Archive for May, 2011
Valet Bike Parking at the Ithaca Festival
Hi all,
The Ithaca Festival is coming up soon on June 2 – 5! For the past several years, there has been valet bike parking available, and literally hundreds of people bike to the festival. In a nutshell, valet bike parking is a volunteer run part of the festival, which offers secure bike parking for Sunday June 5th at Stewart Park. There is a fenced in area where we set up rows of bike racks, and move bikes in and out as people come and go throughout the day.
Last year, volunteers graciously parked over 100 bikes of all varieties, including mountain bikes, city bikes, road racers, family tandems with trail-a-bikes, folding bikes, kid trailers, and even an electric-assist xtracycle or two. We had a fun time chatting about bikes, drooling over the variety of interesting rides, and helping festival goers park their bikes.
WE NEED YOUR HELP! If you would like to volunteer on this day to park bikes and join in on the fun, then please fill out our quick and easy online form. It works well to volunteer for at least a few hours at a time, although if you just have an hour as you’re passing by or want to stay all day then your help is certainly appreciated too!
If you’d like to help, then sign up online here: http://doodle.com/8hhqyzxfbnngfggk. Just put your name and email or phone number in the text box, and click the boxes for the hours you want to sign up for. If you have any trouble there, just email me instead.
I am coordinating the valet bike parking this year, so if you have any questions, please email me or call my cell at 607-229-2641. We will also have the "Way2Go Depot" tabling next to the bike parking area with literature on biking, walking, TCAT and Ithaca Carshare, and welcome any other reasonable related promotion you want to do on your shift.
Thanks for you help and hope to see you there,
Andy Goodell
Upcoming Gardening & Ag offerings at CCE-Tompkins
Please visit our Calendar of Events at http://ccetompkins.org/calendar for a complete list of workshops and events currently scheduled by Cornell Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County! Call (607) 272-2292 with questions or to register!
Volunteer Work & Learning Sessions at ICG
Monday, May 23, 5:00-7:00pm
Ithaca Children’s Garden, Rt. 89 at Cass Park, Ithaca
Drop in at the Ithaca Children’s Garden for volunteer work and learning sessions on Monday evenings 5:00-7:00pm from May 16 – June 27. Volunteers will work with the guidance of professional horticulturist Linda Yannone to get the garden in shape this season. Come once or several times to learn gardening basics hands-on, or simply to help the Children’s Garden look its best. No gardening experience required. All ages are welcome! For more information, contact Leigh MacDonald-Rizzo, ICG Garden Manager at (607) 272-2292 x186, or lam26.
Finger Lakes Cheese Trail Open House
Saturday, May 28, 10:00 am-5:00 pm
Various locations
Visit artisanal cheese producers and sample their products on this day-long open house. Many varieties are now being made, from cow, sheep & goat milk. Find a map, addresses and links to producer websites at http://ccetompkins.org/cheesetrail or find Finger Lakes Cheese Trail on Facebook. For more information, contact Monika Roth at Cornell Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County (607) 272-2292 or mr55@cornell.edu. Next open house is: Saturday, July 9.
Introduction to Edible & Medicinal Herbs & Spices
Monday, June 6, 6:00-8:00 pm
Cooperative Extension Education Center, 615 Willow Avenue, Ithaca
Learn about the growing habits and benefits of herbs and spices culinary, medicinal, and aroma-therapeutic. Enjoy a hands-on class with a complete sampling of herbs and plenty of time for Q&A. Class will be taught by a member of the Auraca Herbarists, the herb group associated with Cornell Plantations and the NYS Robison Herb garden. Fee: $5. Please call (607) 272-2292 and register in advance so we can make a sufficient number of handouts!
Garden Reprise
Thursday June 9, 6:30-8:30pm
Groton Public Library, 112 East Cortland Street, Groton
Gardening doesn’t have to stop with spring planting! Find out what veggies and herbs can be planted in June or July for late summer/fall harvest. Patricia Curran, Horticulture Educator at Cornell Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County, also will discuss ornamental plants, nursery sales. and late summer container plantings. Questions welcome! Sign up at the Groton Public Library, by email at director or by telephone at (607) 898-5055. For questions about the workshop, contact Pat Curran at pc21@cornell.edu or Cornell Cooperative Extension (607) 272-2292.
