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Composting indifference into resilience | Jayme Melrose | TEDxNovaScotia

2,418 views · Published 12 September 2014 · 15:57 · Indexed 14 October 2026

Channel: TEDx Talks · 2014 · Nonprofits & Activism

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This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Ideas about food, gardening, indifference and resilience. 

Jayme was raised in northern BC by European hippies who taught her to grow food and cook with butter. After graduation she narrowly avoided treeplanting and pipeline work by getting lost farming in southeast Asia. Upon return to Canada, she diligently kept her carbon footprint small by living in Vancouver and working in flower shops until she was accepted to the Linnaea Ecological Gardening Program on Cortes Island. There she learned just enough about Permaculture to be dangerous. A few years gardening in BC & southern Ontario was enough to scare her back to school. She went for a degree in Community Design from Dalhousie. Armed with some professional design skills, her first big job was to design and install an all-native food and medicine forest garden at the Glooskap Heritage Centre - a Mi'kmaq museum on the Millbrook Reserve. She's now the Project Coordinator for Common Roots Urban Farm, where she's been since 2011.

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