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-Thanks for following, see you on the new blog,

-M

Toronto Workshop

Our Toronto team at our latest perennial polyculture garden!

This past weekend Deepening Roots held a 2-day workshop in Toronto and for a third time in a row it was a success!

The two days were taught by four teachers in training who had taken the Summer Intensive over the past few years. It was exciting to see the growth and future of Deepening Roots on display, and in this authors opinion they all did an amazing job.

In case you all are wondering what these workshops are all about, I can give you a quick breakdown.

The overarching goal is to support sustainable development. We aim to achieve this goal through Personal Growth (a healthy body, a content mind, feeling empowered) Community Development (getting inspired implement your new knowledge and share it with friends and family) Sustainable Agriculture (supporting our connection to our land and food) and Health (understanding digestion and other body processes).

From these paths, the 5 elements of Deepening Roots are born

1 Meditation

2 Health and Wellness

3 Sustainable Agriculture

4 Community Development

5 Empowerment

Currently, most of the team is up at the Art of Living international center in Quebec and implementing a edible landscape around the main building. We will update you with that ongoing process as the days pass.

-M

Toronto Workshop

The Deepening Roots 2-day workshop Toronto style is today! We will have a great day and will update you on how it goes later!

-M

2010 Summer program

THE 2010 TEAM!!

We say it every year, but it's always true. This was the best summer EVER for Deepening Roots! We had five new participants: Lashanda, Addy, Julia, Victor, and Naren, and two returners Jenny Olah and Joel Collard.

The director Andrew Korza was at the helm for the three plus weeks and was supported by Abhimanyu Sud (Youth Empowerment Seminar master teacher) Andrew and Shenaqua Jones (Permaculture, Health, and Culinary Arts instructors).

All the participants made big steps towards becoming Deepening Roots workshop facilitators and the program took another step towards going global with Victor hailing from Sweden, Addy from Dubai, Lashanda and Naren from the US, and Julia holding down Canada.

In the future you, our faithful readers will get to hear from the participants themselves as they immerse themselves in gardening, smoothies (green ones?) meditation, health, community, workshop planning and all the other fun details that they picked up over the summer.

Addy has already started seeding a garden in Dubai

Here is the most recent-

Ive started a vegetable garden. Got a wooden table made so i can stand easily and work. Its 52 degrees celsius here (125 F).

im having fun though

Addy

the promised video

This video is hot off the presses. I have not run it though the appropriate channels to check for content, so I hope I still have a job Monday. Enjoy. Oh yes, Ill put it on fbook soon too. Thanks to all that joined us in DC and to Alton Ellis for the sound track.

DC=Awesome

Here we are in the busy season for Deepening Roots! We just finished up a 2-day workshop in DC and judging from the participants responses and smiles, it was another success.

Again we had a wide range of people, established gardeners, newbies, nutritionists, Art of Living teachers and more, and again each and everyone got something (lots of things actually) from the 12 hours. I was able to attend/observe and will be assisting on the next course, so you better be there!

For me the best part was planting and designing two poly-culture gardens. One was annual plants (cucs, tomatoes, basil). The other was perennial including a blueberry bush, lupine, strawberries, and yarrow. If you don't know why these four are good together, take the course, and you will say "Oh, that makes sense, wow, that's smart" or something along those lines. Seeing the joy on peoples faces as they planted is wonderful!



The summer program has started and I am eagerly awaiting a report on the first few days. Ill update you all once I hear, or at the latest, when I get there later in June.

Enjoy June!

Michael Sustick

A great link for Urban farmers.

stumbled upon this rummaging around google. It is the blog for "Little Homestead in the City" (a play off Laura Ingles Wilder's books "little house on the prairie"). Basically, a family in Urban Pasadena grows about 6,000 pounds of organic produce every year on ONLY 1/5 of an acre. Although not all the links on their website are working I still recommend checking it out. I found the "homestead" tab off the main page to be informative and inspiring.