Archive for September, 2010
10/14: “Getting Your Landscape Ready for Winter” workshop
Getting Your Landscape Ready for Winter
Thursday, October 14, 6:30-8:30 pm
CCE-Tompkins Education Center, 615 Willow Avenue, Ithaca
This class will cover fall tasks for landscape plants from perennials to vegetables to woody plants. Learn what can still be planted, when and what to cut back, when and how to mulch, how much to water, how to protect woodies from deer and rodents, and other seasonal tasks that will prepare your landscape plants for winters challenges. Fee: $5; pre-registration is requested. Please call 272-2292 for more information or registration. For a map, visit: http://ccetompkins.org/calendar/10/08/24/getting-your-landscape-ready-winter Presented by Cornell Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County Home Horticulture Department.
ShareTompkins lawn roller to borrow?
Begin forwarded message:
From: Gail Blake <gail.dotsonblake>
Date: September 26, 2010 6:24:03 PM EDT
To: sharetompkins
Subject: [ShareTompkins] lawn roller to borrow?Anyone out there have a lawn roller I could borrow for a couple of days? You know, one of those things that is a big barrel with a handle and you fill it with water to make it heavy and then roll it over loose soil to compact it. I am regrading my front yard and loose topsoil dumped out of a wheel barrow is pretty fluffy.
Thanks for any help!
Gail Blake
gail.dotsonblake
342-8667
Has sharing improved your life? Tell your story!
Has sharing improved your life? Have you come to a Share Tompkins event and participated in sharing or swapping that made you feel more empowered and able to meet your needs? Has sharing had a positive impact on your family and/or your sense of connection to others in the community? If so, we want to hear it!
Please send us a few paragraphs about your experience and we might feature it on the Share Tompkins website: http://sharetompkins.wordpress.com/. Some stories will even be made into short videos! The more details the better and a photo of yourself and/or the stuff you shared would be much appreciated.
Email your story to shiragolding@gmail.com and thanks for sharing!
- Shira 
Shira Golding
shiragolding@gmail.com
http://www.shirari.com
10/24: Share Tompkins Service Swap at the TC Workers’ Center
Share Tompkins Service Swap
Share and Barter Your Time and Skills!
in partnership with the Finger Lakes Bioneers Conference
Sunday, October 24, 7-8:30pm
Tompkins County Workers’ Center
115 The Commons (above Autumn Leaves), Ithaca
RSVP on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=143005909076694
Gardening for graphic design? Music lessons for massage? Ever wish you could trade time with others to meet your needs without cash?
The Share Tompkins Service Swap coincides with the Finger Lakes Bioneers Conference and it’s a chance to barter with others for services like photography, accounting, health care, and anything else that attendees have to offer.
Emphasis will be placed on making personal connections and exploring ways we can help meet each others’ needs locally.
Feel free to bring business cards, fliers and a snack or drink to share!
Join our email list:
https://lists.aktivix.org/mailman/listinfo/sharetompkins
Share Tompkins website:
http://sharetompkins.wordpress.com/
Finger Lakes Bioneers website:
http://www.wemakeourfuture.org/
TC Workers’ Center:
http://tclivingwage.org/
Share Tompkins helps folks share and trade goods and services in Ithaca and Tompkins County.
10/10: Sound & Music Swap at the Ithaca Sound Maze
Sound & Music Swap at the Ithaca Sound Maze
Sharing never sounded so good!
Sunday, October 10, 1- 4pm
Ithaca Sound Maze
Calkins Road, Ithaca, NY
RSVP on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=103701319694227
Our 12th Community Swap Meet is a very special sound and music themed event at the Ithaca Sound Maze. Sharing never sounded so good!
Bring instruments and gear (amps, cables, etc.) as well as CDs, tapes and anything music or sound related. There will be an area for bartering and another for give away stuff. You can post haves and wants to the Wall of this event or to the Share Tompkins email list (see below).
