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VancouverMom.ca
A homeschool support group established in 2009, VancouverMom.ca is an online resource providing urban, hyperlocal information on what to do and and what's new for families in Metro Vancouver.

Radical Simplicity: Small Footprints on a Finite Earth
by Jim Merkel and Vicki Robin; New Society Publishers, 2003 In the face of looming ecological disaster, many people feel the need to change their lifestyles as a tangible way of transforming our unsustainable culture. _Radical Simplicity _ is the first book that guides the reader to a personal sustainability...

Therah Farm
Organic Since 1998 and offering Garlic, Vegetables, Herbs, Blueberries, Currants, Raspberries, Boysenberries, Strawberries, Rhubarb, Apples, Pears, Plums, and Cherries.

Tatlo Road Farm
Certified Organic since 2014 and offering Vegetables and Vegetable Transplants, Herbs, Strawberries and Soil Microgreens.

Tendergreens Farm
Vegetables and Vegetable Transplants, Herbs and Herb Transplants, and Flowers.

Terra Nossa
A 26 acre Family Farm Certified Organic since 2011 offering Vegetables, Herbs, Pears, Plums, Peaches, Nectarines, Apricots, Cherries, Blackberries, Strawberries, Blueberries, Mulberries, Grapes, Apples, Figs, Olives, Walnuts, Chestnuts, Hazelnuts, Raspberries.

SunTrio Farm
A 4 acre certified organic farm offering: Garlic, Carrots, Kale, Cabbage, Squash, Peppers, Tomatoes, Cucumber, Sweet Potatoes, Beets, Melons, Salad Greens, Raspberries, Blueberries, Haskap Berries, Apples, Figs, Microgreens (Sunflower, Pea, Buckwheat, Wheat, Kale, Broccoli, Radish) Sprouts (Mung Bean,...

Sweet Acres Farm
Sweet Acres Farm is a small, mixed vegetable farm located on leased land in Langford, BC. We proudly grow over 40 different varieties of Vegetables and Herbs, Microgreens (Pea Shoots, mixed), Vegetable and Herb Transplants.

Sweet P Farm
Garlic, Coriander Seed, Certified organic since 2013.

Salt Spring Apple Company
365+ Heritage & Connoisseur Varieties of Apples. Apple Trees, Scion Wood, Apple Chips, Apple Jelly, Apple Butter, Apple Sauce, Apple Cider, Carbonated Apple Juice, Blackberries, Cider with Blackberries. Certified Organic since 2013

Sea Bluff Farm
Vegetables, Vegetable Transplants, Vegetable Seeds, Herbs, Apples, Raspberries, Strawberries, Rhubarb, Flower Seeds, Beets, Carrots, Garlic, Potatoes, Salad Greens, Winter Squash. Certified Organic since 2015.

Square Root Farm
Vegetables and Vegetable Transplants, Figs, Melons, Herbs and Seeds. Certified Organic Since 2006.

Salt Spring Abattoir Society
Meat Processing and Packaging: Poultry, Rabbit, Sheep, Lamb, Goat, Pig and Beef. Certified Organic since 2014.

Cedar Cottage Community Garden
Cedar Cottage Community Garden offers over 100 garden plots with a variety of micro-climates and growing conditions for gardeners of all ages and abilities, plus extensive common areas.

Linnaea Farm Society
An ecological agriculture oasis on Cortes Island: offering workshops, family farmstays, CSA and farm stand, agricultural internships, coop guild membership for islanders, weekly market sales, and education. In 1978, the title for Linnaea Farm was transferred to "Trust for Public Land," a charitable...

Wildflower Produce
A permaculture, organic, intensive farm and orchard on Cortes Island. Multi-variety vegies and fruits, organic eggs. CSA weekly boxes in summer, market and store sales and farm stand.

Beaver Meadows Farm/Natural Pastures
Certified Organically raised beef. Enjoy tasty, healthy rewards from our natural regenerative farming practices, where Natural Pastures Beef cattle are raised on our thick pasture swards in the rich Comox Valley. Free of chemical pesticides, herbicides, antibiotics, growth hormones and anything genetically...

Tanner Orchard
Tanner’s Orchard wholesales crispy and crunchy Liberty apples to quality grocery stores, health food stores and markets on Vancouver Island. Look for them in season, from approximately September 10th to October 31st.

Corlan Vineyard and Farm
Corlan Vineyard is a 10-acre 100% certified organic vineyard, farm and boutique winery on Denman Island where you can visit the tasting room, walk the vineyard and gardens (take a picnic and a glass of wine!), enjoy a homemade Lunch, and purchase award-winning wines. Wines, bedding plants, tours, events

Horizon Heritage Farm
Vegetables – Beets, Cabbage, Corn, Green Onions, Lettuce, Summer Squash, Tomatoes Herbs – Culinary Herbs Meat & Poultry – Beef, Lamb B and B accomodation CSA boxes

Foxglove Farm
Foxglove Farm is a one hundred and twenty-acre organic farm on Salt Spring Island in British Columbia, Canada.Nestled in a mountain valley at twelve hundred feet above sea level, our fertile fields produce a wide range of annual Mediterranean vegetables, grains, legumes, hay and pasture, and orchards...

Kloverdalen Farm
A mixed vegetable certified organic farm operationing in the Comox Valley, BC. Natural and minimally invasive farming practices, respect for the natural systems and supporting the soil. Crops include organic seedlings, a long list of spring, summer and fall vegetables, herbs and flowers. Bulk crops...

