Exciting Events!
Visit this page often to see constantly updated info!
Fruit Talks, Tastings and Tours, along with other Permaculture related events in the San Francisco Bay Area, and beyond.
Also check these pages:
Fruit Tastings link here
Past events archive link here
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Permaculture Skills Center Launch Party:
Saturday, June 15 2013
12-5pm
Food, Fun & Frivolity!
2185 Hwy 116 South, Sebastopol, CA [map]
(across the street from the Sebastopol Flea Market)
The Permaculture Skills Center (PSC)
http://permacultureskillscenter.org/
is a five acre educational and vocational site to advance modeling and replication of regenerative local food systems. Join the growing movement!
Come enjoy a delicious local lunch catered by Laura Litwin’s SoCoLo Catering, featuring regional food and seasonal fare. There will be tasty Sonoma County wines and beers, and plenty of other refreshing beverages. Let’s make this a day to remember!
This will be a family friendly event. There will be music by Sol Horizon, offering their Roots, Rock and Reggae to get the party hopping! We will have activities for children and adults, a prize drawing for folks that come by bicycle, Permaculture trivia, and a petting zoo for the children.
Sponsor the Launch Party Today!
We will have brief presentations by permaculture designers, nonprofits and local dignitaries, including:
- Brock Dolman, Occidental Arts and Ecology Center
- Penny Livingston-Stark, Regenerative Design Institute
- Len Greenwood, Montgomery High School Green Academy
- Efren Carrillo, Board of Supervisors, Fifth District
Celebrate in the creation and dedication of this model ecological farming, vocational, and learning center that will be a unique and superb jewel for our community.
Donation requested, no one refused for lack of funds, register here:
http://permacultureskillscenter.org/
Drip Irrigation for Beginners, and Growing Rare Fruits in Sonoma and Marin, two presentations at the Sonoma-Marin Fair!
Sonoma-Marin Fair- “Dog Days of Summer”
June 19 to 23, 2013
175 Fairgrounds Drive, Petaluma, CA 94952
Garden Show and Wine Garden area next to Main Stage
Thursday, June 20
5:00pm: Watersaving Drip Irrigation for Beginners, with Chad Griffith of Harmony Farm Supply & Nursery in Sebastopol
6:30pm: Growing Amazing and Rare Fruits in Sonoma and Marin Backyards, Presented by the California rare Fruit Growers/Redwood Empire Chapter
http://www.sonoma-marinfair.org/smf-fair-fun
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Biodynamic meetings and workshops:
Biodynamic Association of Northern California (BDANC)
Summer Meeting June 21 – 23 2013 ~~
Swallow ValleyFarm ~~ 1108 Valley Ford Freestone Rd, Valley Ford (near Sebastopol)
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Occidental Arts and Ecology Center
Tending the Wild
Instructors: M. Kat Anderson, Dennis Martinez, and OAEC Staff
Dates: June 28th at 9:45am to June 30th at 4:00pm
When Europeans arrived in California, they found a verdant garden paradise: meadows thick with grasses and wildflowers, impressive groves of oak trees, healthy game, and rivers full of fish. This diverse and abundant landscape was managed and tended expertly by native peoples for over 13,000 years.
- In fact, Northern California supported the largest diversity of plants and animals, as well as the largest human population, on the continent.
Join us for an incredible weekend as we explore how traditional ecological knowledge can restore our partnership with nature, and – interwoven with Permaculture - restore our degraded landscapes to once again support an abundance of life.
We will discuss the philosophy & principles of Native American land management and implement different management techniques on the wildlands at OAEC to:
- enhance wild food, medicine, fiber, and timber plants
- improve the ecological quality of the land simultaneously
Cost: $495/445 if registered three weeks in advance (includes meals and lodging). The deposit amount for this course is $100.
http://www.oaec.org/tending-the-wild
read the book:
Tending the Wild
Native American Knowledge and the Management of California’s Natural Resources
M. Kat Anderson, University of California Press
http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520248519
John Muir was an early proponent of a view we still hold today—that much of California was pristine, untouched wilderness before the arrival of Europeans. But as this groundbreaking book demonstrates, what Muir was really seeing when he admired the grand vistas of Yosemite and the gold and purple flowers carpeting the Central Valley were the fertile gardens of the Sierra Miwok and Valley Yokuts Indians, modified and made productive by centuries of harvesting, tilling, sowing, pruning, and burning. Marvelously detailed and beautifully written, Tending the Wild is an unparalleled examination of Native American knowledge and uses of California’s natural resources that reshapes our understanding of native cultures and shows how we might begin to use their knowledge in our own conservation efforts.
