Education

Permaculture Courses

• Permaculture Design / Giggling Chi Tree - www.permaculturedesign.ca www.gigglingchitree.com
• Kootenay Permaculture Institute - www3.telus.net/permaculture (in the Kootenays)
• planetrepair.wordpress.com (in Portland)
• Bullock’s Permaculture Homestead - www.permacultureportal.com/courses_current.php (Orcas Island, WA)
• O.U.R. Ecovillage - https://ourecovillage.org/courses/ (Vancouver Island)
• Horticultural Programs at Burnaby Community and Continuing Education - http://www.burnabycce.ca/courses/#horticultureprograms
• https://ubcfarm.ubc.ca/workshops/
• https://www.abundancecommunity.farm/events

Mentorships

I offer mentorships to support people on their Permaculture Path.  To learn more you can visit :

• https://www.permaculturedesign.ca/kym-chi-mentorship

 Community

• Bowen In Transition / Bowen Island Food Security - https://www.facebook.com/groups/bowenintransition/
• Van Permaculture Meet up group - https://www.meetup.com/The-Vancouver-Permaculture-Meetup-Group/
• Village Vancouver - http://www.villagevancouver.ca/
• Master Gardeners - http://mgabc.org/content/vancouver
• Fraser Valley Permaculture Guild - https://thevpg.ca/
• Food Security Networks - https://bcfoodsecuritygateway.ca/food-security-networks-list/
• One Straw Society (Sunshine Coast) - www.onestraw.ca

Reading - Some of my favourite resources

(check local libraries!)

General Permaculture:

• Introduction to Permaculture - Bill Mollison
• Permaculture- A Designers Manual - Bill Mollison
• Permaculture - Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability - David Holmgren
• RetroSuburbia - David Holmgren
• Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture - Toby Hemenway
• Earth user's Guide to Permaculture - Rosemary Morrow
• A Demanding and Uncertain Adventure - Rosemary Morrow
• You can have your Permaculture and eat it too - Robin Clayfield
• Food Security for the Faint of Heart - Robin Wheeler

Soil Books:

• Weeds and what they tell us -  Ehrenfried Pfeiffer
• Teaming with Microbes -  Wayne Lewis, Jeff Lowenfels 

Social Permaculture:

• City Repair Placemaking Guidebook: Creative Community Building in the Public Right-of-Way http://www.cityrepair.org/placemaking-guidebook/
• People and Permaculture - Looby Macnamara
• The Empowerment Manual: A guide for collaborative groups - Starhawk
• 7 Ways to Think Differently - Looby Macnamara
• Transition Handbook & The Transition Companion - Rob Hopkins
• Reinhabiting the Village
• 8 forms of Capital - Ethan Roland

Food Forest Books

• Edible Forest Gardens, Volume 1: Ecological Vision and Theory for Temperate Climate Permaculture - Dave Jacke & Eric Toensmeier
• Edible Forest Gardens, Volume 2: Ecological Design and Practice for Temperate Climate Permaculture  - Dave Jacke & Eric Toensmeier
• Farming the Woods: An Integrated Permaculture Approach to Growing Food and Medicinals in Temperate Forests  - Ken Mudge & Steve Gabriel
• Food Forestry North of 49th by Richard Walker – Available only through Facebook, http://www.facebook.com/foodforestynorthofthe49th/
• How to Read the Landscape Paperback - Patrick Whitefield
• Integrated Forest Gardening: The Complete Guide to Polycultures and Plant Guilds in Permaculture Systems -Wayne Weiseman and Daniel Halsey
• Roots Demystified: Changing Your Gardening Habits to Help Roots Thrive - Robert Kourik

Herbal Books

• Wise Woman Herbal - Susun Weed
• Healthy Body, Heavenly Hair - Dina Falconi
• Foraging and Feasting - Dina Falconi
• Holistic Herbal - David Hoffman
• The Herb Book - John Lust (reference for Herbal Pharmacology, but not a reliable source for preparations)
• The Boreal Herbal: Wild Food and Medicine Plants of the North - Beverley Gray

Online Resources

General

• www.permaculturedesign.ca - Open sourced Permaculture educational resources

• Seed Saving - howtosaveseeds.com/
• Soil materials from Phil Gregory https://www.phas.ubc.ca/~gregory/papers/SupplementaryMaterial.pdf

Plant information

• Plants for a Future Database
• Permaculture Plant Database
• Temperate Climate Permaculture page

Videos:

• Phil Gregory’s Magic of Soil Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWILIYSf5ts
• Permaculture Design videos: https://vimeo.com/permaculturedesigns
• Inhabit - http://inhabitfilm.com/
• Need to Grow - https://www.theneedtogrow.com/
• Permaculture - The Growing Edge - https://starhawk.org/film-video/permaculture/
• Global Gardener - Bill Mollison - Tropics-  https://vimeo.com/277384035 Drylands - https://vimeo.com/278866742, Cool Climate-  https://vimeo.com/279397635,  Urban - https://vimeo.com/280845715
• Seed - the Untold Story - https://www.seedthemovie.com/
• Toby Hemenway - How Permaculture can save humanity and the earth, but not civilization & redesigning Civilization - www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nLKHYHmPbo
• The Story of Stuff - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GorqroigqM 

Podcasts

• Permaculture Podcast - https://www.thepermaculturepodcast.com
• Deconstructing Dinner Podcast
• Explorations in permaculture Podcast
• SALT (Seminars about Long-term thinking) Podcast
• Susun Weed - http://www.blogtalkradio.com/susunweed