Hi All,
My friend, Nate O'Meara, is co-teaching this workshop.  It looks interesting
hope to see you there.

Omar


Plant an Orchard/Save Water/Have Fun!
Join Us In Patagonia, November 14/15 2009!

Blending Permacultural Perspectives with Desert Nurse Plant Ecology &
Conservation of Heirloom Mission Fruits: A Hands-On Workshop

Taught by Gary Paul Nabhan and Nate OŐMeara

Saturday 10-3 (site prep & swales), Sunday 10-3 (plantings):
$50 per person/day or $80 for both sessions (by check; with meals)

Preregister only by email with gpnabhan@...




Hands-on demos (with follow-up handouts) on the following topics:
Nurse plant ecology concepts for permacultural design for dry climates;
water-harvesting placement & swale construction; tree selection & placement;
understory crop selection & placement; heirloom fruit conservation. Mid-day
meals, beverages &  2 way transport from UoA (Park & 6th) ---Leave 8:30 both
days, return to Tucson by 4:30 both days). Bring cameras, gloves & jackets.
Last date to pre-register is November 11th; call 928-225-0293 for more detail.

Could anyone tell me if there is a natural food co-op in Tucson.  I had heard
there was but can't find out if it still exists. It would help to have contact
information if there is.  Thanks, Anna

Living Mandala wrote:
> Dear Friends,
>
> Heard of Gaia University?
Why is a TUCSON permaculture list getting SPAM from the Virgin Islands?

But if we are going to be sent stuff like this, I might as well put in a
plug for my alma mater, Prescott College, which offers courses in
sustainable community development and a broad range of other
environmental areas.  The mentor-based Adult Degree Program allows a
student to create their own program using mentors in permaculture should
you choose.  Most of the members of the Sonora Permaculture Guild are
certified Prescott mentors also.

Prescott College has a Tucson Center, so you don't have to go messing
with climate changing airplane commutes to the Virgin Islands.  As I
remember, an important part of permaculture is an understanding of YOUR
bioregional, something done much better in Tucson than anywhere else in
the world!

I won't waste precious electrons and bandwidth sending you pretty
pictures of exotic places, but if you look at the http:/www.prescott.edu
website, check out link to the Kino Bay Center for all the eye-candy you
like.

Sorry I don't have a fancy nickname,

just Vince trying to walk my talk in peace from advertising

----- Forwarded Message ----
From: DENNIS and BEVERLY DULANEY <desertdulaneys@...>
Cc: michele@...
Sent: Mon, October 5, 2009 9:54:51 AM
Subject: sheet glass for cold frames?

Hi Permies,

Here at The Solar Store we have some sheet glass, some of which once covered hot
water collectors (larger than a shower door, probably about 4'x8'), and some
look more square like they might have been a single-pane window.  We need to
take them to the dump, but before we do that I thought I'd hit the permaculture
network and see if anyone wants them for a greenhouse or cold frame.

Do you have any other suggestions of whom I might contact?

Thanks for your input.

Beverly Dulaney
beverly@... or
desertdulaneys@...

 

Here is a listing of our Sonoran Permaculture Guild Fall classes. If you are interested in the Permaculture Advanced Design Course, it will be one three day weekend Nov. 13th, 14th, and 15th this year (see info at bottom)

For more information, pictures, and additional class listings see our website at

 

http://www.sonoranpermaculture.org/courses-and-workshops/

 

thanks,

 

Dan

course registrar

http://www.sonoranpermaculture.org

 

Fall 2009

Sunday, September 13th -Natural Top Bar Beekeeping For Beginners   

This is a one day introductory beekeeping workshop in Avra Valley just west of Tucson, Arizona.  The role of bees in a regenerative permaculture design will be discussed and compared to conventional "industrial" methods of hive maintenance. We will look at the biology of the honey bee, the structure of the hive, the roles of queen, worker and drone, and the honey bee's complex set of duties such as completing pollination, storing nectar and pollen, making wax, and expanding the hive with brood.  To facilitate discussion, the morning portion of this class will involve the examination of these patterns within a working top bar hive. The second half of this class will illustrate the construction of a top bar hive, and the benefits of natural top bar beekeeping vs. standard beekeeping methods. The cost and planning involved in setting up a top bar bee hive and a conventional Langstroth hive is covered, as well as alternative hive designs and installing a new hive from packages or swarms.  If time, weather, and honey flow permits, a hive will be harvested and comb honey may be available for tasting. Recommended reading: The Biology of the Honeybee, by Mark L. Winston, Introduction to Permaculture, by Bill Mollison.

