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Dates: May 21-22, 2016 (May 21 9:00am-5:00pm, May 22 9:00am- 1:00pm) Course: #560173 Cost: $250 Location: John Janzen Nature Centre Have you always wanted to step out your back door and see your very own beehive? This one-and-a-half-day course teaches the skills needed to have a successful hive. Topics covered in class include honeybee lifecycle, […]
Food forestry is an ancient approach to creating multi-tiered perennial food gardens that are patterned after natural forest eco-systems. With carefully selected and placed trees, shrubs, herbaceous perennials, self seeding annuals, mushrooms, and if desired, small livestock such as bees and poultry, these gardens become largely self-sustaining and highly productive, while providing excellent habitat for […]
Check out the Facebook event. We are creating a food growing explosion on our acreage this spring! Please join us as we install a large no-till garden by sheet mulching in our yard and a giant hugelkultur raised bed next to our chicken coop. If you don't know what either of those things are, here […]
Homesteading in an environmentally responsible way, learning by doing, practicing and repetition, we will be starting our day in the barnyard at 9:30 am with feeding, watering, training of the cow Vicky, her calf Bonny and the goats, chickens, Turkeys and ducks. After a potluck lunch, eaten outside if possible, we will create and learn […]
presented by Edmonton Native Plant Group “The rewards and challenges of using native plants in garden and natural settings” The Edmonton Native Plant Group (ENPG) is an informal society of people in the Edmonton area who like to grow native plants and promote their use in gardening and landscaping to a wider public. They take […]