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1. Thursday, April 7th – Brighton Memorial Library, Rochester, NY
7-8:30 pm
Picking
Polyculture Plants for Your Permaculture Plot
Learn
how to choose plants that function as a community to build soil, maintain
moisture, and increase yields while decreasing your workload. Get introduced
to the principles of permaculture and how to create an edible landscape whether
you have a small or large yard. Presented by Patty Love of Barefoot Edible
Landscape and Permaculture and Rochester Permaculture Institute.
2. Saturday, April 9th – FoodlinkDistributionCenter, 138 Joseph Avenue, Rochester, NY
12-6
pm
2011
Upstate NY Permaculture Gathering
This year’s Gathering is a regional event designed to foster networking,
coordination, and learning of permaculture philosophies among all classes of
community in Upstate New York. Permaculture is a whole-systems approach to
community and landscape design. This provides regenerative agriculture
techniques in order to meet human and animal needs for development projects
that allow for more self-sufficient living. This Gathering will
accomplish
the following:
•
Provide an introductory understanding of Permaculture to the resident,
business, and activist communities of Rochester.
•
Provide a continuing education opportunity for Permaculture, natural building
and homesteading related knowledge.
•
Create a positive economic, social, ecological, and spiritual impact on Rochester and Upstate New
York.
•
Continue the efforts of the 2010 Upstate NY Permaculture Gathering in Syracuse that was hosted
by the Alchemical Nursery.
More
information at: http://www.rochestergreenliving.com/PermacultureGatheringFlier.pdf
3. Peace and Permaculture: Food
Forestry for Ecological and Cultural Regeneration presented by Dave
Jacke, EdibleForestGardens
Author
Sunday
April 10, 2011 2-4 PM
Univ. of Rochester Interfaith Chapel
Co-Sponsored by:
MK Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence,
and
Barefoot Edible Landscape & Permaculture
What can the forest teach us about ecological food production? About the
practice of nonviolence? About how to redesign our culture so that we
humans heal our ecosystems and communities, rather than destroying them?
Healthy forests maintain, fertilize, and renew themselves, naturally.
When we understand how these amazing properties emerge from forest ecosystem
structure and function, we can apply that knowledge to the design of
“food forests” that mimic natural forests while growing food, fuel,
fiber, fodder, fertilizers, farmaceuticals, and fun! With forest gardens
as our teachers, we can also use the same principles to design human social
systems that allow us each to fully be ourselves while interconnecting in
functional ways. This can create a culture of free human beings that
builds community health and well-being without force or violence. This
talk by Edible Forest Gardens author Dave Jacke introduces the vision of forest
gardening with some scientific background, a few living examples, and a
sampling of some useful perennial edibles you can use in your own garden.
It also summarizes how the ecology of forests can guide the practical
application of nonviolence in regenerating our culture. Suggested minimum
donation $10; no one turned away for lack of funds.
Location: River Level
Univ. of Rochester Interfaith Chapel, 500 Joseph C Wilson Blvd, Rochester, NY.
For info or to register,
contact:
Patty Love, Barefoot Edible Landscape & Permaculture
patty <at> barefootpermaculture.com,
585.506.6505
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