Saturday, 7/30/22 from 9 am to 4 pm – $60 – 80 Sliding Scale
Muller Field Station – FLCC, 6455 Co Rd 36, Honeoye, NY 14471
Outdoor event! (Rain date: Sunday, January 31st)
Limited spaces. Register here by July 23rd.
Learn to work with Nature; work like Nature!
Permaculture is an interdisciplinary and holistic design approach, based in and derived from the observation of indigenous practices of nature stewardship and natural ecological systems of relationships, that strives to repair and create regenerative and reciprocal systems for meeting human needs while also enhancing the quality of life for all beings, including plants, insects, non-human animals, and fungi. Food Forest Gardening is a land-based application of permaculture where we use our bioregions’ natural ecosystem, a temperate forest, to grow food for ourselves. We can create tiny or large food forests. We will learn about the ethics, principles, and practices of permaculture and how to apply them, along with food forest design basics as explore and work in the in progress food forest garden at Muller Field Station.
Tentative Schedule:
9:00 – 10:30 – Introduction to Permaculture Ethics, Principles, and Key Concepts
10:30 – 10:45 – break – coffee, tea, and snacks provided
10:45 – 12:00 – intro to food forest gardening w/activity
12:00 – 12:45 – Bring Your Own Lunch Break
12:45 – 1:30 – site walk to observe the garden and the woods
1:30 – 1:45 – break
1:45 – 3:00 – hands on planting and sheet mulching
3:00 – 3:15 – break
3:15 – 4:00 – optional guided paddle
Facilitator Bio: patty love is a Certified Permaculture Designer and Teacher in addition to holding a traditional BS in Business Administration and a MALS Degree. After working in manufacturing, banking, higher education, and business, she founded Barefoot Edible Landscape & Permaculture, Rochester Permaculture Center, and the Lots of Food Program. Patty is a perpetually curious suburban homesteader living in the Genesee River Valley on traditional homelands of the Haudenosaunee, now known as Rochester, NY, along the banks of Red Creek, where she practices and studies regenerative design, permaculture, edible forest gardening, and social permaculture and patiently waits for her pawpaws to fruit.
Bring: lunch, water, sun and bug protection, medications, dress for the weather, garden gloves and hand tools if available
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