Farm-Scale Permaculture Design: June Advanced PC Design Course
Hey folks! This Advanced Permaculture Design Course (APDC) offers an opportunity to expand your knowledge of farm-scale permaculture design through hands-on design practice. The course is filling nicely, but we still have spaces left.
College Credit for APDC:
If you are working on a college degree, this course can be part of your studies! We are excited to offer this Advanced Permaculture Design Course through UMASS Amherst for two-credits in the Plant and Soil Science Department. Talk with Kemper Carlsen for details. kempercarlsen
For the Earth
Jono and Dave
Edible Forest Gardening In A Nutshell: An Introduction – April 29, Rochester, NY
Edible Forest Gardening In A Nutshell: An Introduction
Sunday, April 29, 2012 9am – 1 pm $45-60 sliding scale
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 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?
Topics covered:
■An Introduction to Permaculture and Edible Forest Gardening
■Basic Organic Gardening Techniques
■The Design Process Using Forest Garden Pattern Language
■Installing an EdibleForestGarden
This dynamic, hands-on class will meet from 9 am-1 pm in Rochester, NY. All classes will be held in Rochester, NY. Because this workshop is being held at a private residence, full location details (including address) will be provided upon registration and payment. Class size is limited. Sliding scale $45-60. Optional brown bag lunch after class. Preregistration is required.
To register: Send a check payable to Rochester Permaculture Center, PO Box 18212, Rochester, NY 14618 by April 20, 2012 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. Save $10 if you register and pay in full by March 9, 2012.
Warmly,
patty love, MALS, PDC
Barefoot Edible Landscape & Permaculture – owner
patty
RochesterPermacultureCenter – Program Director
www.rochesterpermaculturecenter.org
patty
Chicken Coop/Chicken Tractor Workshop May 6th – Rochester, NY
Chicken Coop/Chicken Tractor Workshop
Sunday, May 6, 2012 1-4 pm $30-45 sliding scale (household maximum $60-90 sliding scale)
Join us for a family friendly introduction to (sub)urban chickening. We’ll cover the basic needs of the chickens, including alternative feeds and incorporating them into a permaculture system. Together we’ll build a chicken coop and chicken tractor using mostly salvaged materials. Workshop participants will go home with a fact sheet on (sub)urban chickening and some innovative suggestions for sheltering them.
Class size will be limited to 20 participants. Payment in full is required to reserve your spot. Carpooling is always encouraged. Because this workshop is held at a private residence, full location details (including address) will be provided upon registration and payment.
To register: Send a check payable to Rochester Permaculture Center, PO Box 18212, Rochester, NY 14618 by April 20, 2012 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.
Warmly,
patty love, MALS, PDC
Barefoot Edible Landscape & Permaculture – owner
patty
RochesterPermacultureCenter – Program Director
www.rochesterpermaculturecenter.org
patty
http://www.meetup.com/RochesterPermaculture/
585.506.6505
PO Box 18212
Rochester, NY14618
Please note: I live a very full life, spending most of my time away from my computer and outdoors working or with my family and friends. There may be times when I don’t respond right away to your important email. If you require my immediate attention, please call 585.506.6505.
"My life’s purpose is gathering and sharing resources and information that regenerate my own and others’ abundant existence and vibrant well-being." patty love
"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
Reminder: Too Big to Know Book Talk, Monday 4-16, 1:30pm, Clark Hall 700, Cornell
Can networks help communities become more sustainable, equitable and just? Properly designed, they can support informed decision making and self-organization, a key principle of resilient systems and permaculture design, and critical to sustainability. Some have suggested there are benefits to be gained in “weaving together indigenous culture, permaculture, and digital culture” integrating natural resources, social relationships and culture into a single system. Homegrown tools like these lists, the Green Resource Hub, Swidjit and the Tompkins County Time Bank are beginning to leverage these opportunities locally, providing new and innovative ways for us to collaborate our way to a better future.
