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Boulder CSA Fair, 3/15, 9am-noon at Impact HUB Boulder

From Local Food Shift:

Local Food Shift Group is sponsoring CSA Fairs in three locations along the Front Range—in downtown Ft. Collins on March 1, downtown Boulder on March 15, and in Denver on March 25.Boulder County Farmers’ Markets co-hosts a CSA Fair on Saturday, March 15, 9am-Noon at Impact HUB Boulder, 1877 Broadway, suite 100. “A CSA Fair, connects people face-to-face with farmers, discovering all the ways to directly support them, learn about food production and enjoy local food. They hear about summer opportunities and season extenders including winter CSAs and shares from controlled environment enterprises. It’s a celebration of farming and innovation,” says Brad Burger, Manager of Boulder Farmers’ Market.

For more information, email Laurie or call 303-494-1521.

– See more at: http://localfoodshift.com/event/522#sthash.Bm9SC0Ni.dpuf

Southwest Seed Library Hosts Its First Seed Swap this Saturday, 3/8

From Southwest Seed Library:

The Southwest Seed Library‘s First Durango Seed Swap is this Sat. the 1st at Turtle Lake Café (848 E. 3rd Ave-in the alley), from 10-am to 2pm.

There will be an heirloom presentation and seed libraries in every home talk. We will be sharing about the genetics and biology of seeds!  Growing seeds that grow seeds and grow well!  Learn to borrow from the Seed Library, general seeds saving workshop, termination of genetically modified seeds, exchange personal seeds with the community.

Bring snacks to share, seeds and friends.

Hope to see you there!
The Southwest Seed Library Crew

www.southwestseedlibrary.wordpress.com

4th Annual Seed Swap at The GrowHaus, Sat. March 8th, 1-5pm

This Saturday, March 8th, The GrowHaus will host its 4th Annual Seed Swap and Garden Teach-In.  It is taking place from 1-5pm at The GrowHaus, 4751 York St., Denver.  The day will include tours of the newly renovated facilities, food and live music, workshops with urban farmers, and activities for children and adults.  Suggested donation $10, or $5 with your own saved seeds.  For more information, visit The GrowHaus webpage.

Locals Avery Ellis and Adam Brock to speak at Permaculture Voices

Local permaculturists Avery Ellis and Adam Brock will be speaking at the Permaculture Voices conference in Temecula, CA.  The four-day conference, taking place March 13-16, 2014, features permaculture leaders from across the U.S. and as far away as Australia.  From Permaculture Voices: “We want big change.  We wanted to make an impact.  So we have put together over 60 sessions featuring over 40 world reknown speakers including Geoff Lawton, Michael Pollan, Dr. Elaine Ingham, Allan Savory, Joel Salatin, Mark Shepard, Toby Hemenway, Paul Wheaton, and Jack Spirko.  Just like you, all are committed and motivated to inspiring and enacting positive change in the world.”

Avery Ellis is a permaculture designer and instructor with several entrepreneurial ventures in Boulder, focused on residential food production, aquaponics, controlled environment greenhouses, and greywater systems. He hopes to bring awareness to appropriate technologies that can bring humanity into a new age of local food production and regenerative infrastructure.  His talk is titled, “Designing for Disaster: The Fire/Water Duality”.  Read more about the talk at the Permaculture Voices site.

Adam Brock is an urban permaculturist based in Denver, where he was born and raised. Adam is a co-founder and Director of Operations at The GrowHaus, a nonprofit food hub based in a reclaimed 1/2 acre greenhouse in inner-city Denver.  Adam’s focus within permaculture is on invisible structures and semi-arid polycultures, and he has collaborated as a facilitator with leading figures including Toby Hemenway, Peter Bane, Jerome Osentowski and Larry Santoyo.  Adam’s talks are titled, “Greening the Food Desert: Urban Permaculture in Denver” and “Towards a Pattern Language of Invisible Structures”.  Read more about the talk at the Permaculture Voices site.

Thanks to Avery and Adam for preparing talks on these excellent topics and representing permaculture on the Front Range of Colorado!

