Dunbar Transition Village
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Kits Village/Main St. Village/Dunbar Village FREE Seed Saving Workshops
Sunday, February 24 from 9am to 12:30pmKits, near beach. Address to be sent to RSVPers a couple days before.Organized by Ross Moster, Kits Village Seed Savers/Library, Main Street Village Seed LibraryBeginners (9-10:30 am): will cover the basics of seedsaving focussing on annual and biennial food…
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Seed saving in Dunbar
Dunbar Village has won a neighbourhood small grant from the Vancouver Foundation to organize a seed saving library and courses. Hanno Pinder and Ann Pacey will be coordinating the work. There are two focal points for the work: to gather interested gardeners and wannabe gardeners and offer seed…
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Support the Dunbar Dollar! Sign the pledge by April 15th!
Dear Dunbar Villagers!Most if not all of you will have heard by now about the Dunbar Dollar Project, a Village Vancouver initiative to create a community currency for the Dunbar-Southlands neighbourhood. The goals of the Dunbar Dollar are to:1. Generate additional resources for charities and…
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This weekend (Oct 8-9): 4 Free and near Free Gardening workshops with Robin Wheeler (in Hastings Sunrise & West End Transition Villages)
This Weekend (Oct 8-9):4 Free and near Free Gardening Workshops with Gardening for the Faint of Heart and Food Security for the Faint of Heart author Robin WheelerOct 8Concepts in Year Round Gardeningdetails and registration:…
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Building a Westside Kitchen Table
Hello Dunbar Village! Under events you can get the scoop on an entire west side community conversation and potluck the Westside Food Security Collaborative is hosting on August 3. We are a network of people engaged in the food system (and changing it!) in all sorts of different ways. We have been…
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Greenest City Grant Application - From Chafer beetle lawns to gardens
Hi everyoneJust to let you know, we applied for a Greenest City grant to turn chafer beetle lawns into growing spaces. The grant will focus on high visibility lots with obvious chafer beetle damage. We'll be looking for volunteers once we obtain grant approval in June.Don't worry if you're not able…
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Jethro's - Potential in adjacent lot?
We have been eying up the gravel lot north of Jethro's (with the advertisement Bulletin Board), and wondering: Could this lot become a more inviting piazza where neighbors gather as they wait for their "'Nana Cakes" or enjoy a DairyQueen "blizzard"? The space is currently void of activity, but…
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Sustainable Christmas Gifts/Traditions?
I love Christmas but there are parts of it that just make me cringe. The rampant consumerism, waste, excess packaging.......This year everyone is getting homemade, practical gifts like soap and preserves. We have solar powered lights for the tree and LED lights for outside. I think I'll try to get…
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Potluck this month?
Hi all! I think we're overdue for a Potluck. Would anyone like to host? Maybe next week?
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Introductions
Thought we could post a brief 'here's me' by way of introduction.... so here's me :)I live at 5930 Blenheim with my boyfriend, Ludo, two teenage boys (Monty and Michael), 2 dogs, 1 cat, 5 hens, 3 chicks and a whole lot of worms :)We've been working really hard to convert our huge jungle yard into a…
Dunbar related transition activities for those worried about climate change, peak oil, economic disorder, and their consequences, and determined to do something about it.