Hello friends,
Check out this extensive permaculture food skills course held September 24th, 2009 - September 27th, 2009 at beautiful Lost Valley in Dexter, OR. There are still a few spots remaining!
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Intensive Permaculture Food Skills Course
Enjoy 4 FULL days in the living and learning kitchen at Lost Valley Educational Center outside of Eugene, OR.
During this four-day, intensive workshop you will learn and participate in a variety of hands-on activities related to permaculture based food skills.
Subjects explored will include: food preservation (canning, drying, pickling, fermenting, smoking, cellaring), cheese, yogurt, and kefir making, kombucha brewing, beer, wine, and cider making, beekeeping and honey, sprouting, natural bread baking, tools of the trade: solar food cookers, hay boxes, solar food dryers, mills, and presses), raising birds for eggs, and more.
Three organic vegetarian meals per day and lodging included.
In your free time, you can utilize your access to our on-property trail system and experience the ins and outs of living in an intentional community and developing ecovillage.
$300 dorms, $250 camping
Register for this event at:
http://www.lostvalley.org/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=6
Questions?
Phone: 541 937 3351 x 112
Email: events@lostvalley.org
Be well!
Lost Valley
All tours are free, fun and sociable
Saturday, August 22, Jefferson Westside Neighborhood, 11 AM, meet at 10th and Monroe
Saturday, August 29, Southeast Neighbors, 10 am, meet at Rene and Bob’s house, 880 East 43rd avenue (between Donald and Fox Hollow)
Saturday, Sept 12, Whiteaker Neighborhood
Saturday, Sept. 26, Fairmount Neighbors
Grass to garden, solar features, edible landscaping, reclaiming automobile space, rain catchment, food preservation, collaborations and much more,,,,,,,,
check back here or the wiki website for schedule updates http://www.eugeneneighbors.org/wiki/NLCgreen
Sponsored by Kris Ryan a member of the Danebo/Bethel Ecovillage.
I am sponsoring a monthly Coffee and Tea get-together ( the first one was in January) and it will be held in my home on February 8th,this next Sunday, join us between the hours of 1:00 and 4:00pm.
This get-together is for all that are interested in gardening, landscaping or permaculture, come visit, network and talk to people interested in some of the same things you are, trade ideas, plants and seeds.
Location of the get-together is in the Danebo/Bethel area, please contact Kris for exact address and to get directions at 689-3268.
Fall Ecology and Harvest: An Intergenerational Exploration
October 13-14, 2007 (Saturday-Sunday)
at Lost Valley Educational Center, Dexter, OR
We invite people ages 12 through 112 to join us to learn about fall ecology, indigenous tradition, and the harvest season here in the western Cascade foothills. Throughout this weekend of presentations, discussions, and activities, we’ll explore how we can learn from one another and pass ecological wisdom and insights back and forth between generations. Early registration has started; please plan to attend! See www.lostvalley.org/fallecology for updated event details, or contact Fall Ecology and Harvest Event, 81868 Lost Valley Lane, Dexter, OR 97431, (541) 937-2567 x116, nature AT lostvalley.org.
Fall Ecology and Harvest: An Intergenerational Exploration (extended description)
October 13-14, 2007 (Saturday-Sunday)
at Lost Valley Educational Center, 81868 Lost Valley Lane, Dexter, OR 97431
(541) 937-2567 x116, nature AT lostvalley.org
updated event details: www.lostvalley.org/fallecology
brochure: www.lostvalley.org/files/Fall%20Ecology%20and%20Harvest%20brochure.pdf
poster: www.lostvalley.org/files/Fall%20Ecology%20and%20Harvest%20poster.pdf
registration form: www.lostvalley.org/fallecology/registration
Cosponsored by Lost Valley Nature Center and NextGEN (the youth branch of the Global Ecovillage Network), this event will focus on fall ecology, indigenous tradition, and the harvest season here in the western Cascade foothills. We’ll explore what is happening on the land at this time of year, and how we humans can harvest the bounty from our gardens, farms, orchards, and from the wild. We’ll learn about the ways of the Kalapuya who preceded us here, as well as sustainable food growing and preservation, resource stewardship, ecological restoration, and traditional seasonal celebrations. We’ll bring together people ages 12 through 112 to explore how we can learn from one another and pass ecological wisdom and insights back and forth between generations. We’ll also learn about school gardens, mushrooms, lichens, and mosses, building community, ecovillages, and more.
