Greetings all,
Below is an amazing collection of upcoming permaculture
and sustainability events in the central Virginia bioregion, including a MapLab
on July 5th and several canning classes, and an Edible Fest in
Orange, VA (details below). If you know anyone else that would like to sign up
for this newsletter, they can sign up here. If you have an announcement, email us at blueridgepermaculture@gmail.com for
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this email as a webpage. Happy Summer!
Best,
1.
Sacred Plant
Traditions – classes in Charlottesville
Designing a Medicine Garden – Permaculture and
Herbalism
Saturday, July 6 - 10am – 2pm
Join us for a day of instruction on how to set up
medicinal gardens and botanical sanctuaries. We will begin with sheet mulching,
look at garden layout and simple design and talk about the needs and growing
conditions of common herbal medicines. We will wander back to the woodland
sanctuary that has been created and talk about conservation and ecological
harvest issues as they relate to United Plant Savers. We will also look at
drying roots, flowers and leaves of our favorite plant allies.
Herbal teas will be provided at all the one day workshops.
Please pack a bag lunch.
Fee for the class is $75. Deposit $30. REGISTER
NOW
Kitchen Apothecary - First Harvest
Sunday, July 7 - 10am – 2pm
This class can stand-alone or be a wonderful conclusion to
the garden class taught the day before. In this class, participants will make
herbal preparations harvested from the day before. These are safe and
time-honored recipes to be used for the family. We will learn the art of making
salves, tinctures, oils and teas as well as how to stock our family medicine
chest.
This is an excellent class for those that are interested
in learning sustainable ways of keeping selves and families healthy.
This class will be taught by community herbalist, Heather
Wetzel
Herbal teas will be provided at all the one day workshops.
Please pack a bag lunch.
Fee for the class is $75. Deposit $30. REGISTER
NOW
The Art of Fermentation
Saturday, July 27 - 10am – 2:30pm
Learn to make delicious lacto-fermented foods in this
hands-on workshop. Fermentation is a traditional way of food preparation that
not only preserves the harvest but also yields greater nourishment, a healthier
digestive system, and thus increased vitality. We will make kimchi, brined
garlic, lacto-fermented beets and ginger carrots as well as fermented and
cultured beverages including kombucha, honey wine and sodas that are good for
you. You will leave with the skills necessary to begin lacto-fermenting foods
at home.
This class will be taught by community herbalist, Suzanna
Stone
Herbal teas will be provided at all the one day workshops.
Please pack a bag lunch.
2.
Excellent events
from our friends at Transition Charlottesville-Albemarle
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Wednesday 7/3 Better World Betty 5% Day at Whole Foods
If you shop at Whole Foods in Charlottesville, Weds. 7/3
is a good day to go stock up! Five percent of the day’s sales will be donated
to support Better World Betty’s
100% LOCAL work to promote recycling, support sustainability initiatives, and
encourage businesses to go green with the Better Business Challenge.
Betty is recruiting volunteers for summer and fall events
- including a New Belgium Beer & Film event in September! - as well as
ongoing support and special projects. Email betty@betterworldbetty.com to find
out how you can help.
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Friday 7/5 MapLab, a Balloon Mapping Workshop
5-8pm at The Bridge PAI, 209 Monticello Rd.
MapLab is an inaugural program to create a participatory
snapshot of Charlottesville. Throughout July and August the Bridge PAI is
inviting the greater community to tell them what they know about the City of
Charlottesville using all their senses. The residents are asked to visit The
Bridge to share their insights and participate in a series of events to map,
talk, draw, and walk about the city. The Bridge PAI aims to use the information
as a means to stitch unique connections throughout the community as a way of
infusing art and culture into the city in new ways.
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Sunday 7/7 TimeBank Member Picnic
5pm at McIntire Park
Join Cville TimeBank
at picnic shelter #3 (closest to the softball field) to share a meal together,
talk about TimeBank, and hear an update from the organizers. Family-friendly -
kids welcome! Bring games if you like. Please bring a dish to pass and your own
plate, cup, utensils.