2011 Open Days Garden Tour
Saturday, June 11, 10:00am-4:00pm
Various locations in Tompkins County
Visit any or all of 3 outstanding private gardens that are open to the public for one day only. $5 per person per garden, proceeds benefit the Tompkins County Community Beautification Program and the national Garden Conservancy. The tour goes on rain or shine. For garden addresses, maps and photos, visit http://ccetompkins.org/opendays or contact Dan Klein at (607) 272-2292 ext 123 or dek22@cornell.edu
Gardener’s Pot Swap & Recycling Event
9:00am-6:00pm on Friday, June 24 – Monday, June 27
at Cooperative Extension Education Center, 615 Willow Avenue, Ithaca NY
From Friday June 24 through Monday June 27, you can leave your plastic nursery pots, trays and cell packs in the designated area off the CCE-Tompkins main parking lot on Willow Avenue. You may take away as many pots as you can use, too! Plastic that is left after the weekend event will be taken to a recycler for processing. This is a FREE opportunity for gardeners to recycle their plastic plant containers instead of throwing them away. Questions? Contact Monika Roth at Cornell Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County (607) 272-2292 or mr55@cornell.edu.
Compost with Confidence: Getting Started
Saturday, June 25, 10:00-11:00am
at the Compost Demonstration site, Ithaca Community Gardens at the entrance to the Ithaca Farmers’ Market
Master Composter volunteers will provide information and hands-on demonstrations on how to set up and manage a compost system in any setting! This FREE 5-part series meets on the last Saturday of the month from June through October. Each class covers composting basics and a special topic. Just show up, or sign up in advance by contacting Liz Falk at erf59 or call Cornell Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County at (607) 272-2292.
The After-the-Plant-Sale Sale next Wednesday
The After-the-Plant-Sale Sale
Wednesday, May 25, 4:00-7:00 pm
CCE-Tompkins Education Center, 615 Willow Avenue, Ithaca
The Master Gardener volunteers from Cornell Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County have some perennials left from the Plant Sale this past weekend, and Gardens 4 Humanity has some veggie transplants and woodies left, so we are having a joint sale here at Cornell
Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County, 615 Willow Avenue, Ithaca.
Trees available through G4H include hardy pecan, chestnut hybrids, improved black walnuts, persian walnuts, heartnuts, shellbark and shagbark hicories and hicans. Help us fund our garden projects and start your nut orchard this spring!
Josh Dolan
CCE Tompkins
Gardens 4 Humanity
Mushroom Workshop this weekend
May 21 & 22, 9-5 pm Saturday at Hawk Meadow Farm Sunday at Cayuta Sun Schuyler County, NY It is not too late to sign up for the Finger Lakes Permaculture Institute's two-day workshop on edible mushroom cultivation or just the Saturday morning shiitake inoculation class. We will inoculate shiitake, oyster, and stropharia mushrooms and discuss how to successfully raise multiple harvest, including mushroom laying yard design and the economics of production. Sessions will be taught by Steve Sierigk and Steve Gabriel. More information including registration, fees, and directions can be found at: http://FingerLakesPermaculture.org
using Osage Orange for living fences
Keep in mind that Osage Orange can become invasive. It needs attention.
On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 11:14 PM, Ian Graham <iagraham> wrote:
Joey, you can buy seedlings from Lawyer Nursery in Oregon. www.lawyernursery.com . FAster than starting from seed. Not expensive. You’ll need hundreds for a osage fence/hedge.
Ian in ON
using Osage Orange for living fences
Joey, you can buy seedlings from Lawyer Nursery in Oregon. www.lawyernursery.com . FAster than starting from seed. Not expensive. You’ll need hundreds for a osage fence/hedge.
Ian in ON
black raspberry plants
Sorry to bother whole list but don’t have Joel’s 0separate email address. YES YES: I’d like 5-8 berry bushes! Pick up monday afternoon? – patricia Haines, Level Green
Level Green – fostering just and sustainable community through collaborative initiatives in hospitality, education and the arts, in the democratic spirit of the Danish Folk School
black raspberry plants
Joel:
I’m currently out of town, but the Finger Lakes Permaculture Institute would happily take up to ten of your plants. I could arrange to pick up next week, probably.
thanks
Steve
joel gagnon wrote:
black raspberry plants
Hi All –
I had a nice crop of tip-root plants from my black raspberries this year, with about 45 of them. Free to a good home (which is to say, don’t take them if you aren’t going to plant them). Any unspoken for by Sunday will go to the Danby Plant Exchange (1-4 at the Danby Fire Station).
The variety is Macblack, a late-fruiting cultivar that extends the season. Excellent quality and size.
Get back to me pronto with an indication of how many you want me to save for you if you want them, as well as some idea how you will get them. I am in the middle of West Danby, which is about 10 miles southwest of Ithaca on 34/96.
