I now have the time to help develop a reloaclization group here in Campbellton and the Chaleur region. This is essential for many reasons and so i am reaching out to find if there is anyone who is interested in joining with me on this journey.

This is an article I wrote today.

http://digitaljournal.com/article/183585/Loonie_Hits_Thirty_Year_High

http://tribes.tribe.net/northernnewbrunswick

A site where people either currently living in Northern New Brunswick or who are now living elsewhere can gather to talk about the region. Our focus is on creating a sustainable region. This is the first step towards creating a Northern New Brunswick Relocalization Group

Greetings, my new blog, The Permaculture Kitchen,roams from actions to recipes and beyond. Our kitchens are where it all begins.

http://bewing.wordpress.com/

This six part course will guide you through the process of creating a thriving food ecosystem in your backyard. Among other things, you will learn about companion planting, seed saving and how to maintain healthy soil. When you complete the course you will know how to grow fresh, healthy food for you and your family.

Why should I create an ecosystem in my backyard? In North America the average distance that food travels to get from where it is grown to where you eat it is 1300 miles. This means that , at best, when you bite into that apple or potato , brussel sprout or corn it is already many days old. Is it still fresh?, hardly. It also means that you and your family are reliant on a national transportation system in order for you to put supper on the table. Think of the difference in freshness and independence you achieve when you can step out your back door and pick dinner.

http://home.universalclass.com/i/crn/4148.htm

A food buying club is being formed as a result of our 100 mile diet dinner. The founding meeting of the Saint John FBC is Wednesday, August 9, 2006, @ Oryx Books on Prince William St. The meeting begins at 6:30 pm.

Today I signed up for the 100 mile diet.

When the average North American sits down to eat, each ingredient has typically travelled at least 1,500 miles—call it "the SUV diet."   Lets relocalize our meals.

http://100milediet.org/ 

Today I signed up for the 100 mile diet.

When the average North American sits down to eat, each ingredient has typically travelled at least 1,500 miles—call it "the SUV diet."   Lets relocalize our meals.

http://100milediet.org/ 

When we begin to develop a plan for a city, we need to develop a vision of what that city should look like and all too often we pay too little attention to Nature and green spaces as we begin the urban planning process. We compound this oversight by not paying sufficient, if any, attention to food security issues. For example, we build roads and railways so that food can be transported to the city but we don't plant apple or other fruit trees in our parks or other community spaces.

Traditionally, urban planning is carried out, as though, it was acceptable for people to go hungry or that it is perfectly acceptable for food to travel thousands of miles to reach our tables. If the planners souht to design sustainable urban environments, then they would give some thought to incorporating, for example, community gardens, common spaces and livestock into the planning process.

Gardening offers numerous opportunities to learn. Working with plants, seeds, soil and the elements a student/gardener may learn math, history, botany, biology and so much more. The possible skills and allied trades, such as arboriculture and horticulture offer an array of niches waiting for aspiring entrepreneurs to discover and fill.

The herbal industry is expanding. There are possibilities awaiting. Where do the herbs you use come from?

Something to ponder:

“We can choose to spend time with our children, to grow our food or support the local organic farmer, to ride a bicycle instead of taking the car, to not purchase products from industries that exploit people and cause environmental destruction. What we do with our time, our resources, our money, our energy is a reflection of our deepest values, whether we are conscious of them or not.”

"We abuse the land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us.
When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it
with love and  respect."

                    - Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac (1949)

Each month our free publication Seed and Soil provides examples of how communities are designing and creating green infrastructure projects. How we relate to the land determines the society we build. Let Nature be your guide.

Seed and Soil 
http://www.smartgroups.com/groups/seedandsoil

Food is where community begins. We can build community, create meaningful livelihood and design sustainable neighbourhoods and safe streets when we pay attention to how the food we need travels from the field to the table. First stop, the soil, where Life begins.

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Through our involvement in this journey we can discover how to care for the soil which provides, in collaboration with the weather, the essential nutrients that enable plants to grow strong and healthy. When we feed the soil we feed ourselves. When we feed the soil we create the conditions which enable future generations to feed themselves. For it is the soil that provides the environment which enables plants to thrive. A good gardener makes soil.

In the Oxford dictionary, sustainable is defined as; “Support, bear the weight of, esp. for a long period."

This definition can be taken into the context of our lives.  Sustainability, therefore, refers to the development of ecological, economic and social systems that will promote and enhance life, without depleting the earth's limited and precious resources. It embraces the capacity to be more self-sufficient and to protect the diversity of life on earth, which in-turn is essential for our own survival.

 I define sustainability as the ability of a system to regenerate it's self.

Food is where community begins. We can build community, create meaningful livelihood and design sustainable neighbourhoods when we pay attention to how the food we need travels from the farm to the kitchen. First stop, the soil, where Life begins.

Through our involvement in this journey we can discover how to care for the soil which provides, in collaboration with the weather, the essential nutrients that enable plants to grow strong and healthy. When we feed the soil we feed ourselves. When we feed the soil we create the conditions which enable future generations to feed themselves. For it is the soil that provides the environment which enables plants to thrive. A good gardener makes soil.

Greetings, I am starting to form a group to do some awareness raising on relocalization and issues such as Peak Oil. I have considerable experience in community organizing but am new to this community so it may take some time.