Lasqueti Permaculture Collective Newsletter
Lasqueti Permaculture Collective
Newsletter #01 April 17, 2014
A group of 14 islanders, old and new timers, came together on March 9 to share thoughts & ideas about forming a local permaculture collective. It became very apparent that folks wanted to talk “shop,” sharing information & learning about others’ experiences with homesteading skills, especially growing food. As a group we decided we would meet every 2 weeks at someone’s home to do a garden/site tour, share food and have a discussion about topics such as composting & composting systems, soil building, etc.
Join us the 1st & 3rd Sunday of each month! For information about meet-up locations please contact Jaylene 8530 or radicaltreewoman [at] gmail [dot] com (radicaltreewoman [at] gmail [dot] com)
**please note we will not be meeting on April 20 as this is Easter Sunday. Instead we will meet the following week on April 27.
Upcoming Workshops in our Bio-Region:
Jessie’s Path & Nursery -Lasqueti Island
Dealing with Difficult Landscapes: Saturday April 26 @ noon
Composting (hot, cold & worm): Saturday May 3 @ noon
Jaylene @mystic ridge farm -Lasqueti Island
for more information or to register please contact Jaylene 8530 or radicaltreewoman [at] gmail [dot] com (radicaltreewoman [at] gmail [dot] com)
Kombucha & Basic Kraut/Kimchi Ferments
Saturday May 10 @ 1pm
Cost: sliding scale $25-35
Come learn or be re-inspired to brew your own Kombucha, with ideas for using medicinal and culinary herbs, spices and fruits. Then we will sample then start a classic batch of sauerkraut and kimchi.
Includes: Kombucha SCOBY culture to start brewing your own kombucha, written instructions including list of resources, tastings of various kombuchas, kombucha vinegar to take home & use in your kitchen. We will start the kraut & kimchi and bottle it at a later date. Everyone will get a pint when it’s ready!
Cowichan Green Community- Duncan
for more information please visit www.cowichangreencommunity.org
Introduction to Permaculture: Designing your property
with Javan K. Bernakevitch of Permaculture BC
Friday June 27-June 29
Cost: $150+ GST until May 15 $250 +GST after May 15
HugelKultur
May 31, 2014 - 9:30am - 3:30pm
Cost: $65
A one day Sepp Holzer Hugelkultur building workshop with Permaculture Designer and teacher Javan K. Bernakevitch, of Permaculture BC. Pronounced “hoogle-culture”, this low-tech approach to gardening is essentially raised beds over buried wood. It’s a great way to use up those rotting stumps at the edge of your property, spring fruit tree prunings, or the mountain of yard debris sitting in a pile from last fall. (Jaylene S. is registered for this workshop & would be happy to share the ride & journey with anyone interested)
Backwoods Basics Program The School of Wildcraft Medicine: Healing Arts & Traditional Lore- Cowichan Valley
for more information visit http://www.hedgewychwylds.com/index.html
May 10 The Emotional Heart 9:30am. - 4pm. (beginners/advanced combined class)
cardiovascular and nervines
wildcrafting; wild rose, hawthorne medicine making; Honey ,glycerides, flower essences
May 24/25 Heart Health 9:30am. - 4pm. (advanced class)
focus on circulation, antispasmodics
wildcrafting; Pine medicine medicine making; glycerides and tinctures
June 14 The Breath 9:30am. - 4pm. (beginners/advanced combined class)
focus on; stress and the breath, expectorants
wildcrafting; fireweed, mullein medicine making; traditional use of baths, steaming, incenses and sweats, as medicine.
June 28/29 Respiratory Health 9:30am. - 4pm. (advanced class)
focus on; addressing issues of asthma, allergies,anxiety disorder through case studies,
wildcrafting; st. John's wort medicine making; continued work with flower essences, steaming, baths and incenses. Energy work.
July 12/13 Bush First Aid 1 9:30am. - 4pm. (combined class)
focus on wild plant identification and use for first aid. Hands on preparing of medicine in the wilds. Antiseptics, Styptics.
Building a first aid kit Poultices, fomentations
July 26/27 Bush First Aid 11 9:30am. - 4pm. (advanced class)
focus on plant energetics in healing; exploring bush medicine through case studies.
Wildcrafting: Oak
Upcoming Workshops on Lasqueti - More details to come
Natural Cheesemaking with David Asher from the Black Sheep School of Cheesemaking
visit http://guerrillacheese.wordpress.com/
Grassroots Bio-Remediation 101, environmental justice and decolnization & Oil Spills and Grassroots Bio-Remediation Responses & Solutions for Water Contamination and Filtration with Leila Darwish
visit www.earthrepair.ca
Social Permaculture with Naomi Lyons *see article below
Radical Mycology: Mushroom Ecology, Low-Tech Cultivation and planning for Mycoremediation
with Willoughby Aravelo
Social Permaculture
by Naomi Lyons
Anyone can draw a farm. The drawing could show beautifully rendered food producing gardens, carefully drafted greenhouses … or maybe it’s just scribbles. But it will take a group of people to build the farm. Therefore questions will need to be considered: will the building schedule allow people to continue with other goals? Who will maintain this farm into the future financially and physically? How can everyone stay inspired to work on the farm? These questions lead us to examine people’s personal needs, available energy and realistic commitment levels. As soon as we ponder the human experience we begin to pursue group or personal goals that support happy and healthy lifestyles. When we do this we are stepping into the world of Social Permaculture.
The tree of permaculture in its simplest form has three main branches: Earth Care, People Care and Fair Share. People Care is where the concepts of social permaculture arise from. Elements of social permaculture, such as needs, culture and governance are described as invisible structures - which, though can’t be seen, absolutely influence our day to day lives and determine where we would place visible structures in a project such as a house or fencing. Understanding the invisible structures within ourselves, other people and the environment is crucial to the long term success of any endeavor.
Here is an Social permaculture exercise you can incorporate into your life:
Get some paper! yeah! Fold it to make a small booklet. Each person in your home is represented by one page by having their name at the top of it. Everyones page is divided into four sections; skills, wants to learn, support and needs. Each person in the home can then fill in the sections on there page. This will show skills they have to share, lists things they want to learn more about, define ways others can support them and express what needs they have. Its a sweet little a booklet and yes things may be added or taken away, so reread it once and while.
In a workshop setting social permaculture encourages us to experience the benefits and skills to deepen our relationships with others and ourselves. This is done by games, sharing experiences, being silly and increasing our ability to listen. Also by exploring topics of alternative economics, social organization, conflict resolution and celebration. All the while asking questions like; where do I start when trying to create and organize my project? How do I keep the people involved in my project happy and inspired? When challenges appear, how do I keep moving forward?
Grassroots Bio-Remediation & Earth Repair
Leila Darwish is a community organizer, author, permaculture designer, educator, urban gardener, and grassroots herbalist with a deep commitment to environmental justice, decolonization, food sovereignty, and to providing accessible and transformative tools for communities dealing with toxic contamination of their land and drinking water.
Over the last decade, she has worked as a community organizer for different environmental organizations and community groups in Alberta, BC and the USA on campaigns such as tar sands, fracking, nuclear energy, coal, climate justice, water protection, and more. She has taught grassroots bioremediation for a diversity of groups and communities in Canada and the USA and just published her first book through New Society Publishers. It’s called“Earth Repair: A Grassroots Guide to Healing Toxic and Damaged Landscapes”.
Radical Mycology Links & Resources
radicalmycology.wordpress.com
femaleandfungi.com
http://www.magnificentmushrooms.com/
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