Of course in an increasingly networked world, such opportunities also come with complications, bringing our differences and disagreements more clearly into focus. And now that everyone has a podium to spout their beliefs from, the basis of facts, knowing, believing and acting are becoming increasingly tangled (and in some cases disconnected).
Reminder – Public Talk and Student Design Showcase – What Is Permaculture and Why Should I Care? – Sunday 4/15 3-5:30 pm
Sunday, April 15, 2012 3-5:30 pm
Location: Flying Squirrel Community Space, 285 Clarissa St., RochesterNY, 14608
Title: What is Permaculture and Why Should I Care?
Type of event: Public Talk and Student Design Showcase
Description: Patty Love, director of the RochesterPermacultureCenter, and the graduates of RPC’s first Permaculture Design Certification class will introduce the ethics, principles, and methods of permaculture in a brief talk. The students will showcase their final project designs. The community will be invited to listen, review the designs, and ask questions from our group of 6 total.
Permaculture is an ecological design system that mimics the structure and forms of natural systems to provide for human needs in ways that are regenerative to The Earth. Join us if you’d like to learn more about the ethics, principles, and applications of permaculture for your daily life, gardening, and home care.
Free will offering: donations will be gratefully accepted and will be split between RochesterPermacultureCenter (for garden development) and The Flying Squirrel Community Space.
For more information, visit www.rochesterpermaculturecenter.org or email patty@barefootpermaculture.com.
Warmly,
patty love, MALS, PDC
Barefoot Edible Landscape & Permaculture – owner
patty@barefootpermaculture.com
www.barefootpermaculture.com
Rochester PermacultureCenter – Program Director
www.rochesterpermaculturecenter.org
patty@barefootpermaculture.com
http://www.meetup.com/RochesterPermaculture/
Ithaca College Permaculture Garden seeks fun-loving, soil workers this Saturday
Wanna build soil? Like shovels and working with lots of fun folks?
The Ithaca College Permaculture Garden is doing our soil amendment work party this Sunday April 15 from 12-6pm near Williams Hall. We’d love your help with shoveling compost and building growing beds. If you have a pickup truck and wouldn’t mind driving a few loads of compost from the big pile to our garden site, we’d sure appreciate it! We’ll have shovelers and wheelbarrows on both sides so you only have to do the driveby! But if you want to get dirty, we’d be proud to have you. Please bring gloves. If you want to bring a shovel, heavy duty rake, hoe, etc. please do, but mark it with your name.
Thanks for your support!
Karryn
You can contact me at 273-2282 or karryn
You can park in the visitor lot http://www.ithaca.edu/map/#parking
and walk to the south east side of Williams Hall http://www.ithaca.edu/map/
On the day of the event, call my cell if you need help with directions or parking: 339-1153
Permaculture Mushroom classes take a look at the big picture
“The basis of inspiration for my work as a permaculture forest farmer comes from what I observe and learn in natural ecosystems, and at the heart of what I’ve learned over the last 10 years is that a) no organism survives or thrives without maintaining a cooperative connection to other species and b) sustainable systems are also multi-kingdom, that is, not just plants but a mixture of players from the plant, animal, fungi, bacteria, etc communities.
Classes at Brook’s Bend Farm, MA (April 21), Three Sisters Farm, PA (May 12) and Rochester Permaculture Center (May 13)look at the specific context of the site (farm vs market garden/bioshelter vs. backyard) and discuss how mushrooms can be integrated to contribute to overall system health.”
FULL ARTICLE: http://agroforestrysolutions.blogspot.com/2012/04/classes-take-look-at-bigger-integrated.html
Last chance to apply! Groundswell’s Sustainable Farming Certificate Program
Last chance to apply to Groundswell’s Sustainable Farming Certificate Program! Enrollment ends mid-April.
Gain hands-on skills in diverse, sustainable production methods.
Learn directly from established mentors through a farmer-designed, farmer-taught curriculum.