Carriac Farm
Carriac farm provides certified organic fruits and vegetables including squash, melons, tomatoes, peppers, and strawberries.

Nanoose Edibles Organic Farm
A 23 acre mixed crop, year round organic farm in Nanoose Bay, Vancouver Island, run by Barb and Lorne Ebell, long time organic farmers and researchers. CSA, U Pick, farm stand and store. Seedlings and full range vegetables, eggs, fruits and berries; support 100 mile diet, nutrient rich produce, tours,...

Salt Spring Sprouts & Mushrooms
Salt Spring Sprouts is a small-scale food producing operation based on a 6.5 acre farm on Salt Spring Island. Permaculture design, full use of mushroom compost, recycled water systems, education. A full range of organic sprouts grown aeroponically, shitaake and oyster mushrooms. Sold at Farmers Markets...

Hope Hill Farm
Agricultural Service in Salt Spring Island Garlic, Lettuce, Potatoes, Raspberries, Strawberries ,Apples, Cherries, Eggs, Chicken, Lamb, Wool

Viridian Energy
VISION To Contribute to a World where Clean renewable energy is the established method for powering energy-efficient, environmentally friendly, healthy and resilient communities BALANCE Viridian is the colour between green and blue, representing the balance between ecology and technology which we are...

Modern Outpost
Modern Outpost has been providing solar energy solutions to residents of the Comox Valley, Vancouver Island, and across Canada since 1998.

Francis O Vineyard Wool
Francis O Vineyard provides locally produced wool from a small herd of sheep Merville BC. The discovery that only two animals (sheep and goats) eat baby broom, led to the introduction of sheep on the farm.

Aquarian Systems
The principle of Aquarian Systems, Ed Hoeppner, has over 25 years of experience designing and building houses and over twenty years of experience in researching and developing innovative water management systems. He has worked closely with community organizations, homeowners, regulators, architects,...

Growing with Nature
Growing with Nature is about cultivating abundance for people, plants, and wildlife. A place where nature-lovers can gain the skills they need to support wildlife, grow food, and heal our living world. It contains simple articles and blog posts on incorporating wildlife habits, perennial foods into the...

homegrownbee.ca
A beekeeping supply and education business located on Vancouver Island, in the Comox Valley that provides beekeeping essentials, live bees, and packaged kits as well as educational workshops and consultations

Transfarmation Farm
Transfarmation... More than farming: Growing Cultural Change. We can transform our communities, our society and, ultimately our culture, by transforming the way we think, live, work, play and eat. By using practical permaculture and bio-intensive methods to grow 16,000 pounds of vegetables and fruit...

Northstar Organics
We’re committed to farming organically and sustainably for a healthier, happier community. Composting, cover cropping, and crop rotation techniques are used to sustain the soil. Pest control is achieved through preventative measures such as screening and covering crops against pests and introducing...

StoneCroft Farm
StoneCroft Farm is an organic regenerative farm, raising heritage turkeys on range and blueberries in season. Glen and Kathy are second-generation farmers. The farm specializes in fresh Thanksgiving and Christmas turkeys that are processed in their licensed plant. The farm store carries frozen turkey,...

Valhalla Farms
Valhalla Farms is an 80 acre Permaculture farm coop focusing on regenerative agriculture founded in 2012. The members of the coop are working to transform what was formerly a GMO corn and soya field (that provided employment to less than a single farmer) into an example of what all-natural regenerative...

RootShoot Soils
RootShoot Soils is an independent agriculture consulting agency and extension service based in Vancouver, British Columbia Canada. They are a formally recognized soil food web lab by the Soil Food Web Inc. Consultation services provide guidance on enriching and diversifying your soil's biology for...

Project Watershed
Project Watershed is a non-profit organization dedicated to watershed restoration and stewardship in the Comox Valley. Since 1990 the organization has carried out research, educational programs and consulting--aiming to encourage the people and organizations in the community to take personal and collective...

L’Arche Comox Valley
L’Arche Comox Valley is a community of people with and without developmental disabilities sharing life together and celebrating the unique value of each person, revealing each other’s gifts and recognizing our need for one another. Several of our core members and assistants live in Jubilee House,...

VI Pests, Pollinators and Beneficials
The Vancouver Island Pests Pollinators and Beneficials Project (VIPPB) aims to increase knowledge of agricultural pests, pollinators and beneficial organisms across Vancouver Island, BC through workshops, monitoring and our biweekly newsletter.

Eco-Sense
Regenerative Design: Water, Food, Energy, Lifestyle Consulting for Rain Water and Compost Toilet Systems, online classes, Book-- “Essential Composting Toilets“, Workshops, presentations, and speaking engagements and the Eco-Sense permaculture Nursery.

Sustainable Food Edmonton
Sustainable Food Edmonton is a non-profit charitable organization that initiates and supports projects and programs to encourage community building through urban agriculture. To connect communities and kids with their food, how it’s produced, and the planet that makes it all possible Sustainable Food...

Rainwater Harvesting
Rainwater BC (by Eco-Sense) –designs and installs harvesting systems, filtration, living roofs, swales, rain gardens, and well-water storage cisterns and compost toilets on Southern Vancouver Island. Gord has is ASSE Rainwater Designer & Installer Certification is an ARCSA Accredited Professional...

