Hello Permaculture People,

We had a great City Farm Harvest Festival on October 8^th. Wish you were all there to enjoy it with the rest of us.

Here is a photo album: https://www.flickr.com/photos/124814213@N08/albums/72157689249063166

We are already thinking about hosting a family friendly celebrating the Spring Equinox on March 24^th. More fun on the farm to come!

Here is a quick rundown of some local events to participate in:

October 21: Seedsaver Event with the Central Coast Weavers Guild

THIS COMING SATURDAY OCTOBER 21 from 10am-12:30pm, Sally Fox will give a talk to the Central Coast Weavers Guild and Seedsavers at the Strawbale Barn - 9156 Santa Margarita Road.  See directions below.  The Weavers have made most of the arrangements for Sally Fox’ talk so Seedsavers have offered to bring some delectable finger food to go with coffee and tea.  Be creative!  The barn is home to two 19th century looms.  I’ve attached a link to a 2011 Smithsonian youtube about Sally’s cotton work.  Check it out, then come hear one of the most innovative scientist/artist/cotton breeder/seed farmer individuals working today.   Cheers, Elizabeth  805-543-5364 for info 

Sally Fox
Fox Fibre/Colorganics

Sally Fox is a pioneer of organic and non-gmo cotton, and grows naturally
colored cotton - as well as heritage Merino sheep and a variety of crops -
on her farm in the Capay Valley area of Yolo County. In addition, this Cal
Poly San Luis Obispo graduate is a hand spinner and weaver of colored cotton
and a former member of Central Coast Weavers.  On Saturday, October 21,
Sally will discuss her personal history of breeding cotton and her attempts
to commercially develop the naturally colored cottons, which come in
wonderful shades of brown, sienna and green. This program will be held at 10
a.m. at the Strawbale Barn, 9156 Santa Margarita Road. Sally will be selling
her fiber, yarn and cotton fabric and some wheat seeds at the event.  Coffee
and tea will be served.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryryABlFx98

Directions:
If you are coming south from Atascadero, exit on Santa Barbara Road, and
take Santa Barbara Road east to El Camino Real. Turn south on El Camino Real
for several miles to Santa Margarita Road. (Country Care Convalescent
Hospital is on the corner.) Turn right, and follow Santa Margarita Road to
9156.

Coming north from San Luis Obispo, exit at the Highway 58, Santa Margarita
Exit.  Follow Highway 58 (El Camino Real) through the town of Santa
Margarita. North of town, turn left on Santa Margarita Road. (Country Care
Convalescent Hospital is on the corner.) Follow Santa Margarita Road to
9156.

October 24: Global Oneness Day

We Are All One – interrelated, interconnected and interdependent. Global Oneness Day aims to nurture and elevate our consciousness so that we more fully live from the process of life expressing and creating, and ultimately – to assist us in living as One. 

If we are going to live as One, we must create new education systems, new media, new forms of governance, new economic systems and so much more. The summit will explore many of these areas, focusing on what it will take to create a world that truly works for everyone and all life forms.

Oneness leaders include: Michael Beckwith, Marianne Williamson, Jean Houston, Doreen Virtue, Nassim Haramein, Panache Desai, Gary Zukav, Neale Donald Walsch, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Bruce Lipton, Terri Patten, Gregg Braden, Lynne McTaggart and many others. See all of the speakers and learn about Global Oneness Day here. 

October 28: SLO Guild Hall Pumpkin Dinner – Get your tickets before October 23^rd

^{Purchase tickets on Brown Paper Tickets. This is a benefit to purchase solar panels for the SLO Guild Hall.}

http://www.pumpkindinner.brownpapertickets.com

We are approaching our first SLO Guild Hall fundraising dinner and we need some of your help.  To save some of our funds for the dinner, we are in need of small 6 oz. soup bowls that we can borrow for the dinner on October 28.  We will need at least 40 more soup bowls, as some of our members on the fund raising committee have offered approximately 60+ borrowed bowls.  Please let us know if we can borrow your smaller soup bowls.  They will be ready for your pick up right after the dinner is over.  We can also use your help during the dinner to serve, clean up, etc.

Also, it would save us greatly if you have contributions of bottles of wine for the dinner.  If you have bottles of wine you can offer, please let us know.  You can email or call the SLO Guild office. The last date to purchase tickets for the Pumpkin Harvest Dinner is October 23, and you can do so through Brown Paper Tickets.  Tickets to the dinner are not available at the door.  We would like to make this a successful venture for our hall, and we would like to be able to plan having more fund raisers in the future to benefit the construction of our additional room with solar panels on the roof of that addition.

Thank you,

Shirley Hanrion, Hall Manager

SLO Guild Hall

543-0639

(Note: If you had October 28^th on your calendar for the Honoring Mother Corn event at City Farm, that event is not happening. Instead there is the Harvest Dinner at the SLO Guild Hall and the Acorn Awakening event on October 29^th.)

October 29: Chumash Kitchen - Acorn Awakening with Jeanette Acosta and Violet Cavanaugh

The Chumash Kitchen – Acorn Awakening
Sunday, October 29 from 8:30 AM – 1 PM
With Violet Cavanaugh and Jeanette Acosta

Fall is a time to harvest, store, and prepare for the coming winter. Join us this fall as we reconnect with the local environment, the season, and your health during the fall Chumash Kitchen offering with Chumash chefs and herbalists, Violet Cavanaugh and Jeanette Acosta. This offering will leave you nourished, connected, and grateful for the gifts of nature.

