Network with people interested in permaculture design within any of New York's counties located north of New York City. Permaculture practitioners are welcome to join, share ideas and projects, and promote local events. Please limit your contributions to messages directly related to permaculture ideas and activities.
Coming August 21 & 22 – FLX Permaculture Site Tours
Finger Lakes Permaculture Site Tour — August 22
The Finger Lakes Permaculture Institute
presents the 2nd Annual
Finger Lakes Permaculture Tour
http://fingerlakespermaculture.org/permaculture-tour/
See the practice of permaculture firsthand in the beautiful Finger Lakes region of New York.
Permaculture design uses ecological principles is to produce food, medicine, and other products while restoring the health of the ecosystem.
Learn about the wide range of permaculture practices at active sites including urban gardens to large-acre farms.
Connect and network with others who are interested in living more sustainably, and walk away with ideas for your own property.
Schedule of Events
Movie: Friday, August 21st
6:00 p.m.
Viewing of the film “INHABIT” followed by discussion with filmmaker Costa Boutsikaris
Inhabit is a feature length documentary introducing permaculture. The film presents a vast array of projects, concepts, and people, and translates the diversity of permaculture into something that can be understood by an equally diverse audience. It is a call to action and a glimpse into what’s possible and what kind of projects and solutions are already underway. See the trailer: http://inhabitfilm.com
Location:
Schuyler County Cooperative Extension,
323 Owego St., Montour Falls, NY 14865
Montour Falls, NY
Tour: Saturday, August 22nd
Sites are open around the region for visitors:
9 a.m. – 12 p.m.: Visit sites in Ithaca and east and south of Ithaca
1 – 4 p.m.: Visit sites west of Ithaca
5 – 8 p.m.: Reception at the Finger Lakes Cider House
Confirmed Sites:
* Twisted Tree Farm, Spencer NY: http://twisted-tree.net
* Wellspring Forest Farm, Mecklenburg, NY: http://wellspringforestfarm.com
* Cayuta Sun Farm, Cayutaville, NY: http://cayutasunfarm.com
* CCE Schuyler County Teaching Garden, Montour Falls, NY: http://cceschyler.org
* Shelterbelt Farm, Caroline, NY: http://shelterbeltfarm.com
* Hawk Meadow Farm, Hector, NY: http://hawkmeadowfarm.com
*Edible Acres, Trumansburg, NY: www.edibleacres.org
*Rahma Edible Forest Garden and homestead sites, Syracuse, NY:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Rahma-Edible-Forest-Snack-Garden/1434315193475219
Mushroom Foray 7/11
Wild Mushroom Foray
July 11th- Take a journey with local mushroom expert Carl Whittaker through the forests of Hawk Meadow Farm in Hector New York to search out wild mushrooms, many of them edible. After our mushroom walk (approximately 90 minutes) we will return to identify our mushrooms. Carl will be available for any additional questions you might have. Class from 10-1, cost $30. Register at www.hawkmeadowfarm.com or by calling our farm directly at 607 387 3424.
Sustainability Begins Within – FREE WEBCAST
Dear Friend,
If you are recieving this email, you are obviously someone that wants to be part of the solutions to our world’s problems.
- What will it really take to create a thriving future for all of life on this planet?
- What is a sustainable person? (And, is that even possible?)
- How can you better stand in your gifts to make real impact?
Join us for this free webcast launching the “Pulse of the Movement” Series (free monthly webcast featuring game changing solutions), and learn the Five Keys to Embody a Shift in your life and to share it with others from Samantha Sweetwater – regenerative educator, wilderness guide, author, environmental advocate, and transformational facilitator with 20+ years of experience.
Sustainability Begins Within
– With Samaths Sweetwater
Date & Time: Thursday May 28 12:00 pm PST, 3:00pm EST, (-7UTC)
http://www.theglobalsummit.org/sustainability-begins-within-with-samantha-sweetwater/
* If you cannot attend the webcast live, no worries. You can still register and we will email you the recording.
The Exploration
If you’re at all conscious, you are painfully aware of the runaway cycles of human-caused planetary change that face humanity and all of life on the planet. You may even be involved in activism or creating new technological or social solutions.
There are innumerable, immensely complex problems. In whole systems thought, we call these wicked problems. And, they are.
But, the answer to complexity is not always more complexity. Sometimes simplicity yields the best results.
Join us for a one-hour free webinar to learn some essential tools to do the inner work that’s needed for sustainability.