Pure pasture farms
Pure Pasture is a regenerative farm -- beyond organic meats & eggs direct sales. Pasture-Raised Meat & Eggs. Animals are rotated daily on regenerative pastures. Antibiotic and GMO-free feeds. Patrure rasied Chicken, Ducks, Turkey. Beef and lamb are raised grain free.

SeedWise
SeedWise is a marketplace where seed farmers can sell organic, non-gmo, heirloom and open pollinated seeds directly to home gardeners and small farmers so as to give a greater level of choice and provide income directly to the farmer. Gardeners can find seed growers in their bio-region and know exactly...

Whaletown Garden Centre
The Whaletown Garden Centre offers organic seeds, hand tools, garden supplies, bagged mulches and manures, soil mineral powders, and mixed organic fertilizers, compost tea brewing kits and hydroponic materials are included. From early spring until late fall vegetable starts, perennial herbs, and flowers...

17 Brilliant DIY Wind Turbine Design Ideas For Living Off The Grid
DIY wind turbine seems like a daunting project, but wind is a clean, free, and renewable energy source. Check out these DIY wind turbine designs, ideas, and tips to get started in no time!

Sociocracy: A Deeper Democracy
**Collaborative Governance — Transparent, Inclusive, and Accountable** This site is a resource on sociocracy and democracy and the ways they support each other. It examines the principles and practices and the ways in which together they could better achieve their objectives.

Cortes Community Housing
The mandate of the Cortes Community Housing Society (CHS) is to provide and operate affordable housing and incidental facilities for low to modest-income households on Cortes Island, BC. This includes the creation of year-round homes for singles, couples, and families of all ages.

Cortes Creations
Cortes Creations are handmade with love on beautiful Cortes Island, British Columbia. Leslie and her family cultivate a large, beautiful organic garden from which she harvests medicinal plants that are transformed into healing salves and natural skincare products. All Cortes Creations are free of parabens,...

Nurture in Nature
Nurture In Nature is a collaborative community space for practising a sustainable, healthy, new way of life. As a team, they are in the process of transforming a 40-acre piece of property into a holistic and resilient ecosystem that produces food as well as provides for community education, growth,...

Laughing Willow Community Garden
The Laughing Willow Community Garden is located at the corner of Lawson Grove and Simms Rd. in Willow Point, Campbell River. Family orientated, organic gardening in a friendly, peaceful environment to enrich lives and community.

Twigroot Botanicals
Made on Cortes organic facial care, healing balms, and much more.

Cortes Family. Ca
The Cortes Community Health Association operates the Family Support Program and the Youth Programs to foster wellness, connection, and resiliency among the families and kids of Cortes. Programs include sports and outdoor adventure programs for children and youths, the teen scene, and the first years...

Salish Sea Ecoretreats
Offers Wilderness Vigils (aka wilderness rites of passage vision fasts) in the tradition of The School of Lost Borders. Available for youth, adults, and elders and consisting of three or four days solo fasting in a wilderness setting- mostly on Mt. Tuam on Saltspring Island. The ceremony provides a deep...

Shirts to Bags
Salvation Army Canada receives 90 tonnes of discarded clothing per week, some of which ends up in landfill sites. Four women from Campbell River are reducing what would end up in the landfill by retrieving the shirts the SA and turning them into shopping bags

Share Nelson
Located in the heart of the Kootenays, SHARE Nelson is a non-profit secondhand store, supporting humanity and responsible ecology. They support our community by financially contributing to Our Daily Bread (ODB) and being ecologically mindful in our daily practices. Thanks to purchases and generous donations,...

The Farm
Over the last 50 years The Farm has become known for many things — natural childbirth and midwifery, healthy lifestyle, gourmet vegan cuisine, creative arts and performance, permaculture and carbon farming, advanced electronics and alternative energies, ecovillage design and networking, and its partnerships...

Antarabhav
There are three aspects of this project: The development of new protocols that address and remedy spiritual emergence situations. Recent explorations have shown that it may be possible to support people undergoing spiritual emergencies remotely via the internet, video conferencing, etc. To vet...

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals is a nonfiction book written by American author Michael Pollan published in 2006. Technology has made foods that were previously seasonal or regional available year round and in all regions. The relationship between food and society, once moderated...

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (2007) is a non-fiction book by Barbara Kingsolver detailing her family's attempt to eat only locally grown food for an entire year. The book revolves around the concept of improving the family's diet by eating only foods that her family was able to grow...

The Permaculture Academy
The Verge Permaculture Academy offers live online masterclasses with world-class faculty, collaborative learning experiences, and global networking on one simple, intuitive private platform.

Food Forest Farm
Growing Resilience for People & Planet Food Forest Farm aims to help people create low-maintenance, regenerative food systems. They grow, supply, and teach about perennial vegetables and other multipurpose plants. Consulting is available to design landscapes that are sustaining and nourishing for people...

Worlds Advance Saving Project
3D printing is WASP’s heart since a small and fast printer that materialises objects made of bio-plastic, clay, silicone and biocompatible materials, which mills wood and aluminium, makes it easy to start mini-productions. The revenue from the sales is invested in the research and development of...

Edible Landscape Design
Consultation, design, and coaching in support of a beautiful future bursting with super-foods, right outside our doors, where landscapes and communities are regenerated with every home-cooked meal. The team brings decades of combined experience and education in regenerative design, organic horticulture,...

