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Comment by Tia Lebherz on March 8, 2012 at 2:56pm

Hey Everyone,

Food and Water Watch, City Rising Farm, Blaine Avenue Community Garden and The Green Triangle are teaming up to GREEN your St. Patty's Day. Join us on March 17 from 9:30am-noon at City Rising's Permaculture Garden to help prep for spring planting and learn more about how the farm bill affects us all!

Check out the event here: http://www.localfoodcleveland.org/events/green-your-st-patricks-day

Hope to see and meet you all there!

Comment by Gary D Whipple on February 16, 2011 at 10:03pm

From the Buckeye/Woodland High Tunnels Work and Learn.  Hope to be able to come back and see the water bags we made holders for.

Comment by Dave Simons on February 16, 2011 at 11:53am

John,

   The link to Our Photos has nothing on it.  Please add the right link.

Comment by John Stupica on February 16, 2011 at 1:25am

Added pictures from the Work and Learn event held Sunday Feb 13, 2011 at Cleveland Botanical Garden and the visit to the Hi Tunnels at the Buckeye/Woodland Garden site.   Check out the Our Photo section from link above.

Comment by Dave Simons on February 21, 2010 at 3:49pm

I attended one day of the Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture's annual meeting, "Farming for the Future", a couple weeks ago This is a large group of organic food producers who provide vegetables and fruits, meat milk, and eggs, shelf ready food products, hand crafts, and more. The largest, most impressive such gathering I've ever experienced. I was a small producer myself in northern New Mexico, in the late seventies.

The keynote speaker was Mike Reynolds, from Taos, New Mexico, who has been developing a completely self sustaining home and community, low impact on biosystems, set of solutions for some forty years. His designs, called Earthships, have been built in large numbers in New Mexico and many other places world wide. They are built largely from discarded materials (trash) and locally gathered low impact materials. They provide all their own electricity, collect all the water needed from rain and snow fall, recycle water, dispose of sewage, are passive solar heated and cooled, and the latest versions grow all their own food both indoors and outside. And they are beautiful, with a fine sense of artistry.
So I highly commend his excellent website, EARTHSHIP.COM , as an instructional source of inspiration for how to do comprehensive sustainable design. Permaculture is one of the important aspects of this wholistic vision.


Dave Jacke, who wrote Edible Forest Gardens and much more, is one of the most original and capable visionary designers of sustainable living. His afternoon workshop was invigorating and inspiring, keeping the large audience rapt for every moment. He is an exceptionally energetic generalist, a highly original and comprehensive thinker, who happens to apply broad knowledge to the specialty of edible forest gardening. He knows the specific techniques and choices to make for our specific environment.

The massive interrelated advantages of this set of techniques include creating habitat and sustenance for a wide range of native creatures, conserving and creating vital topsoils, increasing the variety and resilience of primary foods, establishing beauty in our built environment, using land efficiently so that we can leave room for nature in undisturbed areas [ecosystem preservation], increasing resilience of our culture in the event of technological breakdown or disruption of energy and other supplies, increasing knowledge of and respect for nature, improving physical health. And of course, enhancing sanity and spiritual well being by connecting us with the range of natural processes, and orientation to our place in the universe.

Dave Jacke covered all these issues and more in a fast paced, well organized presentation, that delivered much of the specifics of how to do our own permaculture design. And did so with humbleness and encouragement of creative action by each of us.

His website, EdibleForestGardens.com , expands on all of this more effectively than I can, and provides networking that any of us can plug into. The following is a couple paragraphs from the main page:



Welcome from Dave Jacke
Photo of skirret (Sium sisarum) roots by Eric Toensmeier

EdibleForestGardens.com is dedicated to offering inspiring and practical information on the vision, ecology, design, and stewardship of perennial polycultures of multipurpose plants in small-scale settings. We intend this website to grow into an information and networking resource for newcomers, amateurs, students, and serious practitioners and researchers alike.

Forest gardening is an idea whose time has come. We can consciously apply the principles of ecology to the design of home scale gardens that mimic forest ecosystem structure and function, but grow food, fuel, fiber, fodder, fertilizer, "farmaceuticals," and fun. Indeed, we must begin learning to apply ecological principles to the design of our food production systems now—we are rapidly approaching or are already at the peak of planetary oil production, and the world of energy descent is upon us. This sea change in our culture will require that we learn to live within our energetic means and begin to rebuild ecosystems that support human and humane lives without diminishing the ability of the ecosystem to support our children and grandchildren.

While this global problem is huge, most of the solutions available to us are local, personal, empowering, and potentially enlivening, enlightening, and fun. Edible forest gardening is one of these solutions, and we now have the resources at hand to transform our own yards and gardens into productive paradises. We intend this website and the book Edible Forest Gardens that you can buy here to give you the most sophisticated and down-to-earth information available to maximize your success as a forest gardener.





so enjoy and expand your mind in both of these websites: EARTHSHIP.COM and EDIBLEFORESTGARDENS.COM

happy trails, Dave Simons

Comment by maurice small on September 22, 2009 at 9:44am

yup... bio diversity. community diversity, currency diversity, bowel diversity. comments?

Comment by Sudhir Kade Raghupathy on September 2, 2009 at 6:58am

Brad, thanks for connecting with me regarding Glenville work. Had a great conversation with Vel (Scott) yesterday as well. I love the idea of the Purple Oasis being the hub and central learning spot for all things urban permaculture. Thanks for creating this group! We have delineated a six-sphere approach for the Glenville work to apply six different yet still syergistic urban permaculture applications on site. A space once designated to be a parking lot will now be a farm and satellite to the Oasis. Buy-in and backing from Councilman Conwell (Ward 9) and Chris Ronayne (University Circle, Inc) is secured as well. We'll need plenty of volunteers but if we can integrate your training plans and certification credit into these projects it creates greater incentive and truly verifiable educational/workforce development/entrepreneurial training opportunity. I am so psyched - will call you later today!

Comment by Persa on September 1, 2009 at 1:45pm

Great group to get going! I hope to see more people here. (I'd also love to see more affordable permaculture certification programs!)