Watershed Crafting
 
The Essence of Permaculture Design
With Skip Schuckmann
 
"It's all about pathways and puddles!"
Learn the meaning of this riddle while exploring watershed dynamics at a day-long workshop.  Hands-on activities, guided observations, lecture, and discussion conducted by Skip Shuckmann, legendary artist, resource manager and innovator.
 
Sunday, March 22
10:00 am to Sunset with a fire circle
The Ojai Foundation
Please bring a bag lunch

 
Explore water's flow through the land and through the culture by surveying The Ojai Foundation's varied topographies and majestic views. 
-          Convene at the "Power Point" for an overview of watershed dynamics
-          Proceed down the spine of the "Dragon's Back" where water divides and distributes among the organisms living in the valley
-          Follow its flow as it drains into the belly of the watershed. 
-          Gather near roads and buildings to discuss the moral, legal and social aspects of watershed management
 
Skip Schuckmann is currently working as an ecologically oriented land sculptor in upstate New York and southern California.  His art practice is site-specific and involves multiyear engagements with the hardscape, biological materials, and owners of the sites.  These engagements have combined his academic training in science and his professional activity as an artist and educator.  Schuckmann holds a BA degree in wildlife biology from Colorado State University (1967), and a Master of Arts in Teaching (1972) in experiential education from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.  His formal educational engagements have involved experimental programs at the Golden High School in Golden, Colorado; Woolman Hill School in Deerfield, Massachusetts; The Ojai Foundation in Ojai, California; the Randolph School in Wappingers, New York; and Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio.

 

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"If there is any positive side to stark changes coming our way, it may be in the benefits of close communal relations, of having to really work intimately (and physically) with our neighbors, to be part of an enterprise that really matters and to be fully engaged in meaningful social enactments instead of being merely entertained to avoid boredom.

Years from now, when we hear singing at all, we will hear ourselves, and we will sing with our whole hearts."

"The Long Emergency", 2005, by James Howard Kunstler, Grove/Atlantic, Inc., publisher.