TO REGISTER FOR THIS FREE WEBCAST CLICK HERE
About Samantha Sweetwater
Samantha Sweetwater is a regenerative educator, wilderness guide, author and advocate. In her 20+ years of experience as a transformational facilitator, she has helped tens of thousand of people to walk deeper into harmony with their personal dreams and the collective dream of a viable future. Her upcoming book – More Life, Please is a guidebook for living an awesome life while co-creating a thriving future for ALL of life. Samantha is the founder of Dancing Freedom & The Peacebody School. Find out more, visit: www.SamanthaSweetwater.com.
Initiation / Vision Quest:
An Ancient/Contemporary Rites of Passage
Want to Dive Deeper? Join Samantha and an amazing support team this summer for a six day journey integrating rites of passage, dance, yoga, community mirroring, permaculture immersion, sweat lodge, vision quest and other ceremonial allies to uncover, recover and remember who you are.
July 31-August 5, 2015
Seven Seeds Farm & Grey Back Mountain Southern Oregon
For More Information Click Here
Towards Inner & Outer Resiliency,
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The FINGER LAKES PERMACULTURE INSTITUTE
http://FingerLakePermaculture.org
presents
READING YOUR LANDSCAPE:
A Practical Introduction to Permaculture
June 12 – 14, 2015
Cayuta Sun Farm, Catharine NY
(near Ithaca and Watkins Glen)
with Becky Bowen, Michael Burns, Jake Maher Delisle, Steve Gabriel and other local practitioners
Try practical permaculture skills through hands-on design work in a two-day immersion course. Join a weekend-long, off-grid permaculture camp while learning from local practitioners and experts.
Practice ecological design skills that you will be able to immediately apply to your own endeavors. Design your own site or practice on a small woodland permaculture farm.
Acquire basic literacy in the potential for practicing permaculture in your life. Beginners are introduced to basic permaculture principles, plus easy assessment and design methods. This weekend get-away is ideal for those who may not have a Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC), have limited time, and are looking for an affordable way to learn.
Experienced practitioners and design course graduates will appreciate this as a quick and fun permaculture practicum to refresh and inspire their work. Our assessment and design-focused approach may help you work through ongoing challenges or benefit from the different perspectives and experiences our facilitators’ offer.
Sliding scale tuition begins at $250 and includes instruction, camping, and two days of breakfast and lunch.
* For more about this course visit:
http://fingerlakespermaculture.org/reading-your-landscape-a-practical-introduction-to-permaculture/
* A listing of all course offered is at:
http://fingerlakespermaculture.org/programs/2015-program-listing/
* Learn about local permaculture resources in the Finger Lakes at: http://fingerlakespermaculture.org/local-directory/
**Mark your calendar! The Finger Lakes Permaculture Tour and Regional Convergence is August 22 & 23, 2015.
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Inspiring Summer Permaculture Design Certification Course in Western MA with Sowing Solutions
We are delighted to announce the dates for this informative and inspiring upcoming event:
Summer Permaculture Design Course with Sowing Solutions: July 17th – 30th
This course is held at the Sirius EcoVillage in Western MA, where we practice ecological design for actual clients in the Hearthstone Village (an extended neighborhood surrounding the Sirius Community and Retreat Center).
• Students of this PDC will learn first-hand about working with design clients, conducting an ecological design, and applying permaculture techniques and strategies for creating abundance, resilience, and wellbeing across the land and in our communities.
• A study of permaculture at the ecovillage offers an opportunity to evaluate and learn from permaculture designs that have been generated during our courses and implemented onsite over the last 12+ years.
• Gaining your internationally recognized certification with Sowing Solutions is an experience of empowerment, support, inspiration and skill building.
• All that you learn in this course can be applied at your home and in your communities.
• Skill shares, discussions, design activities, experience in the gardens, orchards and forest gardens, natural building demonstrations, tours of local permaculture sites, immersion in community life, stories and presentations, food preservation and medicine making, mapping, observing patterns in nature, and networking await your arrival.
Optional: 3 college credits are offered through UMASS and the Five Colleges.
Early bird registration and work trade applications are available.
Visit our website for course details and to watch our 2-minute informational video, and join us for a fun and informative 2-week intensive this summer! www.PermacultureSeries.org
Inspiring Summer Permaculture Design Certification Course in Western MA with Sowing Solutions
We are delighted to announce the dates for this informative and inspiring upcoming event:
Summer Permaculture Design Course with Sowing Solutions: July 17th – 30th
This course is held at the Sirius EcoVillage in Western MA, where we practice ecological design for actual clients in the Hearthstone Village (an extended neighborhood surrounding the Sirius Community and Retreat Center).
• Students of this PDC will learn first-hand about working with design clients, conducting an ecological design, and applying permaculture techniques and strategies for creating abundance, resilience, and wellbeing across the land and in our communities.