The Farm Ecovillage Training Center
The Ecovillage Training Center assists transition towards a sustainable society by instruction in meeting basic needs for food, shelter, energy, fuel, gainful employment, and community process and progress. Featured classes include carbon farming, financial permaculture, natural building, and biodynamic...

Camphill Association
Glenora Farm a lifesharing community, where adults with developmental disabilities live, work and learn together with their caregivers.

John "Eesawu" Kimmey
If there was an appropriate term to describe the lifeworks of John "Eesawu" Kimmey it would be as a 'seedplanter.' He had an innate characteristic of a visionary/community developer, working for years with the native people of the American Southwest. John became a student of the elders of the Hopi village...

The Resiliency Institue
The Resiliency Institute is a nonprofit organization using permaculture education and design to foster nature and human connection, grow food security, and build resilient communities. Permaculture is an ecological and ethics-based philosophy for designing resilient lifestyles, landscapes, and communities...

How To Start a CSA
CSA stands for community-supported agriculture. Farmers use this model to sell “shares” of their harvest to supporters. In exchange for a flat fee paid upfront, subscribers receive weekly (or bi-weekly) boxes of produce throughout the season that can be picked up at predetermined locations at set...

Fireweed Farms
The farm is 1/4 acre of mixed vegetables and medicinal plants , as well as a plant nursery. The goal is to be a place for growing food and medicine, for gathering, knowledge sharing, and healing. Fireweed farm operates under the belief that all life is connected, that nature is our greatest teacher,...

Twig & Stone Botanical Medicine
Rebecca Singer is a Certified Medical Herbalist who combines a biomedical understanding of medicine and health with the traditional knowledge of healing. She approaches herbalism from a vitalist perspective incorporating Western herbalism, holistic nutrition, aromatherapy, Ayurvedic philosophy, and...

Inspiration Farm
A Homestead style farm with holistic regenerative integrated systems that create a thriving abundant environment, supporting inhabitants of the land, ecosystem, and community. A model of holistic regenerative integrated systems. Supporting inhabitants of the land and community. Offering farm tours,...

Blossom Meadow Farm
A small Organic farm in Southold NY focused on growing premium berries, making award-winning jam, and raising mason bees. Blossom Meadow Farm was designed with the knowledge that native pollinators pollinate 2-3 times better than honey bees and that more complete pollination of a flower results in higher...

Growing Hope Farm
A small 5 acres urban farm that sells grass-fed organic meat. Specializing in organic grass-fed pork, chicken, and beef. The farm is run by volunteers that donate the majority of the net profits to the Mennonite Central Committee to support farmers overseas

Pigeonlake Permaculture Farm
1st generation farmers growing organic, fresh food for our community small-scale farming, sustainable agriculture. Weekly fresh produce CSA box

Limestone Permaculture
Limestone Permaculture Farm is a highly productive one-acre demonstration property, created using Permaculture Design Processes & Principles, located in the beautiful Karuah Valley NSW. Our vision is to deliver ethical, health-conscious & empowering permaculture goods & services to our surrounding...

Design Jam Permaculture
Regenerative Landscape Design. Adrian is a Permaculture Designer, Facilitator and Educator, working from Hamilton, ON. He founded Design Jam Permaculture offering Collaborative Design and Decision Support services to help people with urban and suburban projects. He is knowledgeable on a range of issues,...

Manorun Organic Farm
Manorun Organic Farm is a family run farm set on the outskirts of Hamilton in Copetown, Ontario Chris Krucker and Denise Trigatti, alongside their four children, have been farming organically here for 25 years, offering organic vegetables through Community Supported Agriculture (CSA). Working to mitigate...

Four Season Greens
Four Season Greens is a producer of sprouts and micro-greens in Muskoka, operating since 2010. They supply most of the restaurants in Muskoka, specialty retail outlets, resorts and caterers with fresh produce year-round. Individuals also purchase through the sprout subscription program ("CSA") The sprouts...

Wild Muskoka Botanicals
Wild Muskoka Botanicals is the producer of artisan wild foods and cocktail mixers. The ingredients are locally foraged in a sustainable manner, and then hand-produced on a small scale in an effort to maintain high quality products made with ecological integrity. Wild Muskoka Botanicals is based out of...

Gaia College
Organic horticulture courses for home gardeners, market gardeners, and landscape professionals. Gardening knowledge and landscape design courses to restore human and environmental health. Established in 2003, Gaia College offers a proven curriculum in Organic Land Care. Online courses start in January,...

long-wind-farm
Long Wind Farm began in 1984 with Dave Chapman and a team of oxen. For three decades, they have provided New England with truly delicious and organic tomatoes. Grown in Vermont soil in glass greenhouses, the tomatoes are available as early as March and as late as December each year. Dave Chapman is...

Omaha Permaculture
Omaha Permaculture is an environmental non-profit organization that maintains unwanted vacant land to elevate the property's utility and value for the surrounding neighborhood by creating healthy ecosystems through urban agriculture-related economic development. The vision for Omaha Permaculture (OP)...

Blackwater Creek Orchard
A second generation mixed fruit and vegetable farm on 4 acres near Devine, British Columbia. The farm is owned and operated by Riley Peterson and Olivia Kester. They grow a variety of fruit including apples, cherries, plums, pears, melons, strawberries and a variety of vegetables. The farm is certified...