Questions? Contact timebankcville@gmail.com.
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Monday 7/8 Skill Share: Repair Café
7-8:30pm at The Bridge PAI, 209 Monticello Rd.
Need a small repair? Bring your broken thingamajig to the
Repair Café, and we’ll take a look together! Handy fixer-people will be there
with toolboxes, sewing kits, glue, etc. If your item has an owner’s manual,
please bring it with you.
Do you have a skill to share or know someone who could
lead a workshop? Our skill share crew would love your help to organize an
upcoming event. Contact Ann Marie, annmarie.hohenberger@gmail.com
or (434) 981-2004.
Requests for workshops include foraging, canning, soap
making, sewing, first aid, and many more DIY/homesteading skills. Workshop
leaders need not be professionals, just folks who know how to do something
cool.
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Cooking Classes from Market Central
Tues. 7/9: Easy as Pie
Sat. 7/20: Cooking with a Whole Chicken
Sat. 7/27: Canning 101
Sat. 8/3: Pressure Canning
Sun. 8/11: In a Pickle
Plus - check out Market Central’s new seasonal recipes.
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Wednesday 7/10 Seminar: Agricultural
Landscape of the Piedmont
6:30-7:30pm at Rebecca’s Natural Food, 1141 Emmet St.
Sue Ellen Johnson is the Director of Agriculture and Rural
Economies for the Piedmont Environmental Council. She will talk about the
state of agriculture in the Piedmont and discuss the barriers and many
opportunities that our local producers and food system faces.
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Thursday 7/11 Storyline Project
10am-12pm at the Community Chalkboard in front of
Charlottesville City Hall
From Piedmont
Council for the Arts: PCA is collaborating with The Bridge Progressive Arts
Initiative, Charlottesville
Parks & Recreation, the Thomas
Jefferson Center For the Protection of Free Speech,Community Bikes, and SiteWorks Studio for Storyline 2013, a hands-on
project for local youth.
The Storyline Project guides rising 4th-6th graders from
the Charlottesville Parks & Rec summer camps through unique walking
expeditions that culminate in the creation of a mural on the Community Chalkboard.
This year’s theme is Transit, utilizing boats, bikes, and buses.
On July 11, campers' sketches will coalesce with the
creation of a mural on the Community Chalkboard on the Downtown Mall. The
public is invited to observe the mural creation and celebrate the Storyline
Project. Watch a time lapse video of last year's mural here.
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Saturday 7/13 Wayside Commons
From Wayside Center for Popular Education: Come to Wayside
for our celebration with community organizers and activists from all over the
region as we indulge in an opportunity to network, eat, workshop, socialize,
share our talents, and most importantly HAVE FUN! Childcare and interpretation
provided.
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Tuesday 7/16 350.org
Central Virginia Meeting
6:30-8:30pm at Charlottesville Friends Meetinghouse, 1104
Forest St.
350 CVA, the first officially recognized Virginia chapter
of international 350.org, meets on the third
Tuesday of each month. At least one hour of the monthly meeting is set aside
for activist program work. Everyone is welcome, from high school students
up to adult seniors. Light refreshments are provided. 350.org seeks to grow in numbers and effectiveness,
specifically effectiveness for changing our future to one that is safe from the
looming, catastrophic amount of climate change that science predicts, unless we
quickly and greatly reduce or replace our use of coal, oil and gas for energy.
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Thursday 7/18 Art21 Screening & Discussion Series:
Ecology
12-1:30pm at CitySpace, 100 5th St. NE
From Piedmont
Council for the Arts: Pack a brown bag lunch and join PCA for a film and
discussion. This film delves into the work of four artists who explore the relationship
of nature and culture. How is our understanding of the natural world deeply
cultural? “Ecology” attempts to answer this question through the work of
artists Robert Adams, Mark Dion, Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, and Ursula von
Rydingsvard. This event is FREE and open to the public.
