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Kombucha Jar

Kombucha Jar

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needle felting workshop

needle felting workshop

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Permaculture Design Course

Permaculture Design Course

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Animal Husbandry Workshop, VBC May 2008

Animal Husbandry Workshop, VBC May 2008

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plaster work party

plaster work party

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School Garden Workshop

School Garden Workshop

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school garden workshop

school garden workshop

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school garden workshop

school garden workshop

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Radical Sustainability for Autonomous Communities: Thurs, Oct 30

When: 
Oct 30 2008 - 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Toolbox for Sustainable City Living

A workshop in urban ecological survival skills: exploring the cross-section of permaculture and social activism.

This is a free workshop and booksigning! Donations to TLC Farm of course gladly accepted.

This workshop's focus is teaching the design of tools and techniques used to secure people's access to life's basic necessities: food, water security, shelter, waste management and energy production.

The systems described are simple and affordable and are built from salvaged, waste and recycled materials. They can be used to create locally based, decentralized sustainable infrastructure in people's backyards or neighborhoods. Emphasis is put on the interrelations between sustainability and class/race/international struggles.

Systems to be described include:

  • Soil building and asphalt removal
  • Bioremediation (cleaning contaminated soils using plants, fungi and biological processes),
  • Urban chickens and microlivestock
  • Rainwater harvesting,
  • Aquaculture ( ponds, plants, fish and algae )
  • Constructed wetlands for cleaning wastewater,
  • Humanure and worm composting,
  • Passive solar and bicycle windmills,
  • Biogas and veggie oil biofuels,
  • Natural construction methods -- strawbale, clay woodchip
  • Restoring brownfields
  • DIY air purification
  • Struggles for land and gentrification
  • Energy decline, city futures and climate justice

    The class includes both hands-on and lecture formats.

    The techniques described are ones which have been developed over the past eight years at the Rhizome Collective, an urban sustainability and community organizing project in Austin, Texas. (www.rhizomecollective.org)

    This workshop emphasizes the interrelatedness of the sustainability and social justice movements. Emphasis is on urban design in the Global North, but these methods are also applicable in rural areas and the Global South.

    Bio of Organization:

    The Rhizome Collective is a non-profit, consensus run organization based out of Austin, Texas. Since 2000, it has served as a center for community organizing and as a center for urban sustainability education. It provides low rent space to a number of activist and social organizations including the Inside Books Project, ( a books for prisoners project ), the Austin Independent Media Center, and Bikes Across Borders.

    In addition, in 2004 the collective was donated a 10 acre piece of land in the city which it is in the process of turning into an ecological justice park.

    For more info, visit www.rhizomecollective.org

    Teacher Bio:

    Scott Kellogg is a co-founder of the Rhizome Collective, and the director of its sustainability program. He is an experienced teacher, activist and ecological designer and father.

    He divides his time between the Rhizome Collective, in Austin Texas, and the Albany Free School Community in Albany, New York.

    He is currently earning a Masters in Environmental Science from Johns Hopkins University.

    He is the co-author of the book "Toolbox for Sustainable City Living: A Do-it-Ourselves Guide" (South End Press, June 2008) and the primary teacher of R.U.S.T. - The Radical Urban Sustainability Training, an intensive weekend workshop in urban ecological survival skills.

    Contact:
    Scott Kellogg
    Skotty@rhizomecollective.org
    512 294 9580 (cell)

Permaculture Orchard Design with Marisha Auerbach- Oct 4th & 5th

When: 
Oct 4 2008 - 10:00am - Oct 5 2008 - 4:00pm
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About the workshop:
A Food Forest is a term for an orchard in Permaculture Design. Here we try to obtain a generous yield while producing all of the maintenance needs of the system on-site. We can grow fecund fruit trees while we grow understory plants for fertility, medicinal herbs, and other edibles in this intentional forest. We observe the ecological system of the native forest to create effective designs. By observing the functions of the native forest, we can grow an abundance of useful plants in our intentional forest with minimal maintenance.

Please join us for this workshop in the Food Forest of Tryon Life Farm.
The first day of this two day workshop will discuss design strategies,
including ways to minimize the use of water for the plants. The second day will focus on species selection and the creation of guilds. We will be learning from the Food Forest that was planted at the Village Building Convergence in May of 2007 and enriching the plantings as we collaborate on strategies for the future. Each day will include hands-on activities.

$150-100 sliding scale cost (camping available for nominal fee).
Limited worktrade available.

To register or for more information, please contact Laura at workshops@tryonfarm.org or call 503-245-3847.

About Marisha Auerbach:
Marisha has been practicing, studying, and teaching permaculture in the Pacific Northwest for the past ten years. Marisha is working to support the paradigm shift through sharing knowledge with others on a variety of topics including: permaculture, flower and gem essences, local economics, community building, ethnobotany, herbalism, edible landscape design, and organic gardening among others. She is enthusiastic about creating perennial forage systems and building local community as a response to peak oil. Marisha's interest in local economics and creating useful items using her resources manifests as several projects: working on a local community marketplace in Olympia, Queen Bee Flower and Gem Essences, Herb'n Wisdom for permaculture consulting and herbal products, and Growing Greetings which produces plantable greeting cards and other products. Marisha graduated from the Evergreen State College in 1998 where she focused on ethnobotany, ecological agriculture, and sustainability studies.

Feedback and participation welcome! Please send bug reports to web@tryonfarm.org

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