A food forest, or edible forest garden, is a food production strategy. The wonderful folks at Tenth Acre Forest posted this helpful blog post on the history of food forests and how to create your own. Read about it HERE.

A first-of-its-kind study by SFU finds that Indigenous forest gardens filled with fruit and nut trees are still thriving, at least 150 years later. Read the article HERE.

The practice of Permaculture may be familiar to some, but to many it’s a foreign concept that means very little. I have heard it simply described as a break down of the word itself into quite literally ‘permanent culture’. While this hints at one aspect of Permaculture, it does not do justice to the practice as a whole in the same way Aquaculture does not simply mean farming in water. Frankly, there is just more to it than that. I came across Permaculture around 8 years ago a

Raising food sustainably for production and personal health without herbicides and pesticides at 60 degree north by working with nature. This inspiring video shows what one woman is doing in the Shetland Islands, farther north than most of the people living in Canada.

In this video, Sue Bennett and her partner David Holmgren who helped found the Permaculture movement along with Bill Mollison present a tour of their property in Australia. Definitely worth viewing!