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 "INTRODUCTION TO PERMACULTURE," March 10, 7:00 - 9:00 p.m., Boulder Meadows Community Room, 4500 19th St., Boulder. The March session of the 2011 Permaculture Film Series will be an excellent one, Geoff Lawton's "Introduction to Permaculture." Sponsored by Transition Colorado, Real Earth Design, and High Altitude Permaculture.
BOUNTIFUL BACKYARD GARDENING: THE
PERMACULTURE WAY, March 19, 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m., Transition Colorado Conference Room, 2415 19th St., Boulder. Cultivate the skills of growing abundant local food in your own backyard! This workshop is tailored for those new to food gardening as well as current gardeners wanting to broaden their knowledge base and gain a permaculture perspective. We will start with a beginner's mind on learning selection of a good garden location, soil cultivation, seed sowing, and transplanting. Learn more and register..
 INTRODUCTION TO SPIRAL DYNAMICS: Understanding a World in Turmoil & Transition, March 24, 7:00 - 9:00 p.m., Boulder Meadows Community Room (19th & Violet), Boulder. Presented by Michael Lindemann. Spiral Dynamics is a remarkably powerful model of human values-systems: What they are, how they are expressed, how they affect human interactions, how they emerge and change over time - and how they can shape the human future. Values-systems determine how a person chooses to spend time and resources, who that person agrees or disagrees with, what that person lives or dies for. In short, values-systems exert strong influence over almost every aspect of human thinking, decision-making and behavior. FREE!
TOOLS & INSIGHTS FOR ENGAGING A WORLD IN TURMOIL & TRANSITION: SPIRAL DYNAMICS INTENSIVE, March 27, 9:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m., Boulder Meadows Community Room (19th & Violet), Boulder. Michael Lindemann is a futurist, writer and teacher with a strong background in psychology and world affairs. He has studied Spiral Dynamics for over 10 years and regards it as the most illuminating model of human behavior ever devised. $45 at the door. To the top |
| PERMACULTURE DESIGN CERTIFICATION COURSES
PERMACULTURE THROUGH THE SEASONS, Mar. 12 - Oct. 9, Boulder. Observe the seasons unfolding in Front Range cities, high plains and mountains through the lens of permaculture, giving depth and perspective to design work. Participants will tour sites, engage in hands-on seasonal projects, create designs for resilient local systems, explore "perennial culture," and take tangible steps towards sustainable food, shelter, energy and community. The extended length of the course allows time to digest permaculture concepts, and creates a foundation for community projects. Using innovative and indigenous agricultural techniques as well as appropriate technologies, course participants will learn to move towards living sustainably. Through multifaceted learning techniques--hands-on projects, tours, slide shows, exercises, lectures and readings--students will acquire knowledge of Permaculture Design for our Rocky Mountain bioregion and beyond. Instructors: Sandy Cruz, Barbara Mueser and Jason Gerhardt,and guests Becky Elder, Marco Lam, and many more! Click here to download flyer. Course size is limited, and we are already receiving registrations, so reserve your space soon. Click here to download registration form. For more information, call 303-459-3494. Sponsored by Transition Colorado.
FORT COLLINS AREA PERMACULTURE DESIGN COURSE 2011, Mar. 12 - 20, 25 - 27, 8:30 - 6:00 p.m., Raindrop Retreat, Bellevue CO. Rocky Mountain Sustainable Living Association and Home Grown Food are thrilled to offer a 12-day, intensive Permaculture Design Course certification near Fort Collins. This well-rounded permaculture course is an excellent opportunity to build community and get your heart, hands and head engaged in learning how to design sustainable communities and systems through permaculture. The full certificate course, led by seasoned permaculture instructors, is offered over 12 days in northern Colorado at the mouth of the Poudre River Canyon. This site is located on 30 acres, offering numerous hands-on, practical how-to's, for course participants. A greater consciousness of the inter-connectedness of human life with the environment is the next great learning curve that we are all a part of. Primary instructors: Heather C. Flores, a certified permaculture designer and author of Food Not Lawns; Kelly Simmons, an internationally taught and practiced Permaculturist and instructor who calls the Front Range her home. Several guest instructors from the area will also be teaching this course. Registration in advance at www.SustainableLivingAssociation.org. Cost: $1,200 after Jan. 20.