While you’re at the swap, you can explore the a-MAIZE-ing 
Ithaca Sound Maze, a corn maze packed with interactive sound installations made mostly out of found and recycled materials that you can discover and play. It’s usually $5 to visit the maze, but the organizers are offering a special $3 entrance fee during our event.
Please plan on taking stuff that isn’t scooped up back home with you. While our volunteers will arrange for left-overs to be donated, it makes our lives much easier if there aren’t a lot of items to haul.
Carpooling is encouraged – let us know if you need help finding a ride!
Join our email list:
https://lists.aktivix.org/mailman/listinfo/sharetompkins
Join our Facebook group:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=83941209554
Check out our website:
http://sharetompkins.wordpress.com/
Check out the Ithaca Sound Maze website:
http://www.ithacasoundmaze.com/
Share Tompkins helps folks share and trade goods and services in Ithaca and Tompkins County.
Last Chance to Register for the Growing Health 2010 Conference
From: “Joy Stalker”
Time is running out to register for the inaugural Growing Health 2010 Conference! You must register by Monday, September 27.
Back by popular demand, Growing Health 2010 – Common Ground: Farms Food & Health will feature a full day conference on Tuesday, October 5, 2010 at 8:30 AM at the Binghamton Regency Hotel and Conference Center in Binghamton, NY. The conference is immediately followed by an evening local food tasting from 5:30 – 9:00 PM.
Learn about the dynamic connections between food, farms, and health, and how these connections affect you. Growing Health 2010 offers something for everyone – educators, food service providers, public health advocates, community leaders, farmers, interested citizens, and anyone in between. Choose from 12 workshops covering a diversity of topic areas such as Farm-to-School, Navigating to Local Food & Health, Food Sovereignty – “What is a Local Food Citizen?” and Local Farms & Foods for Environmental, Economic, & Community Health. Be inspired by 30 visionary leaders including Jerry Brunetti (Founder of Agri-Dynamics) and NYS Commissioners Dr. Richard F. Daines (Health) and Patrick Hooker (Agriculture and Markets).
Register now as space is filling up fast. Attend the conference, or the evening local foods tasting or both events! Registration is available online at www.RuralHealthNetwork.org or by calling 888.603.5973.
New Time! – Free Compost Class this Saturday, 10am – Open to the Public
For immediate release:
Compost With Confidence: Winter Composting
Saturday, September 25th
*Note new time* 10-11am, at the Ithaca Community Gardens.
Local compost experts will provide information and give hands-on demonstrations to help you set up and manage a WINTER compost system. The class will be taught by a team of Tompkins County Master Composters, who are prepared to answer all your questions.
Sign-up for this FREE class by emailing Liz Falk, erf59@cornell.edu or call (607) 272-2292. For more information visit http://ccetompkins.org/compost
Liz
9/21: Fall Gardens Workshop
The Fall Garden: Cooler & More Colorful!
Tuesday, September 21, 6:30-8:30pm
CCE-Tompkins Education Center, 615 Willow Avenue, Ithaca NY
This class will celebrate fall as the season for garden enjoyment and renewal after a long hot summer. We will discuss what to plant for fall color in blooms and leaves, and tips for fall planting of ornamentals and edibles. Get a head start on next year, while enjoying cooler fall weather! Fee: $5/person. Pre-registration preferred; please call 607-272-2292 to preregister, or contact Pat Curran at pc21@cornell.edu with questions.
The Beehive Collective – True Cost of Coal multi-tool for activists
The Beehive Collective creates visually stunning graphic multi-tool for activists and ordinary people seeking real solutions to energy extraction and climate change.
After two years of collaborative research, storysharing, metaphor crafting, and meticulous illustrating, the bees have completed an epic illustration about mountaintop removal coal mining! Teeming with bioregionally appropriate plant and animal species from the most biodiverse temperate forests in the world, the critters that appear in this image are significant to the Appalachian mountains both ecologically AND culturally. A full cast of characters by their common names is available in the narrative.
http://www.beehivecollective.org/english/coal.htm
Be sure to see their other workshop presentations:
DISMANTLING MONOCULTURE
Tales of Ants & Economies in the Americas
MESOAMERICA RESISTE!
