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More Two Day Workshops
Organic Vegetable Production with Hand Tools: Techniques and Strategies
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We will discuss soil health and the benefits of using hand tools, adding compost and manure and
cover cropping. Hands-on projects will include preparation of beds for planting vegetables.
We will compare the soil of a six year old bed with a new one
that we establish in a current hayfield. Tools will include broadfork, digging fork and rake.
Learn how to transplant, mulch and hoe. We will discuss crop planning including crop rotation and
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Permaculture, Ecology and Biodynamics: Design Ideas for Your
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Bring questions about your garden and home. We will learn about Permaculture ideas that can improve your quality of
life, simplify your needs, and increase your family time. We will discuss organic gardening, building with local
natural materials,
ecological lawn, meadow, stream and wetland care, orchards, composting, off-the-grid water systems, and domestic
and wild animal management. By cooperating with ecological processes we can create abundance and beauty.
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One World, One Life: Modalities of Change, Local and Global
Global change through individual choices. Exploring ways of living which regenerate local landscapes by reconnecting people with their local ecologies for their livelihoods.
Ecological Consciousness: Exploring Our Sense of the Sacred, Learning to Live Well with the Earth
We will explore the spiritual, ethical and moral aspects of a deep appreciation for the Earth, and the
spiritual relationship between human beings as biological organisms and their ecological environment,
the Gaia organism. The ecological crisis is interrelated with our spiritual crisis and comes from an
absence of a sense of the sacred and from a lack of awareness of the fact that our own well being is
intrinsically inseparably interwoven with the well being of the Earth.
Becoming responsible stewards of the Earth can begin to heal human communities, spiritually and ecologically. We can create ways to live with vitality and abundance that cooperate with the health of the Earth and her ecosystems, ecologically sound, locally adapted, biologically and community powered infrastructures, and educational models that enhance the evolution of ecological consciousness.
Building with Natural Materials and Regenerative Homesteading
Onsite materials: wood, earthen plaster. Forest gardens and wild edibles. Biointensive organic vegetable gardens. Managing a woodlot to increase diversity. Slideshow of the Faust homestead in Pocahontas County, WV.
Bioregionalism and Permaculture: Ecological Models for Economic Development
Ethical design for human habitats. Regional designs for food, water, energy, heat and shelter. The individual's role in shaping society. Land use patterns based on energy flows and uses.
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