Joel Gagnon
FLPCI Seeks PDC Organizing Intern
2011 PDC Organizing Internship
Interested in teaching permaculture? Do you want to learn what is involved with organizing a permaculture design certification course? The Finger Lakes Permaculture Institute would like to invite our alumni and other equally qualified individuals to apply for our 2011 PDC Organizing Internship.
This is a full-time, volunteer position from July 19th until August 10th. We also request that the intern be available for evening Skype conference calls with the teaching team in the weeks leading up to the PDC. This will be as intense and rewarding as your PDC!
Working closely with Michael Burns, Steve Gabriel, Karry Olson Ramanujan and Rafter Sass, you will assist the with the PDC administration and logistics, especially at the class site.
You will be expected to learn and manage the big picture of running and managing a PDC including meeting the camping, food, water, waste, and classroom needs of the teachers and students. Organizing this learning community will give you a chance to learn how we build and deliver our curriculum, evaluate our work, and assess the learning outcomes of our students.
In addition, you will have the opportunity to teach a permaculture-related topic that youre passionate about as part of our evening offerings.
Please visit http://FingerLakesPermaculture.org for information about applying by the May 31, 2011 deadline. Phone interviews will be conducted the following week. Applicants will be notified by June 15th.
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Earn your Permaculture Design Certificate
with the Finger Lakes Permaculture Institute
July 22 through August 7, 2011
http://FingerLakesPermaculture.org
NYLocal: documentary on jobs in agriculture solicits story ideas
Hi all,
The film production company I worked with on a vermicompost extension film is working on a new project for public television called NYLocal which tracks the jobs created by all aspects of agriculture in NY state.
Ann & Phil (also NWAEGgies) are currently soliciting story ideas for this documentary. So any cool researchers and/or farming – food system practitioners you think would be fun to interview, let Ann & Phil know.
You can contact them through their website:
http://www.electronranch.com/
The blog for NY local:
http://nylocal.org/
-Allison
5/23: ‘Eden Project’ Landscape Architect to speak at Cornell
‘THE POWER OF PLANTS: Eden Project And Beyond’
Lecture by Jane Knight, Landscape Architect for The Eden Project, UK
Monday, May 23, 12:00-1:15pm
at 233 Plant Science Building, Cornell University, Ithaca
Jane Knight, Chartered Member of the UK Landscape Institute (and Cornell alumna, MLA 86) will speak on her international career journey, her involvement in developing the Eden Project in a disused clay mine in Cornwall, UK, and how Edens outreach projects are improving peoples lives around the world. Eden Project is a hugely successful UK horticultural tourist destination, educational charity and social enterprise. Sponsored by the Horticulture Departments Seminar Series.
Learn more about the Eden Project here:http://www.edenproject.com/
Potluck reminder and time change Sunday 5/15 4:30pm
Hi everyone,
Hope you have been enjoying being able to work in dryer weather. If you would like to join us for a permaculture themed potluck, we will be having it out at our place at 6045 Maple Ave, Mecklenburg starting at 4:30. Please bring a dish to share, or something for the grill. If you like to play music, feel free to bring accoustic instruments to play. (Though it won’t be running, you can also check out our solar powered sound system too!)
If you have questions, our # is 387-7799.
See you then!
Joey & Crow
Early & Late vegetable planting dates!
Are you wondering whether it’s too early now to plant your potatoes or lima beans? Or perhaps you’d like to start your home vegetable garden in July after a vacation; what can you still plant at that time to harvest before the first fall frost?
Visit the CCE-Tompkins web site for guidelines that list a variety of popular garden vegetables along with their suggested first and last planting dates (as seeds, sets, or transplants) for Tompkins County, NY. Use our charts to decide what vegetables to put in first, and also when to plant later crops that will mature to a useful size by fall.
Paste http://ccetompkins.org/planting-dates into your browser,
or visit: http://ccetompkins.org/garden/food-gardening/first-planting-dates
The site includes a printable 2-page PDF (31kb) with suggested first and last planting dates for many vegetables.
For more information, or answers to specific home gardening questions, contact the CCE-Tompkins GrowLine or Patricia Curran at Cornell Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County (607) 272-2292, or email Pat at pc21@cornell.edu.
Be sure also to check the CALENDAR OF EVENTS at http://ccetompkins.org/calendar for details on our Annual Spring Garden & Plant Fair (5/14), upcoming home gardening workshops, and local kitchen garden tours (in late summer)!
Sandy Repp
Cornell Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County
615 Willow Avenue
Ithaca, New York 14850-3555
(607) 272-2292
Survival Skills for Adults and Children
Not surprisingly, research shows that unless socialized differently, children love to be outdoors! (Quinn, 1996)
We hope you will join us in our annual fun(d)-raising event and help “socialize” our entire community to CHOOSE THE OUTDOORS!