Make connections and forge friendships in a supportive learning community.
Apply to Groundswell’s Sustainable Farming Certificate Program!
100 hours, April-November
Ithaca, NY – This spring, the Groundswell Center for Local Food & Farming will again offer its full-season training program for aspiring and beginning farmers and market gardeners. Running April 18 to November 14, the Sustainable Farming Certificate Program provides 100 hours of classroom training, hands-on workshops, farm visits, and supervised work experience on sustainable farms.
Trainees can choose to concentrate their studies on the management of vegetables and fruits, livestock and poultry, or pursue a diversified curriculum. Each trainee will have an individualized Learning Contract, and will be evaluated on the basis of that contract before being awarded Groundswell’s Sustainable Farming Certificate. Instruction will be provided by experienced farmer mentors, as well as subject matter experts from our partner institutions such as Cornell University, USDA, and Cornell Cooperative Extension. Trainees who complete 100 hours of training or more are eligible to receive Groundswell’s Sustainable Farming Certificate.
Groundswell is committed to the vision of a regionally self-reliant food system that provides good food and economic opportunities for everyone. The Sustainable Farming Certificate Program, like each of Groundswell’s New Farmer Training Programs, seeks to engage trainees from diverse cultural, racial, and economic backgrounds to participate in a supportive, trainee-driven learning environment. People of color, new immigrant and limited resource trainees are especially encouraged to apply. Tuition for the Sustainable Farming Certificate Program is on a sliding scale and ranges from $125 to $800, with substantial support offered to people of color, new immigrant and limited-resource trainees.
Applications for the Sustainable Farming Certificate Program are now online. Visit www.groundswellcenter.org to learn more and apply today.
The Groundswell Center for Local Food & Farming is an initiative of the EcoVillage Center for Sustainability Education/Center for Transformative Action. Support for Groundswell comes from individuals and businesses who believe in the importance of strong local food systems, and from the Beginning Farmer and Rancher Development Program of the National Institute for Food and Agriculture-USDA, Grant #2010-49400-21799. For more information, visit www.groundswellcenter.org.
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Permaculture Course – SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE
Hello friends,
We know that many people simply cannot afford our programs and yet we also know that our programs truly change lives… so we’re offering ten need-based scholarships to each of our programs:
Permaculture Design & Regenerative Leadership Course – Aug 11-19th Tuition co-pay with scholarship: $1000 (regular price: $3000!) -> Discount code: AUGUSTSCHOLARSHIP (only valid for august course) -> Link: http://www.commoncircle.com/pdc
We’re making ONLY TEN of these need-based scholarships available first-come-first-serve. Just sign up online, and if the system accepts your credit card information with the code, you’re in.
Join an unforgettable program in leadership, permaculture and sustainable design in Oregon with the world’s most renowned
instructors and change your life, your community and your
planet. Not only do Common Circle Education courses offer the most complete curriculum of any similar program, but the people who come to the programs make this the most powerful training offered anywhere.
Gain cutting-edge skills in nature-inspired sustainable design that’s applicable virtually anywhere design is used — from green businesses to your own back yard. Visit ecovillages, organic farms, the nation’s first biofuel station (ever seen a gas station with solar panels and a green roof selling kombucha? 
, while spending two weeks with some of the most inspiring people around!
Course: Suburban Permaculture Design & Leadership Certificate Location: Eugene, Oregon – Organic meals and lodging included!
Connected Minds, Resilient Communities April Programming
Greetings Friends,
Spring is here and its a time to look outward, reconnect and think about new growth. Mann Library has been busy working with campus and community partners to help facilitate these connections, and I’d like to share some exciting programming we have lined up for April. Following up on the inspiring fermentation fomentation collaborative events last week, we’ll expand things outward, moving from microbial symbiosis to knowledge networks as "resilience assets".
