Feeding The Self

Feeding The Self is a 12-week course that starts by building gardens in schools, where the gardens are tended as part of grade 6/7 Natural Science classes). It ends with productive food gardens in the home of each participant. The course itself is designed to teach creative problem solving and effective community and personal development. The problem solving comes through sustainable permaculture; the thoughtful and productive use of what’s at hand, and a belief that everyone wants to be a positive part of their environment and community; the problem is that they often don’t know how. We get them in small groups, show them ‘how to fish’, and then get them to teach their community to do the same in outreach projects.