BC Seed Suppliers
Directory of BC based small seed companies, many open pollinated and organically grown

Health Research Institute
The Health Research Institute employs advanced mass spectrometric and molecular genetic approaches to make the invisible visible, catalyzing transformation in both the biomedical and the nutritional-food-agricultural sectors. Untargeted metabolomics enables HRI to comprehensively, globally, and quantitatively...

Elk Root Conservation Farm Society
Farming Conservation at Elk Root The vision is a thriving fish, wildlife and human population in the Slocan Valley and Little Slocan River watershed that is functioning and sustainable. The not-for-profit mission is to alleviate food insecurity, and to protect, restore and enhance fish, wildlife and...

Worm Farm
Geoff Lawton demonstrates setting up an outdoor worm farm using an old sink, setup harvesting and feed stocks

Family Permaculture
Family Permaculture is a team of passionate practicing permaculturists, teachers and designers whose mission is to bring permaculture into the family setting! This is achieved by empowering families with education on sustainability and regenerative living through online classes, podcasts, and one on...

Wayne Weiseman and The Permaculture Project
Wayne Weiseman - Teacher, Designer, Consultant, Author... Wayne Weiseman is a permaculture teacher, designer, consultant and author. He lives in Carbondale, Illinois with his wife, Frances and daughter, Halima.  He was certified to teach permaculture by Bill Mollison, the founder of permaculture,...

Quiverwood Nursery
A small-scale permaculture nursery and homestead that grows and sells trees and shrubs online that specialize in nutritious fruit- and nut-producing species that are easy to grow and care for. Located in the rolling hills of Richford, NY, Quiverwood Nursery produces fruit- and nut-bearing woody plants....

Neumark Design
Nursery: Specialists in hardy edible and perennial plants, including plants for food forests and permaculture landscaping. The majority of the plants we offer are grown onsite, using natural inputs at Terra Perma. Discounts for not-for-profit organizations, landscapers, and garden centers. Design: On...

Goat School
Goat School® is the answer to the question "Where can I learn about goats and get some hands-on experience before I purchase my first goat?" This 2-day course is for those that have been dreaming about starting a farm or homestead but lack any first-hand experience with goats. Graduates will gain the...

Juniper Farm
Organic and biodynamic farm in Wakefield QC. The farm has self-guided tours, visitor-friendly farm animals as well as a farm store and tearoom with a farm-to-table takeout window featuring farm food and artificial ferments. The contents of the CSA produce box vary with the seasons. The farm also hosts...

Santa Barbara Organics
DESIGN FOR REGENERATION The goal is to provide design and consultation that fits the needs of the clients and their property – whether it be a residential home or a large farm. To create landscapes that produce abundant food as a byproduct of ecosystem restoration. By working with natural patterns...

Ecosa Institute
The Ecosa Institute of Prescott College is a ecological design certificate program. Ecosa's vision is of a world that blends the ethical values and ecological patterns, with the vitality and dynamism of the design arts. Founded in 1996 by Tony Brown, Ecosa has a goal of providing innovative ecological...

Little Fields Farm
Little Fields Farm is a diverse small-scale ecological farm growing vegetables, cut flowers, pasture-raised chicken, turkey, pork, and eggs using regenerative farming practices. The aim is to produce good food in a way that works with the natural environment and the natural instincts of the animals...

permaculture-design Idaho
Listing of permaculture organizations In Idaho

Singing Frogs Farm
Singing Frogs Farm is a unique, no-till, ecologically beneficial, highly intensive vegetable farm in Sonoma County, California. The regenerative farming practices build soil carbon while bringing back tremendous, healthy populations of pollinators, beneficial insects, and vertebrates. Less water is...

Eat The Weeds and other things too
Green Deane third generation forager shares articles on individual wild plants and their use and preparation.

Utah State University Extension Permaculture
Permaculture is more than a list of techniques. In Utah's dry climate, wise water use, soil care, reversing the effects of deforestation, increasing food security, and adapting to and mitigating projected impacts of climate change are emphasized. A permaculture mindset approaches the world with a holistic...

Bending Oak Farm
Bending Oak Farm is 25 acre woman-run permaculture educational farm committed to showing people what is possible when looking to create a more sustainable world. Through classes, workshops, school tours, community programs and hands-on experiences, the aim is to demonstrate attainable practices to better...

Permaculture at Tikkum
Permaculture at Tikkun: A story of radical transformation Fourteen years ago, the 7.5 acres at Tikkun was scrubby, semi-arid land with sparse trees, shrubs and cactus. There were no public services or electricity. Like millions of Mexican households, there was no reliable access to water. In the...

Sustainable By Design :tools
Sustainable By Design provides a suite of shareware design tools on sustainable energy topics including sun angle calculators, window overhang calculators and more

Kootenay Lightweb Computing Service
The “Kootenay Lightweb” is a community owned cloud server, communication, Software and IT Educational service which provides community owned “Data” and “Social Network” alternatives to “Big Data”. The “Lightweb” also provides ethical and open-source technology (hardware and software)...

D & B Nelson Edible Landscapes
Offering to design, install, and maintain edible Landscapes, sometimes also referred to as "Food Forests", which are beautiful, sustainable, and functional landscapes based on natural systems, use no synthetic chemicals, and provide an abundance of fresh, organic, fruits and vegetables. Animal integrations...

