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Mar 12 2011 9:00 am
Mar 13 2011 5:00 pm
**Note Location Change!**Theme of the Month: Food ProductionThis 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. This Saturday’s tentative itinerary is as follows: 9:00-10:30 – Coffee/Tea / Check in/Review. Putting it all together: We will tour the home and garden and observe the practical implementations of the first three modules; the Carbon Diet, daily home routines for Healthy Food Preparation, and Food Production in process. Donation for this Class: $20. Class Size Limited. Absolutely must RSVP by calling 477-4564 or Email: angel@wegreenyou.com <mailto:angel@wegreenyou.com> . Transition for Sustainable Living Course: Food Production
When: Saturday, March 12th, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Directions: 426 West Street, Sebastopol, CA 95472, is located at the corner of West and Snow Streets. West Street is located behind the Bank of America and Safeway Store. If you are in front of the Whole Foods store, you would walk to the right, or make a right at the light if you are driving. You will be either walking or driving North on Hwy 116 (Gravenstein Hwy). You will pass Rite-Aid on your left, and then Safeway. There will be another stoplight as the road veers left past the Bank of America on your left. The first street after Bank of America is Pitt Avenue. Make a left on Pitt. The first right (right behind the Bank of America alley, between it and Safeway) is Snow Street. Turn right. It’s a short block and dead ends at West Street. The house with the rocket ship in the yard is the location. Park anywhere you find parking. The home is small, so it will be cozy when in it, but most of the time we will be outside. Come prepared for the weather to be partly cloudy, and perhaps cool. Bring your notebook, gloves and a shovel if you have one. Don’t worry about it if you don’t. Please begin to think about where or what space you have for growing food where you live or where you garden. Take the dimensions of your space. If you have a backyard garden, measure it out, or, roughly estimate the dimensions. Look at the amount of sun, wind, moisture, and/or shade it gets. How many hours of sun does it get? Where are the shady areas? What time does the shade begin during the day? Note the trees or buildings around it, and any other factors in or around it. If you can, sketch it out and bring it with you on Saturday. Angel Rodriguez GENERAL COURSE INFO: The Model of Transition for Sustainable Living (MTSL) program consists of twelve modules—one of which will be covered each month in 2011. Together they will provide an overall perspective on current thinking and technology, as well as practical skills for everyday sustainable living. The MTSL program includes a Workbook/Planner, a Reader, a Resource Directory, a Journal, and a series of Visual Aides. The program has been designed to work in concert with local participating businesses and organizations. The mission of the program is to empower you to act; to transition you from wherever you are today, to a lifestyle that is highly sustainable, within the one-year time period of the course. Therefore, the program consists of 20% theory and 80% practical application. The course, if completed, will: · dramatically lower your carbon emissions When: Saturday, March 12, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday, March 13, Noon to 5 p.m. Where: St. Stephens Church, 500 Robinson Way, Sebastopol COST: $20 No one turned away for lack of funds
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