To be presented by Kody Ryan, Biodynamic orchardist,

followed by a delicious Korean-Russian vegetarian lunch prepared by Irina Kim

Please join us for an introduction to the art of grafting! Kody will demonstrate simple techniques for grafting scions of delicious, nutritious mulberry varieties -- Oscars, Black Persians, Pakistans, and Rivieras -- onto rootstock. You will then have the opportunity to graft one tree yourself, to take home to plant in your own yard or orchard.

Time and Date: Saturday, Feb. 13, 10-12

Donation: $15 for the workshop (includes a small bag of blood oranges to take home);

$10 for Irina's lunch

Location: Mulberry Haven*, 913 Oso Rd., Ojai 93023 (Directions on request)

RSVP: Carol Vesecky 805 640-1897 cvesecky@igc.org

In case of rain, the workshop will be held in our carport.
But if weather is severely inclement, it will be postponed to Saturday, Feb. 27.

*I'm the (Russian-speaking and -literate) director of Biointensive for Russia, whose mission is to promote GROW BIOINTENSIVE (GB) mini-farming through Russian publications and seminars hosted by ecology groups and agricultural colleges in Eurasia. We published John Jeavons' How to Grow More Vegetables... in Russian in 1993 and 1999, and have held and supported workshops in Siberia, Western Russia, and Uzbekistan. We have also hosted 23 Eurasian participants at Ecology Action's GB workshops in Willits, CA since 1990. BfR is a membership organization and we do grassroots fundraising, including with events such as the grafting workshop announced below. (We are fiscally sponsored by Ecology Action, a 501.c.3 organization; we moved to the Ojai Valley from Palo Alto in 2007.) If interested in being added to our distribution list, please write to me, Carol <cvesecky@igc.org>

**Mulberry Haven is a 100% organic fruit farm established by Gordon and Marie Kennedy in 1978. It is known to some as the oldest mulberry farm in North America. The mulberries in five varieties number 66 mature trees, their berries being marketed each year in late spring and summer. Included among the 100+ other fruit trees are carob, pomegranate, persimmon, avocado, Sunshine grapefruit (grapefruit/pomelo/tangelo cross), blood orange, pomelo, sapote, fig, apricot, and "Sprite" cherry-plum. Carol Vesecky and Irina Kim (who taught GB in Uzbekistan for 12 years) also tend GB gardens in roughly 1000 sq. ft. of the 2-acre property. For more information, write or call Carol Vesecky 805 640-1897 cvesecky@igc.org .