On April 26, 2010, Toby Hemenway will give a lecture at 7:00 pm at the NC State University McKimmon Center in Raleigh, NC. Mr. Hemenway will talk about "Foodsheds and Footprints: Connecting Cities, Suburbs, and Farms for True Food Security" as part of NCSU's Park Scholarship Speaker Series.
Toby Hemenway is the author of Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture, which for the past six years has been the world's best-selling book on permaculture, a design approach based on ecology for creating sustainable landscapes, homes, communities, and workplaces. He is an adjunct professor in the School of Graduate Education at Portland State University, Scholar-in-Residence at Pacific University, and a biologist consultant for the Biomimicry Guild. He teaches, consults, and lectures on permaculture and ecological design throughout the US and other countries. His writing has appeared in magazines such as Natural Home, Whole Earth Review, and American Gardener.
He lives in Portland, Oregon, where he is developing sites and resources for urban sustainability. More information about Toby can be found on his website at http://patternliteracy.com/ Register for this free event at http://psss2010tobyhemenway.eventbrite.com/
Debbie Roos
Agricultural Extension Agent, Chatham County Center
North Carolina Cooperative Extension, 919.542.8202
debbie_roos@ncsu.edu
http://www.growingsmallfarms.org/
twitter.com/GrowSmallFarms
Showing posts with label permaculture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label permaculture. Show all posts
1/22/2010
Permaculture for Disaster Relief
http://allalongtheedge.blogspot.com/2010/01/permaculture-design-is-for-disaster.html
1/18/2010
1/05/2010
1/03/2010
10/17/2009
6/15/2009
5/28/2009
5/27/2009
5/25/2009
5/20/2009
Potluck in the Pasture, CCCC, Jun 7
“Potluck in the Pasture” celebrates Chatham’s agricultural and artistic heritage
PITTSBORO – Art and food lovers take note: ChathamArts celebrates the county’s unique agricultural and artistic heritage at the annual Potluck in the Pasture on Sunday June 7 from 5 to 7 p.m. at Central Carolina Community College’s (CCCC) two-acre Student Farm in Pittsboro (764 West Street). You’ll have a unique chance to see what’s growing at America’s first two-year sustainable farming program, share a potluck picnic of locally produced food, and meet local artists and musicians. You may also purchase farm fresh food and make a donation to ChathamArts, the nonprofit arts council. For more information: contact ChathamArts at www.chathamarts.org or 919.542.0934 or call Katy McReynolds, Potluck Coordinator, at 919.444.1900.
“This is our way to pay tribute to our farmers and artists who inspire and nurture us,” said Daryl Walker, director of the potluck project. “We hope the Potluck encourages more people to buy locally produced food and art and become more aware of the farmers and artists who contribute to our community and our economy.”
Two of the artists who will display their work are also working farmers: Mixed media painter Kristy Church is co-owner of Winfield Farm and portrait/landscape artist Tim Tron is co-owner of Grandview Farms. Other artists include: Cindy Bainbridge, Roger Dinger, Michele Mosca, Rita Spina and Diane Swan. Live music will be performed by Breadfoot (a.k.a. Stephan Meyers) and singer/songwriters Chris Kelley and Mike Slaton.
Visitors are asked to bring a potluck dish to share with at least one locally grown ingredient (and the recipe noting origin of local items), as well as a beverage, lawn chair or blanket, and a donation to ChathamArts, which supports diverse arts through gallery sales, and cultural programs in the schools and community.
Local food ingredients for your potluck dish are easy to come by in Chatham. They might come from your own garden or neighboring farms; from local farmers’ markets at the Chatham County Fairgrounds in Pittsboro or Southern Village (Thursdays), Fearrington Village (Tuesdays), or Pittsboro, Siler City, Carrboro and Sanford (Saturdays); or from Chatham Marketplace in Pittsboro, or Weaver Street in Southern Village and Carrboro.
CCCC’s Sustainable Agriculture Program was the first of its kind in the nation. Its two-year associate’s degree and certificate programs provide hands-on training in every aspect of sustainable, chemical-free farming, including vegetable and fruit production, animal husbandry, financing, management and marketing. It’s part of an array of innovative programs at CCCC encouraging sustainable energy, food, technology, building practices and public policies, earning the campus the new moniker “Green Central.”
Debbie Roos
North Carolina Cooperative Extension
919.542.8202
debbie_roos@ncsu.edu
www.growingsmallfarms.org
PITTSBORO – Art and food lovers take note: ChathamArts celebrates the county’s unique agricultural and artistic heritage at the annual Potluck in the Pasture on Sunday June 7 from 5 to 7 p.m. at Central Carolina Community College’s (CCCC) two-acre Student Farm in Pittsboro (764 West Street). You’ll have a unique chance to see what’s growing at America’s first two-year sustainable farming program, share a potluck picnic of locally produced food, and meet local artists and musicians. You may also purchase farm fresh food and make a donation to ChathamArts, the nonprofit arts council. For more information: contact ChathamArts at www.chathamarts.org or 919.542.0934 or call Katy McReynolds, Potluck Coordinator, at 919.444.1900.
