Monday January 14, 7pm at the Community Centre:
The Quadra Home Garden Club is hosting a talk by Peter Bickel Janes, a Denman Islander who believes that living successfully, healthfully and morally as human beings can best be achieved by embracing local subsistence activity, ie. growing one's own food. This is the basic idea behind permaculture, a small-market, home-garden approach to agriculture that couldn't be more different from the industrialized practices that put food on most of the developed world's table.
Peter is creating a farm on Denman Island where he grows hardy perennial fruit that many of us have never heard of: sea buckthorn, paw paw, Tibetan wolfberry, as well as persimmons, kiwi, sweet elderberry and oak, figs, mulberry, quince and chestnuts. Peter says these plants are very much at home in our part of the world, even though they're not widely planted.
In his presentation on Monday, Peter will talk about propogating many of these perennial fruits, nuts and berries.
Garden Club membership is $10 a year; visitors are welcome at Peter's talk ($2).