Archive for the 'Education' Category

Food Preservation Workshop

Harvest season is upon us! Could you use some mentoring in the art of food preservation? Then look no further than this workshop from Daily Acts…sign up today, the workshop is on Saturday!
Workshop: Food Preservation: Canning and Drying the Bounty
Saturday, August 28th, 10am-1pm, $35
Please register by visiting www.dailyacts.org or calling 707.789.9664
As our gardens [...]

Tour: Bees, Bees, Bees Galore

Interested in keeping bees but don’t know where to start? Check out this upcoming tour from Daily Acts:
If you’ve ever been curious about honeybees, join Daily Acts as we spend a day discussing what you can do to help the honeybees, which pollinate over a third of the food we eat. We’ll visit two [...]

Upcoming Greywater Action Events

Here’s some fantastic Bay Area workshops being offered by our friends at Greywater Action:
June 5th Greywater System Design and Tour at the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center
Occidental, CA
Laura Allen and Brock Dolman will lead this one-day greywater intensive.
June 12th Greywater Primer with the Institute of Urban Homesteading
Oakland, CA
June 16th Hands-on Greywater Workshop- Atascadero, CA
Learn how [...]

Workshops from Daily Acts: Transform your Thirsty Lawn and Greywater Tour

Check out these upcoming events from Daily Acts:
Workshop: Transform your Thirsty Lawn
Saturday, June 5th, 10am-4pm, Free for Cotati residents, $10-20 non-residents
Please register here or contact Erin at 707-789-9664 or erin@dailyacts.org
In this class, we’ll delve into the details of gardens, explore design charettes of potential future plantings, and address how maintenance of a food forest differs [...]

Beltane — The Wisdom of the Fertile Heart

Here’s a fascinating work on healing and plants, coming up in May:
Beltane — The Wisdom of the Fertile Heart
with Joyce Arnowitz and Kyra Epstein
All life is sacred, and everything in nature is communicating all the time—with messages for us that can lead to our own healing and healing for the Earth herself. During this time [...]

Using Animals Workshop Series in Bolinas

Here’s an announcement from the folks at Paleotechnics:
Using Animals Workshop Series in Bolinas, CA
Register: sproutreach@gmail.com 510-710-1054 (cell) PO Box 351 Bolinas, Ca 94924
Many people who eat meat feel that they are out of touch with the sources and processes behind the food that ends up on their plate.
The knowledge required to efficiently and [...]

Ecology of Leadership – Bay Area Program Registration Ends Friday

Friday is the deadline for registering for Regenerative Design Institute’s distinguished Ecology of Leadership (”EOL” for short). If you’ve been awakening to a need for deep change in your life (or a way to respond to change that’s already happening), this program will provide a way to hold your vision and tools for moving [...]

Free 1-Day Intros to the Ecology of Leadership

We live in a time of great change, and during great change, leaders always emerge. If we’re going to be the change we seek, we should also be prepared to be the leaders we seek.
Many of us Permies have an innate distrust of authority, and many of us associate authority with leadership. But [...]