As part of our ongoing Connected Minds, Resilient Communities programming, this series will explore some of the ways we can think, design and act more holistically, engaging across divisions and communities as co-creators of a better future. Take a look at what we and our partners have planned here http://mannlib.cornell.edu/library-services/outreach-engagement/resilient-communities/april-2012. All events are free and open to the public. If you like what you see, please let others know as well. Comments, questions, contributions always welcomed.
Events planned for next week include:
- Mon. April 16th from 1:30 – 3pm, Clark Hall 700 Bestselling author, internet philosopher and senior Harvard researcher David Weinberger will be here to discuss his book, “Too Big to Know”. An engaging speaker known for his humor and clarity, he’ll help us look at ways in which knowledge is taking on some of the properties of the Internet -including being unsettled and perpetually at odds with itself -and at "knowledge networks" that offer clues about how the public can become smarter by learning in public, and help us to understand that which is foreign to us. Learn more at: http://events.cornell.edu/event/too_big_to_know
- Tues. April 17th 2012, 5:30pm, Mann Library Room 160 Screening of the movie Green Fire: Aldo Leopold and a Land Ethic for our Time. Aldo Leopold, author, scientist and environmentalist, had a profound effect on the development of environmental ethics and the conservation movement. In his book A Sand County Almanac, Leopold first coined the term "Thinking like a mountain" to describe a thought process based on a holistic view of the entire ecosystem. Green Fire provocatively examines Leopold’s thinking, renewing his idea of a land ethic for a population facing 21st century ecological challenges. The film draws on Leopold’s life and experiences to provide context and validity, challenging viewers to contemplate their own relationship with the land community.
Hope you can join us!
Cheers, Jeff
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Jeffrey Piestrak
Community Engagement Specialist
Albert R. Mann Library
260 Tower Road
Cornell University
Ithaca, N.Y. 14853
jmp36@cornell.edu
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http://mannlib.cornell.edu
http://cugir.mannlib.cornell.edu
http://guides.library.cornell.edu/local_food
http://guides.library.cornell.edu/biofuels
Summer Events, Discounts, and Classes with the Finger Lakes Permaculture Institute
Finger Lakes Permaculture Institute
http://FingerLakesPermaculture.org
upcoming programs:
*21 Days of Discounted PDC Tuition*
Sign up by May 1 and take the Permaculture Design Certificate course offered by the Finger Lakes Permaculture Institute for $200 less. Join their tenth PDC taught by Michael Burns, Rafter Sass Ferguson, Steve Gabriel and Karryn Olson Ramanujan. Join this permaculture learning community from July 27th through August 12th, 2012. Visit: http://fingerlakespermaculture.org/?p=1090
*Buy Perennial Edibles and Learn About Food Forests*
Jonathan Bates (http://PermacultureNursery.com) will present guiding principles to plant your own food forest. This is a great chance to special order plants from his nursery with free delivery to events in the Finger Lakes Region, Rochester, and Syracuse during June 22nd through 24th, 2012. Visit: http://fingerlakespermaculture.org/?p=1334
*3 Months Before the Northeastern Permaculture Convergence*
On July 13-15, 2012 at Soule Homestead Education Center in Middleborough, MA, the larger Northeastern community of Permaculturists will convene for another summer weekend together. Visit: http://northeastconvergence.wordpress.com
*Less Than 2 Weeks Before FLPCI Begins Reviewing Work Trade Applications.* Spend a month building a permaculture camp and earning your Permaculture Design Certificate. Hard-working permies can earn a steep reduction for their tuition. Visit: http://fingerlakespermaculture.org/?p=1293
*Spread the Word*
Print, copy and share this flyer with our summer classes:
http://goo.gl/Y20bt
Learn more about the Finger Lakes Permaculture Institute at: http://FingerLakesPermaculture.org
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Rochester Permaculture Center Events April – June 2012
Greetings, RochesterPermacultureCenter Friends! We’ve been busy scheduling permaculture, chicken tractor, mushroom, biochar, medicinal tea, edible forest gardening, and other workshops, talks, and free events. Click on any of the links below to get the full description of the event. We hope to you’ll join us for these community based learning opportunities. Please forward this message to anyone you think may be interested.
