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Enough with the spring showers already!

Boy we are really paying for all that nice weather we had early in the month huh? Fortunately I have most of the big jobs I needed to do under control and I really need to spend the next 2 weeks studying for an exam anyway.



We participated in the 7th annual Blenheim Street Bazaar on Saturday with a yard sale and an "Open Coop." In spite of the terrible weather, we had a HUGE turnout... got rid of a lot of stuff and got a lot of people excited or at least curious about backyard… Continue

Added by Julia Smith on May 31, 2010 at 10:30am — 1 Comment

Vancouverites connect with Mother Earth



What is it about Mother Earth that we cannot live without? Our North American dominant existence seems to be an increasingly one-dimensional possibility of

limits, fragmentation, and disconnection with all the stress that naturally

ensues for us, as multidimensional beings. We have lost our ground in space and

this has resulted in a profound anguish and alienation. To read…

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Added by Kathie Wallace on May 27, 2010 at 11:59am — 1 Comment

Biking For Life, by Susan Van Haitsma

Published on Saturday, May 22, 2010 by CommonDreams.org



Biking for Life

by Susan Van Haitsma…

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Added by Randy Chatterjee on May 23, 2010 at 2:00pm — No Comments

Assets/Skill Inventory - May 20/10 - Cedar cottage village group



Background: An asset mapping exercise at the Resiliency Revolution gathering put on by Vancouver Permaculture Meetup, Evolver and Village Vancouver, to explore some of the resources we have in our neighbourhoods

From the 4 members representing Cedar Cottage Village May 20: Cylia, Peter, Matt, Tara



Organic community gardeners knowledgeable in composting – hot/worm, soil building, cob building,… Continue

Added by Cylia on May 22, 2010 at 9:45pm — 1 Comment

Carolyn Baker: Collapse, Transition, the Great Turning, why words matter

Syndicated worldwide, this following article on the error of…

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Added by Randy Chatterjee on May 21, 2010 at 10:00am — No Comments

Meet me and my chickens on the CTV news at 11:30 tonight!

I only had 30 minutes warning so I wasn't as prepared as I would have liked to have been for the interview but hopefully I won't make us all look like total fools for wanting to have chickens in our back yards! It'll be on their web site tomorrow in case you miss it tonight. They were heading off the the council meeting after they left here.

Added by Julia Smith on May 18, 2010 at 7:57pm — 2 Comments

What a fabulous week!

I got back from my week of field school on Saltspring late Sunday and spent all of last week playing farmer. I'll take some pics once the sun comes out again.



About half of our seedlings didn't make it. The stuff we planted right in the ground has done much better so I guess it isn't too cold after all. Won't bother planting the rest in pots. Still waiting to plant the tomatoes but everything else is either dead or in the ground now.



The beans on the bean teepee are doing… Continue

Added by Julia Smith on May 18, 2010 at 2:43pm — No Comments

tenderly



-tenderly, I now touch all things, knowing one day we will part-


(From Facebook friend Diane Smithers)



Added by Kathie Wallace on May 14, 2010 at 8:26am — No Comments

What I want from you...

“What I want from you is all of it: life in our
time” Adapted Adrienne Rich (Photo RT @ecstaticist's photostream A 1000 Drops
of Light)


Added by Kathie Wallace on May 14, 2010 at 8:25am — No Comments




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Added by Kathie Wallace on May 14, 2010 at 8:00am — No Comments

In these challenging times, what does faith mean to YOU?

As humans, we are a magnificent complexity made up of many dimensions of energy. One of these dimensions has been called many names: Creator, the Great Mystery, the spirits, the sacred, all that is, God.…

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Added by Kathie Wallace on May 10, 2010 at 3:15pm — No Comments

“Somewhere, out beyond all ideas...

“Somewhere, out beyond all ideas of right and wrong-doing there is a field - I'll meet you there” Rumi


Added by Kathie Wallace on May 7, 2010 at 9:08am — No Comments

Four exceptional artists collaborated to create a new mural for the Downtown Eastside



Indigo’s artwork on the mural consists of a series of transformations. She told me her work signifies that everything goes together as energy that never ends because

there are no endings in human life. To read more…

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Added by Kathie Wallace on May 5, 2010 at 12:44pm — No Comments

Where in the world is Tyler Walton?

I'm a friend of Tyler Walton. He is filled to the brim with a vital joy of life. The family of Tyler Walton is offering a $25,000 reward for information on his disappearance and

whereabouts. To read more http://www.vancouverobserver.com/blogs...…



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Added by Kathie Wallace on May 3, 2010 at 8:29am — No Comments

Last day in the yard for a while...

I have to go to Saltspring Island for the next week for a school thing so I was so happy to have such a beautiful day to play farming yesterday. Finally got the back bed weeded and transformed into our new berry garden. Planted strawberries and transplanted some very unhappy raspberry plants that were living in a shady spot in the front yard. Ran some netting all around it to keep the chickens and hopefully the dogs out. Check out the before and after pics:



Before:…



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Added by Julia Smith on May 2, 2010 at 3:57pm — No Comments

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