This Thursday, 2/20: Permaculture Community Benefit in Boulder

Embracing a Radically Uncertain Future–From Zombie Apocalypse to Deep Transition

Featuring Michael Brownlee of Local Food Shift and local permaculture designers Amanda and Brian Scott of 63rd St. Farm

Thursday, February 20, 2014

Pot luck starts at 5:30pm, Presentations and discussion starts at 7pm

Boulder Meadows Community Room, 4500 19th St., Boulder, CO, 80304 (1 block north of Violet Ave)

Please bring your mess kit, a dish to share, and family and friends!

Donations will be accepted for the Front Range Farm Relief Fund

 

From High Altitude Permaculture and Local Food Shift:

“Calling all permaculturists and evolutionary catalysts: climate chaos, global food crisis, collapse of industrial civilization, Near-Term Extinction. While these capture our attention, more is going on behind the scenes. Michael Brownlee traces the edges of planetary evolution to explore the essence of what’s emerging.”

Flyer for Thursday, 2/20 Event

Registration for Boulder Permaculture Design Course now open

The 2014 Boulder Permaculture Design Course will be taking place on the second weekend of each month, April through October, on Saturday and Sunday from 9am to 5:30pm.  In addition to the PDC, there will be several elective courses available to students.  Instructors include Jason Gerhardt, Kelly Simmons, Lynne Duguay, and guests.  Registration is open now!  See flyer and registration form below.

Boulder PDC 2014 Flyer

Boulder PDC 2014 Registration Form

For more information, visit boulderpermaculture.com.

Registration for Local Food Summit now open

From the Mile High Business Alliance, Denver:

“We’re thrilled to let you know we’ve opened registration for our 2nd Annual Local Food Summit, taking place on March 3, 2014, back at McNichols Civic Center building in Downtown Denver.  Join us for Denver’s largest gathering of representatives from Colorado’s food economy – connecting growers, retailers, producers, restaurateurs and local eaters!  If your business or organization is directly working on providing food to Coloradans, then come join!

It’s going to be big.  Last year’s first Local Food Summit brought together almost 500 attendees and sold out before the day of the event, so register now and save your place.”

For more details on the event, go to the Local Food Summit webpage.

Advanced PDC, Designing for Resilient Local Communities, postponed

The Advanced Permaculture Design Course on Designing for Resilient Local Communities planned by Sandy Cruz, Barbara Mueser, and Marco Lam has been postponed until late summer, 2014.  Details and updated course dates to follow!

Rocket Mass Heater Workshop Part 2–FREE–Cob Stomping Party

From Robin and Mike at Regenerative Lifestyles:

Greetings and Happy 2014!  Regenerative Lifestyles is dedicated to bringing regenerative education to the Front Range, this year we have many exciting events lined up; Earthship Greenhouse Dome, Earthship Chicken Coop, Aquaponics, Climate Battery, Earthworks, Permaculture Design, Seeds in the Ground Gardenscaping, Permablitz, Film Showings, Childrens Eco-Art Camp, Potlucks, Festivals and More!  If you would like to be involved helping to organize these events, and bringing an Earthship Visitor Center to Denver, let us know! 

Our first event for this year is community building cob party!  Let’s add more mass to the Rocket Mass Heater at Ruckus Ranch in Erie, Colorado.  Sunday, February 9, 2014, 10AM.  Please bring food to share!  Ruckus Ranch , 1878 Old Hwy 52, Erie, CO

As Temperatures drop into the single digits and below all across the country, this simple Rocket Mass Heater provides a means to heat homes for extended periods of time with minimal fuel.  We held a workshop and lots of people showed up to learn, build, and stomp cob in freezing temperatures.  We are transforming this old barn into a permaculture education space, with rocket mass heat, a passive solar greenhouse, and a kitchen that treats its own waste!

Building community in an educational setting is what helps us pulse with inspiration.  This is the perfect setting to dive into permaculture/natural building community.  This is a free event, but donations are greatly appreciated, and will go towards future events.

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www.regenerativelifestyles.org

Early Registration for Advanced PDC Ends Soon

Just a reminder that if you’re considering taking the upcoming Advanced Permaculture Design Course on Designing Resilient Local Communities, the early registration discount ends January 31st.  From the course organizers:

“The Front Range advanced design course in community resilience is coming right up!  Our teaching team has been busy lining up expert guests to share their wisdom, along with several dynamic design projects for the class to tackle.”

Advanced PDC Flier

Registration form with more details