“Imagine walking down the street and being surrounded by rhubarb plants, cherry trees, and raspberry bushes. Imagine all the jam!” Paul Wartman likes to create space to imagine what’s possible when communities are grown from good, accessible food systems. Bringing that vision into reality is his mission. Paul has founded the group Many Rivers Permaculture that is working to create a healthy, environmentally-protective, politically-engaged, food-loving, “I-wanna-grow-that-in-my-backyard” community. He is currently researching Edible Forest Gardens as a Master Student at the University of Guelph and collaborating with community groups to bring healthy food to everyone in the Guelph and Mississauga communities.
Paul’s understory consists of being a board member and vo-livin-teer with Transition Guelph, a grass roots community organization working and playing towards a thriving resilient community. His character is built from experiences in organic farming, permaculture design, appropriate technology development, eco-camp counseling, and many potlucks!
This video was recorded at TEDxGuelphU – Inside Out in November 2013. TEDxGuelphU is a student-organized TEDx event held annually at the University of Guelph in Guelph, Ontario. Each year we highlight emerging ideas, movements and talent from the University and surrounding community. For more information visit our website at www.tedxguelphu.com.
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)
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Pretty pumped to have been a part of this event 😀
Thanks TEDxGuelphU for all your efforts that made it happen.
Whoops, stat is "~41% of farmland in Southern Ontario from 1981 to 2006 has been losing 22 tons of soil per hectare per year."
Graves et al., 2013. Coping with Climate Change.
Amazing. Inspiring to us all.
Just watched this again to re-conect and am feeling very grateful for wave-makers like you who help others live what's in their heart. Incredible talk.
So well done Paul. Enough passion to fill a Ted room or two! Or five.
I don't have to imagine it…I have it…cherries already picked, raspberries by the pound, rhubarb, gooseberries, red currants, prune tree, service berries (local) peas, fava beans, carrots, blackberries, dill, tomatoes by the porch in containers…and on and on…good presentation, though…local friends in Olympia doing same thing.
i just noticed this guy has the same speach habit as i do using jazz as a replacement word for things and stuff
Excellent talk. I'm so thrilled at the millenials like him who are passionate and educated. They will save us (and the planet) from ourselves. More people need to watch this video, disappointing that it has had so little views. I'm going to share it to get more people educated and informed and hopefully inspired. Bravo Paul Wartman.
I love this talk! How do I share it on Facebook? Or Email it to friends?
Excellent
This reminds me of Permaculture 🙂
Oh wow, he looks like Dan Fogelberg.
9:48 siberian pea shrub is invasive, hard to kill the roots and can choke out rivers. Please aware
Great Video thank you!
I have been a raw vegan for 52 years and planted over 120,000 fruit trees and another 20,000 coconut trees. I am shocked that most raw foodists dont plant gardens or orchards or deal with soil fertility. it is critical to employ a total lifestyle as he talks about bravo for taking the time to commit to actually doing it and promoting lifestyle integrity and soil microbiota…
The speaker needs to work on his speaking ability. He swallows the words, opening the mouth when speaking would go a long way to be better understandable. I also could have done with the long intro (incl. his very personal motivations), only towards half the presentation it got tangible. I am sure he does interesting work, if only he would tell us about it. He also introduced 3 women he found inspiring, but we heard little about their work.
Why so few views 😓😥😢. I love the way he suggested not to applaud at the end. Permaculturists are truly the best among humans