Welcome any New Members to our local network:
"Earth Gardens: Edible-Medicinal-Wild Habitats"!
GROUP GUIDELINES
- Open-mindedness: listen to and respect all points of view
- Acceptance: suspend judgment as best you can
- Curiosity: seek to understand rather than persuade
- Discovery: question old assumptions, look for new insights
- Sincerity: speak for yourself about what has personal heart meaning
- Respect for all living beings and doing no intentional harm in written word or action.
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Most recent Events & comments are posted at bottom of page, on the last page.
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Other TW groups that share knowledge online:
Seed-Savers: Preserving Our Ecological Heritage;
https://transitionwhatcom.ning.com/group/seedsavers
Small Scale Grain & Beans –Grow, Process, & Save:
https://transitionwhatcom.ning.com/group/smallscalegraingrowingbean...
Gaia's Guardians (volunteers):
https://transitionwhatcom.ning.com/group/plantingseedsofchangevolun...
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* Our network has over 180 members.
To be added to our private email list for communications beynd this public online network, please share your email address with Heather K and ask to be added to the local Earth Care Network. Leave your email with Heather K at: https://transitionwhatcom.ning.com/profile/HeatherK
Since before 2009, there have been various grassroot-community events on seed-saving, soil-building, u-bar fork building, rain-barrel-workshops, permaculture classes, small-scale seed-saving, and more!
More discussion topics are under the Earth Garden 'Discussion' section.. (You'll need to click the 'View All" button to see all the discussion catagories.)
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New Members: Helpful Informtion Below:: . . . . . . .(8/2010) from front page text
You are invited to be a community volunteer at our many gardening
work-groups & work-parties.
This group was created by Heather K who shares monitoring & admin tasks with friends. (If you are available to help let her know on her TW page)
(Created Aug 09 and first name was: "Organic Gardeners/Growers & Edible-Forest-Gardens & Permaculture")
To follow our group comments, sign on to TW and click the 'Follow' button.
To follow ongoing discussions on within this group, go to that specific discussion and click the “Follow” button.
Other locations to promote events:
* NW Farms and Food – sends out an email- http://www.nwfarmsandfood.com/
* Laura R has a Whatcom Farmer listserve you can request to be connect to.
* NW Grow comes out monthly in paper format
In the past, we had a Online GardenShare Network Now Established! (thanks to Chris E & friends)
Bellingham: http://www.urbangardenshare.org/bellingham/
Whatcom County: http://www.urbangardenshare.org/whatcom/
Some folks used these links to create your garden profile offer, or to create your gardener profile.
To reduce emails coming in from this group, just scroll down and click on the "Stop Following" button.
To restart emails, click "Follow"
Read local wisdom on blogs from your TW neighbors.
(I recommend you start with blogs from David Pike, Celt Schira, Walter Haugen, & Heather K )
To receive a notice of when they post a new blog, go to the bloggers page,
click on their blog list, and click to receive email notices.
Links to some past blog on this discussion page at:
https://transitionwhatcom.ning.com/group/organic/forum/topics/blog-...
We are appling Permaculture Pathways & good neighbor principles: https://transitionwhatcom.ning.com/page/7-principles
Volunteers for Center for Local Self-Reliance creating demo-garden-see Jean Kroll's page.
Volunteers for local school garden work-days & Common Thread Farm -see Laura Platt's page.
(Let Heather K know if we should mention here another group or person doing great work & needing more volunteers!)
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Historic:
("Organic Gardeners/Growers & Edible-Forest-Gardens & Permaculture" was our original group name when created Aug 2009 by Heather K & friends)
Original Discussion title:
"Sharing Events & Workshop on Gardening & Farming & Fruit Growing"
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