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Lawrence London | 24 May 2013 07:21
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Veterans Job Corps - agriculture training and opportunities

Attn: Deston Dennison, Scott Pittman and others who have worked with the
military or with veterans

This was the topic of the Charlie Rose show tonight: Veterans Job Corps

http://www.dylanratigan.com/2013/05/21/marine-corps-general-partners-with-dylan-ratigan-to-lead-veteran-job-incubator/
"Marine Corps General Partners with Dylan Ratigan to Lead Veteran Job
Incubator May 21, 2013*
Major General Melvin Spiese Named Executive Chairman of Veteran Job Corps
(VJC)** *

*May 21, 2013 (Los Angeles, CA)* – Veteran Job Corps, a solutions based,
job incubator for military veterans, announced today that Major General
Melvin Spiese will be the Executive Chairman.  General Spiese and Dylan
Ratigan founded the organization to help develop and train veterans to take
on the core challenges facing our country.  Major General Spiese
retired after 37 years of active duty in March of 2013 as the Deputy
Commanding General of Marine Expeditionary Force and Commanding General of
1st Marine Expeditionary Brigade.

At VJC, General Spiese will help service-members transition from their
military life into civilian life by developing the training and education
necessary to prepare these veterans for the career paths that VJC is
developing with business leaders from around the country.

General Spiese stated, “What truly attracted me to Veteran Job Corps, is
that it’s changing the narrative on veteran unemployment.  We are showing
the world that veterans are highly capable of solving difficult problems
through education, training and job preparedness.  Instead of simply trying
to find jobs for veterans, we are focused on creating new industries for
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Lawrence London | 24 May 2013 00:03
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(FWD) Umass, Amherst Summer and Fall Permaculture Courses

(FWD) Umass, Amherst Summer and Fall Permaculture Courses

Please help me spread the word about the Summer design course! A great
opportunity to build your portfolio and gain skills in permaculture design
by touring existing projects and then working as a team to design a
permaculture homestead.  This course is open to the public through
continuing education and runs Tuesday and Thursday nights 6:30-8:30 July
9th -August 15th with field trips on Saturday July 13th, 17th and August
10th.

For more information and to sign up for the course go to:
 http://www.umassulearn.net/component/cpeclasses/?view=class&clid=11195&pid=158<http://www.umassulearn.net/component/cpeclasses/?view=class&clid=11195&pid=158>

This three-credit course includes in-class lectures, field trips, design
studio and a hands-on field component, to offer students a deepened
practice in permaculture design process and techniques. The course
culminates with students completing their own permaculture design for a
site in the pioneer valley.  The framework behind the theory and practice
of permaculture is rooted in the observation of natural systems. By
observing key ecological relationships, we can mimic and apply these
beneficial relationships in the design of systems that serve humans while
helping to regenerate the natural world. This course trains students as
critical thinkers, observers, and analysts of the world(s) around them, and
provides tools needed to design for positive change.

Successful completion of this course and PLSOILIN 197G in the fall semester
will enable students to be eligible for the internationally recognized
permaculture design certificate.

For the syllabus see: http://www.justfoodnow.org/PermSummerClass.pdf
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Lawrence London | 24 May 2013 00:00
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(FWD) Permaculture for Professionals- April 15th

(FWD) Permaculture for Professionals- April 15th

Please help me spread the word to your networks!

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Permaculture For Professionals
Register by April 15th
Register here: http://www.connsoil.com/

Join permaculture designer, teacher, and regional planner, Lisa DePiano for
this unique program. Lisa initiated Feed
Northampton<http://issuu.com/conwaydesign/docs/feed_northampton_april2010>,
one of the first Food Security Plans in the country and she runs the Mobile
Design Lab <http://www.mobiledesignlab.org>, which focuses on participatory
design and planning.

This training is for professional Planners, Architects, Engineers,
Landscape Architects and other developers who want to understand and
incorporate the principles and techniques of Permaculture Design into their
practise. Permaculture is an interdisciplinary framework that uses
principles of ecology as a basis of design.

In this training participants will gain knowledge in the following:

*Understand* permaculture history, ethics, principles and language

*Identify connections* between social, cultural, environmental, economic
and political challenges
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Lawrence London | 23 May 2013 23:57
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(FWD) Upcoming Permaculture Design Certificate Courses at Aprovecho