• A study of permaculture at the ecovillage offers an opportunity to evaluate and learn from permaculture designs that have been generated during our courses and implemented onsite over the last 12+ years.
• Gaining your internationally recognized certification with Sowing Solutions is an experience of empowerment, support, inspiration and skill building.
• All that you learn in this course can be applied at your home and in your communities.
• Skill shares, discussions, design actvities, experience in the gardens, orchards and forest gardens, natural building demonstrations, tours of local permaculture sites, immersion in community life, stories and presentations, food preservation and medicine making, mapping, observing patterns in nature, networking, await your arrival.
Optional: 3 college credits are offered through UMASS and the Five Colleges.
Early bird registration and work trade applications are available.
Visit our website for course details and to watch our 2-minute informational video, and join us for a fun and informative 2-week intensive this summer! www.PermacultureSeries.org
Come learn how at our Water as a Resource in the Landscape workshop that will be held on May 2 & 3.
Steve & Elizabeth Gabriel of Wellspring Forest Farm will share what they have learned as we develop our farm and homestead so that others can better utilize water on their sites.
The class will cover the basics of mapping and design, teach you how to use a-frames and laser levels to mark out beds, paths, swales, and ponds, and engage hands-on finishing a swale and riparian buffer on the farm. An excavator will also be on site and we will talk about appropriate use of this machine for long term benefit to the land.
See a video of a mini-tour of some of the current systems in place at the farm, and learn more about the class:
http://wellspringforestfarm.blogspot.com/2015/04/earthworks-for-water-harvesting-at-farm.html
Sustainability Education Program in Redwood, NY
More information and application available here:
http://www.betterfarm.org/sustainability-education/
Better Farm’s Sustainability Education Program is a hands-on immersive, introductory crash-course in sustainability initiatives.
Instead of a traditional working farm with acres upon acres of one or a few different crops, Better Farm has several gardens demonstrating different styles of gardening and farming. These gardens demonstrate the need for diversity of crops instead of monocultures. Better Farm equips students with a variety of solutions to real-world agricultural issues, including small spaces, temperamental soils, pests, and climate change. The aquaponics, hydroponics, layered gardens, fruit orchard, and forests on the property are extremely varied so students coming from all over the world will learn practical tools that can be applied back home.
The Sustainability Education Program runs in one- to three-month intervals. Those attending receive daily assignments and chores all related to sustainability initiatives and organic farming, as well as the opportunity to design and implement projects on their own. Upon completion of all units and responsibilities, participants will receive a certificate from Better Farm. College students may additionally receive course credit for completion of Better Farm’s Sustainability Education Program.
Individuals are immersed from day one in the local culture while working alongside other residents at Better Farm and in the Redwood community. Also staying at Better Farm are staff members and artists visiting through the betterArts residency program. Individuals should be prepared to take on solo work as well as group efforts; ranging from mundane tasks to unusual, exciting projects.
Many sustainability specialists visit Better Farm throughout the year to offer mentoring and guidance to students interested in coming here to work and gain valuable experience. Additionally, individuals have the option of taking any workshops and participating in any excursions or field trips scheduled during their time at Better Farm.
Students live communally in bunk rooms in Better Farm’s main house.
To apply, visit http://www.betterfarm.org/sustainability-education or download the attached file.
April 9th, 2015 at 7 p.m.
Cinemapolis
120 E. Green Street, Ithaca, NY 14850
GET YOUR TICKETS ONLINE: http://8137.formovietickets.com/T.ASP?WCI=BT&Page=PickTickets&SHOWID=10932
WATCH “INHABIT” FILM TRAILER: http://fingerlakespermaculture.org/?p=3495
Ten years ago in the Northeast one could barely find a permaculture class, much less a site that demonstrated permaculture principles and techniques in action. Today there is a very different story emerging, and examples abound of permaculture applied to farms, gardens, urban environments, social systems, and more.
In 2013, filmmakers Costa Boutsikaris and Emmett Brennan took a journey around the northeast and midwest U.S. and combined their eye for beauty with their passionate interest in permaculture to create a feature length documentary: INHABIT.
The film presents a vast array of projects, concepts, and people translating the diversity of permaculture expressions into a message easily understood by an equally diverse audience. To those familiar with permaculture, it will be a call to action and a glimpse into what’s possible; what kind of projects and solutions are already underway. For those unfamiliar, it will be an introduction to a new way of being and a new way of relating to the Earth. For everyone, it will be a reminder that humans are capable of being planetary healing forces.
