1. Thursday, April
7th – Brighton Memorial Library, Rochester,
NY
Picking Polyculture Plants for Your Permaculture Plot
Learn how to choose plants that function as a community to build soil, maintain
moisture, and increase yields while decreasing your workload. Get introduced to
the principles of permaculture and how to create an edible landscape whether
you have a small or large yard. Presented by Patty Love of Barefoot Edible
Landscape and Permaculture and Rochester Permaculture Institute.
2. Saturday, April 9th
– Foodlink Distribution Center,
138 Joseph Avenue, Rochester, NY
2011 Upstate NY Permaculture Gathering
This year’s Gathering is a regional event designed to foster networking,
coordination, and learning of permaculture philosophies among all classes of
community in Upstate New York. Permaculture is a whole-systems approach to
community and landscape design. This provides regenerative agriculture
techniques in order to meet human and animal needs for development projects
that allow for more self-sufficient living. This Gathering will accomplish the following:
• Provide an introductory understanding of Permaculture to the resident,
business, and activist communities of Rochester.
• Provide a continuing education opportunity for Permaculture, natural building
and homesteading related knowledge.
• Create a positive economic, social, ecological, and spiritual impact on Rochester and Upstate New
York.
• Continue the efforts of the 2010 Upstate NY Permaculture Gathering in Syracuse that was hosted
by the Alchemical Nursery.
More information at: http://www.rochestergreenliving.com/PermacultureGatheringFlier.pdf
3. Peace and Permaculture:
Food
Forestry for Ecological and Cultural Regeneration presented by Dave Jacke,
Edible Forest Gardens Author
Sunday
April 10, 2011 2-4 PM
Univ. of Rochester Interfaith
Chapel
Co-Sponsored by:
<http://gandhiinstitute.org/>
MK Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence, and
<http://www.barefootpermaculture.com/>
Barefoot Edible Landscape & Permaculture
What can the forest teach us about ecological food production? About the
practice of nonviolence? About how to redesign our culture so that we humans
heal our ecosystems and communities, rather than destroying them? Healthy
forests maintain, fertilize, and renew themselves, naturally. When we
understand how these amazing properties emerge from forest ecosystem structure
and function, we can apply that knowledge to the design of “food forests” that
mimic natural forests while growing food, fuel, fiber, fodder, fertilizers,
farmaceuticals, and fun! With forest gardens as our teachers, we can also use
the same principles to design human social systems that allow us each to fully
be ourselves while interconnecting in functional ways. This can create a
culture of free human beings that builds community health and well-being
without force or violence. This talk by Edible Forest Gardens author Dave Jacke
introduces the vision of forest gardening with some scientific background, a
few living examples, and a sampling of some useful perennial edibles you can
use in your own garden. It also summarizes how the ecology of forests can guide
the practical application of nonviolence in regenerating our culture. Suggested
minimum donation $10; no one turned away for lack of funds.
Location: River Level
Univ. of Rochester Interfaith Chapel, 500 Joseph C Wilson Blvd, Rochester, NY.
For info or to register, contact:
Patty Love, Barefoot Edible Landscape & Permaculture
patty AT barefootpermaculture.com,
585.506.6505
Warmly,
patty love, Owner
Barefoot Edible Landscape &
Permaculture
patty AT barefootpermaculture.com
www.barefootpermaculture.com
Program Director
Rochester Permaculture Institute
www.rochesterpermacultureinstitute.org
patty AT barefootpermaculture.com
http://www.meetup.com/RochesterPermaculture/
585.506.6505
PO Box
18212
Rochester, NY 14618
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