Violet and Jeanette will share the autumn practices of collecting, processing and transforming acorns into several modern and traditional recipes, paired with other fall flavors. After breakfast, you’ll take a short hike up to visit the traditional Chumash grinding stones, discovering the native plants and sacred space. The beautifully prepared lunch will again feature flavors of the season. You’ll develop a deeper relationship with the oak trees, enjoy a wide selection of prepared wild edibles while learning new methods for incorporating more indigenous foods into modern dishes and your life.  Please wear shoes appropriate for the short hike. Pre-registry is REQUIRED for this intimate offering. http://slobg.org/chumash-kitchen/

NEW OFFERING! – Call 805.541.1400×303 for availability! – 
Friday October 27 from 10am – 1pm, join Jeanette and Violet in the kitchen at the SLO Botanical Garden to learn and help process acorns and other wild foods in preparation for the Sunday offering. You’ll learn how to roast and grind acorns, and collection and harvesting techniques. This hands-on and in-depth work-trade is offered for an additional $25 and is open to the first ten people who select the pre-prep day in the sliding scale PayPal drop-down menu.

November 4: Central Coast Bioneers – Tim LaSalle to speak about Carbon Farming at 1:30pm at SLO Guild Hall

Carbon farming a major topic at Central Coast Bioneers Conference

Cal Poly Professor Emeritus Tim LaSalle, who is the International Agriculture Coordinator for the Open Burning Project for the International Cryosphere Climate Initiative, will do a Q&A session on carbon farming following the viewing of the National Bioneers Conference address by John Wick and Calla Rose Ostrander on Carbon Farming.  Tim is also, Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Regenerative Agriculture Initiative, CSU Chico, focused on regenerating soils and drawing down atmospheric CO2 levels.

Sequestering carbon from the atmosphere back into the soil is emerging as among the top biological strategies to radically mitigate climate disruption on large scales. It’s also a rapidly growing movement among farmers across the country, including in conservative communities – because it IS conservative… of the land and soil. John and Calla Rose are visionary leaders of the Marin Carbon Project, a gold standard of carbon farming research demonstrations. John is co-owner (with his wife Peggy Rathmann) of the Nicasio Native Grass Ranch. Calla Rose, former Fellow with the Rocky Mountain Institute, has led policy and climate action programs with Aspen, CO and San Francisco, CA, and is a leading advocate for and expert on agricultural carbon sequestration.

This talk (1:30pm) and Q&A session with Tim LaSalle (2:00pm) are part of the 2017 Central Coast Bioneers Conference to be held November 4, 2017, at the SLO Guild Hall.  For tickets and more information: https://ecologistics.org/ccb-empower-slo-2017/

November 14^th – SLOW Money SLO Five Year Anniversary (previously schedule on Nov. 7^th)

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. http://slowmoneyslo.org/

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.

HOPES Village Shower Power

Hello all...we're in our sixth week of offering showers for people who have no other access...to date, we've given 129 showers...our guests are very grateful!   We need another person who has a large truck to haul the shower trailer one day a week to it's location on Los Osos Valley Road and help set it up. Not difficult -- and very rewarding.

If you know anyone, would you please advise? We've got a great crew; we offer clean towels (laundered by Paul's Cleaners for us), an array of toiletries (the tiny travel type ones), shower shoes, clean clothing, sleeping bags, a snack and water (soon to be a real meal!), hair cuts, shaves, and rides into town for those without bus passes and need transportation.

We'd also need greeters; you would sit and welcome shower guests and take down their info for our records only; first name, age, contact info, what they need, etc. so we can direct them to help. We have six veterans who we're helping get into housing (if they have vouchers; otherwise, we look for them an RV through our RVs for Veterans program.)     Let us know if you're interested, or know anyone else who may be.

Always need travel toiletries, clothing, bus passes and gift cards to local eateries ... can be dropped off at Tim Waag's house at 1757 Frambuesa Drive, SLO (on high side of Los Osos Valley Road.)  THANKS VERY MUCH!

Becky Jorgeson   HOPE'S VILLAGE OF SLO   www.hopesvillageofslo.com 805.234.5478

PDC Course at Cal-Earth in Hesperia

PERMACULTURE CERTIFICATION COMBINED TRAINING  @Cal-earth Hesperia October 16-28, 2017

http://www.calearth.org/detail-permaculture

For the past 6 years Cal-Earth Institute and Midwest Permaculture have combined our recognized and established certificate trainings for a rare and powerful learning opportunity. 

This program includes the full Core Curriculum as well as a full PDC curriculum delivered by Midwest Permaculture. 

This year the registration is unexpectedly low and we want to make our best effort to get more participants since our Permaculture instructors Bill and Becky Wilson are traveling from Illinois for the training. See below for some additional options we are providing this year, and please spread the word. We need to get at least 5-8 more participants to make this amazing workshop happen.

Cal-Earth Institute and Midwest Permaculture are combining their recognized and established certificate trainings for a rare and powerful learning opportunity. Having delivered over 60 PDC courses, Midwest Permaculture is an internationally recognized provider of quality permaculture trainings. Their full PDC curriculum will be delivered to students at this combined training so that all will earn their Permaculture Design Certificate.