Introduction to Permaculture and Student Design Showcase – Free Event: Join us Sunday, April 15, 2012 3-5:30 pm at the Flying Squirrel Community Space, 285 Clarissa St., RochesterNY. Patty Love, director of the RochesterPermacultureCenter, and the graduates of RPC’s first Permaculture Design Certification class will introduce the ethics, principles, and methods of permaculture in a brief talk. The students will showcase their final project designs. The community will be invited to listen, review the designs, and ask questions from our group of 6 total.
Edible Forest Gardening In A Nutshell: An Introduction :This introductory course takes place on Sunday April 29, 2012 from 9am – 1 pm. Learn to transform traditional urban and suburban lawn landscapes into abundant food-producing perennial forest gardens. The course fee is $45-60 sliding scale.
Chicken Coop/Chicken Tractor Workshop: OnSunday, May 6th we’ll be building a shelter for our suburban chicks using salvaged materials and talk about alternative feeds and incorporating them into a permaculture system.
Garden Tour: Tuesday, May 8, 2012 5:30-6:30 pm. Come tour the RochesterPermacultureCenter and see what’s in bloom. Free will donations to RPC $5-25, no one turned away for lack of funds. Email us for the address.
Permaculture Design Course: Starting in May, you can learn about permaculture one Sunday a month. Get certified in permaculture design through this thirteen day design certificate course with monthly sessions May 2012 – April 2013 right here in the Rochester, led by Patty Love and friends. Learn about real sustainability and increase your self-reliance. Course fee is $900-1000 (sliding scale).
Edible Mushroom Inoculation for Backyard Growers and Gardeners: On Sunday, May 13th, guest teacher, Steve Gabriel, from Finger Lakes Permaculture Institute, will teach us this part science, part art project of edible mushroom growing! Class size will be limited to 12 participants. Course fee is $60-100 sliding scale.
Beginning Biochar Workshop: Kathleen Draper of Finger Lakes Biochar will be here Sunday, May 20, 2012 with a family friendly introduction to making and using Biochar to improve your garden soils.
Women’s Sunday Afternoon Tea:Join us on Sunday, June 3rd at Sanctuary at Crowfield to learn about and plant some sacred herbs and have a tea tasting. Class fee is $45-60 sliding scale.
Public Talk with Jonathan Bates: On Friday, June 22nd, Jonathan will share his successes and learning opportunities from 10 years of co-managing the urban Food Forest Farm in western Massachusetts. He will also deliver preordered plants before the talk.
RPC on Facebook: “Like” us and keep up to date this way, too. Note, we’re still figuring out how to best utilize social media.
Barefoot Edible Landscape & Permaculture: Barefoot Edible Landscape and Permaculture is an edible landscaping and regenerative design firm. We integrate humans into their environment by creating regenerative, ecologic, organic landscapes that are full of beauty and healthy food. Our sustainable designs increase self-sufficiency, build nutrient- and life-rich soil, restore local ecosystem health, capture carbon from the atmosphere, and strengthen community resilience. Contact us today to schedule a consultation for your home, business, farm, or workplace. Ask about our new garden coaching program – we’ll plant and weed right along side you.
Free Events:We schedule a number of free events during the year to help introduce ourselves to new friends. Please visit our free events webpage to stay updated.
Intern wanted: Would you like to learn more about permaculture, edible forest gardening, water catchment, chicken management, biochar, and more through hands-on activities this growing season? Contact us to see how we can find a mutually beneficial relationship.
Building community is an integral part of what we do so please contact us with any questions you have. We hope to see you soon.
