CONCERNED ABOUT COMMUNITY CITRUS SPRAYING?
Come and learn how to do something about it within a Community Rights framework.
Saturday, April 23.
Morning – Earth Day at Oak Grove School – several short briefings with Javan Briggs and see the talk by Vananda Shiva!
Afternoon – 2pm at the Ojai Valley Grange: 2 hour Community Rights training session with Javan Briggs. Consider the options for Community action against involuntary poisoning by agrichemicals.
Bottom line: local people need to organize to put pressure on local officials to do their jobs and adequately protect the interests of the public.
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FRUIT GRAFTING WORKSHOP
John Valenzuela is a beloved fruit explorer, evangelist and wizard. He hails from the North Bay, where he runs Cornucopia project, a regular on the “ scion exchange” circuit, moving plant biodiversity into the hands of orchardists around California. His practical, hands on workshop will help beginning orchardists, as well as the more experienced, gain the knowledge and skills to “ top work” backyard and commercial citrus trees over to new varieties. Yes, its true, you can change the variety of the fruit in your yard!
Changing varieties is a way to re-diversify a mostly monoculture citrus landscape. Changing varieties is handy-busy work, a good time for philosophical discussion about the future of farming. Changing varieties makes trees bloom and fruit in different colors. Changing varieties can help us visualize the many changes our landscape will have to undertake during climate-change.
Both events are sponsored by Greenhorns, in partnership with other groups in the Ojai Valley including:
Ojai Valley Grange, Ojai Permaculture, Regenerative Agriculture and Poco Farm
Greenhorns is a grassroots organization working to promote, recruit and support the incoming generation of agrarians. Greenhorns produce media and events in many formats to celebrate, investigate and motivate learning about agro-ecology. We believe in a long future, and are willing to work!
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and check out their spring series of events.
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