Hello Everyone,
Come and have fun on the farm this Sunday, October 8th 1pm – 5pm! I’ll be there with tons of basil for sale for you to make some pesto with. Come see what we have created! Flyer is attached.
Many other events coming up in October, November and December as well. Keep reading….
Tree Lees
A year and a week ago Bill Mollison, one of the founders of Permaculture, passed away on September 24, 2016. As a tribute to him here is a link to an interview Permaculture: A Quiet Revolution http://www.scottlondon.com/interviews/mollison.html
and a tribute song to Bill Mollison called Trees Eat Us All on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=32&v=MN_Texj9CD4
We planted a Loquat Tree at Our Global Family Village at City Farm as a tribute to Bill Mollison.
Please come to City Farm to pay tribute to Bill Mollison and our local regenerative agriculture.
October 8 - City Farm SLO Announces its 1st Fall Harvest Festival
1st Annual Fall Harvest Festival at the Calle Joaquin Agricultural Reserve, 1221 Calle Joaquin, San Luis Obispo. >From 1 to 5pm experience a fun, interactive afternoon between farmers and the public, especially for children. Come see the results of the activity that has been taking place at the farm, located along Hwy 101 between Madonna Rd and Los Osos Valley Rd exits, for the last few months.
Tour the farm, meet the farmers, and take part in planting and harvesting activities. Celebrate the opening of the “Pergola”, the new onsite learning center. Highlights of the day include a farmers market, cooking demos with Jerrod Cerniglia, Pacific Wildlife Care rescues, yoga with Terry Hooker, hayrides and music by the Albert Jr. Band. Meet organizations who share a commitment to local sustainable urban agriculture: Solar Cookers, Seed Saver Exchange, Slow Money SLO, Empower SLO, and Glean SLO to name a few.
After three years of managing agricultural and educational activities on the 19 acre Calle Joaquin Agricultural Reserve, Central Coast Grown invites the community to learn more about City Farm SLO, its daily operations, the programs that take place there, the affect it is having on the community and how you can get involved.
Children are free. A recommended donation of $5 per adult will be appreciated. The first 250 adult donors will receive a bag to carry their purchases of fresh produce and juices.
Funds raised at the festival will enable Central Coast Grown to continue staffing its onsite educational programs which include:
October 5th – 8th is the Northern Cal Permaculture Convergence Theme:
Cultivating Unity in a Divided World
http://permacultureconvergence.com/
One of the largest permaculture and resilience gatherings in North America offers dozens of workshops, incredible live music, sustainably-sourced meals, tremendous networking, innovate green marketplace, and much more.
Come help us build the new world that our hearts know is possible where:
* Nature is honored, respected and stewarded with best practices.
* Diversity on all levels is cherished, celebrated and protected with care.
* Resources are cared for and protected
* And the surplus is shared with all in a fair and equitable manner.
Commit to joining this POWERFUL and TIMELY gathering.
The Convergence Offers:
8 Stages, 70+ Workshops, 10 Tracks
100+ Presenters
Hands on Skill Shares
A Thriving and Energetic Village Commons
Revolutionary Headliners
Live Music from Artists in Action
Delicious Sustainably Sourced Meals
Camping at Solar Living Center
Green Market Place
Artisan Vendors
FREE Child Care
Healing Sanctuary & More!
October 6th is the Art After Dark Fundraiser at the SLO Guild Hall 6pm – 9pm
October 7th – 8th is a Cob Plaster Workshop with Cob Betty at the Spirit Pine Sanctuary
See attached flyer for more information. RSVP by calling Betty at 805-698-3840.
October 14 – Lavra Open House
Our intentional community, The Lavra (thelavra.org), is having our fifth annual Peace, Love, Lavra Open House on Saturday, October 14th. This is an opportunity for us to celebrate community, the past year, and all the projects that (nearly) got done during that time. This year on the main stage we are excited to have The Turkey Buzzards out of Morro Bay (http://www.theturkeybuzzards.com/) spinning some "Americana Bearded Outlaw Country Flannel Folk," as they describe themselves. If you haven't heard them, you are in for a treat!
Come see both old and new friends as well as all the changes to the Lavra, including the new yurt, the cob wall and cob pizza oven, a new tiny home, new chicken coop for our 30 birds, and so much more. Plus, we will once again have an altar set up for reflection/meditation and late night dancing with DJ Jnan in the yoga studio.
Kids are welcome and there will be kid-friendly activities throughout the evening as well as the farm friends: goats, chickens, turtles, dogs, and lizards. The mushroom and its zipline will also be available.
As always at the Lavra, any kindred soul is invited and camping is available if you don’t want to drive home on Saturday as long as you bring your own tent and supplies.
If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to contact us via email or call Steve at (805-503-0381).