(FWD) Upcoming Permaculture Design Certificate Courses at Aprovecho

Aprovecho is excited to share its 2013 Permaculture Design Certificate
Courses<http://aprovecho.net/programs/sustainable-living-skills-immersion-pdc/>.
This year, we will host two 6-week residential sessions, one in summer and
one in fall. The summer course this year will focus on perennial system
establishment, including construction of a greywater system and large-scale
hugelkulture beds, while our fall program will focus on the intersection of
local foods and nutrition with well-designed Permaculture systems.
   Aprovecho's PDC<http://aprovecho.net/programs/sustainable-living-skills-immersion-pdc/>is
unique in that it offers the standard 72 hour PDC curriculum
interwoven
with 80 hours of hands-on learning. Aprovecho is proud to provide its
students with practical experience in applied Permaculture skills,
including surveying, earthworks construction, forest garden and perennial
planting, water catchment systems, as well as observational and design
drafting skills. Our 40 acre campus is in the process of developing a
Permaculture Master Plan, and our PDC students are an integral part of
helping with this process as we continue to grow. All of the student design
projects take place in areas that we are planning to develop, and we take
your input seriously and look forward to helping you develop skills in
design and implementation that you can take out into the world to help make
it a thriving and abundant place to live.
  Please feel free to contact us <aprovecho.mail at gmail.com
<http://openpermaculture.org/mailman/listinfo/permaculture_openpermaculture.org>>
with questions
or sign up here.<http://aprovecho.net/programs/sustainable-living-skills-immersion-pdc/pdc-sls-registration/>
Permacordially yours,
  The Aprovecho Team
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joao pedro goncalves | 23 May 2013 10:39
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JEAN PAIN - another kind of garden - in portuguese or spanish

hi

has this book been translated to portuguese or spanish ?

http://burlingtonpermaculture.weebly.com/uploads/4/2/8/9/4289790/anotherkindofgarden.pdf

thank you

João Gonçalves

"Permacultura (Cultura Permanente) é um sistema ético de design ecológico."

(+351) 96 96 80 009
Chão Sobral - Oliveira do Hospital - Serra do Açor

http://permacultureglobal.com/users/902-joao-goncalves
http://chaosobral.org/index_pt.htm
http://agricultura-familiar-tradicional.blogspot.pt/
https://picasaweb.google.com/joaovox
http://picasaweb.google.pt/uniprochaosobral
http://picasaweb.google.pt/festerrar
Visite
Permacultura na Serra do Açor - Portugal
http://permaculturinginportugal.net/blog/
"Comida que nunca acaba" / Permacultura no Malawi
http://www.neverendingfood.org/
Centro de Ecologia Integral
http://www.integralecology.org
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Darrell E. Frey | 23 May 2013 06:08

internship position available at Three Sisters Farm and Bioshelter

 Greetings ,

 We atill have an internship position available at Three Sisters Farm. This is an intensive market garden
and permaculture farm projects internship. June through September. 
For details email  Darrell Frey at          threesisters <at> bioshelter.com

Thanks, 
Darrell

Darrell E. Frey
Three Sisters Farm
defrey <at> bioshelter.com
www.bioshelter.com

Author; Bioshelter Market Garden: A Permaculture Farm. New Society Publishing, 2011

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Daniel Jager | 22 May 2013 02:43
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Re: 1st Cycle of Meetings "Edible landscapes - Food forests and Agro-forestry in Fire-prone Landscape"

It is my experience that most 'fire-prone' landscapes would see nearly a 90% reduction in fire
frequency... if MAN was taken out of the equation.

I have seen this with 'natural fires" in the forests of Finland and Russia. Upon closer investigation most
of these fires were actually lit, even in very dry years.
And isn't it amazing how much broken glasses and discarded beer bottles can be found along-side roads and
near habitation in semi-arid regions with steppe-like vegetation?

And on the Fukuoka farming lists there are some examples of people who had their farms torched in India by
neighbors... for those neighbors believed that all that mulch attracted pests to the neighboring
farms... And yet, miraculously, all that mulch, even under 8 months of dry season with daily temp. at
30 Celsius or above, never 'spontaneously' caught fire in previous years.

Hope these examples help any discussion. In my opinion: Education is the key... Or the building of very
high concrete walls.

Daniel

>Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 18:39:43 +0100
>From: joao pedro goncalves <joaovox@...>
>Subject: [permaculture] 1st Cycle of Meetings "Edible landscapes -
>    Food forests and Agro-forestry in Fire-prone Landscape"
>
>http://permaculturaportugal.ning.com/events/florestas-de-alimentos-e-agro-florestas-em-zonas-de-inc-ndio
>
>O qu?/What:
>
>1? Ciclo de Encontros "Ambientes comest?veis - Florestas de Alimentos
>e Agro-florestas em Zonas de Inc?ndio" em Ch?o Sobral
>Cada encontro ? independente do anterior ou pr?ximo.
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Lawrence London | 21 May 2013 01:24
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CEC, increasing CEC, rock dusts and OM - lots of images

On 5/20/2013 3:36 PM, m_astera wrote:

 ecolandtech <dirt.4arm <at> ...> wrote:
> It sounds like you did a wonderful job of mineralizing your soil, but
> what you added won't necessarily add CEC.
>
> Exchange capacity is the ability of components of the soil to hold onto
> minerals via a static electrical charge. A soil particle with a positive
> + charge can hold a negative ion (an anion) like NO3- nitrate; a
> negative - charge can hold a positive ion (a cation) like K+, Potassium.
> See
> http://soilminerals.com/**Cation_Exchange_Simplified.htm<http://soilminerals.com/Cation_Exchange_Simplified.htm>
>
> Soil components with high CEC, cation exchange capacity, include some
> clays, humus and humate ore, and charcoal. Humus, humates, and charcoal
> also have significant AEC, anion exchange capacity. (AEC is not usually
> measured on soil tests.)
>
> Rock dusts generally have little or no exchange capacity because they
> don't have significant static electrical charge. Florida soft rock
> phosphate is an exception, because it contains a good amount of high-CEC
> clay. Limestone powder, Calcium carbonate, has effectively zero exchange
> capacity; ditto for basalt, granite, etc no matter how small the particles.
>
> Adding fresh rock dusts can easily skew a soil test to read too high in
> exchange capacity because Ca, Mg, K, Na etc will be etched from the rock
> particles, rather than only from exchange sites. One can tell if they
> are likely to have that problem by pouring vinegar on a dry soil sample;
> if it fizzes considerably that means high levels of freely available
> cations, especially Calcium.
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venaurafarm | 20 May 2013 21:52

Fwd: Help with planning a farmers market lab?


