Tag: Community
Self-Sufficiency is a Fantasy—Try Radical Interdependence Instead
Self-Sufficiency is Incompatible with Nature Self-sufficient naturalist is an oxymoron, but you wouldn’t know it from the thousands of off-grid influencers and YouTube creators promoting the self-sufficiency lifestyle. As a tree-loving, beard-sporting, plaid-wearing, soil-building white dude, I know I’m squarely in their target audience. But here’s the thing: self-sufficiency is a myth At best, self-sufficiency…
Cultivate McCauley – 6 Ways to Grow 1,000 Community Trees
A Neighbourhood Revitalization Project With the help of residents, businesses, and social agencies, Shrubscriber, with support from a City of Edmonton Revitalization Grant, is working on a project called Cultivate McCauley to grow, distribute, and plant 1,000 trees. This effort will increase the neighbourhood’s tree canopy by 2%, moving it closer to Edmonton’s goal of…
Cultivate the Millennium!
Growing and Tending Thousand-Year-Old Trees Long Now Foundation, Ignite 2024 In May 2024, I had the fortune of presenting at the Long Now Foundation’s 2024 Ignite Talks in San Francisco about our efforts to grow 1000 thousand-year-old trees throughout Edmonton. You can find all of the Long Now Foundation Ignite Talks on YouTube 2024 Ignite…
Community Supported Forestry (CSF)
Growing Climate-Resilient Neighbourhoods One Tree at a Time If you’ve ever signed up for a vegetable CSA, you already understand the idea behind Community Supported Forestry. You invest in something local, share in the harvest, and become part of something bigger than a transaction. Now imagine doing that with trees. From Vegetables to Forests Community…
How To Grow a 1000-Year-Old Tree
Edmonton Public Library How-To Festival What would it be like to live in a world where people tended 1000-year-old trees? How might planting long-lived trees change our thinking about the future and our role in its creation? The following is a recording and edited transcript of a talk I gave at the Edmonton Public Library’s…
Edmonton Youth Beekeeping Club
The Northlands/Prince’s Charities Edmonton Youth Bee Club From Spring until Fall, students from across the Edmonton gathed at Northlands to learn about honeybees. Sponsored by the Prince’s Charities (Now Kings Trust), twenty students, acged 13 to 18, managed ten beehives on site. Each week, weather permitting, we covered important beekeeping topics and performed routine hive inspections.…
Is McCauley Edmonton’s Gardening Community?
Green In The Inner-City In the Fall of 2014, I found myself looking at a house off Church Street in the inner-city neighbourhood of Edmonton McCauley. I was familiar with the community due to frequent visits to the Italian Centre Shop and Coffee Shop Cafe, Zocalo. I was also familiar with the area’s reputation for…
School Urban Agriculture Supports Local Food
Growing Food in Schools To Kickstart Urban Agriculture One of the best ways to kickstart a local movement is to provide early access to training. I saw this firsthand when culinary teacher and Pastry Chef Kelly Hobbs’ culinary students won more than 28 awards between 2009 and 2017. After graduation, a sizable number of them enrolled in…
Edmonton Bee Swarm – Relocate a Honeybee Swarm or Colony
Report Honeybees in Edmonton Report an Edmonton bee swarm by calling or texting seven-height-zero, two-three five, zero-two-two three. Not sure if you have honeybees? Read below or take our quiz. We can relocate your honeybees by connecting you with a local Edmonton beekeeper who will safely relocate your swarm into a hive and remove it…
Beekeeping in Edmonton, 13 Steps to Get Started
A Step-By-Step Guide To Beekeeping In Edmonton Since 2014, beekeeping has been permitted within the City of Edmonton, and in that short amount of time, the City’s beekeeping community has steadily grown to hundreds of urban hives. If you’re here, there’s a chance that you’re interested in joining that community. Let me be the first…
Why The Magpie Should Be Edmonton’s Offical Bird
11 Reasons Why the Magie Should Be Edmonton’s Offical Bird No other Edmonton resident is more controversial than the ubiquitous Magpie (Pica hudsonia). While many Edmontonians resent its 4 am wake-up calls, many of us find the Edmonton magpie fascinating. It’s the bird that Bird Studies Canada refers to as a “charming and charismatic species…easily recognized by its…
Edmonton Swarm Catchers List
Receive Text Notifications of Honeybee Swarms The Edmonton Swarm Catchers list is a group of over one-hundred local beekeepers catching swarms around Edmonton. The list came about because I received more swarm calls than I could catch. If you’re an Edmonton area beekeeper, join the Edmonton Swarm Catchers list to receive real-time text notifications. Please…