The 4th annual Winter Cropping Workshop and Seed Exchange, sponsored by the
Eugene Permaculture Guild and Food For Lane County, is scheduled for 3.00 p.m. on
Saturday June 23 at the Food For Lane County Youth Farm in Springfield. The workshop
will be facilitated by Ted Purdy, FFLC farmer, and Nick Routledge, nursery manager
for the School Garden Project of Lane County.
The Eugene Permaculture Guild’s Summer Solstice Potluck will follow the workshop
at 6.30 p.m., at the Youth Farm, also.
Directions:
From Springfield, go north on Pioneer Parkway. At the big roundabout, go west
on Hayden Bridge Rd, turn right on Game Farm Rd. At the Baptist church, turn
left on Flamingo and go two blocks to the end of the street. You’ll see the Youth
Farm on your left.
From Eugene, take Coburg Rd north, then Harlow Rd east, cross I-5, pass Gateway,
and turn left on Game Farm Rd (if you hit the big roundabout, you’ve gone one block too
far). Six blocks down, at the Baptist church, turn left on Flamingo and go two blocks
to the end of the street. You’ll see the Youth Farm on your left.
From I-5 going north: Take Beltline Rd east exit (the first as you past the Gateway
mall on the right). Continue east on Beltline, cross Gateway. Follow Beltine east
until you have _passed_ the large hospital development on your left. Take the next
right, which is Cardinal, then go immediately left on Game Farm. At the Baptist
church a few blocks up, turn right on Flamingo (the road after Mallard) and go two
blocks to the end of the street. You’ll see the Youth Farm on your left.
CASCADIA ECOFAIR Gathering to create sustainable culture August 24, 25 and 26, 2007
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or visit the website for more info www.cascadiaecofair.org
All things permaculture at a beautiful whole-systems learning center in Colorado
Permaculture Design Certificate Course with Scott Pittman June 15 – June 29, 2007
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EPG steering committee meeting
June 12 at Bryna's
Present: Jude, Jan, Aleta, Julie, Bryna, Nick
Minutes by Julie
Next meeting- July 23rd at either Jude Hobb’s or Julia Mallalieu’s…to be
announced between now and then. This will be a combined meeting for July
and
August.
REGIONAL GATHERING-
John Sundquist knows that it will be at the farm and he is very excited!
There is lots of work to be done there but there are insurance issues that
need to be tackled first. John doesn’t have the liability coverage
necessary
to allow for us to descend upon the farm like a swarm of anal-retentive
locusts on a cleaning spree. For a mere $300.00, event liability coverage
for $1,000,000.00 can be gotten so that ALETA DOESN’T DO ALL THE WORK!
Aleta will be the “point person” with John and will tell us as soon as we
can all offer to pitch in and help.
More people are showing up for the gathering organizational meetings as
the
time draws near. The next meeting is Tues. June 12 (time?) at the Maritrea
(?) straw bale house.
Jan spoke of 4 points for the Gathering:
-WORKSHOPS- would include :
‘fun with bamboo’- making stuff like flutes, ladders,
trellises,fences,screens,cups,etc out of the 40 or 50 varieties John has
growing at the farm. Can anyone research techniques of working with
bamboo
or outreach to people that know how to and who might be interested in
teaching a workshop? Might be fun to have bamboo projects for the kids
also.
’solar cooking and preserving’- if there are any apples ripe at the time
of
the gathering we could harvest,slice, and solar dry them on site. Perhaps
someone could show the rest of us how to cook and bake with solar boxes
and
ovens. Can anyone research this?
-Bioregional aspects
-To transform the Sundquist farm into a permaculture site…or at least
come
up with a site plan during the gathering and move in that direction.
-Zonation-applying the permaculture design principle to the gathering
site/event as a way to illustrate the concept.
Funding for the gathering-we agreed to give $500.00 in loan as seed money.
