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Greetings all, Happy autumn all. Lots of good stuff taking place in the region. Folks can sign up for the BRPN e-newsletter here, and view this email as a webpage. Send us announcements here, and post questions, ideas or resources on the BRPN on Facebook here.  Sending all of you rest, regeneration and community. Christine and Terry Blue Ridge Permaculture Network  www.blueridgepermaculture.net   1.  Farfields Farm Upcoming Gathering Please join us for a Harvest Celebration with music by Holy River Sunday, October 23 from 3-8 pm at Farfields Farm 40 Farfields Lane Afton, VA Suggested Donation $15-$35 3-6 pm Activities Include: Apple Pressing Fire Cider Making Demonstration Cob Oven Squash Roast Nut Tasting Farm Tour 6:30-8 pm Music Please bring your own picnic dinner, beverages, plates, utensils and cups Registration is Required at:  https://FarfieldsFarmHarvestCelebration.eventbrite.com  2.  Pollinators and Forest Gardening episode of the Yes! We Rise podcast There is endless wisdom to be learned from the forests. As we listen, observe, and experiment, we can support and create thriving ecosystems that also happen to be delicious! In this episode of The Yes! We Rise Podcast, we’re focusing on plants, gardening like a forest, and planting for pollinators. We’re going to do a deep dive and share how edible forest gardens work and what you can do to create a simple forest garden that builds soil and increases the health of the ecosystems around us. We can grow delicious food while sustaining and replenishing the incredible land that has given us so much. Listen and learn more at the link: https://yeswerise.org/edibleforestgarden 3. Agrarian Commons updates   Recent Land Acquisitions The 73-acre land donation from Dan and Callie Walker into the Central Virginia Agrarian Commons is complete! "For my husband and I it just clicked,” said Callie Walker. The Agrarian Commons model gave Walker and her husband confidence that their land would be managed equitably and responsibly. When land is donated to the Agrarian Commons by folks like the Walkers, farmers and communities benefit from low-cost, long-term access to farmable land.  >>> Continue Reading     Job Opportunities    Would you like to join our team or do you know someone who would? Agrarian Trust is hiring for the following positions: Farmland Tenure Education Specialist Director of People Agrarian Commons Regional Coordinator  Would you support the growth of Agrarian Trust organizational capacity through your contribution?  Donate Please help us to build Agrarian Trust into a sustainable and diverse organization with the capacity needed to take on this challenging, exciting, and impactful work.    Current Land Acquisition Over 60% of the $426,250 goal has been raised and we only need $168,127 more to fully fund the Southwest Virginia Agrarian Commons land acquisition project, giving Cam Terry long-term equitable land security and tenure for his family and farming business. Donate now to help make this project happen so that the USDA defined food desert of Roanoke can take a profound step towards food sovereignty and security. Give now to secure this land   Land and Food Justice in the News Former President and First Lady Barack and Michelle Obama's production company has just put out a story featuring the work of the Agrarian Commons! In it's most shared episode yet, host Heather C. McGhee of The Sum of Us podcast by Higher Ground Productions tells the story of the Little Jubba Central Maine Agrarian Commons. "White people own 98% of U.S. farmland, said Duron Chavis, a board member of the new Central Virginia Agrarian Commons (CVAC) nonprofit, which supports farmers of color. “The gap we’re trying to fill is the land control, land ownership, land tenure gap that Black and Brown communities face not only in Virginia but across the nation,” he said. “Our work is to upset that inequity and put land back into the hands of the most marginalized in our community.” >>> Continue Reading 4.  Virginia Association of Biological Farming update   VABF’s Farm Conference in January is shaping up! There’s more to come - so stay tuned.  Registration opens October 1st. For a sneak peek, we are very excited to share that Dr. Elaine Ingham will be our featured keynote speaker on Saturday! If you don’t know Elaine, she is the pioneer and expert in soil biology. Her soil food web insight and research is known worldwide and she has worked with some of the most prestigious organizations in the horticultural and agriculture industries.  Contact Terry Connell, Conference Coordinator, at coordinator@vabf.org with questions.  https://vabf.org/2023-virginia-biological-farming-conference-2/    5. Click here to secure your spot We are reaching out to make sure you reserve your ticket to the 2022 Wild and Scenic Film Festival hosted by the Living Earth School on Nov. 16, 2022 in Charlottesville, VA at the Violet Crown Cinema, as well as on demand from your home. Tickets are selling so don’t miss out! 2 ticket options are available: > In person @ the Violet Crown Cinema in downtown Charlottesville on November 16, 2022 at 7:00 pm.            OR > At home on demand from Nov. 16-20, 2022 (watch with the whole family). The theme this year is Representation Matters. As Living Earth expands into the nonprofit world, we are focused on bringing nature to more of our community. This series speaks to how healing nature is to people. Films about people standing up for their land, people bucking the trend of typical gender roles and finding new ones that suit them, nature as a way to deal with mental health, or nature simply being accessible for someone in a wheel chair. This is a series of inspiring people working hard to make nature more accessible, adding their skills and voice to create the more beautiful world we all know is possible.  So please join us in November to celebrate together!  This event is a fundraiser for Living Earth to help us bring the healing qualities of nature to more people in our community. This past summer/fall we had great success providing scholarships to many kids for our mentored nature connection programs. And they say they can’t wait to come back. It takes a community to make this happen.    https://www.eventbrite.com/e/wild-and-scenic-film-festival-2022-live-event-tickets-423616306777Get your tickets now!

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