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Fungi for Fun, Fertility, and Food! (10/3)
(Making oyster mushroom buckets…)
When: 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM October 3rd, 2009
Where: TBA
Taught By: Leonard Barrett and Friends
Course Fee: $35
Register here.
What You’ll Leave With: Your Own Oyster Mushroom Grow Kit, The Basic Information Needed to Grow Several Other Mushroom Species, Resources for Further Learning
The name says it all: Everyone can (and should be) growing fungi for fun, fertility, and food!
In this workshop, we’ll explore various methods of growing edible fungi, and discuss how they can be integrated into your life in a way that’s fun, builds your soil fertility, and tastes wonderful with olive oil and garlic.
Our hands-on activities will show you how to grow oyster mushrooms (Pleurotus ostreatus) on three different substrates: logs, straw, and one of Portland’s most plentiful ‘waste’ resources, coffee grounds. After a little bit of talking about how mushrooms live and reproduce, we’ll help everyone build their own oysters-on-coffee-grounds grow kit to take home.
We’ll also discuss several other species and how to grow them.
Come get cozy with nature’s recyclers!
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Permaculturist Robyn Francis in Portland! (8/24)
Robyn Francis is returning to the USA for the first time since 1986, when she presented at IPC-2 (Breitenbush and Olympia), and co-taught the first women’s PDC on Whitby Island, WA. Since then Robyn has been at the forefront of Permaculture innovation throughout Australia, New Zealand and Asia, where she has conducted over 100 PDC’s, plus specialist programs for professional development and vocational training, and keynote presentations at international conferences.
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An Intro to Permaculture (3/14-3/15)
When: 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM March 14th and 15th, 2009
Where: Close-In Portland (exact location TBA)
Taught By: Leonard Barrett and Friends
Course Fee: $150-$90 sliding scale
If you’re wondering how to be more useful in the quest for a sustainable future on planet earth, this course if for you!
Permaculture is a system of design that anyone can use to find creative solutions to the biggest problems facing the planet today. In this introductory course, you will gain an understanding of the philosophical underpinnings of Permaculture, as well as a number of specific skills that you can take out into the world right away to creating positive change.
Permaculture for Renters Workshop (Jan. 31st)
When: 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM Saturday January 31st, 2009
Where: MilePost Five Community – 900 NE 81st Ave., Portland (map)
Taught By: Leonard Barrett and Friends
Course Fee: $80-$40 sliding scale
For all of those who have thought or said “I want to practice Permaculture, but I don’t have any land,” this workshop will provide a packed toolbox of strategies and techniques that aspiring permaculturists can use anywhere: on balconies, while traveling, in tiny sideyards, on rooftops, and more!
This is a great opportunity for students, couchsurfers, renters, travelers, and even landlords.
Cosmic Bob’s Plan for Your Life!
Check out this great article from Doug Bullock. It’s good reading for anyone looking to make themself more useful in the coming times.
Speaking of making yourself more useful, in the next 3-6 months we’re going to be offering a few different workshops on various urban permaculture topics. Be on the lookout for a two-day Permaculture for Renters workshop and more.
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