Be Agriculture - Strategic Partner Update

We've had Be Agriculture (Evan Folds) as a strategic partner since we started Permaculture Canada, but this partnership is taking an important step to further combine our activities for regenerative agriculture.

Be Agriculture is expanding its business activities beyond its existing soil analysis and Living Land Program and will now be offering a wide scope of regenerative agriculture goods and services to its customers. A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) has been signed between Permaculture Canada (PC) and Be Agriculture (BA) for having PC be the supplier of design and consultation services to BA's customers, with BA conducting extensive upgrades to its website and marketing activities to support the growth of both businesses.

We've updated the Strategic Partners page on our website for all of our current partners and will continue making announcements as we gain new partners and discount programs.

SE Michigan Design by Lindsay

Graham's local business in Adrian MI gained a new customer early in the year as a result of a presentation at the local nursery. The owner, who is an avid gardener, had moved in the year before and wanted to remodel the property for abundant food production and beauty.

Lindsay's design delivered on all aspects with a myriad of food producing trees and shrubs, a greenhouse, mushroom towers, worm bins, benches and a pizza oven.

Graham will now be taking over this project to help the property owner to self-implement the design and provide support in finding and delivering all of the resources needed, most especially the pizza oven!

We Unify Conference 19-21 Sept

Lindsay is a speaker at the We Unify Conference, in Calgary, Alberta, on Sunday 21st September. From the conference website - "We Unify is an independent and nonpartisan volunteer organization that confronts deep-rooted challenges in democracy while defending against new threats. We are working towards a more open and just democracy that is resilient in the face of change and worthy of the people’s trust. We champion the leaders and organizations who defend democracy and support partners and ideas from across the political spectrum in pursuit of vibrant debate, effective and accountable government and a more inclusive society." Attend the conference and catch Lindsay's speaker talk on the Sunday!

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Be the change!

Lindsay Brandon, CEO
Permaculture Canada

Join us Thursday, in the first week of every month when Cormac Harkin hosts us for the Permaculture Vine Podcast which is LIVE and also recorded. Following the July event where Cormac hosted us for his 100th edition of his podcast, we followed up in August with our very special guest The Very Prissy Gardener (Shira) as we reviewed her experience in getting a design (Lindsay Brandon and Jenn MacAusland) and installation (Graham Towerton). Our September event featured Neal Hegarty for a discussion about permaculture design courses. Join us via Instagram or YouTube for the October edition on 10/2 tentatively at 5:00pm Eastern.

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In early September, Lindsay has coordinated a permaculture event and mural painting. With funding support from Parks Foundation Calgary, this mural is associated with an urban farm project and will lead into larger permaculture projects as well.

A huge project for tree planting has been awarded to Graham for removal and replacement of dead trees around his neighbouring solar farm.

The previous contractor planted the trees in the heat of summer last year, with poor (or no) mulching and not enough watering. We'll be correcting all of these problems when we replant between 1100 and 1200 trees in fall, as well as selecting disease resistant varieties more suited for the location. Graham will be assembling a team of 6 installers for the project including Lindsay and her partner Azure who will travel down to Michigan.

Lindsay will also use this opportunity to meet all of the Permaculture Canada customers in Michigan and Indiana, including a site visit to our new customer, Bowen Health, where we will be doing site visits at two of their fifteen campuses in October and then designs in winter.

We have over 100 people in our Telegram chat group where we encourage conversations, questions, suggestions and shares~ a place to chat and connect with each other across the interwebs and our world!

For Nov 7-8, Graham has been invited to be the keynote speaker at the Rooted and Resilient Homestead Conference hosted by Purdue University's Noble County Extension Service. We'll provide updates and registration details in future newsletters. Graham will host an exhibitor booth and will also hold an additional lesson on the growing of fruit trees in the US Midwest. Registration opens September 10th.

Right after that, Graham flies to Saudi Arabia to attend a Recycling Expo in Riyadh on 11-12 November, representing ReCircled (his engineering consulting client) and Permaculture Canada. The Saudis are committing $32 billion in funding through this expo event towards reducing landfill waste by 80+% by 2030. Some great opportunities for all things regenerative!