October 28th is the Pumpkin Harvest Dinner Fundraiser at SLO Guild Hall
7pm – 9pm co-sponsored by SLO Food Coop and Vert Foods $40
October Newsletter from the Center for Sustainability
For links and information for all the following events and opportunities, please go to our October Announcements page at: www.cfs.calpoly.edu/announcements_october.html
Center & Cal Poly
1. Hugh Acheson at the Performing Arts Center: 11/3
2. Learn by Doing Conference: 11/3
San Luis Obispo & Region
3. Fall Harvest Festival, SLO City Farm: 10/8
4. Favorite Fruits of the Central Coast with CA Rare Fruit Growers: 10/14
5. Preserving Pies Perfectly: 10/14
6. Solar Cooking Classes FREE at Davies Farm: 10/21
7. Golden Oak Honey Festival, Paso Robles: 10/28
8. Ventura County Farm Day: 11/3
9. Central Coast Bioneers Conference and Empower.SLO: 11/4
10. Sustainable Ag Expo: 11/13-15
11. Earthworks for Farm Resilience with Warren Brush: 12/6-10
12. Organic Grower Summit, Monterey: 12/13-14
California & Out-of-State
13. UCSC Apprenticeship in Ecological Horticulture applications: due 9/30
14. Greater Vision 2017: New Frontiers Water Forum, CSU Monterey Bay: 10/6
15. Its Alive! Principles and Practices to Build Soil Health, UC Davis: 10/12
16. Soil2017, Slow Money National Conference, Boulder, CO: 10/16-17
17. BioCycle REFOR17, Portland, OR: 10/16-19
18. HMI Whole Farm/Ranch Business Planning, Pescadero: 10/23-12/5
19. California Small Farm Conference, Stockton: 10/29-30
20. Fertilizer Research and Education Program (FREP) Conf, Modesto: 11/1-2
21. reThink Food, Napa Valley: 11/1-3
22. Latino Farmer Conference, UC Riverside: 11/7
23. Advocacy Training for Women Farmers and Ranchers, Occidental: 11/9-12
24. Quivira Conference 2017, Albuquerque, NM: 11/15-17
25. Association of Applied IPM Ecologists (AAIE) Conference, Visalia: 11/29-12/1
Online
26. Strategies and Perspectives on How to Scale up Regenerative Organic Agriculture: 9/27
27. Conservation Systems for Livestock & Restoring Native Plants: 10/25 & 10/31
Opportunities
28. CHESC Speaker Selection Committee and Steering Committee: 9/29 & 10/5
29. CDFA Alternative Manure Management Program: due 10/2
30. CCREF Request for Proposals (RFP) for literature review on compost: 10/16
31. Transformative Climate Communities concept proposals due: 10/18
32. Scholarships to attend EcoFarm Conference 2018: 10/31
33. Western SARE grant deadlines: 11/1 – 1/12
34. International Compost Awareness Week poster contest: 11/6
35. Organic Farming Research Foundation (OFRF) grants: due 12/15
36. Internships at Yerba Buena Farm, Jamaica
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Center for Sustainability
College of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Sciences
California Polytechnic State University
San Luis Obispo, CA 93407
(805) 756-5086
www.cfs.calpoly.edu
www.facebook.com/Center-for-Sustainability-157440517620679/
Bioneers UPRISING – November 4
Tickets are now on sale for Central Coast Bioneers 2017, which will be held 9am to 5pm, Saturday, November 4 at the SLO Guild Hall, 2880 Broad Street in San Luis Obispo. Featured will be the following keynote talks from the National Bioneers Conference, held October 20-22, 2017 in San Rafael:
Exhibitors will be on hand in the grove. The Volumes of Pleasure bookstore will return and lunch will be catered by Javed Kabob Paradise.
Tickets are $45 in advance for adults, $25 for students, and can also be used for admission to Empower.SLO Advanced Activism Training, running concurrently at the Guild Hall. Go to https://ecologistics.org/ for more information or to register or for information on how to be an exhibitor.
Fall Gathering and Five Year celebration!
Tuesday, Nov. 7, 6 pm at the SLO Guild Hall, 2880 Broad St. SLO
Join Slow Money SLO fans, foodies, investors and food entrepreneurs as we celebrate SLO County Restaurants. Just a few of the participants will be Mint+Craft (a Novo group restaurant), Back Porch Bakery, Bliss Café and the SLO Coop grocery.
Great food to sample, door prizes, restaurant announcements and new menu items as well as their plans for the holidays. More details here.
Also, as we pass the five year milestone, Slow Money SLO is excited to announce that we are now a tax exempt 501(c)(3) non-profit! Suggested event donation $5 pp.
From December 6-10, 2017, Earthworks for Farm Resilience, a fundamental course in farm scale water harvesting techniques will be taking place in San Luis Obispo, California.
Join international educator, Warren Brush, with a dynamic teaching team at BLANK Farm. Learn about earthworks and hydration strategies for ecological farming, land restoration, and agroecosystem stability and resilience. http://permaculturedesign.us/resilience
Whether you are working on your own landscape, farm, or as a consultant, this course will grow your skills in the appropriate design and construction of structures that will reduce erosion, increase productivity, harvest & store water, and create resiliency in the ecologies that sustain us.
A major component of this course will be hands-on skill development where we will establish on-site earthworks with large earthmoving equipment. Students will be able to dive deeper into large earthworks development, water infiltration strategies and systems linking, planting and commissioning, and additional hydration strategies.
Registration can be taken care of online at: http://permaculturedesign.us/resilience . Enjoy an Early Bird price of $895 until October 1, 2017, when the price will go up to $1,050. Tuition includes instruction, 3 meals a day, and camping accommodation. Please contact Kelly Metcalf for more details at: kellycmetcalf@hotmail.com.