Location: ReZoNation Farms & Consulting, Avra Valley, Arizona just 27 miles west of downtown Tucson. Directions and class details will be sent with registration.  Carpooling is encouraged.  Time: 8AM to 3PM  Cost: $75 - includes all course materials. The workshop is taught by Jaime de Zubeldia (520) 869-1044 jdezubel@...  Call or e-mail Jaime for registration or more information.

 Saturday, Oct. 10th - Introduction to Permaculture

This is a fun one day overview of Permaculture, site analysis and integrated landscape/passive solar design. Based on Permaculture principles and ethics, we'll learn how to design sustainable homes and landscapes that take care of people and take care of our environment at the same time. We will demonstrate and practice some of the skills and strategies needed to do a Permaculture design, like mapping and use of simple elevation tools. This class is held at a mature 14 year old urban Permaculture site in an outdoor Ramada classroom, which is the main in Tucson classroom site and office for the Sonoran Permaculture Guild. Class size is limited to 15 participants.
Location: Mesquite Tree Permaculture Site, one and a half miles north of downtown Tucson. Directions and more information will be sent with registration. 9AM o 4:30PM
Cost: $59 - includes all course materials and delicious mesquite bread snack cooked in the solar oven.
Taught by Dan Dorsey (520) 624-8030 dorsey@... www.sonoranpermaculture.org/members/dan-dorsey
Call or e-mail Dan for registration or information. Directions and more information will be sent with registration.

Sunday, Oct. 18th - It's All About the Soil 

The future of sustainable agriculture will be in small to medium scale organic food gardens grown right in our cities. Come learn how to set up a complete garden system from one of Tucson's best organic gardeners. Kim will show you how to increase your garden's health, production, and nutrient value, using an integrated system of on site earthworms, compost mulches, and organic soil amendments to improve fertility, structure and life in your soil. As a bonus you will see how chickens can be integrated into the system also. Time: 9AM - 1PM Cost: $39 - includes all course materials. Taught by Kim Fox. Contact Dan Dorsey (520) 624-8030 dorsey@... for registration. Please contact Kim for more information on this course after September 30th, 2009 at (520) 622-1917. Class limit is 15 participants.

Saturday, October 24th - Natural Building and Passive Solar Design

 We'll have fun doing hands on work with straw bales, adobe blocks, mud based plasters, cement based plasters, cob, and home made paints, building small structures like benches and walls that you can construct at your own place. After this hands on work in the morning we will talk a little about the building codes related to these materials. After lunch we will talk about the main principles of good passive solar design. We will emphasize integrated design throughout the class and getting back in touch with the patterns of nature to make good design decisions. We'll show how working with these natural building materials can make our living environments healthy, beautiful, and comfortable. Location: T.B.A. in central Tucson. Directions sent with registration.Time: 9AM to 4:30PM Cost: $69 - includes all course materials.  Taught by Dan Dorsey and other teachers (520) 624-8030 dorsey@... www.sonoranpermaculture.org/members/dan-dorsey
 Call or e-mail Dan for registration or information. Picture of straw bale wall courtesy of Watershed Management

