Date: September 23, 2005 8:47:05 AM EDT
Subject: [FL-PERMACULTURE] Two BIG announcements for permaculture in our area
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I'll begin with the most significant...
While some details and arrangements for the teachers, locations and schedules
await confirmation, one thing is clear: a permaculture design certification
course is being organized for our area.
The first three lessons (24 hours of instruction) will be taught by Geoff
Lawton, an accomplished P-culture teacher from Australia, on November 17th
through the 21st.
Steve Gabriel, Karryn Ramanujan, and I have created the Finger Lakes
Permaculture Institute and are organizing this certificate course. Steve has
just returned from the west coast where he has been apprenticing with
permaculture teachers. Karryn has been working as a freelance educator,
including teaching online courses about sustainability with Ithaca College.
Our goal is to offer the most rigorous AND affordable certificate course in
North America. We aim to create a series of two-day (weekend) lessons twice a
month that will cover the commonly accepted curriculum (plus electives) with a
design practicum during a period of six-months. Additionally, this course will
be ongoing. Once the first round of classes are over, we'll begin again
allowing those who could not attend some classes to complete their program.
In the next week expect more news from from the Finger Lakes Permaculture
Institute when the other dates, locations, the tuition and other details are
final.
In the meantime...
I'd like to invite all to a teach-in and benefit for the Finger Lakes
Permaculture Institute on Saturday, October 15th. Beginning at 10am, among the
colorful autumn hills that surround Cayutaville, we'll assemble for a relaxed,
day of classes and activities focused around the theme of "Wholistic Arts and
Sciences."
Guests (our "school's" supporters) are welcome to participate in any of the
activities, to explore the Cayuta Swamp, to hike along the nearby Finger Lakes
Trail, or to just relax and enjoy the good company assembed at my homestead,
Cayuta Sun. We'll probably fire-up the cob bread oven (if anyone has
experience baking bread in such, drop me a line). There will be a campfire in
the evening (yes! bring your instuments.)
Besides filling our minds with ideas, methods, and dreams of our community and
wise, sustainable living, the main purpose of this event is to promote the
permaculture design course and to raise some funds to help get it started. All
are encouraged to make a donation. I'll suggest twenty dollars, but if you
could truly afford more we sure need it. If you are like so many of the
hard-working idealistic diggers just scraping-by that I know are out there,
save your money for the course tuition and just bring what you can (perhaps
five pesos?) as your donation.
Guests are encouraged to bring a dish or two to share. Since it will be a
day-long affair, if you plan to be here during lunch bring food for a potluck
lunch. The same applies around dinner time.
Children are explicitly welcome. While we are looking for and scheduling
presenters and facilitators for three 2-hour sessions (10am, 2pm, and 4pm) we
are especially looking for people who can run outdoor activities for kids
during these times. If you can do this, or are interested in teaching or
offering some type of activity for adults as well, please contact me.
So mark your calendars, set aside the time and spare change for the cause, and
plan on a beautiful fall day in the Cayuta Valley among people you know, or
want to know. Stay tuned for more details about the benefit and the course.
Please feel free to call or to send me an email if you have any ideas or
questions.
keep digging,
Michael Burns
2962 Swamp Rd.
Cayutaville
607-227-0316
I truly believe that as long as we have not found
peace with the soil, we won't find peace above the
ground. ...we will remain parasites, consuming more
than participating and spiralling into entropy until
we commit mass suicide.
-Emilia Hazelip
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