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Winter Newsletter
January 2023 |
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KPI wishes you and your family warm holiday greetings.
We look forward seeing you in 2023! |
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Upcoming Events |
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KPI 2023 Annual Meeting
Featuring Eric Toensmeier
Author of The Carbon Farming Solution |
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Join us Sunday, January 15, 2023 for our annual meeting and potluck. Location: Shawnee County Research and Extension Office
1740 SW Western Ave.
Topeka, KS 66604
*Virtual participation option via Zoom Meeting Time: Sunday, January 15, 2023, 11:45 – 3:30 pm Bring a friend and your favorite dish to share or join us virtually. This year’s keynote topic is Carbon Farming featuring Eric Toensmeier, author of The Carbon Farming Solution: A Global Toolkit of Perennial Crops and Regenerative Agriculture Practices for Climate Change Mitigation and Food Security. We will also discuss results of our membership survey, successes from 2022, plans for 2023, and elect new board members. |
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Become a Member or Update Your Membership! |
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A great way to support KPI is through an annual membership! Make sure your membership is in good standing before the annual meeting! In addition to supporting KPI, members receive discounts on workshops and events! |
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Last Chance for the 2022 Member Interest Survey |
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We will close the annual survey on January 7th. If you already responded, thank you! If you haven’t had a chance to respond yet, now is the time. To help us develop or programming for next year and beyond, we appreciate your feedback and ideas about how Kansas Permaculture Institute is serving our community. |
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We are pleased to announce that delivery of our new KPI merchandise has begun. We have 3 new varieties of our T-shirt, a tote bag and will soon have a new ball cap to offer. Additional items are under review. Available merchandise will be on display at the Annual Meeting. Many of the new T-shirt and previous T-shirts (while quantities last) will be available at that time. Orders will be taken, on new items, if the item and size you are looking for is not available at that time. Look for these new items to be listed for ordering on our revamped website in the near future. T-shirts are $25 Tote bags are $20 Stickers are $5
KPI member pricing is available for all merchandise! |
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Virtual discussion hosted via Zoom. Registration opening soon. This year our Winter Book Club will discuss What Your Food Ate: How to Heal our Land and Reclaim Our Health. Are you really what you eat? David R. Montgomery and Anne Biklé take us far beyond the well-worn adage to deliver a new truth: the roots of good health start on farms. What Your Food Ate marshals evidence from recent and forgotten science to illustrate how the health of the soil ripples through to that of crops, livestock, and ultimately us. The long-running partnerships through which crops and soil life nourish one another suffuse plant and animal foods in the human diet with an array of compounds and nutrients our bodies need to protect us from pathogens and chronic ailments. Unfortunately, conventional agricultural practices unravel these vital partnerships and thereby undercut our well-being. Can farmers and ranchers produce enough nutrient-dense food to feed us all? Can we have quality and quantity? With their trademark thoroughness and knack for integrating information across numerous scientific fields, Montgomery and Biklé chart the way forward. Navigating discoveries and epiphanies about the world beneath our feet, they reveal why regenerative farming practices hold the key to healing sick soil and untapped potential for improving human health. Humanity’s hallmark endeavors of agriculture and medicine emerged from our understanding of the natural world―and still depend on it. Montgomery and Biklé eloquently update this fundamental reality and show us why what’s good for the land is good for us, too. What Your Food Ate is a must-read for farmers, eaters, chefs, doctors, and anyone concerned with reversing the modern epidemic of chronic diseases and mitigating climate change. |
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2023 Summer PDC
Save the dates, registration opening soon |
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This class will be offered over three 3-day weekends in June and July 2023. Each weekend will be hosted in a different location, allowing students to see, do, and learn through permaculture in action across the state. Friday, June 2 – Sunday, June 4 at Heartland Farm, Pawnee Rock, KS Friday, June 23 – Sunday, June 25 in Manhattan, KS Friday, July 14 – Sunday, July 16 in Lawrence, KS
Contact Amber Dunn, KPI Education Chair at kansasper...@gmail.com for more details. |
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Get Involved! |
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Social Media Volunteer |
What will this involve? Finding relevant articles to share with our community Attending events and taking photos Sharing blurbs about events on social media
Perks If you are interested, please e-mail us at Kansasper...@gmail.com |
Host a Social Gathering! |
KPI is looking for people interested in hosting social gatherings at their properties! These events could be purely social or they could involve hands-on projects! Perhaps it is an afternoon gathering, a potluck, or camp out event. Perhaps you lead the work on a project or perhaps another KPI member brings a skill and leads an installment of something on site (pizza oven anyone?). Nothing is set in stone, you bring the vision, we will assist with logistics like invitations, meal organizing, accommodations, etc. Everything is at the discretion of the host, but we are happy to help you brainstorm and create a fulfilling event for all involved! Do you want to show off your property and/or permaculture designs? Do you have projects you need to accomplish? Hosting a gathering could allow for people to assist you with your project while providing participants with knowledge and new skills! Do you simply want to open your space for like-minded people to gather and socialize? Please reach out to Stephanie Lambert if hosting or attending an event like this appeals to you. Working together we can learn, teach, see progress on our places, and build friendships across our KPI Community! For more information, contact Stephanie Lambert at sjla...@gmail.com or (785) 249-0416. |
Farm Tour Event Planning |
Traditionally, KPI has done an annual farm tour with a local foods lunch and an evening social event as a fundraiser to be able to offer full and partial scholarships to students for our Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) course. We usually do this tour in September and it is always great fun. We would love to have 2-3 volunteers who can work together to plan activities for the 2023 farm tour. If you are interested, please e-mail us at Kansasper...@gmail.com |
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Support KPI |
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You can now support KPI when you shop on AmazonSmile! Please consider using please the smile.amazon.com site (instead of amazon.com) and select Kansas Permaculture Institute as your charity. Every little bit helps!
"AmazonSmile is a simple way for you to support your favorite charitable organization every time you shop, at no cost to you. AmazonSmile is available at smile.amazon.com on your web browser and can be activated in the Amazon Shopping app for iOS and Android phones. When you shop at AmazonSmile, you’ll find the exact same low prices, vast selection and convenient shopping experience as Amazon.com, with the added benefit that AmazonSmile will donate 0.5% of your eligible purchases to the charitable organization of your choice. You can choose from over one million organizations to support."
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Consider doing a Facebook fundraiser to support KPI for your next birthday! |
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Money raised through AmazonSmile and Facebook fundraisers is used to fund scholarships for permaculture design students in Kansas. If you've already done either of these things, we greatly appreciate it! In 2020, we received over $200 from these sources! |
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