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Upcoming Events
October 2019
Greetings all,
Below are several awesome upcoming events in our bioregion including a regional Permaculture Design Course this spring. Folks can sign up for the BRPN e-newsletter here. Send us announcements to: blueridgepermaculture@gmail.com, or click here to view this email as a webpage. And check out the BRPN on Facebook here. Want to add your permaculture project or business to the BRPN member page? Just send us an email.
Best,
Christine, Terry, and the BRPN team
1.
Project GROWS is seeking a full-time Executive Director.
Launched in 2012, Project GROWS (PG) is a 501(c)3 nonprofit educational organization with a mission to improve the overall health of children and youth in Staunton, Waynesboro, and Augusta County, Virginia. We believe that kids deserve a healthy life and future. We are changing kids’ health by connecting them to nutritious vegetables through hands-on, garden-based, nutrition education and access to healthy food. Research shows that connecting kids to healthy food through garden-based education, paired with access to vegetables, leads to significant improvements in health habits. Project GROWS currently partners with 25 schools and organizations locally to serve more than 5,000 youth each year. Learn more about our full-production farm and our children and family programming at www.projectgrows.org.
2.
Shenandoah Permaculture presents
Spring 2020 PERMACULTURE DESIGN COURSE (PDC)
In partnership with the University of Richmond, Richmond, Virginia
LOCATION: This course will be based in the Richmond, VA area. Regional field trips will be a part of the curriculum.
DATES and TIMES: The course will be held for 9 days over 4 alternating weekends this Spring. February 21-23 (this is the only 3 day weekend of the course), March 7-8 and 21-22, April 4-5. Course days will run from 9am - 6pm unless otherwise noted.
REGISTRATION: Registration is now live online only through the University of Richmond's School of Professional and Continuing Education.
TUITION: Get 18% off ($200 off) for signing up early!
Earlybird pricing of $900 is available now until the end of November!
The course fee is $1100 after December 1st. Course fee includes the 72 hour Permaculture Design Course, Certificate of Completion for those who attend the full course and complete all required work. All course field trips are included, and heavy snacks are provided for the duration of course days.
3. Virginia Native Plant Society, Jefferson Chapter
VNPS Jefferson Chapter Meeting: Drivers of Plant-Insect Interaction
Wednesday, November 13th, 7:30-9:00 pm, Education Building at Ivy Creek Natural Area, 1780 Earlysville Road, Charlottesville.
Melissa Hey is a PhD candidate in the University of Virginia’s Department of Environmental Science. She has been working with Dr. Kyle Haynes’ research team at Blandy Experimental Farm since 2015. Her research interests include invasion ecology and plant-insect interactions. Her undergraduate thesis focused on how intraspecific competition and herbivory affected growth and secondary chemical defenses in common milkweed. Common milkweed serves as a significant food source for the monarch butterfly, and her research sought to delve into drivers of plant-insect interactions. Free; all are welcome.
Native Plant Walk
Saturday, November 16th, 9:00 am. Meet by the kiosk near the parking lot at Ivy Creek Natural Area, 1780 Earlysville Rd., Charlottesville.
Jefferson Chapter member Nancy Weiss will lead a forest ecology walk. This will be an opportunity to learn more about how various tree, shrub, and herbaceous species in Ivy Creek’s forests have changed over time. See how to read the influence of man and so imagine how the forest looked 80 years ago. Free; all are welcome. Co-sponsored by the Ivy Creek Natural Area.
VNPS Jefferson Chapter Meeting: Tiger Swallowtails and Flame Azalea Pollination
Wednesday, December 11th, 7:30-9:00 pm, Education Building at Ivy Creek Natural Area, 1780 Earlysville Road, Charlottesville.
Dr. Mary Jane Epps will join us to discuss tiger swallowtails pollinating flame azalea. Mary Jane is an Assistant Professor of Biology at Mary Baldwin University, and is the daughter of our chapter president Mary Lee Epps. Mary Jane earned her undergraduate degree at Duke University and a PhD in ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Arizona. Free; all are welcome.
Virginia Native Plant Society State Workshop
March 14th, Dickenson Building, Piedmont Virginia Community College
Save the date!
Jefferson Chapter Native Plant Sale!
April 26th, 2019, the Barn, Ivy Creek Natural Area, 1780 Earlysville Rd, Charlottesville
Save the date!
For the future: The Rivanna Chapter of the Virginia Native Plant Society hosts lectures at 7 pm on the second Wednesday of each month, September-May. Meetings are held in the Education Building at Ivy Creek Natural Area, 1780 Earlysville Road, Charlottesville. Meetings are free and open to the public. All are welcome.
4.
Allegheny Mountain Institute
November 5th, 5:00 pm - 6:30
AMI Farm at Augusta Health
Address: 315 Mule Academy Rd., Fishersville, VA 22939
A cold frame can keep you in fresh greens all winter long, at a much lower cost than a greenhouse. Join us to find out how you can build one at home!
November 7th, 11:30 am
Augusta County Library
Address: 1759 Jefferson Hwy, Fishersville, VA 22939
Explore delicious, good-for-you foods that can keep you healthy and happy throughout the colder months in this interactive “make and taste” class!
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