Presenters:
• Esther Stutzman (Kalapuyan storyteller)
• Bill Burwell (Kalapuya researcher)
• Jude Hobbs (Permaculture teacher and designer, Agroecology Northwest)
• Jerry Hall (ethnobotanist, Lane Community College)
• Jen Anonia (Food for Lane County Gardens Program Manager)
• Heiko Koester (Permacultural landscaper, Eugene Permaculture Guild)
• Sharon Blick (former director, School Garden Project)
• Rick Valley (Lost Valley land steward, Permaculture teacher and designer)
• Alison Rosenblatt (NextGEN–Global Ecovillage Network)
• Tammy Davis (mycologist, Lost Valley Educational Center)
• Tobias Policha (ethnobotanist, Institute of Contemporary Ethnobotany)
• Sarah Kleeger and Andrew Still (Seed Ambassadors Project)
• Dave Kofranek (lichenologist)
• Dharmika Henschel (ethnobotanist/musician)
• and more.
Early conference registration fee (until Sept. 15), including four organic vegetarian meals, is $95 for students ages 12 and above, $125 for non-students. Regular fees are $105 for students, $135 for non-students. Overnight lodging is also available. A limited number of work-trade opportunities and scholarships are available; please inquire.
Cosponsors:
Lost Valley Nature Center
Lost Valley Educational Center’s 87 acres include oak savanna, natural meadow, stream and riparian areas, ponds, extensive forest lands in various states of maturity, gardens and orchards. Our diverse habitats and several miles of nature trails offer unique environmental education opportunities. Lost Valley Nature Center sponsors walks and public events (like May’s Native Plants and Permaculture Gathering) to help nature-lovers learn from the land and from one another.
NextGEN
NextGEN is a global network organized by young adults concerned with issues of sustainability. We hope to inspire you with examples of viable and positive choices for the future. We offer opportunities for action through conferences, educational workshops, and direct experience in communities. Our international support network develops connections among activists and encourages resource sharing.
Fall Ecology and Harvest Event Registration
October 13-14, 2007 (Saturday-Sunday) at Lost Valley Educational Center, Dexter, OR
Name:____________________________________________________________
Address:__________________________________________________________
Phone(s):__________________________________________________________
Email:____________________________________________________________
School (if student):__________________________________________________
Name #2:_________________________________________________________
Address:__________________________________________________________
Phone(s):__________________________________________________________
Email:____________________________________________________________
School (if student):__________________________________________________
Conference and Meal Fees (including four organic vegetarian meals, Sat. lunch and dinner, Sun. breakfast and lunch):
__$95 early registration, students ages 12 and above, until Sept. 15, 2007
__$105 regular registration, students ages 12 and above
__$125 early registration, non-students, until Sept. 15, 2007
__$135 regular registration, non-students
A limited number of work-trade opportunities and partial scholarships are available; please inquire.