Celebrating Resistance to Plan Puebla Panama
GRAPHICS FOR THE COMMONS
Collaborative Graphic Design for Movement Building
“In our workshops and presentations, we use giant, portable murals to deconstruct issues as far-reaching as globalization, climate change, colonization and resource extraction. We strive to provoke discussion, raise hard questions, and share hopeful stories about the small-scale changes and actions we can undertake to build a better world.” – The Beehive Collective
Majora Carter to speak at Syracuse University on September 21st
From: Marian Brown <mbrown>
Majora Carter, environmental justice advocate and founder of
Sustainable South Bronx, will be speaking at Syracuse University
Hendricks Chapel on
September 21st at 7:30PM.
Ms. Carter will present
“Green the Ghetto and
How Much It Won’t Cost Us.”
This event is free and
open to the public. There is reduced-rate parking for this event at the
Irving Avenue parking garage.
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Whole Farm Planning For Beginning Women Farmers
Quick! Answer these four questions:
Do you wear muddy boots more than you wear high heels?
Do you believe women farmers learn more effectively from each other?
Would you like to learn from other women farmers?
Have you been farming less than 10 years?
If you answered yes to at least three of the above questions, you have a chance to join other farming women for support and camaraderie learning about whole farm planning. Through funds from a USDA grant, beginning women farmers in NY can learn more about whole farm planning in a program developed specifically for women. It costs nothing but your time and interest.
This program includes:
One-on-One Mentorships
On-Farm Field Visits
Business & Financial Planning Training
Network of Women Farmers
Classes will be scheduled beginning early November 2010 and continuing through Spring 2011 with farm visits during the growing season of 2011. Commitment to attend all sessions is expected. Exact training locations and dates to be determined.
Topics include:
1. Introduction to Whole Farm Planning; Creating a Values-based Farm Mission; Improved Decision Making Process
2. Increasing Farm Profitability (Gross Profit Analysis; Enterprise Analysis) 3. Creating a Farm Financial Plan
4. Business Planning Basics
5. Creating a Marketing Plan
6. Soil Fertility Basics; Examining Enterprise Environmental Impact 7. Time Management
8. Land and Infrastructure Planning
9. Leadership and Communication Skills
10. Improving Soil Health with Livestock, Cover Crops, and Rotations
Sound good? If you are interested in learning more or applying for this program, please contact Phil Metzger at 607-334-3231, x4 or
phil.metzger@ny.usda.gov
Application deadline is September 30, 2010!
** Want to be a farmer mentor in this program?**
If so, please contact Phil for more information and to apply.
The Finger Lakes Permaculture Institute
offers workshops, apprenticeships, and
permaculture design certificate classes.
http://www.fingerlakespermaculture.org
Window Workshop on Sept 30th and other Energy programs at CCE
From: “Carole Fisher”
If you haven’t attended one yet, please make note of the fall schedule for the “Save Energy Save Dollars” workshops below…
and the upcoming “Repairing and Weatherizing Older Windows” workshop being held only once at CCE on Thursday, Sept. 30th.
Save Energy Save Dollars is a free 2-hour program where:
* You will learn about low-cost and no-cost energy saving actions; * Energy conservation facts will be shared and myths will be busted with research-based information;
* You will learn about financial incentives you may be eligible for to help you afford energy-efficiency improvements;
* Each participant will leave with an individualized action plan ; and * Each participating household will leave with an Energy-Saver Kit to help get started on lowering energy bills.
The program is free, but pre-registration is required. Call CCE-Tompkins at (607) 272-2292 to reserve a seat.