Warmly,
patty love, Owner
Barefoot Edible Landscape & Permaculture
patty
Program Director
RochesterPermacultureCenter
www.rochesterpermaculturecenter.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
Latest TCLocal article: Benefits of a Lower Energy Civilization
As regular readers of TCLocal.org know, our focus is on meeting the challenges we face in a future of less available energy and the end of growth. But those challenges have their bright side, and this month TCLocal contributors Karl North and Bethany Schroeder take time out from our usual disaster planning to reflect on the material and social benefits of energy descent and a less complex way of life. You can find their analysis at
http://tclocal.org/2012/04/benefits_lower_energy_civ.html
SPECIAL REMINDER: TCRP-NEWS LIST
We may not have mentioned this recently, so allow us to remind everyone that there is a publicly subscribable read-only news list for TCLocal that you can join at
http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/tcrp-news
This is where we post our announcements, monthly meeting minutes, and occasional pointers to articles published elsewhere that are of special relevance to energy descent and relocalization. “Read-only” means that there are never discussions on this list, just notices, and consequently very little traffic. It has over a hundred subscribers, and they hardly ever leave, so there are people who find it useful; perhaps you would be one of them.
ABOUT TCLOCAL
Every month or two, TCLocal brings you another in our series of articles addressing various aspects of relocalization in Tompkins County. Contributors to TCLocal are members of the community committed to helping prepare for a more local and self-reliant future. Articles that have been published so far at tclocal.org can be found in the TCLocal archives at
http://tclocal.org/archives.html
Articles appearing at tclocal.org are published under the Creative Commons license and are owned and managed by the contributors as a group. People interested in becoming TCLocal contributors should first read “How to Contribute” at
http://www.ibiblio.org/tcrp/about.htm#how
and then contact the TCLocal editor at the address below to sign up.
Jon Bosak
Editor, TCLocal
bosak@pinax.com
Northeast Permaculture Convergence needs Volunteers
We need your help with the Convergence this summer, taking place July 13-15th at the Soule Homestead in Middleborough MA.
Volunteers have the opportunity for work-trade in exchange for registration costs, please read more about signing up below:
Are ramps being overharvested?
Anyone who has come across the Ramp, or Wild Leek, allium tricoccum, likely can’t help but feel a sense of abundance; the spring ephemerals (plants that make a brief spring appearance before forest canopies have leafed out) often show up in clusters that can range from a few square feet to a solid quarter acre or more of green…..but are we taking too much?
Full Article: http://agroforestrysolutions.blogspot.com/2012/04/are-ramps-being-overharvested.html
cheers,
Steve
FREE Screening of “Empowered” Today at Cornell
April is Earth Month and a great time to get Empowered!
Our homegrown documentary is inspiring audiences to join the energy revolution, one screening at a time! Hope to see you today, and please help us spread the word!
Screening and Panel Discussion at Cornell University
Co-presented by Finger Lakes Bioneers, KyotoNOW!, Cornell Wind Power, and Engineers for a Sustainable World Cornell
Wednesday, April 4th, 2012, 5:30pm
Mann Library, Stern Seminar Room 160, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY Free parking is available after 5pm in select lots near Mann, including Peterson Lot and Tower Rd.
Cornell alums Director Shira Evergreen and Dominic Frongillo from the Town of Caroline (featured in the film) as well as Art Weaver of Renovus Energy will participate in the post-film discussion. Hosted by Mann Library as part of its Sustainability Month and Resilient Communities outreach programming.
About the Film
Tompkins County, NY is one of the cloudiest, least windy places in the country, and yet its residents are proving that we can meet our energy needs through totally renewable resources. From solar and wind to veggie oil and geothermal, Empowered: Power from the People tells the story of one community’s role in the energy independence revolution.
More info at http://empoweredthemovie.com
- Shira 
Shira Golding Evergreen
shiraevergreen@gmail.com
http://www.shirari.com
Science Cabaret, 4/10 : Fossil Fuel Junkies, Climate Change, and National Security
Science Cabaret presents:
Fossil Fuel Junkies, Climate Change, and National Security
When: 7 PM, Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Where: Lot 10 Lounge, 112 S. Cayuga Street
FREE!!