2nd ANNUAL LYONS PERMACULTURE DESIGN COURSE, Mar. 13 - Apr. 3, Lyons Farmette, Lyons. The Lyons Farmette, Schey's Bouquets and YummyYards are thrilled to offer a two-week Permaculture Design Course Certification. The course features an intensive 82-hour immersion into permaculture principles and ecological design, featuring 14 diverse, dynamic and experienced Colorado permaculture teachers, including Jerome Osentowski, Marco Chung-Shu Lam, Adam Brock and Pavlos Stavropoulos (co-facilitated by Laura Ruby and Erin Schey). Through a combination of lecture, discussion, hands-on activities and on-site group design projects, you will learn how to observe ecosystems and design regenerative systems that provide food, energy, shelter and community. Engage in the revolutionary act of self-empowerment and discover how to build resilient human communities that care for the earth, provide for people and create a surplus for all to share. Click here for more information and application.
PERMACULTURE DESIGN CERTIFICATION COURSE, Front Range Permaculture Institute, Classroom I, 825 E. Elizabeth Street, Fort Collins. An eight week course meeting Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays for eight weeks starting mid-March till May 7 (Mon. & Wed. 6:00 - 9:00 p.m., Sat. 9:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.). Tuition: $100 non-refundable deposit; in full by Feb. 26, $868; in full by Mar. 11, $1000; in full by Mar. 14, $1085. Send check or money order to Front Range Permaculture Institute, 825 E. Elizabeth, Fort Collins, Colorado 80524. Other payment options available. To register, please call 970-672-4722.
2011 WILLOW WAY PERMACULTURE DESIGN COURSE, Apr. 15 - Oct. 9, Willow Way Permaculture Herb Farm, 6481 N 63rd St., Niwot. Our certificate Permaculture Design Course spans our high-altitude growing season, providing a wide-ranging learning experience that reflects the diversity inherent in the Rocky Mountain Front Range. Learn how to work with the wisdom of nature to create resilient systems in which both the yield and the fertility are upheld for future generations. Click here for details. Click here for video
PERMACULTURE DESIGN THROUGH THE SEASONS, Pikes Peak Region, Southern Colorado, Apr. 16 - Nov. 20. The time is now to Care for the Earth, Care for Community and Care for Ourselves. We will meet the third weekend of every month, April through November, 2011. Come learn the ethics and principles of Permaculture. Design techniques, natural building basics, urban homesteading and renewal, rainwater harvesting basics, appropriate technology, bio-systems and much, much more will be covered through the course. Students of Permaculture work to heal ourselves, heal our communities and heal the land, using nature as pattern. We have a variety of class sites and interesting field trips, hands-on demos and a wonderful community of great teachers! Two weekends will have camping opportunity during the hot summer season. Students will actively participate in planning and designing a site in order to integrate the principles, ethics and the Permaculture design techniques. If design interests you, get certified and design for the future! Come learn with us! Contact Brian Fritz, 720-838-7131, tt.manitou@gmail.com, Pikes Peak Permaculture.
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CLASSES, WORKSHOPS
AND RELATED EVENTS
 FORUM: EXPLORING A LOCALLY-BASED FOOD AND AGRICULTURE SYSTEM: Advancing our County's Economic, Environmental and Social Well-Being, Feb. 24, 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m., Congregation Har Hashem, 3950 Baseline Rd., Boulder. This free event is part of Restoring the Soul's series of free monthly Forums addressing critical social issues with a local voice. This event is free to the community and includes a Question & Answer period after the panel. For more info...
