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Job Announcement: Boulder Cultiva CSA Farm Manager at Growing Gardens

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Growing Gardens of Boulder County has announced an opening for a Boulder Cultiva CSA Farm Manager.  This is a unique opportunity to manage a CSA on zoned agricultural property in the heart of Boulder, at an organization that interfaces with many members of the community through community gardens, volunteerism, gardening and cooking programs, CSA and plant sales.  Do share this opportunity with anyone you think might be a great fit!

Growing Gardens CSA Farm Manager

Convergence at Integral Center, Saturday, 12/12, 7pm-3am, to benefit CO Permaculture Guilds

The Light Within: A White Party, hosted by Mandala Productions, is this Saturday, 12/12/2015, 7pm-3am, at Integral Center in Boulder.  This event will benefit Denver and Colorado Permaculture Guilds.  Includes local speakers and tables hosted by local designers.  Check out the Facebook link for more information!

Adam Brock guest editor for Permaculture Design Magazine issue #98

Watch for the November issue of Permaculture Design magazine: #98, Decolonizing Permaculture.  Adam Brock of The GrowHaus guest edited this issue.  Adam’s work on people patterns can be viewed at his website, People & Pattern, which is also the working title for his upcoming book on a pattern language of invisible structures.

P.S. You can help Adam get his book People & Pattern: A Social Permaculture Handbook started with a contribution to his indiegogo campaign!

A Rare & Intimate Evening with Sandor Ellix Katz at Shine Boulder, 10/21/2015

From Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place in Boulder, CO:

A rare & intimate evening with Sandor Katz, Wednesday, October 21, 2015, 6pm

Join us as Sandor shares his inspirational journey and wisdom around health and healing through fermented foods.

Food lovingly prepared by Shine’s Executive Chef Jessica Emich and Owner of Ozuke Foods, Mara King

$55 includes food, talk and a specialty fermented cocktail.  Space is limited so please register ASAP.

Sandor Ellix Katz is a fermentation revivalist. His books Wild Fermentation (2003) and the Art of Fermentation (2012), along with the hundreds of fermentation workshops he has taught around the world, have helped to catalyze a broad revival of the fermentation arts. A self-taught experimentalist who lives in rural Tennessee, the New York Times calls him “one of the unlikely rock stars of the American food scene.” The Art of Fermentation received a James Beard award, and In 2014, Sandor was honored with the Craig Claiborne Lifetime Achievement Award from the Southern Foodways Alliance.

For more information, check out Sandor’s website www.wildfermentation.com.

1st Annual Denver Permaculture Confluence: Oct. 16-18, 2015

From Denver Permaculture Guild:

Permaculture is revolutionizing the way we work and grow together in Denver,  join the Denver Permaculture Guild on for the 1st Annual Denver Permaculture Confluence, October 16-18th, 2015, as we learn, build, and celebrate permaculture in our city!

FRIDAY:

ANNUAL DPG MEMBERS’ MEETING

INTRODUCTION TO PERMACULTURE

SATURDAY:

PRESERV.A.THON

PERMACULTURE PLANTS FOR THE HIGH PLAINS

PERMABLITZ AT SEEDS OF POWER FARM

“THE FOREST GARDEN GREENHOUSE”: TALK AND BOOK SIGNING WITH JEROME OSENTOWSKI

HARVEST HOOTENANNY WITH THE SOUL PROS

PERMACULTURE BIKE TOUR

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Planning on attending more than one event at the Confluence? Purchase a sliding-scale Confluence Weekend Pass!

Rockies Edge Permaculture Design Course 2015: Final Weekend!

This past weekend, Rockies Edge Permaculture wrapped up their 2015 7-month Permaculture Design Course with design presentations and an open house.  Designs were presented by six groups, with design sites at two local farms, two local schools, and a Boulder city park.  Participants were inventive with use of media, seamlessly displaying everything from hand-drawn maps to video.  On Sunday, Rockies Edge held an open house for friends and family of the participants, which gave them the opportunity to display and discuss designs, and a second opportunity for participants to learn more about other teams’ design projects.

Sunday also delighted with a presentation from Rockies Edge Permaculture Children’s Program, in which children of the PDC participants presented skits that showed the principles of permaculture in practice.  The kids went all out, with costumes, and wrapped up their presentation with a dance party!  (Cue dance music, head bopping, ecstatic children…)

Thanks to the local PDC alumni who came out to support the freshest crew of Permaculture Design Course graduates in Boulder!

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Front Range Bioneers: October 23-25, 2015

From the Environmental Center at University of Colorado, Boulder:

In its 13th year, Front Range Bioneers is a Bioneers Resilient Communities Network Event and offers a weekend of sharing, learning and action, and is a uniquely affordable community event that brings together the progressive thinkers of this colorful region.

Front Range Bioneers features re-broadcasts of the national Bioneers plenaries.  The national presentations set a global context for the local conference, which features over 35 options of field trips, workshops and sessions with over 80 local presenters. The Front Range program focus on topics of regional importance.  In addition, there are special sessions for teens and activities for children.

Local permaculture designers presenting in the program include: Robin Eden, Avery Ellis, Michelle Gabrieloff-Parish, Jason Gerhardt, Casey Hanebuth, Neambe Leadon, Pavlos Stavropoulos, Maren Waldman, and Mike Wird.

Front Range Bioneers is a Bioneers Resilient Communities Network Event produced by the CU Environmental Center in collaboration with Naropa University, Making Local Food Work, Woodbine Ecology Center, Boulder Food Rescue, Youth On Record, and Earth Guardians.