Saturday, Oct. 31st - Complete Hands On Water Harvesting

Learning how to use rainfall and storm water run-off is one of the keys to developing a successful Permaculture site. It helps us to reduce erosion and have a lush multi use landscape without having to import water from outside a site. In this fun workshop we will install a water cistern, learn how to read the water situation on a site, and do basic calculations on the water flow available. We will learn how to install basic earthworks to hold water on site, and talk about contours, plant selection, and mulching. This workshop is more than learning about techniques for harvesting rainfall; it will show you how water harvesting can be integrated into your own lifestyle and into a simple landscape design for your home.
 Location: Central Tucson Location, TBA. This class is limited to 15 participants.
Time: 9AM to 4:30PM
Cost: $59 includes all class materials
Taught by Dan Dorsey (520) 624-8030 and guest instructors dorsey@... www.sonoranpermaculture.org/members/dan-dorsey
call Dan for registration or information

Saturday, TBA, - Native Food and Herbs

Foods and Herbs collected during their seasons will be integrated into recipes featured in Barbara's and Jill's new cook booklet, "Wild Recipes, Seasonal Samplers". We will prepare and share a feast for a wild and wonderful taste of the desert - our home. Wear comfortable clothes and walking shoes, as we will be identifying native plants in the field. Class size is limited to 15 participants.
Location: Dancing Rocks Permaculture Community, 15 miles north of downtown Tucson. Directions and more info sent with registration.
Time: 10AM to 3PM
Cost: $75 - partial scholarships available, includes all class materials
Taught by Barbara Rose (520) 572-7221 www.sonoranpermaculture.org/members/barbara-rose
call Barbara for registration or information

Second Annual Advanced Permaculture Design Course -

One three day weekend - November 13th, 14th, and 15th, 2009 9AM to 5:30 PM each day

Have your Permaculture Design Certificate? Ready to take your Permaculture practice to the next level?
This course is for you. You will learn new skills and a new way of looking at Permaculture design, practice, and presentation from teachers with decades of Permaculture experience:

We'll start the first morning with getting to know each other and reviewing some basic Permaculture design skills - the rest of the course will be a balance of group design exercises,  movement flow exercises, and presentations of dynamic patterning tools - all designed to let you practice and aquire these new skills... 

- Practice pattern understanding with new tools- learn to see projects in a new way, and how they nest within diverse community scales and contexts.
- Explore how to use simple, clear presentation methods and templates for groups and clients - as well as efficient ways to partner with design teams on larger projects.
- Study real world case histories of Permaculture projects, including projects in other cultures.
- Enhance your understanding of the often neglected "Zone 0" of Permaculture Design
- Learn how to create working teams which enhance and empower communities to find their own sustainable solutions.
- Practice effective communication skills with clients and the public, and learn more about working with government and non government organizations and non-profits.

Cost: $325 Fee includes all course materials and delicious natural snacks each day made from local foods. Although the course is non-residential, accommodations to stay the weekend may be made with the course host (contact Barbara Rose)

Location: Dancing Rocks Permaculture Community, fifteen miles north of downtown Tucson. Contact Barbara Rose, 520-572-7221, for more info on the site and directions.
Teaching Team: TBA

To register or for more information on the course contact Dan Dorsey, 624-8030, dorsey@... http://www.sonoranpermaculture.org/members/dan-dorsey

Spring 2010

 The 15th Annual Permaculture Design Course

Registration for this course opens on Sept. 1st, 2009

Five Weekends in February and March TBA
9:00 AM to 5:00 PM each day.
Cost $650, $595 for early registration (by December 15th). There is also
a class book fee of $39 for a copy of Introduction to Permaculture by Bill Mollison.Also highly recommended is Brad Lancaster's Rainwater Harvesting for
Dry lands Vol 1 and Vol 2.

For the last seven years this course has
been full with a waiting list, so early registration is encouraged. To give a high
quality educational experience, we limit the size of the class to
eighteen participants. Contact dorsey@... or 624-8030 to register.

This course is one of the longest running annual Permaculture courses in the U.S. and leads to a Permaculture design certificate. It covers all aspects of sustainable design with an emphasis on Southwest dry lands, including a balance of hands on experience, classroom time, and design practicum. Dynamic exercises encourage pattern recognition, noticing the links between plants and animals, climate, and landforms that make up natural ecosystems. These patterns are the basis for the Permaculture system of sustainable design.

