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SUMMARY:Permaculture Farm Volunteer Day
DESCRIPTION:Brookbank Farm  Permaculture Design \nVolunteer Program\nA
  unique opportunity awaits those who want to explore their life and la
 ndscape, to learn by doing, and to be a part of the change we all desi
 re. Join us across the growing season for a hands-on, once-monthly vol
 unteer work day at a fully operational permaculture commercial farm co
 mplete with food and fodder, plants, orchards and animals. See how Bro
 okbank Farm’s new generation, on-demand CSA program works, proudly o
 ffering the Sunshine Coast community with a wide variety of fresh orga
 nic food. We’ll learn about the care and use of land, how to build a
  fence, provide for animals, and of course, growing our own food.\nBro
 okbank Farm is a heritage small farm paradise that has provided food f
 or the community of Gibsons and environs for over a century. Eight acr
 es of rich soil, with an abundance of water and sun, and only the gent
 lest slope make for almost ideal growing conditions. Paul and Dawn Mye
 rs purchased the site in 2014. As with almost every small farm in our 
 country, Brookbank began to collapse under the weight of industrial ag
 riculture in the 1980’s, until it fell into near disuse. The vision 
 of Paul and Dawn is to both recover the wisdom of its past and to inco
 rporate the best practices of today to restore and renew Brookbank and
  to make it a model of what is possible for generations to come. Those
  ‘best practices’ include applying regenerative and permaculture m
 ethods to the land. Some of the permaculture-inspired changes at Brook
 bank to date include the introduction of more perennial food crops ove
 r annuals, adding as much diversity as possible through polyculture ga
 rdens. Other practices include the reintroduction of livestock as inte
 gral to the ‘farm circle’, transitioning to no-till soil preparati
 on, planting hundreds of new fruit, nut and native trees for reforesta
 tion, development of ponds and waterways, that in time will ensure the
  land remain a healthy and self-sustaining ecosystem. It is a slow pro
 cess, a labour of love, but one that has already begun to show great p
 romise. Today Brookbank produces over 75 varieties of fruits and veget
 ables, ethical meat, eggs and poultry, and value-added farm goods and 
 preserved foods. Brookbank also operates the Gibsons Farm Collective, 
 and its unique CSA on-demand enterprise.\nPaul, Dawn, and Delvin offer
  to make Brookbank your ‘classroom’, an observable, tactile, perma
 culture work-in-progress.\nBut more than that, if you desire to sink y
 our hands into soil and to see concepts turned into realities, if you 
 want to give something back to the community, if you share a passion f
 or the resurgence of small local farms everywhere, or if you simply lo
 ve a day of fresh air and physical work, then register today by emaili
 ng delvin@cosm.org\n\nFor more information visit http://villagevancouv
 er.org/events/permaculture-farm-volunteer-day
DTSTART:20180208T020000Z
DTEND:20180208T030000Z
CATEGORIES:volunteer, day
LOCATION:Brookbank Farm
WEBSITE:https://www.dewpermaculture.com/brookbankfarmday
URL:https://www.dewpermaculture.com/brookbankfarmday
CONTACT:
ORGANIZER;CN="Delvin Solkinson":http://villagevancouver.org/profile/De
 lvinSolkinson
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ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Delvin S
 olkinson":http://villagevancouver.org/profile/DelvinSolkinson
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