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Help with planning a farmers market lab?
Date: 	Mon, 20 May 2013 12:57:34 -0400
From: 	Richard Moyer <ramoyer@...>

How would you recommend helping students understand where food comes from?

Am teaching an online course this summer.  Including labs.  One lab goes 
along with class concepts of carbon cycles, foodsheds, watersheds, food 
webs, etc.  And with human microbiomes and how to nourish them (see 
Michael Pollan's article at NYT Magazine.)

Here's the lab draft, please comment and help me improve:
1)  Visit one or more local farmers markets (this will be in July.)
   Photodocument (with permission) the variety of foods available.
   Compare prices with a local supermarket (excluding sale items).

2)  Goal is to buy, locally, all the primary ingredients for the
complete meal, from the one(s) who grew the foods.  Take pics (with
permission) of the foods and the growers.  Ask for recipes.

3)  During purchase, ask farmer/grower if they could please share why
they grow and why they sell direct to consumers.  If they are still
willing to talk, ask farmer/grower where the crop nutrients
(fertilizers, etc) come from, and what they depend on for water.

4)  Cook this locally purchased meal and share it with at least one
other.  (Been doing this part for years, as an in class activity with a
single food at a time.)
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joao pedro goncalves | 20 May 2013 19:39
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1st Cycle of Meetings "Edible landscapes - Food forests and Agro-forestry in Fire-prone Landscape"

http://permaculturaportugal.ning.com/events/florestas-de-alimentos-e-agro-florestas-em-zonas-de-inc-ndio

O quê/What:

1º Ciclo de Encontros "Ambientes comestíveis - Florestas de Alimentos
e Agro-florestas em Zonas de Incêndio" em Chão Sobral
Cada encontro é independente do anterior ou próximo.
O programa é co-criado pelos participantes e vai ser em detalhe
adaptado aos interesses e perguntas dos participantes de cada
encontro.

1st Cycle of Meetings "Edible landscapes - Food forests and
Agro-forestry in Fire-prone Landscape" in Chão Sobral
Each meeting is co-created by all participants and is independant from
previous or next meetings.
Interests and questions of each participant will be addressed in detail.

Porquê / Why:
"Porque vivemos num barril de pólvora ... " e precisamos testar
práticas, gerar conhecimento e entender as diferentes maneiras de
lidar com o nosso ecossistema, reduzindo o potencial destrutivo do
fogo e gerando economia, serviços ecológicos e saúde.
"Because we live in a gunpowder barrel ... " and we need to test
practices, enacting knowledge and understand the different ways to
deal with our ecosystem, reducing the destructive fire hazard and
generating economy, ecological services and health.
http://chaosobral.org/incendio.htm
http://florestaparasempre.no.sapo.pt/19jul001.htm

Como/How:
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Lawrence F. London, Jr. | 19 May 2013 21:13

CEC, Biochar and Soil Remineralization with quarry rock dusts.


Michael Astera of http://soilminerals.com writes:
> How does one "build good soils"? Serious question.
>
> I frequently see soil test reports with a CEC below 7meq. A CEC of 7 is
> necessary in order to hold onto sufficient Ca, Mg, and K to provide
> minimum optimal levels of those minerals (minimums would be 750 ppm Ca,
> 100 ppm Mg, 100 ppm K). Those amounts need to be there even if the soil
> can't hold onto them. If they are added for the growing season and the
> soil can't hold them what the plants don't take up will likely by washed
> away by precipitation and irrigation.
>
> How to build CEC? By adding or growing large quantities of organic
> matter, or high CEC clay, or humate ore, or biochar. Adding enough
> compost may or may not be practical, and in a hot climate may not be
> do-able at all. High CEC clay is heavy, and the best, Calcium Bentonite,
> is expensive and hard to find. Humate ore is expensive and can only be
> used in small quantities. Biochar is often the most practical answer if
> it can be obtained or made at a reasonable cost.

Rock dusts & CEC:

Apart from remineralizing your soil would CEC be improved with
application of large (medium or small) quantities of non toxic,
environmentally clean, rock dusts from quarries, i.e. siltation pond
fines? Reading the MSDS freely supplied by each rock quarry would tell
you the array of minerals in their product and the percentage of each
one. You could then decide which fines you want to use and how much you
want to apply. The material is usually free; you pay for trucking or
haul it yourself. Rent a skid loader for 4 hours and spread it out on
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