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Friday 7/19-7-26 Walk for our Grandchildren: Camp
David to DC
From July 19-26th, grandparents, parents, young people and
children will walk from Camp David to Washington. Through the march,
we’ll remind President Obama that his legacy depends on what he does to
confront the climate crisis and protect a livable future for all of our
grandchildren. Walk for all seven days, join the main leg departing from
Harper’s Ferry on July 22nd, or join for one day. The walk will culminate on
July 27th, as we walk the last 2 miles to the White House for a rally.
The walk is organized by CCAN, 350.org,
and a group of elders from North Carolina. http://2013walkforourgrandchildren.org/
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Monday 7/22 Transition Town Potluck
7pm in the Madison Room at Central Library
An opportunity to informally share a meal and share how
your individual and group Transition projects are coming along.
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Wednesday 7/24 Fungal Feast
Join Angel from Sharondale Farm for a mushroom cooking
class at the newly renovated Jefferson Community Center kitchen. Offered
through Piedmont Virginia Community College.
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Wednesday 7/24 Cville TimeBank Orientation
6 or 7pm at the Central Library in Charlottesville (choose
from either one hour session)
With enrollment at 125 members, Cville TimeBank members have
already been part of hundreds of transactions — everything from dog-sitting to
yoga lessons, portrait sitting to conversational Spanish — just think how
awesome it will be when the membership grows!
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Thursday 7/25 Our Town Charlottesville Community
Meetings: Greenbriar, Woodhaven & Rugby Road
6-8pm at Charlottesville High School
"Our Town Charlottesville" brings town hall
style meetings to every City neighborhood throughout the year so that residents
may discuss emerging issues and voice concerns and preferences about their
respective communities. Each meeting is attended by citizens, City Council and
many other City officials, giving everyone a chance to talk personally in a
relaxed, informal environment about the things which matter to them most
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Tuesday 7/30 Brewing Culture: How to Make Kombucha
6:30-7:30pm at Rebecca’s Natural Food, 1141 Emmet St.
Ethan Zuckerman, Master Brewer at Barefoot Bucha, will
share recipes and expertise from his tried and true home brewing method, a
process that is easy for participants to replicate at home. He will also
talk about Barefoot Bucha's low waste business model, and encourage creative
thought amongst participants of how to take similar steps in their own lives or
businesses. This session is appropriate for beginning and seasoned kombucha
brewers, those interested in conscious consumerism, and local food aficionados.
3.
August 2-3 Save the date! Two events with Charles
Eisenstein, author of Sacred Economics and The Ascent of Humanity in Charlottesville, VA
From Deeply.Be, organized by Ben Coe: Civilization's
transition mirrors that of many individuals: an old world falls apart and
eventually we step into a new. Vast new possibilities arise, even miraculous
possibilities, yet we may also go through periods of loneliness and doubt. The
purpose of these events is to ground ourselves more solidly in the new world,
so that we may more fully believe -- and enact -- what we know in our hearts.
Friday night talk, 6-8pm at Bon Cafe, 100 West South St. http://www.deeply.be/Charles-Eisenstein-Talk.html
Saturday workshop, 8:30-5pm at the Baldwin Center on
Bundoran Farm: http://www.deeply.be/Charles-Eisenstein-Workshop.html
Here's an article Charles just released: http://www.resurgence.org/magazine/article3955-latent-healing.html
10% discount for Permaculture Folks: use code CVPERMAC
when you register.
Or, contact Ben at benjacoe@gmail.com
if you're inspired to attend these events but the ticket price is out of reach.
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5.
The Communities
Conference at Twin Oaks Community is a chance for people interested or
involved in intentional communities and other community-oriented projects or
businesses to share ideas, network, and enjoy a weekend together. There
are formal workshops, open space, as well as many informal opportunities to
cross-pollinate with other community minded folks. Held Labor Day Weekend, Aug 30 - Sept 2, basic registration fee
range is $75 - $175, depending on accommodations.
This year's theme: Community Vs. Uncertainty
What role can community play in preparing for an uncertain
future? How can cooperation and resource sharing be leveraged to create
equitable, sustainable and satisfying solutions to local and global crises?
