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Kitchen dyes explained at the Edmonton Resilience Festival

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[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwxyxnFm1-s[/youtube] In her south Edmonton kitchen, it only takes Deborah Merriam a few hours to demonstrate how to transform a couple skeins of white, local wool into antique-gold-coloured yarn. Merriam was one of the workshop facilitators during the first-ever Edmonton Resilience Festival in February 2015, teaching 10 participants how to use natural dyes in an …

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Creating a resilient economy with pop-up stores: a Q & A with Marissa Loewen

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Resilience. What does that mean for our local economy? This is just one of the questions being explored at our Resilience Festival next weekend, and we were thrilled to have a chance to chat with Marissa Loewen of On the Spot Pop Ups about the impact of short-term shops featuring independent makers on a resilient …

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