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1.  Thursday, April 7th – Brighton Memorial Library, Rochester, NY 7-8:30 pm
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 12-6 pm
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:
MK Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence, and
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