permaculture

[deston denniston <cobbuilder@yahoo.com>]

In the half witted battle to get out information without loosing an audience, 
I didn't call it permaculture again. And a rose by any other name smells as 
sweet. Please support this effort to address funding vet's who want to take 
permaculture programs as part of their accredited college studies but cannot 
due to specious lack of oversight in some offices... somewhere...

>From the petition at 
>http://www.change.org/petitions/senate-committee-on-veterans-affairs-offer-organic-agriculture-education-to-vrap-eligible-veterans....


"The Veterans Retraining Assistance Program (VRAP: 
http://benefits.va.gov/vow/education.htm) has missed its highest 
potential. According to provisions of the benefit, veterans who are VRAP
 recipients must seek employment training in high demand sectors. 
Conservation agriculture and organic food production training belong on 
the list of high demand occupations. Organic food sales have often grown
 by 10%+ annually- U.S. sales of organic food and beverages have grown 
from $1 billion in 1990 to $26.7 billion in 2010. Sales in 2010 
represented 7.7 percent growth over 2009 sales. ... This market is growing 
tangentially, currently at 4% of total
 food sales and with 0.7% of land base in organic and conservation 
management, and there is likely a decade or more of growth in this 
sector. It is the only Ag sector in which small operators show constant 
year to year profit. Despite this, no sustainable, organic or 
conservation based agriculture training programs are covered by VRAP. "


please sign this petition to start funding organic conservation based 
agriculture (read permaculture) education for vets. please propagate- 
facebook, other list serves, etc.

http://www.change.org/petitions/senate-committee-on-veterans-affairs-offer-organic-agriculture-education-to-vrap-eligible-veterans

SEED!

Peace,



Deston Denniston, M.S., C.P.I. 

Steward, Abundance Permaculture Consulting

www.abundancepermaculture.com

(360) 673-2124

--- On Tue, 6/26/12, permaculture-request@lists.ibiblio.org 
<permaculture-request@lists.ibiblio.org> wrote:

From: permaculture-request@lists.ibiblio.org 
<permaculture-request@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: permaculture Digest, Vol 113, Issue 20
To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
Date: Tuesday, June 26, 2012, 9:01 AM

Send permaculture mailing list submissions to
    permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org

To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit
    http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/permaculture
or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to
    permaculture-request@lists.ibiblio.org

You can reach the person managing the list at
    permaculture-owner@lists.ibiblio.org

When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific
than "Re: Contents of permaculture digest..."


Today's Topics:

   1. Veteran's Permaculture Program (deston denniston)


----------------------------------------------------------------------

Message: 1
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 09:40:00 -0700 (PDT)
From: deston denniston <cobbuilder@yahoo.com>
Subject: [permaculture] Veteran's Permaculture Program
To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
Message-ID:
    <1340642400.610.YahooMailClassic@web160706.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

A Veterans farm incubator with permaculture as the core program will be 
starting in Western Washington in 2013.

Link to article here: http://www.planetshifter.com/node/2028
info on program here: www.abundancepermaculture.com

for inquiries, please respond directly to Deston Denniston at contact noted 
on the abundance permaculture website.

Peace,



Deston Denniston, M.S., C.P.I. 

Steward, Abundance Permaculture Consulting

www.abundancepermaculture.com

(360) 673-2124



------------------------------

_______________________________________________
permaculture mailing list
permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
subscribe/unsubscribe|user config|list info:
http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/permaculture
message archives  https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/permaculture/
Google message archive search:
site: lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/permaculture [searchstring]
Avant Geared  http://www.avantgeared.com


End of permaculture Digest, Vol 113, Issue 20
*********************************************