INHABIT will be screening at the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (FLEFF) in Ithaca, New York on Thursday, April 9th. The FLEFF Festival embraces and interrogates sustainability across all of its forms: economic, social, ecological, political, cultural, technological, and aesthetic. This year their theme is HABITATS. “Environments inhabited by animals, plants, organisms, minerals, fungi, bacteria. Terrains, waters, atmospheres defined by layers, relationships, and complexities surrounding the human and the nonhuman. Ecological systems offering sustenance and life.”
The event is co-sponsored by the Finger Lakes Permaculture Institute (FLPCI) and includes a segment with their cofounder Steve Gabriel, who maintains Wellspring Forest Farm alongside his wife Elizabeth in Mecklenburg NY, where they produce maple syrup, mushrooms, and raise ducks and sheep, while seeking to restore the landscape to a healthy state. Steve–along with Ken Mudge of Cornell University–is also the author of “Farming the Woods” a book recently published by Chelsea Green Press. After the film, join them along with Director Costa Boutsikaris and FLPCI Board Member Becky Sims for a post film discussion about permaculture and related projects and events in the Finger Lakes Region.
PUT YOUR LOCAL PROJECT IN OUR
FINGER LAKES PERMACULTURE DIRECTORY: http://fingerlakespermaculture.org/?p=3495
FACEBOOK EVENT LISTING: https://www.facebook.com/events/736565323117983/
WELLSPRING FOREST FARM: http://wellspringforestfarm.blogspot.com/
Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (FLEFF): http://www.ithaca.edu/fleff/
Finger Lakes Permaculture Institute (FLPCI): http://fingerlakespermaculture.org
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Learn to farm the woods, upcoming ithaca events
FARMING THE WOODS
a book by local authors Ken Mudge & Steve Gabriel
Many of the daily indulgences we take for granted, such as coffee, chocolate, and many tropical fruits, all originate in forest ecosystems. But few know that such abundance is also available in the cool temperate forests of North America. A new book, Farming the Woods, covers in detail how to cultivate, harvest, and market high-value non-timber forest crops such as American ginseng, shiitake mushrooms, ramps (wild leeks), maple syrup, fruit and nut trees, ornamentals, and more. Learn more at upcoming events in Ithaca:
Thursday, March 26, 2015
Durland Alternatives Library
127 Anabel Taylor Hall
Cornell University
2 – 4 pm, FREE and open to public
Steve Gabriel will be giving a short presentation followed by discussion at the Durland Alternatives Library. This event is taking place Thursday, March 26th at 2pm. This is part of a weekly event series called The Alternatives Cafe–connecting library materials to local interests. The cafe is a weekly opportunity for discussion, collaboration, and education. Coffee, tea, and light refreshments are available.
http://www.alternativeslibrary.org/2015/03/09/farming-the-woods-presentation-by-steve-gabriel/
Thursday, April 9, 2015
INHABIT: A PERMACULTURE PERSPECTIVE
7:05 PM at Cinemapolis
part of the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival
Inhabit (Costa Boutsikaris and Emmett Brennan, USA, 90 min.) A feature length documentary introducing permaculture. It presents a vast array of projects, concepts, and people, and it translates the diversity of permaculture into something that can be understood by an equally diverse audience. For those familiar, it will be a call to action and a glimpse into what’s possible – what kind of projects and solutions are already underway. For those unfamiliar, it will be an introduction to a new way of being and a new way of relating to the Earth. For everyone, it will be a reminder that humans are capable of being planetary healing forces.(Steve & Eizabeth Gabriel’s Wellspring Forest Farm is featured).
Get tickets now – this will likely sell out!
Post screening discussion will include local permaculture practitioners and showcase upcoming events.
TRAILER:
https://vimeo.com/93538443
TICKETS:
Buy a ticket: http://www.ithaca.edu/fleff/Films2015/?item=8210
Wednesday, April 22, 2015
Mann Library, Stern Seminar Room 160
Cornell University
4:00 – 5:00 pm, FREE and open to public
Would you like to learn how to cultivate, harvest, and market high-value non-timber forest crops such as American ginseng, shiitake mushrooms, ramps (wild leeks), maple syrup, fruit and nut trees, ornamentals, and more?
Join us for a Chats in the Stacks book talk with Steve Gabriel, author of Farming the Woods: An Integrated Permaculture Approach to Growing Food and Medicinals in Temperate Forests (Chelsea Green Publishing, September 23, 2014). Coauthor of the book is Ken Mudge, associate professor in Department of Plant Sciences in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Gabriel is extension program aide for the college (Cornell Small Farms Program).
