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UPCOMING EVENTS
10am-3pm @
The Boardman River Nature Center
Lisa Franseen:
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We need to wake up. And this is what this symposium is all about. It's about bringing a human presence to this planet that values life over production and economic growth. It's about now. It's about you. It's about awakening fully to the calling of our time. It's only five hours. And it's free.
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Nov. 10-14, 2011 @ Shanty Creek Resorts, Bellaire, MI
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The VAL conference bringing together
visionaries, activists,
and leaders to explore together visions for the future, including the
areas of sustainability,
peak oil, climate change, economics, politics, renewable energy, food security, transition towns, bioregionalism, permaculture, compassionate living
and culture change.
The event is a wedding
of the best features of conference, colloquium,
and retreat.
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| Greetings!
Thank you to the 800 participants of the 10th Annual Great Lakes Bioneers Conference. If you made it out for the weekend, GREAT! If not, here's a recap of what you missed...
- 250 K-12 students in attendance
- An amazing local, organic and delicious lunch put on by Mike Everts of Blackbird Gardens
- Our first ever off-campus field trips!
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Suttons Bay Farm to School Fall Food Festival | |
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| Job Opportunity: Seasonal Farm Manager | |
SEEDS is seeking a Farm Manager for the 2012 growing season.
The SEEDS Farmer Residency program offers farmers early in their career the opportunity to work on a historic property to produce food for the community with more autonomy than an internship, yet within the context of an established nonprofit and the support of an experienced network of mentors and farmers in the region. Entering our third growing season, our eventual goal is to have two Residents each serving multi-year terms so that as one Resident leaves, an Assistant Resident becomes the senior Resident Farmer.
The farm, located at the Historic Barns Park within the Grand Traverse Commons, is the historical farm site that produced the majority of the food for the patients at the Old State Mental Hospital. Today it is property owned by a joint municipal Recreational Authority, managed by three nonprofits (SEEDS, The Botanic Garden Society of NW Michigan and Little Artshram) and adjacent to 400 acres of wooded park and one of the largest historic redevelopments in North America complete with a wood fired bakery, fair trade coffee roaster, two wineries, an award winning restaurant and a growing walkable community.
SEEDS has management responsibility for 5 acres of land; half is easily accessible (the Southern Bed) and half is brushy, wet and its micro-climate is not known well yet. Click here for more details. |
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