[Southern California Permaculture] April Updates - Join us for Springtime at Permaculture Oasis in the High Desert!

Fri Apr 4 10:19:44 PDT 2014

Quail Springs Permaculture 
April Updates

Join Us for Springtime at Permaculture Oasis in the Beautiful Southern California High Desert!

Help us win a Seeds of Change grant contest for $10k or $20k!

Please VOTE for Quail Springs Permaculture TODAY, and once each day through April 21st, and share with your friends!

click for direct link to our entry

https://www.seedsofchangegrant.com/TheGallery.aspx?id=317f0271-7d6d-4d4d-bee2-9ed0a1b46e99

Quail Springs Farm Benefit & Tour Coming Up April 12th
Come meet this proud mama and her spunky kids!

register now online click here

Saturday, April 12th, 10am-3pm
Farm Tour & Lunch 

All ages welcome!

Visit Quail Springs Permaculture Farm, have a delicious lunch prepared in our earthen ovens, and learn about growing food in the high desert, tending a variety of wonderful food-giving animals, creating shelter, and stewarding agricultural lands and wilderness.

Saturday, April 12th, 10am through Sunday, April 13th, 11am
Farm Tour, Lunch & Dinner, Overnight Campout, Breakfast, Hands-On Breakouts
families and all ages welcome!

Come out for the farm tour and stay on for dinner, and overnight campout. There will be fireside stories in the evening, camping under the high desert stars that night, a yummy breakfast Sunday morning, and optional early morning hands-on sessions in butchering, or milking goats before an 11am departure. 

SATURDAY TOUR & LUNCH
($40/person, $70/couple. Youth ages 13-18 yrs, $10-30 sliding scale. Kids 12 and under, free of charge.)

SATURDAY TOUR & LUNCH, DINNER, OVERNIGHT STAY, BREAKFAST
( $145/person, and $210/couple. Youth ages 13-18yrs, $60-90 sliding scale. Kids 12 and under, $20 each. Babies free of charge.)

SUNDAY EARLY MORNING BREAK-OUT OPTIONS
($20/per person per session)
We are offering two optional early Sunday early morning classes.
-Introduction to Goat Milking
-Introduction to Butchering
These sessions are happening at the same time so you are only able to attend one session. 

Register now online CLICK HERE or contact by email lindsay at quailsprings.org or call 805-886-7239.

Introduction to Cob & Natural Building Workshop

April 25 - May 1, 2014

register now
limited capacity in workshop
parents: ask about children's program options

Instructors: Sasha Rabin, Paul Swenson, & Betty Seaman

In this six day cob workshop, we focus on the characteristics of the natural materials most commonly used in construction:  clay soil, sand, and fibers.  Our main focus will be cob, though we will touch on various other building techniques that utilize the same materials, including adobe block, light straw-clay, wattle and daub, and plasters. 

For first-time builders and professionals in the building trade with interest in natural materials.  

For more info and to register, please email sasha at quailsprings.org or call 805-886-7239.

Permaculture Design Course for International Development and Social Entrepreneurship 

June 21 - July 5, 2014
early bird discount for registration by May 9

Lead Instructors:  
Warren Brush, Co-founder Quail Springs & Casitas Valley Farm
Joseph Lentunyoi of the Maasai people & Permaculture Research Institute of Kenya

Roster of Presenters:
Janice Setser, Former Project Director with Mercy Corp 
Melanie St. James, Co-Founder of Empowerment Works 
Jay Markert, Founder of Living Mandala
Jeanette Acosta Chumash Tribal Educator, Permaculture Teacher 
Noah Jackson, Founder of Forest Voices 
Brenton Kelly, Andrew Clinard and Lindsay Allen, The Quail Springs Farm Management Team
...and other special guests TBA!

Permaculture is an integrated design system that provides a framework for consciously designed landscapes that provide diversity, stability, and resilience for individuals and communities.  Permaculture is in 160 countries with thousands of grassroots projects on-the-ground. This 14-day course includes the 72-hr Permaculture Certification through Permaculture Research Institute... and much more. 

This course will assist you and your organization with integrating into your projects: Increased Food Security  Community-Based Development Waste Cycling Sustainability Education Clean Water and Drought Proofing Health and Nutrition Sustainable Vocations & Enterprise.

For more info and to register, please visit
PDC for International Development and Social Entrepreneurship info online or email Kolmi Majumdar at info at quailsprings.org
.

Quail Springs Permaculture is nonprofit organization dedicated to demonstrating and teaching holistic ways of designing human environments, restoring and revitalizing the land and community, and facilitating deeper understandings of ourselves and one another through immersive experiences in nature.

Quail Springs Permaculture   
www.quailsprings.org 

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