--- On Fri, 4/3/09, Ethan Roland <[address removed]> wrote:
From: Ethan Roland <[address removed]>
Subject: [northeasternpermaculture] Food Forests Across America!
To: "NEPC-Listserv" <[address removed]>
Date: Friday, April 3, 2009, 10:15 AM
Howdy All!
I'm collaborating with forest gardening colleagues across the country
to open a new food forest campaign -- please spread the news far and
wide!
I'll be speaking on a radio show Monday night April 6th, 11:00pm EST -- Call in:[masked] Or Log In or Listen : www.visionarycultureradio.com
The show will also be recordd and made available the next day.
One of the main pieces of the campaign is our upcoming Forest Garden
Immersion Course at Camp Epworth -- we'll soon be announcing
first-come-first-serve work trade positions for partial course fee
reduction so head on over to
http://www.livingmandala.com/Living_Mandala/Forest_Garden_April_09.html
and sign up!
Happy spring and happy forest gardening! Please forward this email to
your local communities -- permaculture and all else
green/gardening/organic-oriented as well!
Cheers,
Ethan---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jay Ma <[address removed]>
Date: Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 2:17 AM Subject: Forest Garden E-mail Blast To: Lauren Thomas <[address removed]> Cc: Julie Bird <[address removed]>, Ethan Roland <[address removed]>, Connor Stedman <[address removed]>, Dyami Nason-Regan <[address removed]>
Hi Lotus, Ethan, and Forest Garden Course production Team,
Below is another e-mail for the course linking it to the Food Forests Across America Campaign.
Please forward tro your lists as far and wise as possible!
3 more weeks!
Love,
-Jay
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Food Forests Across America!
In an uncertain economy and changing world, local food security is an essential element to becoming sustaibable in this emmerging Green Economy. Join the campaign for local food security and learn how you can help to transform gardens, lawns, parks, and empty spaces into thriving edible landscapes that are beautiful, regenerative, and produce an abundance of delicious, locally grown food!
What is a Food Forest Garden?
Imagine a forest where every single tree is dripping with fresh fruits and ripening nuts. Every shrub is packed with delicious berries, and every other plant is a medicinal herb, culinary spice, or beautiful edible flower. Tubers and root crops are abundant underfoot, gourmet mushroom logs sprout in the shade, and hardy kiwi vines climb back up through the layers of this multi-functional forest of food.
Food forests are diverse gardens modeled after natural ecosystems designed to mimic the way a forest thrives and regenerates. A forest continuously nourishing all elements in the system and produce a vast diversity of outputs, but requires little or no inputs to sustain itself. By recognizing the self-supporting, mutually beneficial relationships of the elements in a forest - from tall trees, smaller trees, shrubs, herbs, ground covers, vines, nitrogen fixers, insectaries, fungi, animals, and more, the food forest garden designs a similar system but replaces the components that are in a common forest with species that are preferred edibles and more useful for humans. The forest then becomes a Garden of Eden, in which edible or useful plants are found from head to toe, where something in season is always ready to eat, and the
system requires little or no maintenance to sustain and regenerate.
Where Can I Learn About Forest Gardens?
We recommend the book - Edible Forest Gardens, by Dave Jacke, as well as Permaculture resources, practices, and philosophies.
The best way is to learn how to design and install a Food Forest Garden is by taking a hands-on course.
Upcoming Forest Garden Course:
Forest Garden Immersion Course - April 23-26
Hands-on Training to Design and Implement Edible Landscapes
April 23-26, 2009
High Falls, New York at Camp Epworth Permaculture Demonstration & Education Center
In Association with Appleseed Permaculture
FOREST GARDENING, FOREST ECOLOGY, PERMACULTURE, PLANT PROPAGATION, PLANTING & MULCHING, GRAFTING, SOIL ECOLOGY, BASIC BOTANY, MUSHROOM, INOCULATION, FORAGING & WILD EDIBLES, DESIGN TOOLS, FRESH FOREST GARDEN COOKING, AND MORE
Course Description
This course immerses participants in the hands-on reality of designing and co-creating edible forest gardens. During the 4-day (Thu-Fri-Sat-Sun) course, participants learn how to design, establish, and maintain such Edible Forest Gardens of Eden.Together we will engage in the practical skills of forest gardening: propagation, grafting, planting & mulching, soil ecology, basic botany & horticulture, management & maintenance, plant identification, mushroom inoculation, foraging & wild edibles, community preparation of local medicines, and fresh forest garden cooking. Daily plant walks connect participants on a deeper level with a diversity of multifunctional herbs, trees, and vines. Participants share stories of their own forest gardening explorations, and a visit to an 11-year old local forest garden shows the evolution of these systems. We learn to weave
forest gardening into our communities as well as into the soil.
Forest Gardening in the Northeast
This course functionally interconnects with other Forest Garden courses taught in the Northeast this season by providing cultural mentoring in the hands-on joys and challenges of starting and maintaining forest gardens. Our connection to the local community will culminate in adding another quarter-acre of forest garden to last year's acre-planting, and a celebration with the local permaculture community before returning home.
Help us Spread the Good Word about this Course and Earn Cash!
Affiliate marketing is a de-centralized and synergistic model in which affiliates help to spread the word (creating a viral buzz) in exchange for a referral fee or course discount.
As an affiliate of the Forest Gardening Immersion course, you would earn $25 for every person who registers due to your marketing efforts. Marketing efforts include direct referrals as well as postings on relevant sites, list-serves, blogs, fliers, etc..
Mutual Benefits for Organizational Sponsors
Organizations with resonant missions also have the opportunity to sponsor the course by sending out content rich emails (which we will provide) to their mailing lists in the weeks leading up to the course. Sponsors can help to generate scholarships through referrals generated through these emails ($25/referral).
Sponsors can have their Logo displayed on the Living Mandala website and in emails regarding the course for promoting the course to a related list and/or distributing flyers, promoting the course with a live link on their website, or by donating resources to support the course such as money, food, tools, office supplies, etc.
Start supporting sustainable progress and Outreach today!
Email [address removed] if you are interested in participating in affiliate marketing, or want more information for affiliate marketing opportunities for this course and others..
Final referral counts will be made following the close of the course, and fees will be paid no later than May 1, 2009.
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Organize and Install a Forest Garden Course in Your Town!
To organize a Food Forest Garden Immersion Course in your town contact: [address removed]
Food Forests Across America on Visionary Culture Radio!
Monday April 6th, 8:00 pm PST
Call In ::[masked]
Tune into Visionary Culture Radio with Laura Fox on Monday for a show on Food Forests Across America with special guest permaculture teachers from the east to west coasts of the U.S.
Special Guests Include:
Jay Ma - Co-Founder, Director of Programs & Development - Living Mandala John Valenzuela - Veteran Permaculture Designer, Educator & Consultant
-- Ethan C. Roland, M.S. www.seqC.biz -Carbon Farming Tennessee 2009
www.appleseedpermaculture.com - Regenerative Design & Development www.regenerativedesigngroup.com - Collaborative Eco-Social Design
www.gaiauniversity.org - Degrees of Freedom READ THIS BOOK NOW: http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/Intro to Permaculture: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWj7R4u4Ptw
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