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Start: Mar 12 2011 9:00 am
End: Mar 13 2011 5:00 pm

**Note Location Change!**

Theme of the Month:  Food Production

This weekend will focus on Food Production…The how, what and where we can grow food for ourselves! Whether you want to grow sprouts, a windowsill garden, or a food forest around your home, this class will cover the practical aspects and options for food production, teaching you how to assess your home, develop a plan and optimize your time involvement while implementing it. We will be looking at what can be grown at our home... like sprouts, mushrooms, bees for honey, chickens, fruits, veggies, etc. We will also cover the various necessary components of producing food, i.e. the garden plan, soil testing, soil amendments, irrigation, composting, worm bins, animal husbandry, insectaries, etc.

We have 3 wonderful guest speakers/instructors this month; Courtney Dellello, Robin Burton and Julia Valentine. Courtney Dellello designs beautiful and bountiful food gardens that provide for the exquisite cuisine of a well-known winery restaurant in Napa, and who also teaches a myriad of gardening and growing classes for the Santa Rosa Junior College at Shone Farm. She will help you design a garden that provides for the exquisite cuisine of your home dining. Robin Burton from Sonoma State University teaches Native Plants and Agroecology. She is also a certified organic grower who you may have seen at our local farmers market in Sebastopol. She will walk us through each element of producing food in our gardens. Julia Valentine teaches Permaculture, and is also on the initiating team for Transition Sebastopol. She will be hosting us at her home in the late afternoon, after we have toured a couple of gardens along the way. There she will talk about transitioning the land around a home, show you how she built her hoop house, the seasonal sowing therein, and give you hands on instruction of the different techniques for handling soil, planting and optimizing growth yields.

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Start: Mar 14 2011 9:00 am
End: Mar 14 2011 11:00 am

Do you want to add your energy and ideas to new Reskilling classes and events! Join us at this meeting!

At this organizing meeting, we will be working on a class series on resilient gardening. We are also exploring tours for the spring and maybe a compost class for international compost week.

Location:
St Stephen's Church
500 Robinson Way in Sebastopol

Start: Mar 14 2011 6:00 pm

Sebastopol Collective Meditation
A casual community supported program for all Sebastasouls, willing to connect in silence, contemplation, and stillness.

Every Monday
6:00-6:45pm

6:00 - 1/2hr silent meditation
6:30- inspirational reading/ Sharing

Meditation is a resource for inner strength and resilience to enable us to respond wisely to challenges in our lives. This non-sectarian collective meditation will draw on the insights and inspiration from various spiritual traditions to support personal meditation practice and sacred space within our community.

ALL ARE WELCOME

St. Stephens Church
500 Robinson Way
Sebastopol

for information:
karmendraji@yahoo.com

 

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Start: Mar 15 2011 7:00 pm

 
Attend the first Community Kick-off for the County-wide 350 Home & Garden Challenge.
Grow Food, Conserve Water, Save Energy, Build Community!

The 350 Home & Garden Challenge is happening again this year May 14th & 15th, 2011.  Last year, we succeeded in mobilizing 628 gardens in a single weekend, 60% of which were new gardens! We have changed the name to the 350 Home and Garden Challenge to bring in an important element: home energy efficiency & energy use reduction. This specifically highlights the need for holistic and integrated solutions. Learn more about this, and other exciting information about this year's challenge by attending the Kick-off on March 15th!

When:  Tuesday, March 15, 7 p.m.
Where: Sonoma County Water Agency Meeting Room, 404 Aviation Blvd., Santa Rosa
 
Transition Sebastopol is the organizing group for the 350 Challenge in Sebastopol and hopes to build a strong team to do some great projects around the area.  If you are interested in getting involved and can't make the kick off meeting in Santa Rosa , contact Sara McCamant at outreach@350challenge.net

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