[permaculture] Fw: Treeplanting, mini-swales, and gardening this weekend - Workshops at Sivananda Ashram Yoga Ranch

Sean Maley semaley at yahoo.com
Wed Apr 15 15:46:04 EDT 2009



--- On Wed, 4/15/09, Alice <alicelo03 at gmail.com> wrote:
Subject: Treeplanting, mini-swales, and gardening this weekend - Workshops at  Sivananda Ashram Yoga Ranch
To: permaculture-61 at meetup.com
Date: Wednesday, April 15, 2009, 2:56 PM

Workshops in organic gardening and edible forest garden plantings with permaculture techniques continue at Sivananda Ashram Yoga Ranch this weekend through October. Our tree orders are arriving, so get in on the action! Please help us spread the word and forward appropriately. Thanks, Alice.


RECONNECTION AND REVIVAL: Hands-on Organic Gardening, Edible Landscaping Workshopsat Sivananda Ashram Yoga Ranch with Michael Judd and Green Phoenix Permaculture


April 18-19 / 12:30-4 pm. (Join us for one or both days!)  Plant bare root fruit, nut trees and bush fruits! Learn how to care for bare root trees before and after planting, and how to select complementary functional plants that will support their health and vitality. This is the beginning of the ashram’s edible forest garden! Also, help direct seed the organic annual garden and learn about simple techniques and tools for minimizing erosion, and harvesting and storing rain water in the landscape. 


DAILY SCHEDULE of EVENTS: Permaculture workshop takes place between 12:30 and 4 pm. Day visitors, please arrive by 12:30. Multi-day participants attend at least one yoga class (8 am or 4 pm) and satsang (6 am or 7:30 pm) daily. 


WHERE: Sivananda Yoga Ashram Ranch in Woodbourne,
NY is located on 77 acres of hilly woodland in
the Catskill Mountains, 100 miles from New
  York City. Shortline Buses run between Woodbourne and NYC regularly.  http://www.coachusa.com/shortline/. For more
info and driving directions: http://www.sivananda.org/ranch/getting_here.html 

WORKSHOP
FEES and ACCOMMODATIONS 
Day Visitors: $40 per day. Please arrive at the ashram by 12:30 pm on Saturday
or Sunday. Day visitors enjoy a delicious and healthful vegetarian brunch
or dinner for $12. Full
weekend: $180 - $240, sliding scale. Includes overnight accommodations Friday and
Saturday night, two delicious organic vegetarian meals daily, asana classes,
satsang, and access to a wood-burning Russian-style sauna. 
Weekday workshops can be
arranged for groups of 3 or more. Please email michael at projectbonafide.com







TO
REGISTER: Call Sivananda Yoga Ranch at (845) 436 6492
or email at YogaRanch at sivananda.org Your reservation is secured with a non-refundable
deposit of $35.ABOUT THE SERIES
Join us for a series of hands-on gardening, edible-landscaping and yoga immersion workshops! Help create regenerative ecological systems that move the ashram toward greater food abundance and self-reliance AND cultivate your 'inner landscape' by connecting mind, body, and spirit through yoga and meditation. All levels of gardening, permaculture and yoga practitioners are welcome! 


Each workshop will feature a site tour and hands-on participation and instruction in some of the following: annual organic garden expansion and diversification, soil care with sheet mulching, composting, vermicomposting and aerobic compost teas; orchard and berry patch revival, food forest preparation, silvo-pastoral plantings, harvest, preservation and seed saving, low-tech surface swale design, earthbag construction and mushroom inoculations. The activities for a given weekend may vary as the needs of the site evolve. Please see the ashram website for the latest updates: http://www.sivananda.org/ranch/perma_weekend.html. Participants will also be guided into a personal practice of yoga and meditation by attending at least one yoga asana class (postures) and satsang (meditation, chanting, and a talk on philosophy) each day.









      


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