International Herb Symposium Courses List
The Symposium holds a special place among herbal conferences, bringing together people from diverse backgrounds and ways of working with medicinals. The backbone of IHS is its classes and teachers. The learning centre has over 150 online courses from dozens of esteemed teachers for herbal students of...

International Herb Symposium
Founded more than 25 years ago by Rosemary Gladstar, this biennial event continues to be a place for herbalists from across the globe to exchange information about the healing power of plants. The Symposium holds a special place among herbal conferences, bringing together people from diverse backgrounds...

Earth Passengers
HI!我們是「大地旅人」. Park Gate uses Permaculture is a design system and technology that cleverly uses nature and simulates nature to provide for people's living needs. It is a life attitude and art, and it is a global sustainable life movement that everyone can participate in. Earth...

Indigenous Agro-Ecosystems, Knowledge Restoration and Conservation Program
Indigenous Agro-Ecosystems Restoration is a not-for-profit network of Permaculture trainers and practitioners dedicated to introducing self-sufficient, regenerative agricultural practices and conserving and restoring Indigenous agroecosystems throughout East and Central Africa. They apply natural permaculture...

The Agroforestry Research Trust – | Forest Gardening | Fruit Trees | Nut Trees | Perennial Vegetables |
The Agroforestry Research Trust is a non-profit making charity, registered in 1992 in England, which researches and educates about agroforestry and perennial crops. They do practical research on our trial grounds, run courses, publish guides, and sell plants, seeds, and books. It is a carbon-negative...

By the Bluffs Nursery
By the Bluffs is an ecological farm encompassing a plant nursery, a mixed fruit and nut orchard with a native plant understory. The nursery focuses on medicinal, edible, and native perennials, including shrubs and trees. Permaculture tours, workshops, and site-consultations are available.

Gaia Garden
Gaia Garden offers botanical products for health and well-being. Products range from a unique and hard-to-find variety of herbs and teas, aromatherapy products, all-natural bath and beauty, custom products, and superfoods. With specialized and knowledgeable staff, and partner practitioners on-site, they...

Polyface Farms
Operated by Joel Salatin, Polyface Farms is dedicated to the principles of Transparency (anyone is welcome to visit the farm anytime), grass based livestock (animals are moved frequently to new "salad bars," offering landscape healing and nutritional superiority), Plant and Animal Individuality (Respecting...

Capital Region Food and Agriculture Initiatives Roundtable
Promoting healthy and sustainable food systems through networking events and education in the Capital Region of Vancouver Island. Hosts an annual Farmer2farmer regional conference and quarterly events.

Cortes Island Free Store and Recycling Centre
The Recycling Center is dedicated to reducing, reusing and recycling what would otherwise be condemned to a landfill. The Cortes Free Store is staffed by volunteers and offers a unique shopping experience for islanders where everything is, of course: FREE!

Yarrow Ecovillage
A 20 acre organic farm and multi-generational cohousing ecovillage in downtown Yarrow, B.C.. Units for sale, senior housing in the planning phase and farmland available for members.

Forstbauer Farm
Forstbauer Family Natural Food Farm uses Biodynamic farming methods and follows a soil food web approach. Founded in 1977 the Forstbauer farm is a certified organic farm in Chilliwack British Colombia, farmed using Biodynamic principals and certified through the Biodynamic society of BC (demeter) and...

Cortes Natural Food Co-op
Cortes Natural Food Co-op is a community-owned cooperative business dedicated to bringing locally grown, organic, sustainably produced, healthy food to the Cortes Island community. The co-op includes a bakery, cafe, and grocery store, providing fresh natural food, baked goods, seasonal organic produce...

Student Clinic | Pacific Rim College
The Student Clinic at Pacific Rim College provides services in Acupuncture, Chinese Herbal Medicine, Western Herbal Medicine and Holistic Nutrition. The general public can receive treatments by advanced-level students under the supervision of a licensed practitioner, or by a licensed practitioner with...

Victoria Health Cooperative
VHC is a volunteer co-op run by individuals passionate about well-being. The VHC organizes and supports wellness programs for members and the wider community. On the fourth Sunday of each month a group of between 6 and 10 Wellness Practitioners donate their time and expertise providing “pay-what-you-can-afford”...

The Gaples Institute for Integrative Cardiology
The Gaples Institute for Integrative Cardiology is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit with the mission to provide leadership in advocacy and education regarding the powerful role of nutrition and lifestyle changes for prevention of heart disease.

Rawganique
Rawganique makes chemical-free, allergy-free, vegan ethically made sustainable organic clothing and home products.

Abraham Jam
A Muslim, a Jew, and a Christian walk into a concert hall… Abraham Jam is a trio of internationally-renowned musicians who have teamed up to create music that is strengthened by the differences they bring to the table. Amidst divisiveness and alienation, Abraham Jam believes in the healing power of...

World Community Fair Trade
A multi-faceted BC organization selling fair trade goods; organic coffee, tea, chocolate products, olive oil & spices to retail outlets and wholesale for fundraising efforts. Profits from coffee sales go toward sponsoring health care in Nicaragua. Organize and sponsor an annual (and traveling) film...

Dr. Joel Kahn
Dr. Joel Kahn is a plant based cardiologist who has developed an aggressive yet holistic approach to heart disease prevention and reversal. At his core, Dr. Joel Kahn believes that plant-based nutrition is the most powerful source of preventative medicine on the planet. Having practiced traditional...

Algebra Rules
The most useful rules of basic algebra, free, simple, & intuitively organized.

