NMI Permaculture Summer Fading 2019, News & Announcements

[penny krebiehl]

Hello NMI Permaculture Friends--

Hope your Summertime experiences in whatever permacultured realm you are in, has been good and wonderful.

Our Northern Michigan Permaculture gatherings always take a bit of a hiatus during the heavy duty growing season, and although we are still heavy duty into food production and the like, we are reaching out with an updated bit of news and events coming up that you may want to mark down on your calendars. It's a long one.....

Hope to see you soon at any of these events and gatherings;

September 18th, 6-8 pm, NMI Permaculture Potluck and End of Summer meetup, 

At Realeyes Homestead, Cherry Bend Rd. If you don't have directions to Levi and Brendas' place, please contact Levi directly for details(email address above).

ALL are Welcome---informal reconnections and introductions and sharing whatever permaculure insights, news and bits you have!

Sept 20-22, Earthwork Harvest Gathering, Lake City, Michigan

There's a good bunch of workshops, discussion circles and panels, focusing on regenerative gardening and farming at the Earthwork Harvest Gathering.  Join us in between wonderful music performances at the Farmers Market (on the north end of this marvelous fall music fest) and jump right in the middle of it all. 

Here's the lineup of some of the Earthwork Harvest Gathering workshops that are happening in the Farmers Market, Sept 20-22:

September 20th, Friday

4-5PM Supporting Our Non-Binary Community with Kendra Harris (Panel)

5-7PM Biochar for NW Michigan with Timothy Overdier and Paul May

September 21st, Saturday

11AM Growing Practices, Nutrient Density, and Becoming a Citizen Scientist Farmer with Greg Austic, Jim Bates and penny Krebiehl

12PM Biochar For NW Michigan with Timothy Overdier and Paul May 

1PM Natural Looming with Natalie Lindsay 

2PM Ecoculture Farming with Forest Succession with Ande Schawe 

3PM Honeybee Democracy with Tim Benedict and Sarah Wells 

4PM PreColumbian Food Culture with Ande Schawe 

6PM Diving into Bioactive with Daniel Ramirez 

9PM Flora and Fauna in the Macroscope/Live Nature Projections with Natalie Lindsay 

Sept 22nd, Sunday

10AM Women's Leadership in Regenerative Agriculture Open Circle discussion with Jen Lewis,  Sierra Bigham, Michelle Ferrasse, Teri vanHall,  Penny Krebiehl and others

11AM Organic Beekeeping 101 with Tim Benedict and Sarah Wells 

12PM Biochar for NW Michigan with Timothy Overdier and Paul May 

1PM Plant Yourself in the Garden and Sing with Shelby Harris 

2PM Becoming a Pollinator Ally with Ruthann Zattlin

3PM Permaculture For Children Youth and Families with Kate Thornhill, Jamie Schaub, Brenin Wertz Roth, Walter & Jennifer Lee, and penny Krebiehl 

4PM Homestead Medicine: Superfoods and Extracts with Ande Schawe 

5PM Building Vivari with Daniel Ramirez 

Ongoing Interactive Installations 

Farmstead Corral: Pet, Play, and Learn with live farm animals from Baker's Green Acres

Pollination Station: See honeybees at work in the observation beehive, get a closer look at monarch butterfly's, caterpillars, and chrysalis', and get up close and personal with isopods in living vivariums

MORE INFO about Earthwork Harvest gathering and all workshop schedules here: http://earthworkharvestgathering.com 

Sept. 27 and 28th: Coppice Agroforestry Intensive with Dave Jacke @ J2 Farms Traverse City, Saturday September 28th (Evening talk, Friday the 27th)

Back in the day, there were a few old forest gardens and a few books about them. Then in 2005, Dave Jacke and  Eric Toensmeier released the two volume set of Edible Forest Gardens and changed the shape of the game forever. Now we had a systematic, science-based approach to designing and implementing forest gardens. 

Now Dave is back at it with coppicing. He’s NINE YEARS into the research and production of a new book, which will likely introduce coppicing to the world in a while new way. 

That book isn’t ready yet, but in the meantime we get Dave himself to catch us up on the research and teach the best techniques for designing and implementing coppice operations.

To Register: Coppice Agroforestry w DJ, via Crosshatch

Coming Soon:

How-to Integrate Permaculture in Our Children's Education, December 2019-May 2020 

Once monthly/over 6-Saturdays, Dec-May, in Traverse City area in NW Michigan

This training and experience is for anyone interested in learning about permaculture design and ways in which to share/teach it, including primary, nursery and elementary educators, home-school parents, mentors of pre-school, K-8th grade children and youth, policy makers, permaculture designers, Forest School leaders, Scout leaders, parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles with an interest in Earth Care, People Care and Fair share in education! **If you haven't taken a permaculture course, no problem--this will be an excellent introduction. ***(AND, we will share information on taking a full, permaculture design course in Michigan and/or on-line opportunities.)

Taught by an experienced, certified permaculture teaching team and based on three excellent published resources, along with Little Artshram's 20+ year curriculum and hands-on teaching experiences.

Basic format of theme and content of the training:

1. Introduction to Permaculture; Ethics, Principles, Patterns & abundance;

2. The BIG Wide Wonderful World; Air, Water, soil, plants & trees, Animals, fungus;

3. Eco-Artists & Designers; mimicking nature and the way things work;

4. Garden-Farming; Tame & Wild gardens, growing, preparing, saving seeds, preserving food;

5. Houses, Shelter, & Living wisely; Building, resource use;

6. Get Together; You, Me and Us, Dynamic Ways of being

More information and to REGISTER by October 15th, for a reduced sliding scale fee.

penny....@gmail.com

231-922-2014

littleartshram.org

nmipermaculture.org

ANYTIME: On-line permaculture opportunity:

Get your 72-hour Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) plus an Advanced Social Permaculture Design Certificate* online, at your own pace, and with the support of a 40-woman teaching team from around the world. Practice your design work in your own home, garden, and community, and learn what you need to know to grow your own food, build a thriving, resilient community, and help regenerate our wounded planet.

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and here:

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THANKS for reading ALL of this!

Adios for now.