Schedule of workshops:
Tues, Sept. 21, 12:00 -2:00 pm
Thurs, Oct. 7, 6:30 -8:30 pm
Fri, Oct. 15, 12:30 -2:30 pm
Thurs, Oct. 28, 6:30 -8:30 pm
at CCE-Tompkins, 615 Willow Ave, Ithaca, NY 14850
Repairing and Weatherizing Older Windows
Thurs,Sept. 30th, 7:00 – 9:00 pm at CCE-Tompkins, 615 Willow Ave, Ithaca, NY 14850
In this workshop you will learn:
* How to replace worn parting-bead to tighten up a window;
* How to repair the sash-cords on your double-hung windows with weights; * How to re-glaze an older window;
* About energy efficient treatments you can add to your older windows.
Presented by Mark Pierce, Cornell Cooperative Extension Associate. The program is free, but pre-registration is required. Call CCE-Tompkins at (607) 272-2292 to reserve a seat.
Hope to see you there!
Carole Fisher
Community Educator
Cornell Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County
615 Willow Ave.
Ithaca, NY 14850
(607) 272-2292
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looking to borrow/rent implements
Hi folks:
If you or someone you know has a york rake or box blade they are willing to borrow out or rent to me for a week or so, please contact me off list:
steve
thanks
S
Wed 9/15: Share Tompkins Organizers’ Meeting
Share Tompkins Organizers’ Meeting
Like sharing? All are welcome to come to this organizers’ meeting to plan for the next few months of Share Tompkins events. We’ll also discuss strategies for reaching new people, partnering with other groups and generating press.
Wednesday, September 15, 7-9pm
212 N. Plain St. #1, Ithaca, NY 14850
Feel free to bring snacks (vegan) or drinks to share.
If you’d like to get involved but can’t come to the meeting, let us know!
RSVP for the event on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=146364565401632
Share Tompkins helps folks share and trade goods and services in Ithaca and Tompkins County: http://sharetompkins.wordpress.com
See you there!
- Shira
reminder – Edible Forest Gardening Class This Sat.
Seeking Common Ground and Patty Love of Barefoot Edible Landscape and Permaculture proudly
Present:
Edible Forest Gardening In A Nutshell: An Introduction
Edible Forest Gardening (EFG) is an effective way to design home scale gardens in our climate that
mimic forest ecosystem structure and function, but grow food, fuel, fiber, fodder, fertilizer,
"farmaceuticals," and fun while we consciously apply the principles of ecology and permaculture.
Join us for a hands-on skill-building experience in edible forest gardening. Learn to transform
traditional lawn landscapes into abundant food-producing perennial forest gardens. Participants will
learn the skills needed to get started at their own home or expand the abilities of a gardening
business. We will get our hands dirty while we install and establish a brand new forest garden.
Have you wanted to:
• learn about Permaculture and/or Edible Forest Gardening?
• learn how to grow more food in less space with less weeding
and watering?
• learn how to use organic gardening methods to produce
healthier food for your family?
• learn how to build healthy soil?
• learn how to incorporate healthy nuts, fruits, and perennial
vegetables into your garden space?
Whether you know a lot or a little about gardening, this class is for you!
What: A four hour intensive workshop open to everyone
Cost: $60.00
Location: Shimmering Light Farm in South Bristol, NY (45 minutes southeast of Rochester)
Date: September 18, 2010 (Limit 20 participants)
Time: 9:00 am – 1:00 pm (followed by an optional potluck lunch)
Facilitator: Patty Love, Barefoot Edible Landscape & Permaculture
Topics covered:
An Introduction to Permaculture and EdibleForest Gardening
Basic Organic Gardening Techniques
The Design Process Using ForestGarden Pattern Language
Installing an EdibleForestGarden
For more information contact:
Patty Love, Owner, Barefoot Edible Landscape and Permaculture
patty@barefootpermaculture.com or phone: 585.506.6505
Deb Marie Denome, Director, Seeking Common Ground, Inc.