Join Chuck Greene for this month’s "hot" topic on climate change.
Chuck is a professor of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences and Director ofthe Ocean Resources and Ecosystems program at Cornell University.
For more information, visit http://www.sciencecabaret.org.
Be sure to enjoy the fabulous signature cocktails created by our host, Lot 10 Lounge! And stick around for Trivia with Becca at Lot 10, following Science Cabaret.
Science Cabaret is made possible through a partnership with the LightIn Winter Festival http://lightinwinter.com.
Science Cabaret Now on Air!
Join hosts Jenny Nelson and Joanna Drivalas on 91.7 WICB Sunday nightsfrom 7 – 7:30 PM. Science Cabaret On Air podcasts are now archived athttp://sciencecabaret.podomatic.com/
Plant a Food Forest with Jonathan Bates (6/23/2012) Upstate NY
The Finger Lakes Permaculture Institute
http://FingerLakesPermaculture.org
presents
PLANT A FOOD FOREST
with Jonathan Bates of Food Forest Farm
http://PermacultureNursery.com
Saturday, June 23rd in Montour Falls, NY
Additional events:
Friday, June 22nd in Rochester, NY
Sunday, June 24 in Syracuse, NY
Want to see permaculture plantings that work?
Would you like to create a thriving edible forest garden that produces loads of fruits, roots, shoots, greens, seeds, flowers, mulch, eggs, knowledge and fun?
Come learn how to use the plants (and other yields) from the permaculture gardens as shown in Jonathan Bates presentation in your own garden. Learn guiding principles to plant your own food forest.
This is a great chance to special order plants from the Food Forest Farm nursery with free delivery to the event.
Much of the plant stock for the comes from the Holyoke Edible Forest Garden, a case study highlighted in the book Edible Forest Gardens by Dave Jacke and Eric Toensmeier.
Choose from a selection of plants that human food and medicinal needs and provide ecosystem services such as attracting beneficial insects and accumulating nutrients. Available plants include: Paw Paw, New Jersey Tea, Hazelbert, Goumi, Currants, Ground Nut, Sunchoke, Good King Henry, Mint Root, Sea Kale, Perennial Arugula, and many more!
Use this URL for free delivery to the events:
http://PermacultureNursery.com/SpecialOrder/
FINGER LAKES REGION:
Saturday 6/23
Morning presentation in Montour Falls, NY
at Cornell Cooperative Extension of Schuyler County
10:00 a.m. Public Presentation: Edible Forest Gardens: Growing a Food Paradise 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Meet your Plants: Make your order from http://PermacultureNursery.com/SpecialOrder/
Afternoon classes at Cayuta Sun in Catherine, NY
2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Hands-on Workshop: How to Build Your Own Perennial Polyculture
6:00 p.m. – Permaculture Potluck Dinner (bring a dish to share)
Tuition: Morning only: $10, Full day: $40
Register at: http://FingerLakesPermaculture.org
SYRACUSE:
Sunday 6/24 at the Rahma Free Clinic Forest Garden
A Project of the Alchemical Nursery
1:00 – 3:00 p.m. Pick up your order & Hands-on Workshop: Forest Gardening & Building Polycultures
Plant orders: http://permaculturenursery.com/specialorder/
Tuition: Sliding Scale $10 – 20
For more information visit: http://www.alchemicalnursery.org
ROCHESTER:
Friday, 6/22 at First Unitarian Church of Rochester, 220 Winton Road South 6:00 -7:00 p.m. Pre-ordered plant delivery in lower parking lot (orders: http://permaculturenursery.com/specialorder/)
7:00 -9:00 p.m. Public talk followed by Q&A inside church in Gilbert Hall Sliding scale donation at the door: $8 to $20
Contact: Patty Love at http://rochesterpermacultureinstitute.org/
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4/2: FREE Learn-to-Prune Series starts at Cooperative Extension!