Buffalo Street Books will offer books for purchase and signing, and light refreshments served.
http://events.cornell.edu/event/Farming_the_Woods
Learn more about the book at www.farmingthewoods.com
Permaculture Intern(s) Sought in NY’s Finger Lakes Region
Would you like to learn and work on a young and growing woodland farm? We invite you to experience and assist Cayuta Sun Farm’s development. In the upcoming year stacks of shiitake mushroom logs, flocks of chicken, a small herd of pigs, and numerous gardens will require committed care and attention. Additionally, we are busy with design and construction projects, landscape assessment, brush clearing, pasture-management, plantings, cultivation and the unexpected challenges of building a farm. Twice during summer the farm will host educational events with the Finger Lakes Permaculture Institute. All these tasks need competent help.
This work can be an opportunity for the right person(s) who wish to augment their permaculture studies with hands-on work. We are lucky to be located in the beautiful Finger Lakes region of New York in a community that values and encourages small, innovative, and sustainable farms. We love our thriving local scene of permaculture practitioners; if you are a hard-working and thoughtful student of ecological design you may also. Visit out website to learn more and apply: http://cayutasunfarm.com/the-farm/permaculture-work-traders-interns-sought-in-ny-finger-lakes-region/
Sincerely,
Michael Burns and Kelly Dietz
Cayuta Sun Farm
Free Webinar & eBook: Closed-Loop Aquaponics
Join us for this Free Webinar:
Closed-Loop Aquaponics: Combining the Sciences of Permaculture & Aquaponics
With Max Meyers
Friday, March 13, 5pm PST, 8pm EST
Note: If you cannot attend the webinar live, no worries. You can still register and we will email you the recording.
* Participants will also have the opportunity to receive a Free eBook
5 Ways to Feed Your Fish Sustainably
Learn how we can “close the loops” and design our Aquaponics systems to be even more sustainable, integrated, efficient and self-sufficient!
Wether you are a beginner, a backyard hobbyist, a homesteader or a skilled professional wanting to start a career in Aquaponics… this webinar has something to offer.
Aquaponics
Aquaponics is one of the most sustainable and productive farming systems in the world. It combines Aquaculture and Hydroponics to create more self-sufficient, closed-loop, systems that use only a fraction of the water, labor, energy, etc. that other methods use.
Permaculture
Permaculture is the conscious design and maintenance of agriculturally and culturally productive systems which have the diversity, stability, and resilience of natural ecosystems.
Aquaponics + Permaculture
When the whole systems design science of Permaculture is combined with the practice of Aquaponics a whole new science is created.
Welcome to “Closed-Loop Aquaponics” – Aquaponics with Applied Permaculture Design!
Featured Presenter – Max Meyers
Max Meyers is an experienced Ecological Designer, Permaculture Teacher, Consultant, Registered Aquaculturist, Aquaponic System Designer/Installer, Rainwater and Greywater System specialist, Farmer, and the Director of Nor Cal Aquaponics. Through his work as an instructor of Permaculture and Ecological Design he has successfully trained over a thousand students from more than 40 countries world wide. Mr. Meyers provides Ecological design services to the public, organizations, and schools through Osiris Designs and Nor Cal Aquaponics. He is passionate about all things related to a more just and sustainable world. Most recently Mr. Meyers helped write the guidelines for the newly formed California Fish and Wildlife Aquaponics subcommittee. He has been studying, practicing and teaching Permaculture and Ecological Design for 16 years.
He and his work has been published in Gaia’s Garden, the world’s best selling book on Permaculture Design and featured in Time Magazine video as well as a variety of other publications, radio and television programs. More information about Max and his work can be found at: www.norcalaquaponics.com.
Want to Dive Deeper?
Check out one of our upcoming intensive trainings – Commercial Aquaponics With Applied Permaculture Design: Backyard, Family, & Commercial Systems. www.livingmandala.com/aquaponics/
- Austin, Texas – March 24-29, 2015 – Click Here
- Willits, California – May 29 – June 1, 2015 – Click Here
Don’t Miss Out! Register for this Webinar by Clicking here.
Note: If you cannot attend the webinar live, no worries. You can still register and we will email you the recording.
Participants also will have the opportunity to receive the Free ebook:
5 Ways to Feed Your Fish Sustainably
Hope to see you there!
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Organizing Education, Events & Initiatives for Personal & Planetary Transformationwww.LivingMandala.com
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New to the list, glad to have found it!
Thought this position may be of interest to the group… see description below…
Seeking Permaculture Farm Intern/Apprentice, Mecklenburg NY
From: Elizabeth Gabriel <elizabethrgabriel
Date: February 26, 2015 11:24 AM
To: Northeast Permaculture <northeasternpermaculture
Subject: [northeasternpermaculture] Seeking Permaculture Farm Intern/Apprentice, Mecklenburg NYSeeking Permaculture Farm Intern/Apprentice for 2015 season
Wellspring Forest Farm, Mecklenburg NY
To apply, please send a cover letter and resume to: farmers.