Lodging: __$30/adult dormitory accommodations, Saturday night
__$20/minor dormitory accommodations, Saturday night (under 18; must be accompanied by parent or guardian)
__$10 camping per person, Saturday night
Nature Center Membership Contribution (receive e-newsletters and other member benefits, and help support the Nature Center):
__$25 __$50 __$100 __other: $____
Scholarship Donation (help others with limited funds attend this gathering):
__$25 __$50 __$100 __other: $____
Total Payment (pre-surcharge): $____
Payment method: __check (payable to Lost Valley Center) –or– __credit/debit card:
Type:________ Expiration date:_________Number:____________________________
Name on card:_______________________
Please add 5% surcharge for credit/debit card payments: $____ Total: $____
Additional Questions:
How did you hear about this event?__________________________________________
Can you offer a ride? (if yes: when, and from where?)_____________________________
Would you like a ride? (if yes: when, and from where?)____________________________
Do you have any additional suggestions or questions?_____________________________
Please send completed form to Fall Ecology and Harvest Gathering, LVEC, PO Box 55, Dexter, OR 97431 USA.
You may also call 541-937-2567 ext. 116, email nature AT lostvalley.org, or register and pay online by following the links at www.lostvalley.org/fallecology
Excerpts from May’s Native Plants and Permaculture Conference Proceedings:
Bill Burwell: At the start of each harvest season the Kalapuyans would have a first gathering ceremony. The spiritual leader of each winter village site would harvest a few articles of each resource, bring it back, prepare it in a ceremonial way, bless the plants or animals that were responsible, and then the regular harvest could begin. The first gathering ceremony was very important to them, and it was practiced all throughout the Kalapuya culture, religiously. Their belief was that all plants and animals, including humans, were part of the same format. As above, so below. Just like humans, plants and all animals had families, and then beyond the families they had communities.
There’s one word I know of that was utilized all the way up and down the Willamette Valley, the lower Columbia, and into the Salish area in Washington: Tamanawas. It’s been translated as spirit power. People who went out on a vision quest were looking for their Tamanawas. I think what it really related to was a person’s ability to interconnect with all the rest of nature. I’ve collected a number of tales of the people going out into the woods to find a particular medicine, and their ability to find this medicine came from the ability to plug into that certain plant and interact with it. The plant actually was the teacher of the person who was going out on the search.
Jerry Hall: When we started learning our language, songs began coming to us. There is the belief that songs are just in the ether or in the air, and they select somebody to come to at a time in that person’s life. … My experience is that singing evokes something from us that is beyond talking and gives expression to prayer.
I feel that nature is really part of the home and that people related that way five hundred years ago. People knew where everything was and they took care of it.
Dear Friends,
Please join us for a community presentation and discussion about natural building, community place-making, and social and ecological solutions to healthy urban and rural habitat. In other communities this has been an event that brings people together into new opportunities. Please consider this your personal invitation and I encourage you to pass this along to your circles and networks.
This slide presentation and community discussion will be held on Thursday, October 11th from 7:00-9:00pm at Cozmic Pizza in Eugene (on the corner of 8th Ave. and Charnelton downtown). A suggested donation of $5-10 supports the Natural Building Network. Natural Building related books and other items will be available for sale.
For additional information about natural building and this presentation please contact Carrie Campbell at 541-337-2590 or visit www.naturalbuildingnetwork.org.
Natural Building Network is a not-for-profit membership association promoting natural building principles, materials and practitioners worldwide. We support ecological regeneration, social justice, the building of community and economic opportunity, and the recognition of indigenous wisdom as essential in creating healthy, beautiful, and spiritually-uplifting habitation for everyone.
In community,
Jack
Jack Stephens
Executive Director
Natural Building Network
www.naturalbuildingnetwork.org
“Escape From Suburbia”
Saturday, September 29
Doors open at 7PM, film begins at 7:30
Central Presbyterian Church
555 E. 15th Ave., Eugene
$5-20 sliding-scale donation.
Info: denise4peace@hotmail.com
Film screening and Panel Discussion with Community Figures and Director Greg Greene. Raffle Prizes include a professional permaculture design consultation with Jude Hobbs and LTD Bus Passes!
Sponsors include EWEB; EPUD utility district; Lane County’s public transit service, LTD; and Central Presbyterian Church.