info@seekingcommonground.org or phone: 585-394-7610
Garden Based Learning Training – Oct/Nov 2010
Gardens 4 Humanity (G4H), in Ithaca, is recruiting parents, teachers, students and all interested community members to become Garden Based Learning (GBL) teachers. As a GBL teacher, you will receive a free 16-hour training on topics including gardening basics, effectively teaching kids and adults in and out of the classroom setting, and garden and food related activities. After the training, you will be able to shadow experienced GBL teachers in a classroom, after-school or community setting during Garden Based Learning programs. You will then be matched with a school or community site to teach a group on a regular basis.
NOTE: In exchange for the free 16-hour training, Gardens 4 Humanity asks for 16-hours of volunteer teaching time. No prior gardening experience is required. Dates and Times:
(location in downtown Ithaca to be announced)
Tuesday, October 12, 5:30-7:30pm
Tuesday, October 26, 5:30-7:30pm
Saturday, November 6, 10:00am-3:00pm
Tuesday, November 9, 5:30-7:30pm
Visit this web site for more information. And please help circulate! www.ccetompkins.org/gbltraining
Wed 9/15: Share Tompkins Organizers’ Meeting
Share Tompkins Organizers’ Meeting
Like sharing? All are welcome to come to this organizers’ meeting to plan for the next few months of Share Tompkins events. We’ll also discuss strategies for reaching new people, partnering with other groups and generating press.
Wednesday, September 15, 7-9pm
212 N. Plain St. #1, Ithaca, NY 14850
Feel free to bring snacks (vegan) or drinks to share.
If you’d like to get involved but can’t come to the meeting, let us know!
RSVP for the event on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=146364565401632
Share Tompkins helps folks share and trade goods and services in Ithaca and Tompkins County: http://sharetompkins.wordpress.com
See you there!
- Shira
Shira Golding
shiragolding@gmail.com
http://www.shirari.com
Edible Forest Gardening In A Nutshell: An Introduction 9/18/10
Seeking Common Ground and Patty Love of Barefoot Edible Landscape and Permaculture proudly present
Edible Forest Gardening In A Nutshell: An Introduction
Edible Forest Gardening (EFG) is an effective way to design home scale gardens in our climate that mimic forest ecosystem structure and function, but grow food, fuel, fiber, fodder, fertilizer, "farmaceuticals," and fun while we consciously apply the principles of ecology and permaculture. Join us for a hands-on skill-building experience in edible forest gardening. Learn to transform traditional lawn landscapes into abundant food-producing perennial forest gardens. Participants will learn the skills needed to get started at their own home or expand the abilities of a gardening business. We will get our hands dirty while we install and establish a brand new forest garden.
Have you wanted to:
- learn about Permaculture and/or Edible Forest Gardening?
- learn how to grow more food in less space with less weeding and watering?
- learn how to use organic gardening methods to produce healthier food for your family?
- learn how to build healthy soil?
- learn how to incorporate healthy nuts, fruits, and perennial vegetables into your garden space?
Whether you know a lot or a little about gardening, this class is for you!
What: A four hour intensive workshop open to everyone
Cost: $60.00
Location: Shimmering Light Farm in South Bristol, NY (45 minutes southeast of Rochester)
Date: September 18, 2010 (Limit 20 participants)
Time: 9:00 am – 1:00 pm (followed by an optional potluck lunch)
Facilitator: Patty Love, Barefoot Edible Landscape & Permaculture
Topics covered:
An Introduction to Permaculture and EdibleForest Gardening
Basic Organic Gardening Techniques
The Design Process Using ForestGarden Pattern Language
Installing an EdibleForestGarden
For more information contact:
Patty Love, Owner, Barefoot Edible Landscape and Permaculture
patty@barefootpermaculture.com or phone: 585.506.6505
Deb Marie Denome, Director, Seeking Common Ground, Inc.
info@seekingcommonground.org or phone: 585-394-7610
