Happy Summer Everyone,
Some big plans for our permaculture project at Our Global Family Farm this summer and fall. We are lucky to have this piece of land to work and to play with. This farm features food crops from the Four Corners of the Globe. We truly are all part of one family on this beautiful planet Earth.
Please put these dates on your calendar and come join in the fun. We are putting “family” back into the notion of “family farms.”
We meet on the 4th Saturday in the morning from 10am – 12noon. The location is at City Farm in SLO at 1221 Calle Joaquin Road.
Take Los Osos Valley Road exit and follow the frontage road, Calle Joaquin going north by Alfano Motors and drive onto the farm dirt road. Our Global Family Farm is the permaculture demo garden in the middle of the farm where the green canopies are for the central gathering area.
Please bring your own shovel and gloves, garden hat, water bottle and wear sturdy shoes. Bring drums and musical instruments & songs too!!!
Hope your family can come “back to the land” soon. The land is calling out to people to tend to it. The land needs us and we need the land.
June 24th – Summer Planting Party and Drum Circle at Our Global Family Farm 10am – 12noon
So many delicious summer crops to plant:
cucumbers, luffa, basil and eggplant to plant in Asia
corn, squash, peppers and tomatillos to plant in the Americas
watermelon, gourds and sorghum ‘broomcorn’ to plant in Africa
lettuce, arugula, and kale etc. to plant in Europe
July 11 – 14th - FARMGIRLS Summer Camp at 8am – 12noon daily at Our Global Family Farm
FARMGIRLS Summer Camp is Girl Power for our Future Food System in that women and girls of all ages are coming together to create Regenerative, Healthy, Local, and Resilient farms. It is held at Our Global Family Farm which is a permaculture demonstration site located at City Farm SLO. The premise is to create a summer camp for women and girls to come to learn about how to grow food in an ecological approach that follows the ethics of permaculture: care for the earth, care for one another, share all we can. We will have guest chefs and farmers every day along with farm projects and arts and crafts. Please share this information with other families. Women and girls of all ages are welcome to register. Register online before 4th of July at: http://www.permaculture.us.com/farmgirls/farmgirls-summer-camp
For more information contact Teresa Lees at treelees@charter.net or call 805-927-5922.
August 26th – Our Global Family Farm Fun Day 10am – 12noon
Come enjoy harvesting and tending summer crops. Those who work the land reap the harvest.
September 23rd – Our Global Family Farm Fun Day 10am – 12noon
Come help to spruce up the farm before the official tour that is part of the GEE Symposium field trip day on October 6th.
October 6th & 7th – Growing Edible Education (GEE) Symposium – tour of City Farm!
Join participants from SLO, Santa Barbara, and Ventura counties at the 3rd Annual Tri County Growing Edible Education Symposium. This important event brings together schools, nonprofits, and businesses that support regional farm to school, and school garden efforts. The GEE will be held at Rancho El Chorro Conference Center located back behind the SLO County Office of Education.
Expect to see the sites--field trips run to SLO County school gardens, farms, and agricultural enterprises. And hear from top advocates in the field--keynote speakers including Gail Feenstra, Deputy Director of the Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program at the University of California, Davis and Karen Brown, Creative Director at the Center for Ecoliteracy. Get involved in workshops, panels, and a networking expo on “How to Grow Edible Education in Your Schools”. Don’t forget the food! Participants will be treated to the culinary delights of local Food Service Directors creating delicious appetizers from local produce.
Early Registration is now available until the end of August: https://www.geesymposium.org/register-now
We are also seeking generous donors who can help sponsor the costs involved with putting on the GEE Symposium. See the attached “Gee 2017 Sponsorship menu.” You simply fill it out and send in a check to the San Luis Obispo County Office of Education. Contact Teresa Lees treelees@charter.net for more information.
October 28th – Fall Harvest Celebration at Our Global Family Farm 10am – 12noon
We will celebrate the SACRED VISIT OF SEED SAVERS IN THE PERUVIAN TRADITION - “EL WATUNAKUY” which is a ritual to HONOR MOTHER CORN. All indigenous cultures around the globe have some sort of harvest celebration. Please come share this important farming tradition.
Talking about Seed Savers, the monthly Seedsaving Workshops are on the 4th Saturday at 1pm – 3pm.
June 24th is Avila See Canyon tour of Cirone Farms with Mike Cirone
July 22 is a North County Regional Ethnobotany tour
August 26 is SLO Community Seed Harvest
September 23 is Native Plant Choices of John Chesnut at the SLO Botanical Garden
For more information contact Elizabeth Johnson at stteresa@kcbx.net 805-543-5364
And also remember Solar Cooking Class FREE @ Davies Farm 12:30-2:00,
Third Saturday May-October (next one on June 17th) (then July 15, August 19, September 16, & October 21)
5009 Jespersen Rd (off Buckley), SLO.
No reservations needed. For more information contact Phyllis Davies infodavies66@gmail.com
C 805.440.9346
H 805.549.9346
June 25th – Summer Solstice Farm to Table Dinner at Branch Mill Organic Farm from 4:00am-7:00pm.
$75 per plate. Questions info@branchmillorganics.com or call 805-481-9205
Link here for flyer: http://branchmillorganics.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/farm-to-t-1-with-menu-3-jpg.jpg
Quail Springs Capital Campaign to purchase the land
Please help us buy the Quail Springs land today and enable us to continue this empowering work into the future. Share our story with your friends and family about our goal to secure the land by this September, 2017! Together we can do this!
https://quailsprings.nationbuilder.com/donate?utm_campaign=2017appeal&utm_medium=email&utm_source=quailsprings
With your help we know our goal is in reach. Any amount, small or large, helps us get closer to our goal! If 525 supporters donated $400 this year (that’s $33.33 a month) we could assure the land was safely and ambitiously stewarded by Quail Springs in perpetuity.
In gratitude for all we have,
Teresa “Tree” Lees on behalf of the SLO Permaculture Guild
