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Commenced:	01/11/2014
Submitted:	08/01/2015
Last updated:	01/11/2015
Location:	Box 141 2 Mountain Avenue, Kelwood, Manitoba, CA
Phone:	(204) 967-2739
Climate zone:	Cold Temperate

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Parkland Permaculture's First Blitz...Momentum!

Project: Parkland Permaculture

Posted by Tim Engbrecht about 9 years ago

A small group of Parkland Permaculture members brave the cold to erect a portable chicken coop and build Warre beehives. Fabulous potluck follows.

Sometimes it pays to leap before you look too hard. I might have spent another year PLANNING to establish a local Permaculture group if one of my co-workers hadn't pushed the issue in the fall by saying "So? When's our first meeting?" I picked a day out of the air, and we have faithfully met on the first Wednesday of the month ever since.

Yesterday we held our first "permablitz"--5 of us there to work, and spouses and kids milling about and enjoying the afternoon together in the freezing wind. (-15C isn't cold for these parts, but isn't the optimal temperature for holding metal tools!)

We met immediately AFTER lunch, so that there would only be one meal to address when we were finished construction... While this made for a somewhat shorter work day, it DID make planning much more manageable. (I expect 5 hours was about as long as any of use could have been expected to labour outside in the cold, anyway)

By 6pm, when we broke for supper (potluck), we had transformed a naked trailer deck into the shell of a portable chicken coop and had assembled the better part of 6 Warre beehives. Everyone had fun and it was great to have the families meet each other. Based on the success of the event, I am certain future blitzes will attract even more interest; there are quite a few people who would never think of coming to a 'meeting', but nevertheless are more than happy to swing a hammer if there is a tangible project to work on.

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There is a tendency, I think, for us as Permaculturists to spend a lot of time dreaming--which is important--but can lead to a form of "planning paralysis," where we have 1000 ideas, but feel like we can't START!

It is worth remembering an adage I heard years ago: "you can't steer a ship that isn't moving"...without ACTION, too many plans can simply overwhelm us. The ENERGY and ENTHUSIASM generated by tangible endeavours like a "permablitz" provides MOTIVATION to ACT on our dreams...

Momentum.

I can't wait for our next project!

-Tim

Parkland Permaculture

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Slade Doyle : Nice Coop!

Posted about 9 years ago

Tim Engbrecht : Thanks! One more blitz and it'll be ready to accept tenants!

Posted about 9 years ago

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