Permaculture Research Institute
The Permaculture Research Institute (PRI) is located on a Permaculture demonstration site in The Channon NSW, and is headed by Geoff & Nadia Lawton. We specialize in education & training worldwide. We also provide daily Permaculture news and information via permaculturenews.org. The Permaculture Research...

Viridian energy co-operative
Viridian Energy Co-operative provides solar energy systems. Assessments, design, installation and consulting by the worker owned co-op of Professional Engineers, Red Seal Electricians and Renewable Energy Technicians.

Tilth Alliance
The Tilth Alliance programs teach adults and children how to grow food, compost, garden organically, raise urban livestock, and conserve natural resources.

Skagit Food Co-op
The Skagit Food Co-op provides natural, organic, and locally-sourced food to Mt. Vernon, Burlington, La Conner, and the Skagit Valley.

Roots Natural Foods
Maple ridge natural food store specializing in certified organic whole foods and healthy alternatives to conventional supermarket items including wide variety of wheat-free, gluten-free, dairy-free, vegan, raw food, low sodium and sugar-free products.

Marnie’s Books
An independent book store on Cortes Island with a great selection of books, including many titles on sustainable living, social justice, and environmentalism. The store is solar powered and wood heated.

Victoria Home Learners Network Association
The Victoria Home Learners' Network Association (VHLN) is a non-profit society created to support home learning families in the Greater Victoria area. Their membership is comprised of families who follow diverse home learning paths – from traditional approaches to home schooling to “radical" unschooling...

San Francisco Interfaith Council
The San Francisco Interfaith Council's work centers on civil rights, homelessness, housing affordability, and disaster preparedness. The SFIC convenes and amplifies the voice of our city's faith-based community on these important issues.

Edible Island
Natural food store in Courtenay, B.C.

Blue Jay Lake Organic Farm & Community
Blue Jay Lake farm is a 300 acre property nestled in Green Valley in the heart of Cortes Island which was formerly an early 1900's homestead. At the time the land was purchased by the Verschuurs in 1990, the only infrastructure (amongst an abundance of forests, fields, bluffs, swamps and three lakes)...

Vancouver Hack Space
The Vancouver Hack Space (VHS) is a physical space where people gather to share ideas, tools, opinions, and beer. Members work on personal projects, collaborate, and learn new skills. More than just a studio space, we share knowledge in a friendly and open atmosphere. We like 3D printers, laser cutting,...

MakerLabs
MakerLabs is a makerspace in Vancouver that provides you with the tools, space, and skills to make almost anything.

Strathcona Community Garden
Community garden with 200 garden plots and 104 food trees. Operated by Strathcona Community Gardeners Society.

Farm Folk City Folk Magazine
Launched in Kelowna, BC, FarmFolk CityFolk Magazine tells the stories of the many British Columbians who are instrumental in developing and preserving the province's food culture. With the notion that food is the cornerstone of civilization and culture, this magazine focuses on four particular areas-food...

Cortes Radio | CKTZ 89.5 fm
The Cortes Island Radio Society was formed in 2004 by a small group of believers. Out of this came CORTES COMMUNITY RADIO. Licensed in October of 2011, broadcasting at 80 watts from a height of approximately 400 feet above sea level. They feature many live locally made programs as well as a very eclectic...

The Fes Festival of World Sacred Music
Fes Festival of World Sacred Music (Fès des Musiques Sacrées) is a crossroads for the creative seekers of the world. You’ll experience the serendipity of a rencontres, a musical blending of various nationalities, faiths and music genres, such that a Balinese gamelan orchestra could be connected with...

The Center for Education and Research in Consciousness
The Center for Education and Research in Consciousness (CERC) initiative supports the development of undergraduate and graduate programs in Consciousness at the University of Washington Bothell. The Consciousness Minor at the University of Washington Bothell investigates the nature, dynamics, and functions...

Inhabitant Magazine
Inhabitat® is a green design and lifestyle site that provides coverage of environmental news and the latest in sustainable design. The website is devoted to the future of design, innovative technology and architectural that emphasize energy efficiency, sustainability and connection to the surrounding...

Wallace Violins
Artisan violin maker in Powel River, BC

James Bay Farmers Market
Handmade, Homemade, Homegrown. The James Bay Market Society was founded in 1995 by a small group of James Bay residents, assisted by a grant from the City. The non-profit Society obtained a $5000 grant from the city of Victoria to start a Summer Community Market. During the first two years of operation,...

The Victoria Folk Music Society
One of BC’s longest running folk clubs, the VFMS is a Victoria legend, hosting a live evening of folk music every Sunday since the 1970s! The evening starts with an open jam which is followed by an open stage and then a feature band. Admission is $7.

Interfaith Community Sanctuary
A space for all religions, with the following tenets: "We seek the truth and speak our truth without fear. We are open to hearing and learning from each other. We reflect on our interfaith vision and nurture it in our hearts. We pray for the realization of our interfaith vision!

Pro Organics
Pro Organics is one of Canada’s largest distributors of organic goods.

Camino
Canadian producer of fair trade and organic certified food products, owned by the worker-owned *La Siembra Co-operative*. Established in 1999, La Siembra became the first registered importers of Fairtrade Certified cocoa and sugar in North America.

Polis
A software product that's intended to help organizations make collective decisions more smoothly, identifying areas of greatest agreement among a range of possible outcomes.