Now it gets more complicated. Perhaps we agreed to forgive one to two
hundred dollars of the money in case the event isn’t the smashing success
we
hope it will be. If it is a success perhaps we expect the money back with
a
little kicker as thanks/interest. Was a specific percentage mentioned?
Also,
we discussed not requiring an entrance fee of those who cannot afford to
pay
it. We could allow for “scholarships”…work/trade…or simply let them in
for free. We should probably decide this soon…while Jan and Bryna are
still here.
Pre-registration-of utmost importance. We need to know how many will be
there to allow for food, sanitation, camping space, etc. Also, we may be
able to squish more people into fewer cars if we can help with rideshare.
Anyone who says they will be driving there should be asked if they would
be
willing to give other people a ride to or from, etc. Jan might be floating
in! The river is only 1/2 mile away! Camping will start on Thurs. night
and
will be in the filbert orchard.
Showers- We should look into “batch”water heaters which are 55 gallon
drums
painted black used once the sun heats the water to a comfortable level.
“Save water…shower with a friend”. Also, Aleta knows of some cool kind
of
portable showers they had at the “festival in the trees”.
JAN’S EXCITING ADVENTURE- Jan will be gone from July 2nd to August 2nd and
will travel from the Okanagan area of Washington through Bellingham,
Everett, Seattle, etc. and will be networking with permies in all of those
areas. Anyone who knows folks that Jan should meet up with should contact
him. Jude has some good contacts and will pass them on.
WINTERCROPPING EVENT-No need to bring anything except for food/drink for
the
solstice potluck afterwards. Aleta mentioned that we should make sure to
allow for time to make announcements about upcoming events.
THE COBB DISPLAY AT SUE’S-It shall be smashed to smithereens whilst in the
basement to make for easier disposal. Tarps shall be used and eye
protection
shall be mandatory. Anyone feeling the need to vent? Anyone have one of
those wood-splitter thingys?
POTLATCH-Sept 23rd. That day is open at the longhouse and Aleta will
reserve
the whole day for us. Perhaps we could combine it with Heather’s Food Not
Lawns fall seedswap…sans libations. Music would be great…and dancing!
We
need to think about what we might be doing soon after the potlatch so we
can
spread the word that day.
CITIZEN’S STATE OF THE CITY- January. Traditionally one week before the
Mayor’s State of the City address. Has been organized by the Citizens for
Public Accountability (CPA) in the past. Are they still doing it? Do we
want
to take part?
FARMLAND PRESERVATION COALITION-Jude has been very active with them. Pete
Sorenson came to a recent meeting. Jude spoke of Lesley Ryna (?)…a
visiting Prof.. of land design at the U of O who recently had her students
do an assessment of arable land within the city of Eugene. She also wants
to
put her students to work compiling the information necessary to write a
book
about Eugene…mapping the city out along some lines. Need to find out
more.
COUNTRY FAIR-July 13,14,15. Bryna and Julia offered to work the booth
which
is a combo booth with Lost Valley and another group(?). There are no
camping
passes available and may not even be day passes for those who staff the
booth. We will have literature there and can promo the Gathering and the
Seed Swap/Potlatch. The tent will be in the Energy Village in a nice shady
spot. Speaking of which….the Shady area gets bigger every year and is
beginning to impact the energy folks with solar displays. Perhaps we need
to
somehow get them out into the sun somehow. Talk of bridges between the Ag
folks and energy folks. We could be that bridge. Jude is our liaison.
Anyone
interested in WOmanning the booth is encouraged to contact Rick Valley.
Julia needs his number if anyone has time to e-mail it to her! The Zumwald
campground (Bryna!) is supposed to be a cool place to camp…a real
extension of the fair!
BIKE TOUR IN TIARA STREET AREA-Hopefully will happen towards the end of
June. Neil Spangler may be organizing it. It will be sent out to the
website
when the info.
becomes available. After that, perhaps we can organize a bike tour out at
Linda Lu’s area on Kinkaid in the Sundance area. It would be nice to be
able
to advertise that at the Gathering if we can get it together by then.
