Register now for Spring 2014
Girlz Climb On
Bay Area girls entering the 6th through 9th grade
Do you want to learn how to rock climb, improve your climbing technique, and build leadership skills? Here’s your chance! Girlz Climb On is an after-school program that pairs you with an adult female mentor. You will climb, laugh and learn together once a week, for 10 weeks, in an indoor climbing gym in either Oakland or San Francisco.
Each week we focus on developing technical climbing skills, everything from tying a figure-8 follow-thru knot to belaying to techniques like smearing and edging. If you don’t know what these terms are, don’t worry… you’ll learn!
We also focus on issues that connect rock climbing with a strength you may already have or would like to improve on, like building relationships with friends, trust, leadership, self-expression, working as a group, communication, or resolving conflicts.
We begin with a one-day outdoor ropes course at Fort Miley. Later in the program, we’ll go on a weekend outing to a local state park, where you will have a chance to show off your new skills on real rock!
January 5-19, 2014
Earth Activist Training
Taught by Starhawk and Charles Williams
Take a dream and make it real!
Permaculture—a design science and a set of practical tools and principles for creating a future we want to live in! Do you dream of a world that is beautiful, healthy, just and balanced? Where everyone has fresh food, clean air, flowing water and thriving community? Permaculture gives us the tools to create it, to heal soil and water, build fertility and resilience, and meet our human needs while regenerating the world around us.
Earth Activist Training combines an internationally-recognized permaculture design certificate course with a grounding in spirit and a focus on organizing and activism. We learn not just through classroom presentaions but through participatory, hands-on projects, games, songs, laughs and ceremonies. Topics include permaculture ethics and principles, water harvesting, rain catchment, graywater, soil biology, soil building, compost and compost teas, mushrooms, bioremediation, plant guilds and polycultures, plant propagation, food forests and agroforestry, natural building, strategies for drylands, cold climates and tropics, alternative and renewable energy, group dynamics, meeting facilitation and social permaculture, design process, alternative economics, strategies for organizing and activism, and lots of ritual and magic!
Location: Black Mountain Preserve, Cazadero, California
Cost: $1600- $1900 sliding scale, includes food and lodging. Some worktrade available-apply early! Also limited diversity scholarships for people of color working in earth justice and food justice areas.
For more information:
http://www.earthactivisttraining.org/jan_2014.html
Contact EAT at: earthactivisttraining@gmail.com or phone 1-800-381-7940
November 5, 2013 10am
Garden Spotlight: Golden Gate Park CommUNITY Garden
The new Golden Gate Park CommUNITY Garden at Frederick and Arguello will be opening to the general public on Tuesday, November 5 at 10am. The garden will be a “hub” for urban gardeners, with raised bed plots, demonstration garden beds, educational programming, and a native plant nursery. Gardeners will also
be able to come by to pick up supplies, like compost, through the on-site materials resources center.
Saturday November 9, 2013 10am-1:30pm
Living Earth: Soil Health and Science for Gardeners
Instructor: K.Ruby Blume
Location: North Oakland
Cost: $35-75 sliding scale
In this mini-intensive we'll meet the living organisms in the soil, learn what each does to enhance garden productivity and look at how to feed and proliferate life in the soil for specific results. We'll learn about how plants entice micro-organisms to meet their nutrient needs and different types of partnershipsWe will demystify the nitrogen cycle, learn about the differnt forms of nitrogen plants prefer and how to harness your soil food web to give plants their preferred nutrient cocktail using compost. mulch and compost teas. Participants will have the opportunity to mix up samples of their own soil and idenitfy who is living there using the microscope and we'll be mixing compost teas on site. Glossary, resources and recipes will be provided in a handout
Sunday, November 10, 2013 10 am - 3 pm
Pine Needle Basketry
Judith Thomas, master weaver and Waldorf handwork teacher will instruct students on how to source materials and craft a pine needle basket.
Pack a lunch to enjoy in the beautiful Garden setting during the break! All levels welcome.
$85/$75 members
November 16th, 2013 10a-12p at Garden for the Environment
Intro to Rainwater Harvesting
Learn hands-on how to install a simple rainwater harvesting system. It is easier than you think! We'll start with systems as simple as a single barrel under a downspout, and discuss systems as complicated as an indoor plumbing system for toilet flushing.
November 16, 2013
Second Annual Wool and Fine Fiber Symposium
The event will run from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm, with a post-symposium BBQ and pot luck at Valley Ford Mercantile & Wool Mill, starting at 5:30.
This year’s Symposium moves forward with the ‘Cool Clothes Campaign’ through detailing the best soil-to-skin practices for reversing climate change, including land management practices for healthier pasture, healthier animals and higher quality fiber.
SPEAKERS:
Among the speakers are rangeland scientists reporting on the results of five years of soil carbon analysis on grazed lands. Following upward through the supply chain we will hear the voices of emerging young sheep ranchers, we will share our research on the California Wool Mill Project, and provide our findings on the six-month-long wool inventory project.
FARM & ARTISAN MARKETPLACE:
A host of amazing local artisans and farmers will display the latest fibershed fashions, and sell their freshly farmed clothes and fibers. For those who aren't attending the Symposium itself, a portion of the Marketplace will also be open to the general public at no charge.
A GLOBAL EVENT!
The lectures at the Symposium will be steaming live via the internet for those who can't attend. Organize a group of friends and watch together! Visit our live stream page to watch online: http://www.fibershed.com/wool-symposium-2013/live-stream/