M. Kat Anderson presents a wealth of information on native land management practices gleaned in part from interviews and correspondence with Native Americans who recall what their grandparents told them about how and when areas were burned, which plants were eaten and which were used for basketry, and how plants were tended. The complex picture that emerges from this and other historical source material dispels the hunter-gatherer stereotype long perpetuated in anthropological and historical literature. We come to see California’s indigenous people as active agents of environmental change and stewardship. Tending the Wild persuasively argues that this traditional ecological knowledge is essential if we are to successfully meet the challenge of living sustainably.
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Citrus Grafting Workshop,
Indian Valley Organic Farm, Novato
Saturday, June 29,
9am-12pm
Each workshop participant will be supplied with all the necessary citrus rootstock to learn and perform citrus budding techniques, and graft a tree of their own.
Over 20 varieties available to bud! Including: Specialty Citrus, Sweet Oranges, Limes, Lemons, Grapefruit, Pummelos, Mandarins, and more.
Workshop led by John Valenzuela, chair of the Golden Gate Chapter of the California Rare Fruit Growers, John Heenan specialty citrus grower, and Indian Valley Organic Farm staff.
For more information on workshop content, including varieties offered, contact John Valenzuela at (415) 246-8834
Registration info below:
download flyer here:
Citrus Grafting workshop flyer 6.29.13
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Register now for the last module of the
Advanced Permaculture Design Practicum,
with the Regenerative Design Institute.
Module 3: The Permaculture Orchard–
Designing & Maintaining Edible Food Forest Gardens
Instructors: Dave Shaw & John Valenzuela
http://www.regenerativedesign.org/permaculture-in-action
Dates:
3.0 Jul 19 (Friday session = Yearlong Practicum only)
3.1 Jul 20
3.2 Aug 24
3.3 Sep 28
3.4 Oct 26
3.5 Oct 27 (Sunday session = Yearlong Practicum only)
The goal of this course is to learn how to create and maintain edible forest gardens. We will learn what gardeners past and present have
done to build productive multi-layered orchards. Along the way, we will explore the following questions: What are key design considerations? What perennial foods do I like eating? What species grow well in my home microclimate(s)? Where do I source high quality plants? How may I produce my own heritage, rare, and site-appropriate fruit trees? How do I maintain these systems throughout the year? Where can I visit mature edible forest gardens for inspiration and ideas (and to source plants!)?
Emphasis will be placed on:
• Design–each participant will create a professional Edible Forest Garden drawing;
• Temperate zone deciduous fruit trees (such as apples and plums), including selecting nursery stock, grafting and budding, pruning and training, and fruit tasting – each participant will engage in summer pruning on at least 1 apple and 1 plum tree, and graft or bud at least one fruit tree to “make and take home”
• Understory plants.
We hope that participants will
1) apply these principles and practices at their homes, community gardens, schools, or farms immediately, thereby creating more edible forest gardens in the world, and
2) engage with networks of orchardists, rare fruit growers, and permaculturists for life-long learning, teaching, and advocacy in this field, thereby increasing our collective capacity to shape the future of the sustainable food system.
http://www.regenerativedesign.org/permaculture-in-action
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Permaculture Design Certificate Course
At the Bullock Permaculture Homestead
Orcas Island, WA
July 14-August 3, 2013
Instructors: Douglas Bullock, John Valenzuela, Sam Bullock & Dave Boehnlein
http://www.permacultureportal.com/courses_current.html#design_orcas
Course Will Cover:
Approximately 144 hours of classroom and hands-on education. Including: design methodologies, observation skill building, whole system design, annual and perennial foods, water/energy/waste techniques, appropriate construction, plant propagation and culture, outdoor mushroom cultivation, herbs and fiber use, and animals. Agricultural strategies for drylands, wetlands, and everything in between will be observed, discussed, and implemented at our ever-evolving homestead.
Please note that this course is intensive! If you’re looking for a dawn to dusk, information-loaded Design Course, this is the one for you!
Course is limited to 30 participants.For more info contact:
Dave Boehnlein
360-840-8483
info@permacultureportal.com
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August 2, 3, 4
Edible Forest Garden Workshop with Eric Toensmier
at the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center
more details soon. . .
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National Heirloom Exposition
Sept 10, 11, 12
Sonoma County Fairgrounds, Santa Rosa CA
more details soon. . .
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Sept 26 to Oct 4
California Rare Fruit Growers Festival of Fruit
in conjunction with the Hawaiian Tropical Fruit Growers
Tours throughout the major Hawaiian islands
more details soon. . .
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Commercial Agroforestry course with Eric Toensmier
MA Center, Castro Valley Alameda County
Sept 15 -19
more details soon. . .
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International Permaculture Convergence
held in the island nation of Cuba
November 24 to December 7
more details soon. . .
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