Questions can also be directed to this address.
Elizabeth and Steve Gabriel, owners of Wellspring Forest Farm, are seeking a part-time apprentice (15-20 hours/week) from mid May – early September (exact dates are flexible) who is enthusiastic about working with zone 1 and 2 gardens, plants and animals. Though this person will learn about and help with all farm and homestead systems, main responsibilities include planting, maintenance, harvest and preservation of vegetables, herbs, fruit trees and berries, as well as assisting with care and management of our sheep and duck flocks.
The ideal candidate has some vegetable gardening or farming experience, with at least a strong interest in permaculture. This position will regularly some involvement with all of the happenings on the farm that may include inoculating or harvesting mushrooms, packaging and delivering duck eggs, processing and preserving food and medicine, health management of sheep or ducks, planting or pruning trees, etc. Person should be comfortable following directions, working both with others and independently and able to be physically active and outside most of the day.
Wellspring Forest Farm is a developing permaculture farm and homestead. Our established farm systems include woodland grown shiitake and oyster mushrooms, ducks that rotationally graze pasture and woods and produce duck eggs, a herd of sheep, tree crops, maple syrup, swales and water management and zone 1 and 2 vegetable and medicinal gardens. We also host and teach multiple classes and workshops on the farm each year. We actively observe and develop our farm and this year plan to complete the construction of a greenhouse, develop a co-grazing plan for ducks and sheep as a method for parasite reduction, enhance our zone 1 and 2 gardens and build a 2nd pond and swale.
2 Wellspring apprentices will share a small outdoor kitchen, hot outdoor shower, composting toilet, small shed for storage of minimal personal items, and a weekly vegetable CSA-share from a local organic farm. Apprentices must provide their own tent for sleeping and take part in shared chores including composting properly; feeding animals and maintaining clean shared spaces.
In addition to learning a lot about integrated systems on a working permaculture farm and homestead, apprentices can attend classes Wellspring offers for free (see: http://wellspringforestfarm.blogspot.com/p/water.html) and will have access to the gardens for produce they can use.
Wellspring Forest Farm is located in Mecklenburg, NY, 12 miles from Ithaca, 8 from Trumansburg and 12 miles from Watkins Glen. We share a driveway and a 2-acre pond with 4 friendly neighbors. Apprentices will likely want to have their own car for personal transportation.
To apply, please send a cover letter and resume to: farmers.
Questions can also be directed to this address.
Thanks,
Elizabeth and Steve Gabriel
sustainable_tompkins-l Book talk tomorrow – Montour Falls, NY
Sorry that should read Wednesday, February 4th.
thanks, Steve
Steve Gabriel
February 3, 2015 5:51 PMBook reading & talk
TOMORROW – Thursday, February 4thThe Montour Falls Library, 406 W Main St, Montour Falls NY (http://montourfallslibrary.org/) will host Steve Gabriel at 7:00 to talk about his new book, co-authored with Ken Mudge, Farming in the Woods. (www.farmingthewoods.com)
Steve lives in Mecklenburg with wife Elizabeth where they produce maple syrup, log-grown mushrooms, duck eggs, and pastured lamb.
The book is filled with information on mushrooms, sugaring, ginseng, fruit and nut trees, and more. Steve will do a few readings from the book and talk about some of the crops suitable for growing in the Finger Lakes. A book signing will follow.
Books will be available for $35 (12% off cover price) – cash or check preferred.
Learn more about the book at http://farmingthewoods.com/the-book/
Book talk tomorrow – Montour Falls, NY
Book reading & talk
TOMORROW – Thursday, February 4th
The Montour Falls Library, 406 W Main St, Montour Falls NY (http://montourfallslibrary.org/) will host Steve Gabriel at 7:00 to talk about his new book, co-authored with Ken Mudge, Farming in the Woods. (www.farmingthewoods.com)
Steve lives in Mecklenburg with wife Elizabeth where they produce maple syrup, log-grown mushrooms, duck eggs, and pastured lamb.
The book is filled with information on mushrooms, sugaring, ginseng, fruit and nut trees, and more. Steve will do a few readings from the book and talk about some of the crops suitable for growing in the Finger Lakes. A book signing will follow.
Books will be available for $35 (12% off cover price) – cash or check preferred.