SUSTAINABILITY FOR MUNICIPALITIES, Feb. 25, to March 24, 2011. A CU Boulder Environmental Center Sustainable Practices course: This course provides practical examples of how to get a municipality on a sustainable track by generating new models of organizational action and engaging the community. Preregistration is required. This is an online, non-credit course. For more info...
"PROTECT THE CLEAN AIR ACT" RALLIES: Feb. 26, Boulder, 1:00 p.m., Municipal Building (corner of Canyon and Broadway), Boulder; Feb. 27, 2:00 p.m., State Capitol, Denver. The purpose of the rallies is to draw attention to the attacks happening in Congress on the Clean Air Act, the EPA and their authority to regulate carbon pollution. "The Clean Air Act is the best tool we have for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and fighting climate change at the national level. We will call on our leaders to protect this critical authority and landmark legislation, and we will applaud those leaders who have already made that commitment."
 FOOD JUSTICE WORKSHOP, Feb. 26, noon - 4:00 p.m., The GrowHaus, 4751 York St., Denver. In this workshop, we'll be examining the issues of food justice from a variety of angles, from the local to the global. Through interactive activities and discussions with local food justice leaders, you'll learn about the day-to-day reality of living in a food desert, and find out how you can get involved here in Denver to make our food system not only more sustainable, but more just, as well. Online registration: $27.37. Day-of registration: $35
PLANNING AND LEARNING ABOUT A POLYCULTURE GARDEN, Feb. 26, 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m., The Lyons Farmette, 4121 Ute Highway, Lyons. Learn about a polyculture garden that provides food for the soil, for wildlife, and you. Class will discuss microclimates, seasonal timing, companion planting, edible natives. $15 per person. Please RSVP to betsyburton@mac.com.
 PERMACULTURE FOR YOU AND FOR THE WORLD., Feb. 26, 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m., B2 Conference Center, Denver Public Library, 10 W. 14th Ave. Pkwy., Denver. Permaculture is about designing for balanced and sustainable human settlements. Make the choice for focusing on solutions! Informational talk and video by Zia Parker, from Willow Way Permaculture in Niwot, Colorado. For additional events and information...
BEE KEEPING CLASS, Feb. 27, 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m., The Lyons Farmette, 4121 Ute Highway, Lyons. Come on down to the Farmette for a presentation on backyard beekeeping. We'll discuss equipment choices, management styles, colony inspection, the life of a colony and bee biology, and of course honey and other colony products. $20 per person. Please RSVP to betsyburton@mac.com.
FOOD PRODUCTION SYSTEMS FOR A BACKYARD OR SMALL FARM, Feb. 27, 2:00 - 4:00 p.m., Ben Delatour Meeting Room, Main Library, Ft. Collins. This video is for those seeking self-reliance in growing their own food. This is a practical how-to, and gets you motivated to begin your journey on your own food production. This film is for everyone! Whether you are new to the concept of growing your own food, or if you are already practicing your own food productions, you will learn techniques that will enhance your efforts, which have been drawn from organic gardening, permaculture, agro forestry, indigenous teachings, historical anecdotes, and missionary work in developing countries. Front Range Permaculture Institute.
VAN JONES IN BOULDER, March 2th, 6:00 p.m., Hotel Boulderado, 2115 13th St, Boulder. Join PLAN-Boulder County Annual Dinner as they launch our second 50 years of conservation and activism with special guest Van Jones, the author of The Green-Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems. Register here...
HONEY BEE HEALTH: HOW YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE, March 2, 7:00 p.m., Lafayette Public Library, 775 W. Baseline Road, Lafayette. "Vanishing of the Bees", a documentary movie. Honey bees are one of our most precious pollinators. One third of the food we eat is pollinated by honey bees and millions are dying worldwide. This film explores the causes of Colony Collapse Disorder followed by a discussion of simple things you can do to be part of the solution. FREE! OORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE FOR SUSTAINABILITY, March 4, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Sustainable Practices, 1505 University Blvd, Boulder, CU Boulder Environmental Center Sustainable Practices course: This course provides students with insights and information about the process of creating deep and lasting institutional change. Students will learn the process of change at the human, departmental, and organizational levels. Pre-registration is required. Enrollment in CU is not required. Cost is $265. To Register...
