/events

Spring Potluck
2019-04-07 15:30 - 18:30 | Ritchie Community Hall, 7727-98 Street, Edmonton, Alberta, T6E 5C9, Canada
Join the Edmonton permaculture community to share physical and social needs and yields of individuals and organizations.
Gather all Edmonton Permaculturalists! We invite you to Ritchie Hall on April 7th come share your interest in all things permaculture over food and community forum.
New to permaculture? Come learn what it’s all about from some of the most knowledgeable organizations and individuals in the city. Seasoned permie? Come share what you’re working on and utilize the power of community to take it to the next level. Permaculture professional? Come share what your business is about and build connections with the community!
The potluck will be ongoing from 3:30-6:30. If you don’t know potlucks, make sure you’re there early because the good stuff goes fast! Please bring:
– A potluck dish large enough for 3-4 people. Bonus points for local, sustainably sourced ingredients and reusable packaging!
– A list of ingredients
– Your own dishes to eat out of
At roughly 5pm, we’ll be holding a community forum where everyone will get 1-2 minutes to share who they are and what needs and yields they have. Everyone has needs and yields and this will be a fantastic opportunity to build a stronger, more resilient and connected community in the most organic way.
The following organizations will have tables around the outside of the hall to share their yields:
– Adaptive Humans
– River Valley Free School
– Dustin Bajer
– Portico Permaculture
– Relic Woodworks
– Sandy Acres Permaculture
– Good Note Community Farm
– More pending!
Do you have an organization you’d like to promote? Do you have wares you’d like to sell? Contact Garnet at edmontonpermacultureguild@gmail.com to reserve a free table!

Planning and Growing Your Veggie Garden
2019-04-13 10:00 - 12:30 | AB
Learn to make a plan and optimize growing conditions for Edmonton veggies that are easy to grow, harvest and store. The class includes a presentation of ideas and tips, discussion and hands-on activities (weather dependent). Topics: garden beds and soil, creating a visual plan and plant list, when to plant, planting methods.
Registration

Edmonton Resilience Festival
2019-04-27 | Waldorf Independent School of Edmonton, 7211-96a Ave, Edmonton, Alberta, T6B 1B5, Canada
Come celebrate the 5th annual Edmonton Resilience Festival with us at the Waldorf Independent School of Edmonton on Saturday April 27th!
Participate in an eclectic combination of workshops and conversations to build a more resilient, joyful life. Make connections, build your skill set, and feed your soul!
The full schedule is now available at https://www.edmontonresiliencefestival.com/schedule – get your tickets quick!

Growing the Spring Garden
2019-05-11 10:00 - 12:30 | Edmonton yard north end
In this class, we plant seeds, transplant seedlings and learn about protecting young plants in a spring garden. The class is mostly discussion, demo and hands-on activities, outdoors if weather permits.
Registration
June 9 – Follow up class

Online Seed Swaps / Buying
2020-03-25 08:00 - 2020-05-01 17:00 | Online
With the cancellations of the local Seedy Sunday / Saturday events, online seed swaps have popped up on Facebook.

Check out these groups to buy or swap seeds:
The Great Alberta Seed Exchange
Seedy sunday (online) seed swap !!
Seed/Plant Swap Group – Alberta Gardening

Let us know if you have any other great resources for local seed swapping!

Online Permie Movie Night
2020-03-26 08:00 - 2020-12-31 17:00 | AB
With self-isolation and physical distancing measures in place and no gardening outside… yet. Let’s be honest we are watching more TV than normal. I have started scouring the internet and free resources like Edmonton Public Library to find a wide variety of permaculture-based FREE movies to keep you inspired for the spring. While I haven’t watched many myself I’m excited to dive in and see what these movies have in store!
By no means is this a complete list. If you have any suggestions let us know by emailing edmontonpermacultureguild@gmail.com
Kanopy – Free with Edmonton Public Library card
If you don’t have a library card you can sign up here.
Once you have your card login here to check out over 20 free movies/documentaries. Just search ‘permaculture’.
Films for the Earth – free and paid movies to watch
Huge selection of free and paid documentaries. Check it out here
Happen Films – By Donation
Based out of New Zealand, two filmmakers offer their Documentaries by donation. Check the list out here
YouTube/Vimeo/ Other Websites – Here are a few free to screen features
Inhabit
Green is the New Silver (Lining): Crisis, Hope and Permaculture
As I find more documentaries I will add them!

Green Drinks June 2024
2024-06-27 19:00 - 21:00 | Bent Stick Brewery, 9926 78 Ave, Edmonton, Alberta, t6e 1n5, Canada
Join Us for Green Drinks June Event at The Bent Stick Brewery
Connect, inspire, and grow with fellow green enthusiasts at our much-anticipated Green Drinks event, now hosted at the vibrant Bent Stick Brewery. Whether you’re a seasoned permaculturist, an avid gardener, or simply passionate about sustainable living, this informal networking event is the perfect opportunity to engage with like-minded individuals.
About Green Drinks Edmonton:
For over a decade and a half, Green Drinks Edmonton, organized by The Local Good, served as a cornerstone for fostering sustainability and eco-consciousness in our community. After a brief hiatus, we’re thrilled to revive this beloved tradition in a new and exciting venue with a fresh organizing team.
Event Highlights:

Engaging Discussions: Dive into conversations about permaculture, urban farming, and sustainable practices.
Community Building: Meet local experts, enthusiasts, and advocates who share your passion for the environment.
Relaxed Atmosphere: Enjoy the cozy, welcoming ambiance of Bent Stick Brewery, a local gem known for its craft beers and community spirit.

Why Attend?

Network with Purpose: Forge meaningful connections that can lead to collaborative projects and new friendships.
Inspire and Be Inspired: Share your experiences, learn from others, and leave with fresh ideas to implement in your own green journey.
Support Local: By attending, you’re not just supporting sustainable practices but also a local brewery that champions community values.

Event Details:

Date & Time: Join us for an evening of green camaraderie in June.
Location: Bent Stick Brewery, where craft beer meets community.
Tickets: Purchase your tickets for $10 each. Each ticket includes one complimentary beer, courtesy of Bent Stick Brewery.

Let’s Grow Together:
This event is more than just a meet-up; it’s a celebration of our shared commitment to a greener future. Whether you’re here to learn, share, or simply enjoy good company, Green Drinks promises an evening of inspiration and connection.
Come join us at Bent Stick Brewery and be a part of Edmonton’s thriving green community. Let’s cultivate sustainability, one conversation at a time.

Permies Picnic in the Orchard
2024-08-11 13:00 - 18:00 | McCauley Orchard, 9538 107 Ave NW, Edmonton, Alberta, T5h 0T7, Canada
Fun for the whole family. Spend a day in the Orchard with other people.
We will be pressing fresh juice from our cider press and so much more.
