[Central Coast CA Permaculture] community - is unity with all people AND communing with nature

Wed Jun 20 16:11:05 PDT 2018

Hello Permaculture Community in SLO area,

Let’s choose unity and commune with one another and with nature in these tumultuous times.

Let’s show compassion instead of separation. Let’s have togetherness and joy in the process of creating a more regenerative, permaculture solution based society. Let’s create the kind of future that is respectful of nature, of people, plants, animals and our resources.

That is what we will be doing next week at the FARMGIRLS Summer Camp.

Permaculture Education for Women and Children- Regenerative Agriculture & World Horticulture program at Our Global Family Village at City Farm June 26 – 29 from 8am to 12noon

FARMGIRLS Summer Camp is Girl Power for our Future Food System!  FARMGIRLS Summer Camp is held at Our Global Family Farm, a permaculture demonstration site located at City Farm SLO. It features food crops and indigenous food cropping systems from the four corners of the globe. FARMGIRLS Summer Camp will include farming, cooking, eating, making crafts, singing and nature hikes. The FARMGILRS summer camp is a place where women and girls of all ages can learn about how to grow food in an ecological approach that follows the ethics of permaculture: care for the earth, care for one another, and share the abundance.  Together we can create a food system that is Regenerative, Healthy, Local, and Resilient.

There are just two spots left. Register online by June 21st: http://www.permaculture.us.com/farmgirls/farmgirls-summer-camp 

Location: Our Global Family Farm at City Farm in San Luis Obispo http://centralcoastgrown.org/city-farm/  

1221 Calle Joaquin Road – frontage road along Highway 101, next to Alfano Motors and the new BMW car dealerships.

Many women have come together to contribute to this community experience we call FARMGIRLS Summer Camp:

We will have a daily craft, such as painting, seed collages, making a Dream Pillow, plant weavings and mandalas. (Special guest for the making of mandalas with Mishlyn Verdon https://www.spiritguidecambria.com/ )

We will have a guest Farm Woman each day telling us a bit about their farm business such as Ruth Maddocks (Branch Mill Organic Farm), Courtney Mellblom (Farmer Maid Flowers), Christine Heinrichs (The Chicken Lady), Maddie Lindsey (Lindsey Family Honey Business) and SLO Veg.

We also have a guest chef each day such as Jeanne Brodie (Ravenous), Terri Knowlton (Fig Restaurant), Courtney Coleman (Cookwell with Courtney), and Angelica Peach (Conscious Plant Based Cuisine).

COMMUNITY PARTNERS

The SLO Natural Foods Coop and the SLO Guild Hall have shown unity and compassion by giving scholarships to families who need assistance in getting to the FARMGIRLS Summer Camp.

The CA Rare Fruit Growers Central Coast Chapter visited the City Farm and doing what they can to help with this community farm project.

Here is a report on their visit: http://www.crfg-central.org/newsletters.html 

COMMUNITY FARMING

Talking about community farming, Our Global Family Village at City Farm, is now opening up plots of land for people to garden. There is no cost, but there are some logistics to figure out such as using the community water pump on the farm. Please contact me, Teresa Lees, treelees at charter.net if you’d like a plot of land to tend in the ‘village’. We need more “hands on the land.” The motto of Our Global Family Village has always been “Stand Together on the Land as One” as we are “all part of one big family here on planet Earth.”

COMMUNITY WORK PARTIES AT CITY FARM – Second Saturdays

Come lend a helping hand on the farm on the Second Saturdays of the month 9am – 1pm.

July 14, August 11, September 8 are the next few months days. We will have fun and also have summer crops for those who work the land.

Support Central Coast Grown – the nonprofit that manages City Farm http://centralcoastgrown.org/support-ccg/ 

COMMUNITY DIRECT ACTION for Families Belong Together

Several protests are planned for across San Luis Obispo County in opposition to the U.S. government's policy of separating undocumented immigrants from their children. Protests are planned for Arroyo Grande, Atascadero, Cambria, Los Osos, Morro Bay, Nipomo, Paso Robles and San Luis Obispo, beginning Thursday, June 21 and culminating with a June 30 rally in front of the San Luis Obispo County Superior Courthouse that is timed to coincide with a nationwide day of protest. Click here: Tribune article that lists all the Direct Actions for Families Belong Together <http://www.sanluisobispo.com/news/local/article213462069.html?mc_cid=5eaaa7dbfa&mc_eid=1ba3d446b7> 

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Community Permaculture Courses up in Santa Cruz
Systems Change & the Next Economy - Regenerative Design for People and the Planet

June - September 2018
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Join us for a series of four weekend workshops exploring economics for a thriving, just, and regenerative world. The four workshops, which can be taken as individual workshops or as an entire course series, bring together instructors from a variety of backgrounds, each critically examining aspects of our economic, financial, and money systems and offering inspiring alternative models, systems, and examples.

Each workshop takes place over the course of one weekend in Santa Cruz County. Additional details sent upon registration. Please contact us if you have any questions.