Age appropriate activities and games for the whole family!
Primitive Pursuits Day! May 14th
A unique day of Local Music and back to the earth Skill-Sharing from a wealth of talented and passionate people.
And for you Plant Sale folks: the new location this year for the annual plant sale is at the Armory – just across the way from Primitive Pursuits – so you can do both!
Music By
Nate Richardson
Steve Selin & Friends
Luke Gustafson
Renee Baum
Curt Osgood
Presenters and Activities
Hawk Circle – Throwing tomahawks
Jeff Gotlieb – Bark Baskets
Jeff Joseph – Guided Tree Walks
Thunder Bird Atl Atl – Fishing Kits
Earth Arts – Basket weaving
CNY Wildcrafters – Arrow Making
Linda Spielman. – Tracking
Becca Harber & Suzanne Johnson – herbal/ plant walks
Primitive Pursuits Presents
Wild Edible cooking
Friction Fire
Stone Carving
Stone Drilling
Cordage
Wilderness Games
Hide Tanning
Rain or Shine! Covered space for inclement weather.
When: This Saturday 10am – 4pm Come for the whole day or just drop in for a bit
Where: 418 Lower Creek Rd. Ithaca N.Y
Cost: Suggested Donation: $5-$15 person / $15-$30 family
For more information visit our website at www.primitivepursuits.com or find us on FaceBook
You may also call us at CCE at 272-2292 (ask for Dave Hall)
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Timothy Drake
Primitive Pursuits
Cornell Cooperative Extension – Tompkins County
www.primitivepursuits.com
(607) 272-2292 x195
Primitive Pursuits Day!
Saturday May 14th, 10am-4pm at 4-H Acres
Gardens 4 Gumanity seeking program assistant
Position Announcement (4/27/11)
Title: Neighborhood Food Gardening Assistant (temporary)
Responsibilities: The Neighborhood Food Gardening Assistant will be responsible for supporting community garden sites including
communication with gardeners, committees, and volunteers. Arrange for educational programming and supplies as needed. Help with promotion, outreach, media, research, and troubleshooting relevant to supporting active and viable community gardens in neighborhoods.
Qualifications: A High School Diploma (or equivalent) and 2 years relevant volunteer or work experience, or an Associate’s degree.
Minimum Salary: $12.33/hour
Hours/Benefits: Position is grant funded, temporary, seasonal, part-time (20 hours/week) from June – October.
Inquiries: Contact Joshua Dolan, Food Gardening Educator, 607-272-2292 or email jd285@cornell.edu.
Application deadline: May 20, 2011 or until suitable candidate pool exists.
Please pick up an application at the Information Center of Cornell Cooperative Extension or download one at
www.ccetompkins.org/employment
Cornell Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County
Education Center
615 Willow Avenue
Ithaca, NY 14850
Phone: 607-272-2292
Fax: 607-272-7088
Email: tompkins@cornell.edu
Web: www.ccetompkins.org
All Cornell Cooperative Extension positions are contingent upon adequate performance and availability of funds.
May Permaculture and Edible Forest Garden Events, Workshops, and Classes – Rochester, NY
We have a few spaces left in each of the 3 workshops below:
Workshop – Sunday, May 15th
http://barefootpermaculture.com/coming-events/crowfield
Sacred HerbGarden Construction and Introduction to Permaculture: Join us for this hands-on workshop where we will build a sacred herb garden for the cook shack at Sanctuary at Crowfield by combining Native American sacred geometry with permaculture principles. We’ll review the ethics and principles of permaculture along with a few techniques as we build and plant a beautiful and functional herb garden. We’ll also talk about the spiritual and practical aspects of various garden designs. (Limit of 20 participants)
Date: Sunday, May 15, 2011
Time: 9 am – 1 pm
Location: Sanctuary at Crowfield Farm 2480 Arcadia Zurich Norris Rd.Newark, NY14513
Workshop Fee: $60 or $100/family household (15% will be donated to Sanctuary at Crowfield)
Bring: Garden gloves and hand tools if you desire. Dress for four hours in that day’s weather (sunscreen, raingear, etc.). Water to stay hydrated. Followed by an optional potluck lunch under the pavilion. Supervised children are welcome.
Facilitator: Patty Love, Barefoot Edible Landscape & Permaculture, www.barefootpermaculture.com
Registration: Preregistration is required. Send a check for $60 payable to Barefoot Permaculture, PO Box 18212, Rochester, NY14618 along with (1) your name, (2) your mailing address, (3) your email address, and (4) phone number. Additionally, please send a quick email to patty letting me know to expect you. Must register by May 10th. Please call patty at 585.506.6505 with any questions.
