Fwd: Material help Egleston Community Orchard

[Hannah Thomas]

Hi folks

Please read on with the messages below. We have an opportunity to host some great workshops at the orchard this year. Which ones would you be excited about?

Hannah

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From: Hannah Thomas <hth...@brandeis.edu>
Date: Thursday, January 24, 2019
Subject: Material help Egleston Community Orchard
To: Annababette Wils <annab...@gmail.com>, Isis Arnesen <is...@stonybrooklearning.com>, Karsten Frey <karste...@gmail.com>, Denise Delgado <denise2...@gmail.com>, Alvin Kho <alvi...@hms.harvard.edu>
Cc: Orion Kriegman <or...@bostonfoodforest.org>

Hi folks,

Happy New Year!

Boston Food Forest is hoping to host a workshop or two at ECO for the permaculture design course.  - see the list below. I think that any of these would be great except perhaps the planting trees ones - I'm not sure how much additional space we hvae for planting trees unless we were to try and colonize the vacant lot down boylston street....

Please let us know your thoughts asap so Babette can move forward with scheduling.

Hugs on this rainy day.

Hannah

On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 4:43 PM Annababette Wils <annab...@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear Hannah,

I hope you are well.  I received your email from Orion, when I was meeting with him about the BFFC's Applied Permaculture series.   I'm writing about an opportunity to get some help implementing the Egloston Community Orchard site, and provide an educational experience to permaculture students.

You may have seen the BFFC's workshop series, Applied Permaculture, in your mailbox.  This course takes students through an entire season of hands-on permaculture implementation and skills-building, led by professionals and semi-professional permies.   We thought it  might be cool if the class came and implemented something at Egleston community Orchard.  Below is a list of the relevant workshops. 

April 27 - integrating fungi and mycelium in the landscape

April 28 - soil analysis and amendment

April 28 - planting young trees (we can do about 20-30 in the workshop)

May 25 - building an espalier or trellis

May 26 - planting a polyculture

July 13 - water saving and catchment

July 13 - earthworks - e.g. building a swale, retaining wall, or other.

Let us know if you are interested in talking to us about having any of these at the site!   You can email me or text/call 781-428-1670.

Greetings,

Babette

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Annababette Wils

Big Foot Food Forest Gardens

"The ultimate goal of farming, is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings."  Manasobu Fukuoka

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Hannah Thomas, Ph.D.

Cell: 207 409 3615
E-mail: hth...@brandeis.edu

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Hannah Thomas, Ph.D.

Cell: 207 409 3615
E-mail: hth...@brandeis.edu

[Sage Radachowsky]

Just want to say i miss you all and i miss Boston and JP. 

I'm out in Berkshire County working 50 hours a week for the super rich as a carpenter and unable to even save up a down payment to buy land for myself and my little family. 

I have a little girl Willa who is so wonderful and 2 1/2 years old, and a new one on the way next month.... and yet life is so hard and it's work all the time just to survive, and the land seems to be Enclosed by the rich with impassable barriers to me having a little bit to do my own permaculture-style of loving and living on the land.... 

this system of capitalism is Enclosure (the old England historical phase) in modern form to keep the majority of people precarious and in debt so we're forced to work for the rich in wage slavery. 

Anyway, i think fondly of the orchard and speak fairly often of this project in showing how even a little plot of land can become meaningful and build community and connect us to the land and food growing. 

Sage 

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[Orion Kriegman]

Hi Sage~!

I miss you too - wow our kids are growing up fast. Didi is 6 and Sylvie is 3 already.

A friend of mine is buying a farm in Western MA is looking to lease part of the land, install a food forest, and create a community house for intentional living. Might you be interested - if so I can put you in touch? Seems like a multi-year project, and she is very serious. 

Keep up the good fight, you are not alone!

love,

Orion

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Orion Kriegman

Director

Boston Food Forest Coalition

www.bostonfoodforest.org

"The eyes of the future are looking back at us and they are praying for us to see beyond our own time. They are kneeling with clasped hands that we might act with restraint, leaving room for the life that is destined to come.
 
We have it within our power to create merciful acts."   
 -- Terry Tempest Williams

[Orion Kriegman]

This Saturday Feb 9th Boston Food Forest Coalition is hosting a workshop focused on community engagement and inclusion, and we are going to do some door-knocking to raise awareness about Egleston Community Orchard among neighbors in Egleston Square.

If you are interested in helping out in anyway or being part of this workshop, please let me know. 12noon-5pm is the plan.

-Orion

On Fri, Feb 1, 2019 at 9:34 PM Hannah Thomas <hth...@brandeis.edu> wrote:

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