“There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about.” ~Margaret J. Wheatley. Living Systems Network is part of a growing global movement that is regenerative, distributed, and mutually beneficial by design. Through the sharing of knowledge and other resources in our local context, we…

At the beginning of every event in the coFood Collaborative Garden, we acknowledge that we gather, work and play on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples: namely the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh nations. In terms of time, we are interlopers here. Our tenure is less…

In my first post in this series, titled Our Collaborative Garden: an “island of sanity” , I described how a small privately-owned urban site has been transformed into a beautiful gathering place for neighbours to learn, play and grow together in love and harmony with Nature. We are in the…

In 2010, I purchased a small vacant lot across the street from where I have lived and worked for almost 20 years- in the Brewery Creek neighborhood of Vancouver, British Columbia, When I say small, I mean just over 2000 square feet- less than half an acre. With money from…