Please spread the word among your mainstream friends and acquaintances. Those of us already involved in the permaculture movement know that there IS life (a better life!) after Peak Oil–but many in the mainstream don’t have a clue about why what we’re doing is so important for THEM. In the post-Peak era, living sustainably won’t be an “alternative lifestyle:” it will be the way everyone HAS TO live if they want to survive. This film will help them draw that conclusion.
Suburbia, and all it promises, has become the American Dream. The film “The End of Suburbia” introduced the concept of Peak Oil (the point at which world-wide oil production peaks, and after which it declines). Now, in “Escape from Suburbia,” theory gives way to reality as a global debate rages over when demand will outpace supply. The new film documents the emerging movement of citizens’ groups confronting our addiction to oil and follows individuals from different walks of life, along with a small California town, as they take on the most dramatic shift in modern history.
Escape from Suburbia is a wake-up call that challenges the illusion of never-ending growth based on the availability of cheap and abundant oil. Expert opinion and commentary from government and industry are countered by on-the-street skepticism from a growing segment of the population who’ve had personal experiences with natural disasters, rising gas prices and fragile energy grids. In Escape from Suburbia, viable local alternatives for citizens and communities are explored to ensure the survival of a sustainable civilization in the 21st Century and beyond.
All things permaculture at a beautiful whole-systems learning center in Colorado
Permaculture Design Certificate Course with Scott Pittman June 15 – June 29, 2007
June 15 – June 29, 2007 $1050 early bird registration ends May 25, thereafter $1150
This is a two-week residential training program on ins and outs of permaculture design and sustainable living methods. “Though the problems of the world are increasingly more complex, the solutions remain embarrassingly simple…” said Bill Mollison, co-founder of permaculture. Come learn practical solutions for a positive and sustainable future. Presented by the Permaculture Drylands Institute and Scott Pittman. For information, contact Arina at info@permaculture.org, or see www.permaculture.org
Join us thiw Saturday for a tour of five Perma friendly properties in River Road.
saturday, feb 24- culture change orientation and tour of several permaculture sites in river road
location- jan spencer’s place, 212 benjamin. near horn lane and river road
directions to jan’s place- http://www.suburbanpermaculture.org/Directions.htm
noon orientation. thoughts on suburban renewal and building community cohesion. what are some of the potentials of suburbia. what is community cohesion and why is it perhaps our greatest renewable resouce.
tour starts at 1- see and learn about grass to garden, rain water catchment, concrete removal, solar redesign, increased residential density [check out the bungalow], habitat/water features, surface water management, solar electricity. visit six perma projects in river road both new and several years old and evolving. a great way to see what people are working on. see images of jan’s place at www.suburbanpermaculture.org or youtube 24 minute tour and interview http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=suburban+renewal&search=Search
there are many other perma sites in eugene, would be great if people in other areas organized tours in thier parts of town
> Hello Eugene friends,
>
> I’ll be in Eugene next week talking about my new
> book, The Revolution
> Will Not Be Microwaved: Inside America’s Underground
> Food Movements,
> along with Eugene activist Heather C.Flores, author
> of Food Not
> Lawns: How to Turn Your Lawn into a Garden and Your
> Neighborhod into
> a Community. This will be a
> food-share/skill- share/seed- swap/food
> activist networking event. If you can, bring
> ferments or other food
> creations, seeds, and/or skills to share. Please
> forward this notice
> to people you know who might be interested. Thanks.
> Hope to see you!
>
> Sandor
>
>
> When: Wednesday, November 29, 6-9 pm
> Where: World Cafe, 4th & Blair, Eugene
> FREE!
> Contact: sandorkraut@ wildfermentation .com
>
>
> Sandor Ellix Katz aka sandorkraut
> www.wildfermentatio n.com
> Author of The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved:
> Inside America’s
> Underground Food Movements (2006) and
> Wild Fermentation: The Flavor, Nutrition, and Craft
> of Live-Culture
> Foods (2003)