Monday program:
This year’s Monday program will take a multi-faceted look
at Solidarity/New Economics, both the ideas and the groups that are the
human-scale, driving force behind this national movements.
6.
Customer Support Position for Green Tech Company
Organic Mechanic
Become an integral part of a company with a lot of
potential. Currently we are receiving a great deal of traffic for and interest
in some of our products. Over 100 leads are requesting quotes or for more
information every month. This is where your position comes in, to handle all of
the interest mostly through email, some through phone, from your own home
office. You will be paid great commissions ($3-6,000+ per month) on green
solutions that people purchase with your assistance.
Your skills, interests, and experience ideally includes:
Customer satisfaction, service roles, or sales. Passion and knowledge about
green technology. Comfort in conversing about and finding people the right
technology solutions. Certification or experience in diesel vehicles,
generators, diesel conversion kits, biofuels. Comfort and aptitude with gmail,
google docs, google voice. Entrepreneurial, Management, and/or Academic
experience in business a plus. If you are interested, please email your resume
and why you think you are the best person for this job to Office@OrganicMechanic.com.
7.
COMMON GOOD CITY
FARM in D.C.
New Garden Project in Ward 8
Common Good is partnering with the District of Columbia
Housing Authority to build raised beds at the Highland Dwellings public housing
complex in DC’s Ward 8. After the beds are built and planted, we will be
providing educational workshops to the residents on how to maintain the gardens
and enjoy the bounty. Stay tuned for updates on our progress.
Our Youth Education programs were highlighted in a Global
Looking Glass article about creating healthy eating habits for DC
school children. Click HERE
to read more about how DC is keeping our kids healthy.
8.
Living Mandala presents a live, on-line, interactive, (and
super affordable!) course - Empowerment Through
Collaboration: How to Create Transformation Community with
Starhawk and special guests in co-production with Evolver beginning July 2nd,
and going into the summer! (If you can't
make the first session… no problem. Sessions will be recorded).
This is a rare opportunity for you to take part in a super
affordable, in-depth training that goes to the heart of visionary community
making with some of the leading experts in the field. Learn how to make your
participation in groups, in all of its aspects, an expression of your highest
ideals. In this live, interactive video course, Starhawk will share tools
for clear communication, conflict transformation, constructive critique, and
facilitating group decision-making.
Drawing on insights from her latest book, The
Empowerment Manual: A Guide for Collaborative Groups, we will discuss ways
of how we learn to work together more skillfully and become even more effective
agents of change.
Who This Course Is For:
•
Leaders and participants in any activist group,
including permaculture groups, spiritual circles, occupy groups, transitions
towns, and intentional communities
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Anyone who wants to improve their communication
and relationship skills
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Meeting planners and facilitators
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Anyone working in non-profits or social change
organizations
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Managers of alternative and green businesses
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Anyone who works with others in community.
Creating healthy community is essential for any visionary enterprise.
9.
Upcoming Free Webinar:
Re-Designing the Commons: Urban Transformation,
Placemaking, & Village Building
With Mark Lakeman
Wednesday, July
10 - 3:30 pm - 5:30
pm PDT
10.
Better World Betty
resource
Tired of seeing STYROFOAM takeout containers at your
favorite local restaurants? We are, too! Join us in encourage restaurants
to switch to better products for the planet! DOWNLOAD the letter
below and MAKE A DIFFERENCE!
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Heritage Harvest
Festival – September 6 & 7
Celebrate the harvest and the legacy of revolutionary
gardener Thomas Jefferson at the 7th annual Heritage Harvest Festival
at Monticello. Thomas Jefferson, America’s “First foodie,” championed
vegetable cuisine, plant experimentation and sustainable agriculture.
Taste a bounty of heirloom fruits and vegetables and learn
about organic gardening and seed-saving during this fun, affordable, family-friendly
festival — unlike any other — held on the breathtaking West Lawn of Jefferson’s
Monticello.
12. Get ready for the second annual Edible Food Fest in
Orange!
August 10, 2013 - 10:00 a.m. until 6:00 p.m.