Learn more about the book at http://farmingthewoods.com/the-book/
Lots of Food’s Patty Love and Author Dave Jacke Team Up
—Space Limited, Register Now
Who should attend:
Human Services Professionals
College and University Professionals
Faith Community Leaders
Non-profit leaders
Systems Design Professionals and Students
Permaculture students, teachers, designers, and consultants
Activists
Community Organizers
We Are Nature, Working: Lessons from Ecology for Social Structure Design
Evening talk & discussion with Dave Jacke and Patty Love
Nature operates based on a set of foundational laws and principles by which all systems must abide, or they fail. The principles underlying the social structures of natural ecosystems can teach us much about organizing human societies. We can design systems that minimize stress and competition, and maximize cooperation, harmony, productivity, and diversity, while allowing each community member to remain true to their intrinsic nature. Social and economic justice and cooperation are actually more Darwinian than most people think! This evening workshop will begin by getting into some ecological nitty gritty. We’ll then explore together how the design of Rochester’s public food forest project, Lots of Food, a program of Seeking Common Ground, Inc., embodies ecological principles and how it might more fully express them.
Saturday, January 31, 7-9 pm $5-40 suggested contribution, no one will be turned away for lack funds.
The Assisi Institute, 1400 North Winton Road, Rochester, NY 14609
Register here: http://lotsoffood.org/event/we-are-nature-working/
Ecological By Design: Honing and Deepening Our Design Processes
One-Day Workshop with Dave Jacke
Our current mainstream culture unjustly damages ecosystems and people, leading to unsustainability. We humans need to rapidly redesign our lifeways and thinking—our culture. We all design all the time – whether we know it or not. By learning to design our cultures consciously and skillfully, we can co-create a resilient future for ourselves, humanity, and the planet.
In this one-day class we will dig deeply into design process theory and practice. We’ll experience effective observation, awareness, and thinking tools that deepen our design skills and our self-understanding. Through lectures, discussions, experiential design exercises, and more, we’ll hone, clarify, and deepen our ability to design thriving ecological and cultural systems. This work can reframe your sense of who and what humans are, what is our ecological role, how humans can inhabit nature, and how nature lives within and through us.
Participants should bring a sketchbook, notepad or other firm drawing surface and paper, some favorite sketching tools (ink or graphite) with at least one fine point and one broad tip pencil or marker, and, if you have it, a copy of Edible Forest Gardens volume 2.
Sunday, February 1, 9:30-4:00 (BYO lunch; tea & coffee provided) $60-100 sliding scale fee, some scholarships available upon request
Pre-registration for Sunday is required!
The Assisi Institute, 1400 North Winton Road, Rochester, NY 14609
Register here: http://lotsoffood.org/event/we-are-nature-working-2/
Dave’s Bio: A student of ecology and design since the 1970s, Dave Jacke has designed gardens, homes, farms, and communities throughout the U.S. and overseas since 1984. The primary author of the award winning two-volume book Edible Forest Garden (www.edibleforestgardens.com), he holds a B.A. in Environmental Studies from Simon’s Rock College and a M.A. in Landscape Design from the Conway School of Landscape Design. In his teaching and his design work, Dave has always explored the interrelationships between people and land as interpenetrating whole systems, grounding his vision and theory in practical and concrete reality as much as possible.
Patty’s bio: Patty is a permaculture designer, teacher, and emerging author based in the Genesee River Valley (Rochester, NY). She studies and practices regenerative and resilient design, permaculture, and edible forest gardening. Her work is informed from her education, reading, time in nature, parenting, and spiritual pursuits. She holds two Permaculture Design Certificates in addition to traditional BS and MALS Degrees. In addition to her business, Barefoot Edible Landscape and Permaculture, patty is the Program Director for Rochester Permaculture Center and Lots of Food, programs of See(k)ing Common Ground, Inc.
For more information: call Patty Love at 585.506.6505 or email info
Warmly,
patty love, MALS, PDC
patty
www.barefootpermaculture.com – owner
www.rochesterpermaculturecenter.org – Program Director
www.lotsoffood.org – Program Director
www.meetup.com/RochesterPermaculture/
www.empatheticpresence.com
Please note that I do not get to email, text msgs and voice mail every day, since much of my work keeps me in the field, teaching, growing, homesteading, etc. I look forward to responding to you as soon as possible. If you require my immediate attention or share my preference to minimize screen time, please call 585.506.6505.
Weekend Series Permaculture Design Course Starts March 6; Sirius EcoVillage, Western MA; Tuition Savings by Jan 30
We are looking forward to this Weekend Series Permaculture Course that starts 2 months ~ on March 6th!
Sowing Solutions PERMACULTURE DESIGN CERTIFICATION COURSE ~ Three inspiring and informative weekends: March 6-9, March 27-29, April 18-20 at Sirius EcoVillage near Amherst MA.
Gain ecological design training & experience for your home landscape. Gather sustainable living skills alongside permaculture designers and educators at a world-renowned ecovillage!