LEARN TO PRUNE TREES & SHRUBS
(4) Mondays, April 2, 9 & 16 at 7:00-8:30pm & April 23 at 5:30-7:00pm
at Cooperative Extension Education Center, 615 Willow Avenue, Ithaca NY
This FREE training series is for individuals who wish to volunteer with the Citizen Pruner Program AND for members of the general public who’d like to learn to prune! Take one or all of the following workshops:
(4/2) Trees for Challenging Sites with Dr. Nina Bassuk of Cornell’s Urban Horticulture Institute
(4/9) Training Young Trees, Pruning Older Trees, and Tools of the Trade with City Forestry Technician Jeanne Grace and arborist Keith Vanderhye
(4/16) Pruning Shrubs with Monika Roth, Agriculture Extension Educator at CCE-Tompkins
(4/23) Pruning Practice with Monika Roth, Agriculture Extension Educator at CCE-Tompkins
Participants who complete the series can join the Citizen Pruner Volunteers and prune trees and shrubs on streets and in parks in the City of Ithaca. Volunteer once a week or when available, from May through October. For more information, contact Monika Roth at (607) 272-2292 or mr55@cornell.edu.
FREE Earth Month Screenings of “Empowered”
April is Earth Month and a great time to get Empowered!
Our homegrown documentary is inspiring audiences to join the energy revolution, one screening at a time! We’re thrilled to announce FIVE FREE SCREENINGS planned for April in Ithaca and the Finger Lakes region. Hope to see you there, and please help us spread the word about these events!
4/1/12, Ithaca, NY: Screening and Q&A at the Finger Lakes
Environmental Film Festival
Co-presented by Finger Lakes Bioneers
Sunday, April 1st, 2012, Noon
Cinemapolis, 120 E. Green Street, Ithaca, NY
“FLEFF at Ithaca College embraces and interrogates sustainability across all of its forms: economic, social, ecological, political, cultural, technological, and aesthetic. The festival is in the spirit of UNESCO’s initiative on sustainable development.”
4/4/12, Ithaca, NY: Screening and Panel Discussion at Cornell University Co-presented by Finger Lakes Bioneers, KyotoNOW!, Cornell Wind Power, and Engineers for a Sustainable World Cornell
Wednesday, April 4th, 2012, 5:30pm
Mann Library, Stern Seminar Room 160, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY Free parking is available after 5pm in select lots near Mann, including Peterson Lot and Tower Rd.
Cornell alums Director Shira Evergreen and Dominic Frongillo from the Town of Caroline (featured in the film) as well as Art Weaver of Renovus Energy will participate in the post-film discussion. Hosted by Mann Library as part of its Sustainability Month and Resilient Communities outreach programming.
4/16/12, Corning, NY: Screening and Q&A at Corning Community College Co-presented by Finger Lakes Bioneers
Monday, April 16, 2012, Details TBA
4/18/12, Rochester, NY: Screening and Panel Discussion as part of LOCALIZATION-A Winter Movie Series on Economy, Food and Energy Co-presented by Finger Lakes Bioneers and Rochester’s Center for Sustainable Living
Wednesday, April 18th, 2012
Brighton Town Hall, 2300 Elmwood Ave, Rochester, NY
With Producer Suzanne McMannis.
4/19/12, Ithaca, NY: Screening and Q&A at Ithaca College’s Earth Week Presented by the Ithaca College Environmental Society
Thursday, April 19th, 2012, Details TBA
With Producer Suzanne McMannis.
About the Film
Tompkins County, NY is one of the cloudiest, least windy places in the country, and yet its residents are proving that we can meet our energy needs through totally renewable resources. From solar and wind to veggie oil and geothermal, Empowered: Power from the People tells the story of one community’s role in the energy independence revolution.
More info at http://empoweredthemovie.com
- Shira
Shira Golding Evergreen
shiraevergreen@gmail.com
http://www.shirari.com