The Guthrie Center
Founded by Arlo Guthrie to honor the legacy of his parents, Woody Guthrie and Marjorie Mazia-Guthrie, the Guthrie Foundation seeks to cultivate cultural preservation, promote educational achievement and foster community outreach to meet the ongoing needs of the community. The Guthrie Center was founded...

World Animal Protection
"We are World Animal Protection We end the needless suffering of animals We influence decision makers to put animals on the global agenda We help the world see how important animals are to all of us We inspire people to change animals’ lives for the better We move the world to protect animals."

World Animal Protection International
"We end the needless suffering of animals We influence decision makers to put animals on the global agenda We help the world see how important animals are to all of us We inspire people to change animals’ lives for the better We move the world to protect animals" From our offices in Australia,...

Still Eagle
Eco shop specializing in hemp, bamboo, organic cotton, and soy clothing, natural and hemp body products, hemp and recycled paper, as well as sustainable, environmentally friendly home products.

Be The Change Charities
Be The Change is a non-profit charity organization run by the band Wookiefoot (wookiefoot.com) that fund raises in support of international relief projects. The 501c3 charity raises most of these funds through an annual music festival called Project Earth (projectearthfest.com) that uses 100% of its...

Articles by Ryan Drum aka Fucus Man
Health related articles and case studies by herbalist and PH. D Ryan Drum

Organic Gardener's Pantry
Victoria, BC business providing Canada with organic fertilizers for soil and plants - including microbial inoculants and biostimulants - for the promotion of healthy, sustainable ecosystems.

Sole Food Street Farms
Sole Food Street Farms is an urban agriculture project in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Founded in 2008 by Michael Ableman and Seann Dory, Sole Food's mission is to provide low-income residents of the Downtown Eastside with "jobs, agricultural training, and inclusion in a supportive community...

Eternal Abundance
Eternal Abundance is an all-organic grocer and vegan cafe with strong ethics around food soil, and community.

True Grain
True Grain sells organic bread, pasteries and flours made only from locally grown organic grains.

Ypsilanti Food Co-op
Ypsilanti, US organic food store.

Port Orford Community Co-op
Port Orford, US organic food store.

Renaissance Community Co-op
Greensboro, US organic food store.

Gregg L. Friedman MD Organic Coop
Hallandale, US organic food store.

Salem Food Cooperative
Salem, US organic food store.

Green Tree Grocery
Mount Pleasant, US organic food store.

Utah Co-op
The Utah Coop is a member-owned and operated food store. All residents of Utah are automatically members and may shop, and share responsibilities and benefits equally. We strive to be a responsible and ethical neighbor, opperating as a buying agent for members rather then a selling agent for any Industry,...

Bread and Roses Food Cooperative
Tallahassee, US organic food store.

City Foods Co-op
Lafayette, US organic food store.

Natural Living Organic Food Co-op
A certified non-GMO store, with organic food bulk buying club for members and a grocery store open to the public.

People's Grocery Co-Op
Our mission is to provide a marketing and purchasing outlet for minimally processed, high quality nutritional food and other goods and services, as desired by member/owners, at the best possible price.

Valley Food Co-op
Alamosa, US organic food store.

Main Market Co-Op
Spokane, US organic food store.

Rochester Good Food Co-op
Rochester, US organic food store.

SLO Natural Foods Coop
San Luis Obispo, US organic food store.

Lost River Market & Deli
Paoli, US organic food store.

Harvest Co-op Markets
Jamaica Plain, US organic food store.

Moonflower Community Cooperative
Moab, US organic food store.

Rochester People's Food Co-op
Founded in 1970 by the members of a food-buying club, People's Food Co-op is owned by over 3000 member owners and is a member of the National Cooperative Grocers Association and the United States Federation of Worker Cooperatives.

Rainbow Grocery Co-op
San Francisco, US organic food store.

Arroyo Food Coop
Pasadena, US organic food store.

Portland Food Co-op
Portland, US organic food store.

Granary Food Co-op
Ortonville, US organic food store.

Sunset West Food Co-op
We are the only food co-op on the tip of the northwest coast. We have a Buyer's Club, grocery and eatery. We are a life style with a social edge!

GrassRoots Cooperative and Cafe
GrassRoots Cooperative and Cafe is a member owned grocery and cafe located in beautiful downtown Anoka, MN.

Creekside Coop
Elkins Park, US organic food store.

Pogue's Run Grocer
Indianapolis, US organic food store.

Tacoma Food Co-operative
Tacoma, US organic food store.

Mississippi Market Natural Foods Co-op
Saint Paul, US organic food store.

Yelm Food Co-op
Yelm, US organic food store.

Food Front Cooperative Grocery
Portland, US organic food store.

Park Slope Food Co-op
Brooklyn, US organic food store.

New Leaf Market Co-Op
Tallahassee, US organic food store.

Gardiner Food Co-op & Café
The Gardiner Food Co-op is a consumer-owned cooperative working to bring Maine food to Maine tables. Everyone is welcome to shop and anyone can join to become a member-owner. Opened in 2015, the Co-op is a welcoming space offering produce, meat, dairy, grocery, wellness products, beer and wine. We have...

BriarPatch Co-op Natural Foods Community Market
Grass Valley, US organic food store.

Co-op Market Grocery & Deli
Fairbanks, US organic food store.

Spiral Natural Foods Co-op & Grocery
Hastings, US organic food store.



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