The course focuses on dry land communities, addressing individual site and neighborhood "problems" such as storm water flooding. Students learn to read the landscape, to map and analyze energies flowing through a site, and to develop integrated designs for sustainable systems. The weekend format of the course makes it easier for people who hold a week day job to attend and promotes better integration of the course material into daily life.

Course topics include agro forestry, appropriate technology, building design, design principles and patterning, site analysis, dry land gardening principles, ecosystem restoration, philosophy and ethics of Permaculture, regenerative community economics, soils and erosion control, village design, water harvesting, and many other topics.

We take field trips to working Permaculture sites around Tucson, and you will have the chance throughout the course to design and begin implementing Permaculture on a site of your choosing. This course is challenging and fun, and it shows the whole big picture of
sustainable design in Southwest Dry lands and how sustainability and integrated design really work!

Site: The classroom will be in the Central Tucson area, and at other Permaculture sites in the Tucson area. Much of the class is held outdoors.

Taught and facilitated by Dan Dorsey, Barbara Rose, Brad Lancaster, and other teachers from the Sonoran Permaculture Guild, as well as professional guest instructors. For teacher profiles see the members link on this website. To register and for more information contact Dan Dorsey, course registrar, at 624 8030 or dorsey@...

Broadacre Permaculture and Holistic Management for Carbon Negative Agriculture

Exploring Soil, Water, Carbon, Energy & the Economy

Hands-on Training for Ecological and Economic Resilience

COURSE INFORMATION

Visit http://LivingMandala.com/Living_Mandala/Carbon_Farming_09.html for more information

Topics Covered

HOLISTIC DESIGN; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; WATER HARVESTING; IRRIGATION SYSTEMS; MYCOFILTRATION; MYCOREMEDIATION; ECOLOGICAL PEST MANAGEMENT; SOIL MICROBIAL ANALYSIS; DROUGHT-PROOFING; COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT; INTEGRATED LIVESTOCK SYSTEMS; SOIL REHABILITATION; EROSION CONTROL; PRODUCTIVE WINDBREAKS; FIRE CONTROL; ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT MODELS; GIS/CAD DESIGN; ADVANCED PERMACULTURE DESIGN; KEYLINE DESIGN & IMPLEMENTATION; FOOD FOREST GARDENING; ECONOMIC LOCALIZATION

Description

The Tennessee Carbon Farming Course Series will launch the nation’s first holistic curriculum for carbon negative agriculture, and will be the first event in a national campaign to spread this cutting edge curriculum throughout the United States. Taught by leading global experts in sustainable agriculture and carbon sequestration, this professional training course will encompass all of the design elements needed to create a carbon sequestering agricultural system—returning carbon to the soil while increasing food production.

The audience for the upcoming Holistic Carbon Farming Course Series will include farmers, permaculturists, biologists, policy makers, grounds keepers, land-owners etc. interested in regenerating thriving local ecosystems throughout the world.

These courses are in direct response to the current challenges experienced by producers & communities across the globe by a variety of climatic, agronomic & economic conditions. Studies have shown that permaculture-inspired soil building techniques lead to signficant carbon sequestration, while also increasing soil fertility and water retention. This course will provide participants with an opportunity to learn these techniques in order to create resilient, drought proof, soil-rich, carbon-negative agricultural systems that produce organic food as well as additional income through the international carbon market.

The Ecovillage Training Center at the Farm offers an amazing opportunity to experience permaculture in action; the Farm's 1,700 acres will undergo a massive keyline design and implementation during and after the course to help drought proof the community and prepare for future production.

 

Format

This course will be offered through four interrelated modules constituting the nation’s first holistic curriculum for carbon negative agriculture.  Participants can choose to attend the entire course, individual modules or combined selections. (Read more details online at http://LivingMandala.com/Living_Mandala/Carbon_Farming_09.html )

Module 1: 8/25-30 Holistic Management® Training with Kirk Gadzia, Resource Management Services, LLC 

Holistic Management applies systems thinking approach to managing land resources that builds biodiversity, improves production, generates financial strength, and improves the quality of life for those who use it.  The whole system design integrates financial planing and land use to create profitable and sustainable agricultural systems.  

