NMI Permaculture Winter 2019 News & Announcements

[penny krebiehl]

Hello and Good morning,

We had a great time at the Northern Michigan Small Farm Conference and feel fortunate to come together with many of you at the chilling height of winter time, and we hope you did as well.  Flint and I were happy, representing our Northern Michigan permaculture group and O'k CSA Cooperative, to meet some of you while sharing info and learning about your good works.

As permaculture people, we did our best to represent several organizations focusing on food production, food quality and continuing education about being better caretakers of the planet. As briefly as possible, here we follow-up and share links and contact info to connect directly to and further check them out.

The Real Food Campaign -- Contribute to science and learn about your farm or garden! Please consider the opportunity to join a community of farmers, gardeners, and consumers contributing to the data-collecting for the Real Food Campaign. The goal of the RFC into understand connections between soil health food quality and human health.  Working together as a community and collecting comparable, research quality data, RFC also wants to help communicate the results to everyone, so you can make better purchasing decisions.

More info to learn about the Bionutrient Meter and ways to get involved in the RFC here: https://lab.realfoodcampaign.org

Next Month, FEBRUARY: 

Potluck and Meetup,  6 pm Wednesday Feb. 13th, held at Barb Tholen's Small Ax Farm homestead in Traverse City inviting folks to also bring plans and projects for the 2019 growing season. Together we can share advice, resources, books, tools, labor for projects, plants or seeds, etc. We will do a round-robin and give everyone time as needed, and/or split into smaller groups.  

Connect with Barb directly to get directions: bth...@me.com

MARCH:  

BFA Principles of Biological Systems 2 day Workshop in Howell  MI March 2-3rd; 

Interpreting soil tests, mine4rl balancing and amendments, strategies for soil health improvement, biological seed inoculation, conductivity, refractometers and Brix  in season crop monitoring and feeding w. drenches and Foliar sprays  Sign up for the upcoming BFA Workshop here: http://bionutrient.org/site/workshops

Coming Soon in JULY: 

Blue Sky Farm Permaculture Design Course in July; 

An enriched version of the 72 hour international curriculum. 12 day course teaching applied ecology wedded to household provision for radical transformation of our culture. Expert facilitation, living example, group synergy, and good foods support multi-dimensional learning.  Enjoy the Michigan summer with a caring, pro-team of permaculture facilitators.

Get Teacher Bios and additional details about the Blue Sky Farm PDC here:
https://www.nmipermaculture.org/pdc-2019/

O'k that's all for now,

`penny Krebiehl

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