Food Forest Gardening
Learn an innovative gardening method that seeks to explore co-beneficial relationships between plants and fungi. By arranging food and medicine producing herbs, vines, shrubs, mushrooms and trees in arrangements found in nature, participants will learn how to change traditional, energy-intensive garden plots into low-maintenance garden ecosystems. June 5, 2010: Starts 9:00 am
Backyard Beekeeping
A beginners course in small scale apiculture with an emphasis on “natural” management techniques, hands-on practice, and basic honey bee biology and behaviour. Participants will alternate between classroom instruction and discussion, and actual demonstrations and individual practice working with the bees. June 19 – 20, 2010: Starts 9:00 am
Ecological Forestry Short Course
Community Forests International has been working to foster relationships where human livelihoods and forest products are provided while the integrity of the working and healthy forest are valued and maintained. This short course explores these principles while demonstrating how a philosophy of sustainability can be put into practice. August 2-6, 2010