Module 2: 9/1-6 Keyline Design with Darren Doherty, Permaculture.biz 

Keyline Design is a corner stone of landscape regeneration, soil building and water retention.  It is applicable in all climates and provides an holistic framework for integrating soil building, animal management and watershed health and agroforestry.  

Module 3:  9 /8-12 Earthworks and Food Forestry with Brad Lancaster, Desert Harvesters and Eric Toensmeier, Co-Author of Edible Food Gardens

This module focuses on landscape regeneration using permaculture design to hold water in the landscape, and create integrated ecosystems that provide food, fuel and fiber while increasing biodiversity and resilience.  Together, Earthworks and Food forestry provide key building blocks for local food and water security as well as climate change mitigation and carbon sequestration.

Module 4: 9/13-16 Soil Food Webs and Relocalization with Dr. Elaine Ingham, Soil Food Web Inc. and Joel Salatin, Polyface Inc. 

Improving soil health and community health go hand in hand to creating resilient local food systems that reinforce biodiversity.

Tuition & Referrals

Tuition includes instruction, lodging, and 3 delicious meals per day. Participants can register for the entire intensive, individual, or combined sessions. The tuition costs for individual and combined modules are below.

Holistic Carbon Farming - All modules:  8/25-9/16: $3,500

Individual Modules

Module 1: Holistic Management® 8/25-30 - $1,150

Module 2: Keyline Design 9/1-6 - $1,150

Module 3: Earthworks and Food Forestry 9 /8-11 - $800

Module 4: Soil Food Webs and Relocalization 9/13-16 -$1,400

Combined Selections

Combination 1: Holistic Soil Management: Modules 1 & 2 - $2,000

Combination 2: Broadacre Permaculture Design: Modules 2 & 3 - $1,700

Combination 3: Regenerative Local Agriculture: Modules 3 & 4 - $2,000

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I have a friend who used to raise queens. He said if a hive got
aggressive (post africanized bees) he'd just kill the queen and they
would come up with a new one.

If the city gets wind of the hive they will come in and kill the bees
for liability reasons; also unfortunately the africanized bees really
are dangerous a lot of the time. If you are aware that they are
"bumping" you in warning you can get away from them, but the size of a
bee bump doesn't get most people's attention, even if they did know
what it was about. A friend of mine accidentally disturbed a hive in a
dead tree in a wash, and he had to run about 1/2 mile to get away from
them. He's athletic, but also deathly allergic; he got one sting on
his hand, which was swelled up to twice its size for nearly a week. He
felt lucky the sting was on an extremity.

So... do be careful, not only for yourself but for any other living
creature that may be in the vicinity.

MA

On 6/23/09, crabrangoon1988 <crabrangoon1988@...> wrote:
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> There is a beehive on 5th ave. near Tucson High School. It is on the left
> side of the road underground in an electrical box right under the Palo Verde
> closest to the High school wash. I don't know how anyone could get the queen
> and enough workers to start a hive with it underground but maybe there is a
> way. Be careful.
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There is a beehive on 5th ave. near Tucson High School. It is on the left side
of the road underground in an electrical box right under the  Palo Verde closest
to the High school wash. I don't know how anyone could get the queen and enough
workers to start a hive with it underground but maybe there is a way. Be
careful.

Hi -
I will be out of town for a week, starting Tuesday.  I hope to have
both a fun and productive time.

Do you have any suggestions for people I should meet while I am
there?  My main interest, of course, is "sustainability".  I am
trying to set up a meeting with someone from the World Watch
Institute, for example, on urban food and resource production.  I am
also interested in travel reduction thru landuse changes, peer-to-
peer lending and other local financing, and rebuilding our existing
housing and the training of the workforce to do it.

If you have any suggestions or contacts, please let me know.

Tres