Check out the program: http://www.colorado.edu/ecenter/bioneers/program

To register: http://www.colorado.edu/ecenter/registration-information

Denver PDC kicks off fifth annual course

The Denver Permaculture Design Course kicked off its fifth annual course last weekend at Woodbine Ecology Center.  Course facilitators include Adam Brock, Jason Gerhardt, Kelly Simmons, Isabel Sanchez, and Creighton Hofeditz.  The course runs one weekend a month starting in October and ending in April.  Learn more about the Denver PDC at denverpdc.com.

Local Lonnie Howell published in Permaculture Design Magazine Fall 2015

Check out Lonnie Howell’s article Design for Disaster: Grief in the Fall 2015 Permaculture Design Magazine.  Lonnie shares his personal experience with grief and loss, and how he found solace by applying permaculture principles to the grieving process.  A touching article on a topic that can be hard to address.  From Lonnie: “Harvest the edges of your comfort zones.”

Lonnie received his PDC and Advanced PDC certifications from High Altitude Permaculture and currently resides with his family in Rollinsville, CO.

 

More information on how to subscribe to Permaculture Design Magazine (formerly Permaculture Activist)

Integrated Social & Ecological Design Course, 5/29/15-6/7/15, Woodbine Ecology Center

From Woodbine Ecology Center:

Integrated Social & Ecological Design

Date:
Fri, 05/29/2015 – 6:00pmSun, 06/07/2015 – 3:00pm

Study integrated social and ecological design with some of the foremost instructors and practitioners in social and ecological design and permaculture.

To save the planet we may need to turn it
into an edible and socially just paradise…

Longevity. Abundance. Regeneration. Community. Beauty. Bounty.

Plant the Rain. Garden Like a Forest.
Design With Natural Patterns. Create Healty Communities

Brad Lancaster, Pandora Thomas, and Eric Toensmeier
with Woodbine staff and local guests

Understand the principles of social and ecological design while learning water harvesting and earthworks techniques, developing regenerative perennial food systems, and creating healthy groups and communities. Through case studies, hands-on work, and integrated design projects, this course will give participants an opportunity to delve into both foundational and advanced techniques and practices, and develop a thorough understanding of social and ecological design, and how to apply it for the benefit people and the earth. This course will also focus on climate change, social and environmental justice, carbon farming and carbon sequestration techniques, and indigenous management practices.

In this course, we will:

  • Learn how to design more, work less
  • Go from patterns to principles to strategies
  • Create natural oases
  • Utilize “waste” water for delicious landscaping
  • Reduce our need for irrigation
  • Utilize and assess our resources
  • Create lower-maintenance longer-lived gardens and food systems
  • Use more native, climatically-adapted plants
  • Cultivate bigger harvests with less work
  • Work with local climate, soil, and and precipitation
  • Create perennial and sustainable systems, inspired by nature
  • Design for resilient and regenerative communities
  • Facilitate healthier group experiences
  • Prepare for climate change and reduce our carbon footprint
  • Learn about eco-cultural restoration and indigenous management techniques
  • Develop a strong sense of place
  • Understand broad and transferable principles of social ecological design
  • Learn how to sequester carbon, restore degraded land, capture rainwater and more.
  • Earn an Advanced Design Certificate*

*The participant must have earned a Permaculture Design Certificate prior to the beginning of this class in order to be eligible for an Advanced Design Certificate. Participants without a PDC are also welcomed to attend and can earn a certificate of completion. This course has no prerequisites other than a strong desire to learn how to design for healthier and stronger ecosystems and communities. The course is applicable to beginner as well as experienced designers and community activists and the skills developed can be applied in a small or a large scale, and in urban and rural settings.

Since 1993, Brad‘s turned water scarcity into water abundance & run a successful permaculture consulting, design, and education business focused on integrated and sustainable approaches to landscape design, planning, and living. He is the author of the Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond series.

Pandora co-founded Earthseed Consulting LLC, a holistic consulting firm whose work expands the opportunities for sustainable living for diverse communities. Her current projects include the Black Permaculture Network, Pathways to Resilience-a permaculture and social entrepreneur-training program for men returning home after incarceration, supporting Historically Black Colleges and Universities in fostering environmental leadership for its students and creating a program for seniors to take leadership in engaging more people in the outdoors.

Eric has spent much of his adult life exploring edible and useful plants of the world and their use in perennial agroecosystems. He is the author of the forthcoming Carbon Farming: A Global Toolkit for Stabilizing the Climate with Tree Crops and Regenerative Agricultural PracticesParadise Lot, Perennial Vegetables and co-author of Edible Forest Gardens with Dave Jacke. He has written and taught about carbon sequestration through agroforestry and is developing a book on Indigenous Plant Management techniques for Woodbine.

Instructors: Brad Lancaster, Pandora ThomasEric Toensmeier, with Woodbine staff and guests

Meals: Breakfast Saturday through lunch Sunday is included in the cost.

Lodging: Included. Dormitory style cabins, dorm rooms, or camping (with your own equipment). Dormitory space is first come, first serve. Please bring your own sheets, pillow, sleeping bag, blankets and towels.

Cost: $1575, Early Bird Rate: $1295 (by May 1st)
(Contact us for group discounts. Limited worktrade and scholarship opportunities are available. Please follow the links to the pages with the application process for worktrade and for scholarships)

REGISTRATION IS A TWO-PART process.  To be fully registered you must complete both parts of this 2-part process!  The parts are:

1. Click here to complete and submit your Registration Form

2. Make your payment.
You can pay by check or money order made out to Woodbine Ecology Center, and mailing it to Woodbine Ecology Center, PO Box 1253 Littleton CO 80160 USA

You can also pay via PayPal here. You may pay the full early bird amount, or a non-refundable deposit of $325.00. We cannot hold your place until we receive your registration and at least your non-refundable deposit.