Contact us about fundraising support for your tuition. Save $100 if you register by January 30th. Option to apply 3 college credits if you are enrolled in the Five Colleges.
Dave Jacke and Patty Love teach Ecological Design in Rochester, NY
Lots of Food’s Patty Love and Author Dave Jacke Team Up
—Space Limited, Register Now
Who should attend:
Human Services Professionals
College and University Professionals
Faith Community Leaders
Non-profit leaders
Systems Design Professionals and Students
Permaculture students, teachers, designers, and consultants
Activists
Community Organizers
We Are Nature, Working: Lessons from Ecology for Social Structure Design
Evening talk & discussion with Dave Jacke and Patty Love
Nature operates based on a set of foundational laws and principles by which all systems must abide, or they fail. The principles underlying the social structures of natural ecosystems can teach us much about organizing human societies. We can design systems that minimize stress and competition, and maximize cooperation, harmony, productivity, and diversity, while allowing each community member to remain true to their intrinsic nature. Social and economic justice and cooperation are actually more Darwinian than most people think! This evening workshop will begin by getting into some ecological nitty gritty. We’ll then explore together how the design of Rochester’s public food forest project, Lots of Food, a program of Seeking Common Ground, Inc., embodies ecological principles and how it might more fully express them.
Saturday, January 31, 7-9 pm $5-40 suggested contribution, no one will be turned away for lack funds.
The Assisi Institute, 1400 North Winton Road, Rochester, NY 14609
Register here: http://lotsoffood.org/event/we-are-nature-working/
Ecological By Design: Honing and Deepening Our Design Processes
One-Day Workshop with Dave Jacke
Our current mainstream culture unjustly damages ecosystems and people, leading to unsustainability. We humans need to rapidly redesign our lifeways and thinking—our culture. We all design all the time – whether we know it or not. By learning to design our cultures consciously and skillfully, we can co-create a resilient future for ourselves, humanity, and the planet.
In this one-day class we will dig deeply into design process theory and practice. We’ll experience effective observation, awareness, and thinking tools that deepen our design skills and our self-understanding. Through lectures, discussions, experiential design exercises, and more, we’ll hone, clarify, and deepen our ability to design thriving ecological and cultural systems. This work can reframe your sense of who and what humans are, what is our ecological role, how humans can inhabit nature, and how nature lives within and through us.
Participants should bring a sketchbook, notepad or other firm drawing surface and paper, some favorite sketching tools (ink or graphite) with at least one fine point and one broad tip pencil or marker, and, if you have it, a copy of Edible Forest Gardens volume 2.
Sunday, February 1, 9:30-4:00 (BYO lunch; tea & coffee provided) $60-100 sliding scale fee, some scholarships available upon request
Pre-registration for Sunday is required!
The Assisi Institute, 1400 North Winton Road, Rochester, NY 14609
Register here: http://lotsoffood.org/event/we-are-nature-working-2/
Dave’s Bio: A student of ecology and design since the 1970s, Dave Jacke has designed gardens, homes, farms, and communities throughout the U.S. and overseas since 1984. The primary author of the award winning two-volume book Edible Forest Garden (www.edibleforestgardens.com), he holds a B.A. in Environmental Studies from Simon’s Rock College and a M.A. in Landscape Design from the Conway School of Landscape Design. In his teaching and his design work, Dave has always explored the interrelationships between people and land as interpenetrating whole systems, grounding his vision and theory in practical and concrete reality as much as possible.
Patty’s bio: Patty is a permaculture designer, teacher, and emerging author based in the Genesee River Valley (Rochester, NY). She studies and practices regenerative and resilient design, permaculture, and edible forest gardening. Her work is informed from her education, reading, time in nature, parenting, and spiritual pursuits. She holds two Permaculture Design Certificates in addition to traditional BS and MALS Degrees. In addition to her business, Barefoot Edible Landscape and Permaculture, patty is the Program Director for Rochester Permaculture Center and Lots of Food, programs of See(k)ing Common Ground, Inc.
For more information: call Patty Love at 585.506.6505 or email info
Warmly,
patty love, MALS, PDC
patty
www.barefootpermaculture.com – owner
www.rochesterpermaculturecenter.org – Program Director
www.lotsoffood.org – Program Director
www.meetup.com/RochesterPermaculture/
www.empatheticpresence.com
Please note that I do not get to email, text msgs and voice mail every day, since much of my work keeps me in the field, teaching, growing, homesteading, etc. I look forward to responding to you as soon as possible. If you require my immediate attention or share my preference to minimize screen time, 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
Upstate NY Permaculture Network 