[Sust-mar] Small Scale Food Production Workshop: Organic, Permaculture, Biodynamic

[Louise Hanavan]

*Workshop May 22-24, 2010*



*Ways into Small Scale Food Production  
 
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*- **Organic, Permaculture, Biodynamic – *



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An event at Green Dragon Organic Farm and B&B, Tatamagouche, Nova
Scotia, B0K 1V0, 902.657.0081
 
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*www.greendragon.ca* <http://www.greendragon.ca/>



You are invited to spend your Victoria Day Weekend learning about how you
can live off the land. 
You don’t need to become a farmer to grow some of
your own food – or you might want to become a farmer!

*Green Dragon Organic Farm* is a unique small-scale farm in its 10th year.
We combine traditional animal husbandry and an old-fashioned market garden,
which includes three passive solar high tunnels. In our garden we emphasize
handwork, specializing in over wintering hardy greens in order to have fresh
produce available from March to December. Our intent is to be both
self-sustaining and commercial, and to practice global stewardship.

We have been *Certified Organic* for a few years and recently became *Certified
Biodynamic*. The Biodynamic Farming Method, introduced by Rudolf Steiner in
1924, provides a way to move farming back into the center of society. It
includes community building, offering the possibility to reform and shift
values towards a more sustainable and healthier future. 
We have also
successfully completed a *Permaculture Design Course*.

In our *Introduction Workshop* participants will learn about the nature of
food production; its challenges, some of the broader aspects that influence
it, and what it takes to really make it happen. We are looking as much into
ethical homesteading as into actual farming, and how downtown folks can
supplement their food with their own produce, too. 
 
Join us - meet
like-minded people, browse interesting books, and get your hands dirty,
think outside the box and learn from people who have actually done what you
want to do. Save yourself money and time by learning from our experiences:
it is just as valuable to know what works as what does not!

*Most importantly*: at the workshop we will serve our own on-farm produced
food, veggies, eggs, cheese, meat, adding only products that can be grown in
our climate zone. Of course we do allow tea, coffee, spices, chocolate... –
and Heinz Ketchup, if you really need it! But you will be amazed how good
the simplicity and richness of real and local foods taste...especially after
a day outdoors!



*For further information or registration **please email or call us at*

*1-902-657-0081*

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greendragon at seasidehighspeed.com *