Farm News/ Food for Sale
We have expanded our 2008 plantings and now have 1.3
acres in a wide diversity of crops: vegetables, berries, trees and
medicinal herbs.
Plantings have done well this year and the farm is an explosion of
food waiting to happen! We need help marketing and eating it all! For
instance we will have 2,000 pounds of apricots ripen by the end of July and
need to find markets. We’d appreciate any leads you can send.
We would especially like to see individuals and groups doing bulk
buys with friends and neighbors. Send someone over to pick up a load of
food from Okanogan Biododiversity Farm and farms cooperating with us.
APRICOTS
TOMATOES
PEPPERS
MELONS
POTATOES
+ A WIDE VARIETY OF FRESH VEGETABLES & BERRIES
+ FRESH AND DRIED CULINARY & MEDICINAL HERBS
WHOLESALE PRICES! Bulk orders.
You pick up at our farm in Tonasket.
Purchase a winter food stash custom order with root crops and winter
squash.
INTERNS NEEDED
Farm interns, and volunteers needed from time to time on the farm.
PARTNERS SOUGHT. Partners wanted for cooperative venture farming
medicinal herbs, vegetables and berries in the Okanogan Valley and looking
for partners with resources and skills.
www.friendsofthetrees.net
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2nd Washington State Permaculture
Convergence
September 18-20, 2009
Sahale Learning Center, Belfair Washington
The 2008 WSPC was very successful with 125 people attending. We
hope to be even bigger and better in 2009.
The Convergence features presentations by many of Washington’s
most experienced permaculturists. This is a great opportunity to meet
permaculturists from around Washington State and beyond. We get together to
share knowledge, insights, and ideas. Would you like to give a
presentation, lead a discussion, do a demo, entertain us or be part of the
organizing team? Contact Michael Pilarski
For registration info contact: permaculture@earthlink.net
360-820-8586
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Anastasia Movement &
Permaculture
On the international level, perhaps the biggest news
for permaculture is the widespread adoption of permaculture by the
Anastasia movement in Russia.
Based on the 9 books in the Ringing Cedar series written by Vladimir
Menem. If you haven't heard of the Anastasia movement, here is a nutshell
sketch. Anastacia is a mythical person in the Siberian taiga who promotes
a back-to-the-land, self-reliant lifestyle. She promotes that every person
has the right to a small parcel of land to grow their own food, build their
own house, and raise their family, without taxes. The movement is
petitioning the Russian government to give title to these properties (Kin's
Domains, she calls them), as well as petitioning the United Nations to
facilitate this internationally.
This is a large, land reform movement. The movement claims 11
million members and is growing fast in Russia and internationally. This
movement has publicly embraced permaculture and the Transitions Town
movement. I highly recommend the books as well as the videos produced by
the English translator Leonid Sharashkin. http://www.ringingcedars.com
Ringing
Cedars website
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Pacific Northwest Events
9th Montana Herb Gathering
Great Falls, Montana
July 10-13, 2009
www.montanaherbgathering.org
3rd Annual Big Sky Country Harvest Festival
September 18-20, 2009, Hot Springs, Montana
www.bigskyharvestfestival.com
Montana’s barter fair.
Singing Alive, 3rd Annual
September 11-13, Cosmopolis Washington.
A weekend of circle songs, group singing, chanting, and music.
www.tribesofcreation.com/singing_alive.html
36th Annual Okanogan Family Faire
(Tonasket Barter Faire)
Usually the 3rd weekend in October but it won't be announced till
August. www.okanoganfamilyfaire.net
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Michael "Skeeter" Pilarski
Friends of the Trees Society
PO Box 826
Tonasket, WA 98855
509-486-2672, land line
michael@friendsofthetrees.net
www.friendsofthetrees.net
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