June 12, 2022 Rooftop Updates

[envira-gallery id='2602'] Planted root veggies (parsnips & turnips) into grow bagsPlanted corn, squash & beans on the rooftop wood planter boxesTransplanted tomatoes and cucumber into hanging basket on rooftop

June 15, 2022 Green

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Fiddleheads

We tried fiddleheads for the first time! Photo by The Matter of Food on Unsplash Fiddleheads are the furled fronds of a young fern, harvested for use as a vegetable. The variety of fiddlehead eaten in North America is the ostrich fern fiddlehead.  Only available a short window of time, S...

Experiencing: Nature Based Leadership

June 2, 2022 notes from a webinar by Cheryl Charles on Nature Based LeadershipThis class felt right in alignment with all my current explorations and rabbit holes. VisionA world in which humans live, learn, serve and lead in healthy balance with nature.GoalInspire, educate and develop values-based leadership through which people...

Watching: Connecting to the Wilderness Within with Angeles Arrien

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=10&v=a9IpsK11z_s&feature=emb_title Dr. Angeles Arrien was a cultural anthropologist, author, and educator who conducted workshops and lectures worldwide. Her work, which bridged cultural anthropology, psychology, and comparative religions, led to her support and interest in Transpersonal Psychology. Her most famous book, The Four-Fold Way explores archetypes of the Native American medicine...

An Integral Thematic Analysis of Emerging Leadership in the 21st Century – My Master’s Thesis

an_integral_thematic_analysis_of_emerging_leadership_in_the_21st_century_-_elsener_final_thesis_2021Download It's been almost a year since completing my master's thesis, yet with this strange ebb and flow of time during the pandemic era, it feels like yesterday and simultaneously forever ago. In any case, I am finally revisiting the work after taking some breathing time after graduating and focusing...

May Garden Notes

Wow. Time continues to feel like it's flying by. On some days it doesn't feel like we've done much, and on others we definitely feel the effort. It's been incredibly rewarding so far and TONS of learning. Here are the notes from our garden adventures for May 2022. But before...

Three Sisters Trellis

We "built" a trellis for the squash patch. Took a trip out to Abbotsford to a tractor supply (Buckerfields https://buckerfields.ca)There we bought cattle panel and t-bars to make a trellis for the squash. We found this through a Google search of squash trellis options then watched a few different Youtube videos...