“This is our way to pay tribute to our farmers and artists who inspire and nurture us,” said Daryl Walker, director of the potluck project. “We hope the Potluck encourages more people to buy locally produced food and art and become more aware of the farmers and artists who contribute to our community and our economy.”
Two of the artists who will display their work are also working farmers: Mixed media painter Kristy Church is co-owner of Winfield Farm and portrait/landscape artist Tim Tron is co-owner of Grandview Farms. Other artists include: Cindy Bainbridge, Roger Dinger, Michele Mosca, Rita Spina and Diane Swan. Live music will be performed by Breadfoot (a.k.a. Stephan Meyers) and singer/songwriters Chris Kelley and Mike Slaton.
Visitors are asked to bring a potluck dish to share with at least one locally grown ingredient (and the recipe noting origin of local items), as well as a beverage, lawn chair or blanket, and a donation to ChathamArts, which supports diverse arts through gallery sales, and cultural programs in the schools and community.
Local food ingredients for your potluck dish are easy to come by in Chatham. They might come from your own garden or neighboring farms; from local farmers’ markets at the Chatham County Fairgrounds in Pittsboro or Southern Village (Thursdays), Fearrington Village (Tuesdays), or Pittsboro, Siler City, Carrboro and Sanford (Saturdays); or from Chatham Marketplace in Pittsboro, or Weaver Street in Southern Village and Carrboro.
CCCC’s Sustainable Agriculture Program was the first of its kind in the nation. Its two-year associate’s degree and certificate programs provide hands-on training in every aspect of sustainable, chemical-free farming, including vegetable and fruit production, animal husbandry, financing, management and marketing. It’s part of an array of innovative programs at CCCC encouraging sustainable energy, food, technology, building practices and public policies, earning the campus the new moniker “Green Central.”
Debbie Roos
North Carolina Cooperative Extension
919.542.8202
debbie_roos@ncsu.edu
www.growingsmallfarms.org
5/05/2009
30-Minute Video re No-Till Gardening
http://allalongtheedge.blogspot.com/2009/04/fukuoka-inspired-no-till-garden.html
4/22/2009
What Is Hugelkulture? (It Works!)
http://www.statesmanjournal.com/article/20090422/COMMUNITIES/904220341/1107/NEWS
[Hugelkulture is how I've killed lots of weeds, especially liriope! and used cut brush from the yard. Maureen]
[Hugelkulture is how I've killed lots of weeds, especially liriope! and used cut brush from the yard. Maureen]
4/10/2009
Farm Up on the Urban Farm Tour, April 11
What you can see (below) at my Farm Up the Street, 345 North Page St. I also have hand-outs about sheet-mulching, mycilia, worm castings/tea, and the ever-important herb, comfrey. Hope to see you tomorrow! Maureen
Fruit trees and shrubs, pecans
Sheet-mulch/earthworms
Cut flower beds
Herbs/companion plantings
Three-season Carolina room
Laying hens
Guinea fowl
Worm bin/worm tea operation
Mushroom grow room
Comfrey/elderberry/rhubarb bed
Compost heap/compost hole
Beginning food forest
Bat and wren houses
Cover cropping for bio-mass
Pond/frog, toad, fish nursery
Rain barrel catchments
Chemical-free honey bees/top-bar hive
Drip-line irrigation
East-side raised beds for greens
For sale: fig, forsythia, rosa rugosa, Jerusalem artichoke, flag iris, Siberian iris, yarrow, blueberry, heirloom tomato, rose campion, mint (some of these must be dug; take my Farm Up card and leave your contact info so that I can get plants to you later)
Fruit trees and shrubs, pecans
Sheet-mulch/earthworms
Cut flower beds
Herbs/companion plantings
Three-season Carolina room
Laying hens
Guinea fowl
Worm bin/worm tea operation
Mushroom grow room
Comfrey/elderberry/rhubarb bed
Compost heap/compost hole
Beginning food forest
Bat and wren houses
Cover cropping for bio-mass
Pond/frog, toad, fish nursery
Rain barrel catchments
Chemical-free honey bees/top-bar hive
Drip-line irrigation
East-side raised beds for greens
For sale: fig, forsythia, rosa rugosa, Jerusalem artichoke, flag iris, Siberian iris, yarrow, blueberry, heirloom tomato, rose campion, mint (some of these must be dug; take my Farm Up card and leave your contact info so that I can get plants to you later)
3/11/2009
Interview with Permaculture Co-Founder Mollison
http://www.seedsofchange.com/cutting_edge/interview.asp?UID=2009031102561554
3/05/2009
2/20/2009
2/10/2009
1/27/2009
Gaia's Garden - Must-have for home gardens
http://www.amazon.com/Gaias-Garden-Guide-Home-Scale-Permaculture/dp/1890132527/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1233089648&sr=1-3
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