Upcoming Classes and Workshops
www.rochesterpermacultureinstitute.org/events
Mission: Rochester Permaculture Institute, a program of Seeking Common Ground, is dedicated to exploring, modeling, and inspiring more conscious, sustainable, and restorative ways of life through the application of permaculture and other regenerative design techniques and principles.
Edible Forest Gardening – Rochester, NY
Edible Forest Gardening In A Nutshell: An Introduction – Saturday, May 14, 2011 9am – 1 pm
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 EdibleForest 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?
This dynamic, hands-on class will meet 9-1 on Saturday in Rochester, NY (Brighton). Class size is limited. To register: Send a check for $60 payable to Rochester Permaculture, PO Box 18212, Rochester, NY 14618 along with (1) your name, (2) your mailing address, (3) your email address, and (4) phone number. Additionally, please send a quick email to patty@barefootpermaculture.com letting me know to expect you. Must register by May 9th.
Four Seasons Permaculture Design Certification 72 hour course
http://rochesterpermacultureinstitute.org/events/pdc/
May 21-22, 2011 – April 2012 – Register by May 11, 2011
This course is structured in one introductory weekend followed by monthly Sunday sessions, allowing full-time workers, students, and people with families more flexibility to participate. All classes will be held in Rochester, NY. Camping and a few indoor overnight accommodations are available. Sliding scale $800-1000.
In our permaculture design certification courses, you will learn how to observe and use the same principles that make ecological systems self-sustaining and apply them to integrated homes and gardens. In addition, you will learn how to apply these principles to energy systems and water supplies, healthy communities, meaningful and fulfilling work, ecological economies, and global political movements for change.
Throughout it all, you’ll be engaged in learning and experiencing an empowering way of living in the world, surrounded and supported by like-minded people and instructors. Our goal is to make you a part of Rochester Permaculture Institute’s community, incorporating our seasonal activities into your permaculture experience as time permits. Activities may include spring and fall pruning, seed planting, plant propagation, bed preparation, compost pile making, water harvesting techniques, natural building, and other activities.
Each of our permaculture design certification courses includes the following:
■Permaculture principles and ethics
■Reading the landscape
■Pattern and pattern application
■Water harvesting
■Swale building
■Zone and sector analysis
■Climate and micro climate
■Mapping
■Waste composting and treatment
■Urban permaculture
■Land access
■Community building
■Plant guilds
■Forest gardening
■Aquaculture & Animals
■The design process, principles, strategies and techniques
■Soil building and sheet mulching
■Pond management and ecology
■Earthworks, green roofs, and natural building
■Grey water systems
■Bioremediation
■Renewable energy systems
■Forest management
■Watershed management
■Group work on a conceptual design project
■Individual work on a conceptual design project
Warmly,
patty love, Owner
Barefoot Edible Landscape & Permaculture
patty
Program Director
Rochester Permaculture Institute
www.rochesterpermacultureinstitute.org
patty
http://www.meetup.com/RochesterPermaculture/
585.506.6505
PO Box 18212
Rochester, NY14618
My life’s purpose is gathering and sharing resources and information that regenerate my own and others’ abundant existence and vibrant well-being.
"Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought." ~ Albert Szent-Giorgi, Nobel Laureate
"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?" ~ Mary Oliver
Rural Energy Grant session with Sen. Gillibrand’s staff
From: Kathy Wilsea [mailto:kwilsea@tompkins-co.org]
Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2011 9:19 AM
To: Kathy Wilsea
Subject: Advisory Boards: Event planned by Sen. Gillibrand’s staff
Staff members from Senator Kirsten Gillibrand’s Rochester office are coming to Ithaca for an afternoon meeting at the Public Library on May 16th. Attached is flyer — feel free to share! KW
Kathy Wilsea, Secretary
Tompkins County Planning Dept.
121 E. Court St., Ithaca NY 14850
607-274-5560
Ithaca Freeskool Spring Social
Hi everybody,
Please join Ithaca Freeskool as we celebrate the end of another semester of free classes and the beginning of our Summer session. Snacks, live music, and trivia! Come grab a new calendar and see what’s in store for Summer. As always, classes are free and everyone can attend and teach. Bring your friends and take your brain out to party!
Ithaca Freeskool: Spring Social
When: May 13th, 2011, 7pm-10pm
Where: Buffalo Street Books, in DeWitt Mall, Between Cayuga and Tioga St.
RSVP on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=169819993075976
Hope to see you there!
McKenzie and Ithaca Freeskool
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