Upon successful completion of this course, graduates will be able to:
Examine how permaculture design can support the development of regenerative economies

Explain the core function and purpose of “economics”
Illustrate the inextricable relationship between economics, ecology, and people

Explore various alternative economic systems, including Buddhist economics, gift economies, and doughnut economics

Gain a deeper understanding of the money and banking system in the U.S.

Examine how finance and investing can align with your values and support a local, resilient economy
Assess alternative economic tools and business models, including complementary currencies, timebanks, land trusts, and cooperatives

Challenge the assumptions and connotations of “economics” common in U.S. society

Define Right Livelihood
Reflect on one’s personal Right Livelihood and identify ways to move toward it

Apply the reflective process of the Spiral of the Work That Reconnects to one’s role in The Great Turning

Course Dates 2018
June 23-24: Economics as if People and the Planet Mattered: Reclaiming the “dismal science” to build more equitable, sustainable, and just alternatives with Della Duncan

July 14-15: Essential Knowledge for Transition: Understanding the economy, money and investing and how to transform them for a regenerative world with Marco Vangelisti

August 25-26: Restorative Economics: Strategies for Just Transition to a more Sustainable, Equitable and Just Economy with Nwamaka Agbo

September 29-30: Designing the Regenerative Economy: Next Economy design principles and strategies for vocation and regenerative enterprise design with  <https://www.facebook.com/kevin.bayuk.5?fref=gs&dti=895682213790375&hc_location=group> Kevin Bayuk and  <https://www.facebook.com/axelrod.erin?fref=gs&dti=895682213790375&hc_location=group> Erin Axelrod  <https://www.facebook.com/daveshawlistens?fref=gs&dti=895682213790375&hc_location=group> David Shaw

COMMUNITY MOVIE NIGHT

Saturday, July 7 at 7pm at Atascadero Ag Hall, 5035 Palm Ave – WASTED! The Story of Food Waste

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CAL POLY Center for Sustainability Summer Announcements

Please visit our June Announcements page for information about these exciting opportunities ahead: www.cfs.calpoly.edu/announcements_june.html 

Center & Cal Poly
1. ITRC Basic Soil, Plant &Water Relationships: 7/31
2. Sustainable Rangeland and Livestock Mngmt, Swanton Pacific Ranch: 8/6-17

San Luis Obispo & Region
3. Solar Cooking Classes FREE at Davies Farm: 6/16 & 7/21
4. Rare Plant Rescue, SLO Botanical Garden: 6/21
5. Pasture to Plate: All About Grazing!: 6/23
6. FarmGirls Summer Camp at City Farm SLO: 6/26-29
7. Forbes AgTech Summit, Salinas: 6/28-29
8. Central Coast Lavender Festival, Paso Robles: 7/7
9. California Higher Educ Sustainability Conference, UCSB: 7/9-12
10. Organic Produce Summit, Monterey: 7/11-12
11. California Mid-state Fair: 7/18-29
12. Holistic Financial Planning Course, Tablas Creek Vineyard: 8/6-8
13. Docent Ranch Walks, Fiscalini Ranch Preserve, Cambria

California & Out-of-State
14. Evolution of Organic, Paicines Ranch: 6/2
15. FREP Biochar Field Day, UC Davis: 6/6
16. Groundwater Sustainability Agency Summit, Sacramento: 6/6-7
17. Russell Ranch Field Day, UC Davis: 6/11
18. 4R Nutrient Stewardship Summit, Des Moines IA: 6/11-12
19. Soil Solarization Workshop, Winters: 6/12 
20. Organic Fertilizer Assoc of CA (OFAC) meeting, Chico: 6/15
21. The Grassfed Exchange, Rapid City SD: 6/20-22
22. Food IT: The Full Stack, SF: 6/26
23. Fresno Food Expo: 7/26
24. Soil Health Institute Annual Meeting, Albuquerque NM: 8/1-3

Online
25. Assessment of Organic Farming on Soil Phys & Chem Properties: 6/5
26. OFRF Soil Health webinar series, Weed Management: 6/13

Opportunities
27. CDFA seeking comments on Healthy Soils Program: 6/19
28. Compost Council Young Investigator Scholarship: 6/30
29. UC Garden Nutrition Extenders application deadline: 6/30
30. Climate Ready Program, CA Coastal Conservancy: 7/2
31. Leopold Conservation Award application deadline: 7/14
32. Program & Admin Assoc Position, California FarmLink, Aptos
33. Executive Director Position, One Cool Earth, Paso Robles

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College of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Sciences
California Polytechnic State University
San Luis Obispo, CA 93407
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Best of Local Food Summit

By popular request, we’re delighted to announce that we will be hosting a very special online event, Best of the Local Food Summit, over a four-week period, June 18 - July 16. Please mark your calendar!

This is an opportunity for you to receive wisdom and inspiration from some of the great leaders and pioneers of the local food movement in the U.S. and beyond—people like Fred Kirschenmann, John Ikerd, Helena Norbert-Hodge, Woody Tasch, Philip Ackerman-Leist, and more! 

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