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Hi friends,

So, I've been getting a lot of requests when we're facilitating permablitzes, so here are the dates confirmed so far: Read more »

The Cabin Fever Syndrome Awareness and Prevention Society in partnership with the Permaculture Calgary Guild is proud to present an afternoon of support through various workshops and an evening of bands, beer and bonafide, electrified, bone shaking, cob web clearing fun! Read more »

On May 15, we gave a 1.5 hour talk on the exciting opportunities of small spaces for food production! Below are some resources that we sent to the attendees of the workshop. Read more »

Doug Weatherbee is going to be speakign at the upcoming Permaculture Calgary Guild potluck. This is going to be really exciting. I've seen him speak in Manitobo last year as part of a workshop. It's super inspiring how much we can nurture soil health. Check out the poster below, and mark your calaendars for May 25th! Read more »

We are getting really excited for our 2012 Permaculture Workshop Tour! We are thrilled about the organizations hosting us this year: Two Transition Town groups, a Conservation Council, Community Garden groups, and a Living Earth council.

Above all, we're really grateful to be a part of the work that these groups are doing. I can't wait to meet them!

Alright, our dates are being confirmed, and the information below is under development and being updated, so if you are in these areas, please keep checking back in the next week or so as venue locations get published here. Read more »

Dear Friends and Community Group Members,

We we have been working hard to get a pot luck organized for November 25th from 6:00pm - 9:30 pm at the Mission Community Hall (2201 Cliff Street SW). We want to get a feel for where you (the membership) wants to see this group go! For example what sort of events do you want the executive to organize, what sort of benefits would you like to see, how often would you like to meet ect. The evening is going to go like this; Read more »

Take a look at some of the permablitz's coming up below that we are facilitating. These are all very different kind of projects, and there's going to be a lot's of learning opportunities!

See you there!

Don't miss out on this wonderful event coming up on September 23rd: The Local Food Supper. Should be a great time for a really good cause. As they say, we need to know our farmers with the same rapport as we would expect to know our doctors and dentists. To RSVP please visit the Calgary Horticultural Society's website at  www.calhort.org. Volunteers to help out are also being accepted, so learn more by going here: www.permaculturecalgary.org

Food prices have hit their highest ever point this year, and we'll be seeing more and more local food production happening. In Calgary, that's already underway, as more and more people are ripping out their lawns and replacing them with productive landscapes! In this post, I want to let everyone know that there will be a lot of Permablitzes happening this year, but there is also a hard limit on the number of Blitzes that can happen in a season, and they're already booking up. So if you want a Permablitz this year, now's the time to get in touch! I've decided to highlight some of the permaculture gardens we designed and installed last season. Read more »

This article's about where, I think, the best place to invest our energy toward creating positive change lies in repairing community and the planet. We all have the power to be just as positive of an influence on this planet as we are negative, as many environmentalists make us out to be. The thing is, the power of being positive is truly empowering; feeling negative is totally disempowering. Read on and learn about the case for making positive impact, and a strategy for doing so. This article begins off pretty stark, but I promise, you'll reach the end of this post hopefully as charged as I am writing it! Read more »