Seacoast NH Permaculture

Make your own Hearth Broom (wood handled long broom) - for yourself or for a special holiday gift!

Long has the earth nourished and fed us around a dinner table but also importantly has gifted materials for craft. Pruning wood from an apple tree to make a coat hanger, a sapling for a cane, or broom corn for broom making. In our current consumer culture most utilitarian goods are crafted far from the fields, woods, and our local community. Coming together to make something and to share skills empowers and rightfully brings us back to our responsibility to our shared places. Our hands connect us to the greater world one craft at a time. What a pleasure to sweep the floors of your beloved home using your own creation.

COST: sliding scale of $75-90, with a nonrefundable $20 deposit ahead of time here with paypal or by check: Seacoast Permaculture, 219 France Rd, Barrington, NH 03825. Please bring cash or check for the remainder that day.

All materials are included: broom corn, carved wood handle, waxed thread wound around piece of wood, scissors, pliers, stitching vice, and needle for stitching. Be prepared to get wet, wear something suitable.

Limited to 6 participants.

Structure of the class:

• Meet and Greet (Introductions, flow of the day)
• Introduce the materials (broom corn, thread, tools)
• Bryan demonstrates binding the broom corn to handle
• Participants bind broom corn to handle
• Bryan demonstrates stitching the broom
• Participants stitch broom
• Showcase our makings and closing

The Venue: Emerson House at Tuckaway Farm is a new indoor/outdoor community space on a working farm available for mission-related activities. Their goal is to both share and support this space as a resource for healthy agriculture and community. There is indoor and outdoor space which could adapted depending on the weather and class needs.

Presenters:
Bryan Cassidy is a community member of the Piscataqua Watershed who revels in the tidal rhythms. Bryan feels summoned to the curious connections with place and community. Pruning old apple trees, maple sugaring, scything hay, or sitting with a neighbor to greet the fireflies. Bryan believes hand work and utilitarian crafts are a gateway to our belonging and intimacies with place and story.
Yulia is a member of Seacoast Permaculture board and an avid environmentalist and maker of things from natural found or repurposed materials.

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This interview delves into the ways each of us can bridge the divides in our cultures and bring change to our local worlds – and thus to the wider world. Manda Scott interviews Katie Patrick about how to drive environmental action by leveraging insights from behavioural science and game design. Katie's work combines rigorous research with creative execution to develop solutions that inspire sustainable behaviors and measurable impact.

To clarify - for these discussions, we watch/listen to/read material ahead of time and then discuss it. The authors or speakers are not joining us - we are talking about their work ourselves.

Before we meet listen to the 80 minute interview here.

In our Permaculture Topics Discussions & Book Studies, we aim to expand our knowledge of topics related to permaculture and to have an ongoing series where members can connect to build our community. This series has a particular focus on "social/societal permaculture." Since Spring 2020, we've been especially engaging with topics such as: people care, story, right relationships, new economics, community resilience, honoring indigenous knowledge, strength in diversity, and forests & gardens as teachers.

COST: Suggested donation of $5-15 at https://www.seacoastnhpermaculture.org/https://www.seacoastnhpermaculture.org/ . If you do not want to use paypal, we always take checks to Seacoast Permaculture, 219 France Rd, Barrington NH 03825. *We are not requiring you pay before signing up but there are limited spaces so please take your RSVP seriously.*

JOINING ONLINE: Our online programs are offered via Zoom. When you rsvp "yes" the Zoom link will become visible to you on this event page. Whenever you are logged in to your meetup account and come to this page you will be able to see it, click on it, or cut and paste it to get to the meeting. We will send you a message with the link through meetup, but your settings for your email or in meetup may mean it does not reach you, so *please remember to come to this page for access!*

The series is facilitated by Seacoast Permaculture members involved in organic growing and homesteading, education and social justice movements. These are not formal classes but conversations shaped by the participants.

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Gather together to create fire cider for ourselves and to distribute into the community for those in need! Fire cider is a nourishing and supportive tonic that helps us boost our health and well being during the winter months when the body is less active and needs extra support. Made with apple cider vinegar, fire cider includes potent herbal foods including onion, garlic, horseradish, ginger and cayenne, along with a variety of other nourishing herbs.

COST: The cost of the workshop is $25 which gives you one quart of fire cider to take home AND supplies enough ingredients to make a second quart for distribution to others in our community who are in need of both wellness and financial support. Plus, you will receive the skills - and the recipes - to continue making fire cider on your own.
You can pay here with paypal or by check: Seacoast Permaculture, 219 France Rd, Barrington NH 03825.

WHAT TO BRING: Bring 1 or more quart size jars, a cutting board and your favorite chopping knife.

OPTIONAL: Any other ingredients that you wish to contribute, including raw apple cider vinegar, onion, garlic, horseradish, lemons or ginger. This is not required but will help us to make even more fire cider to give away. Thank you!

Hosts:
Alison Magill is an herbalist, ecologist, educator, flower essence practitioner and seed saver who loves all things botanical. Connecting with the healing power of plant allies is a lifelong study and passion Questions: thewellcultivatedlife@gmail.com Well Cultivated Life
Yulia is a member of the Seacoast Permaculture board and an avid environmentalist and maker of things from natural found or repurposed materials.

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The winter book study begins! Join NOFA-NH and Seacoast Permaculture for a 5-part Zoom book discussion of: How to Fall in Love with the Future: A Time Traveller’s Guide to Changing the World by Rob Hopkins. For our first meeting, please read the Introduction, pages 1-11. We'll be meeting each other and going over the plan for the series as well as talking about the Intro.

Rob Hopkins, cofounder of the international Transition Network movement, invites us to travel to future worlds we would actually want to live in. There are an infinite number of possible futures that lie ahead of us—like threads stretching out into the distance. He asks us to consider: what would the world look like if we all got to work imagining—and then building—a world we were deeply in love with? From the life and writings of musician Sun Ra and the history of Black utopian movements to the latest neuroscience on what goes on in our minds—and hearts—when we “time travel,” Hopkins brings essential new thinking to anyone overwhelmed with dread and anxiety for the future.

SCHEDULE/PLAN: We will meet on Zoom for a facilitated discussion Mondays, January 5 & 19, Feb 2 & 16, & March 2 (5 weeks), 7-8:30pm.

COST: Register here to join us for the first meeting for $15 per person. After that, donations for meetings will be welcomed but not required. If you do not want to use paypal, we always take checks to Seacoast Permaculture, 219 France Rd, Barrington NH 03825 - we both save money this way, too!

In our Permaculture Topics Discussions & Book Studies, we aim to expand our knowledge of topics related to permaculture in an ongoing series where members can connect to build community. This series has a particular focus on "social/societal permaculture."

The series is facilitated by Seacoast Permaculture & NOFA-NH members who are involved in organic growing, education and social justice movements. The facilitators help the conversation move along, and make sure everyone gets a chance to share.

About our cosponsor: NOFA-NH actively promotes organic, regenerative, ecologically sound farming, gardening, eating, and land care practices for healthy communities. We help people build local, just, and sustainable food systems. Learn more at https://www.nofanh.org

NOTE from SP Organizers: Want to stay in the loop beyond our Meetups? Sign up for the monthly Seacoast NH Permaculture email newsletter to get notified about additional local and online events, hands-on projects, and resources. Sign up here. Unsubscribe at any time.