"GROWI NG OUR URBAN AGRICULTURE" POTLUCK AND CELEBRATION, March 5, 3:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m., 4751 York, Denver. Come meet others involved in pioneering urban ag projects and folks who are just passionate about local food! Bring something yummy to share to eat or drink and think Colorado when deciding what to bring! More info here...
WORM COMPOSTING IN THE HIGH DESERT, March 5,
10:00 - 12:00 p.m., Denver Botanical Gardens, 1005 York St., Denver.
This class will share with you the basic principles and the ideas that come from "reduce, reuse, rebuild, recycle'" in and around your home and landscape with the composting worm. Read more....
 INTRODUCTION TO PERMACULTURE with Laura Ruby and Erin Schey, March 6, 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m., The Lyons Farmette, 4121 Ute Hiway, Lyons. Come enjoy a lively introduction to Permaculture, an approach to designing human settlements and agricultural systems that mimic the relationships found in natural ecologies. Topics include ecological design, permaculture ethics and principles, food forests, animal systems, ecovillage design, urban permaculture, solar design, food preservation and much more! More info here...
FORUM ON FOOD-PRODUCING ANIMALS IN DENVER, March 7, 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., The Tivoli, Room 320s, Auraria Campus, Denver. There is great impetus now in Denver to change the permitting process for having food-producing animals. The city has heard that the current permitting process is unclear, lengthy and expensive and that there is concern about the requirement of neighborhood notification. Come join us to hear about the current process, the proposed ordinance and have a chance to ask questions and comment about Food Producing Animals in the City of Denver. COMMUNITY SOLAR GARDENS: A PANEL TO LEARN MORE,  March 7, 7:00 p.m., Benson 180, on CU-Boulder campus (near the intersection of Folsom & Colorado Ave.). So you're interested in clean energy from the sun, but you have a large shade tree in your yard. Or you live in an apartment, or you don't want to pay for an entire solar array. What to do? Join us for a panel with six energy experts who will introduce us to the idea of community solar gardens and their possibilities. We've reserved lots of time for Q&A, so bring your questions. Step with us as we move toward establishing Boulder County's first community solar garden. FREE!
AWAKENING THE DREAMER, CHANGING THE DREAM SYMPOSIUM, March 10, 5:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m., Elevations Credit Union, 2300 55th Street, Boulder. The mission is bold: to create an environmentally sustainable, socially just, and spiritually fulfilling human presence on the Earth. Through leading-edge information, inspiring multimedia, internal reflection time, and dynamic group interactions, participants are inspired to reconnect with their deep care and concern for our world and are empowered to make a difference. Refreshments provided $15. Register...
STRATEGIES FOR A CHANGING ENERGY LANDSCAPE, March 11, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Sustainable Practices, 1505 University Blvd, Boulder. A CU Boulder Environmental Center Sustainable Practices course. This course will
familiarize students with past, present and future energy production and consumption in the U.S. While the course is primarily focused on renewable energy for the future, it also provides a firm grounding in the past and present of traditional energy. We will explore how the landscape of energy is dramatically changing. The course will provide students with the tools and context to make informed decisions around traditional and renewable energy at the residential, business, local, and national levels. Pre-registration is required. Enrollment in CU is not required.
BACKYARD COMPOSTING AND GARDEN SOIL FERTILITY
MADE EASY, Saturday, March 12, 9:00 - 11:00 a.m., The Lyons Farmette, 4121 Ute Hiway, Lyons. You know the best use for your kitchen scraps is to compost it in your backyard, and you know your garden and lawn need compost, but you just can't figure out how to make it work for your own household. If that describes you, this hands-on workshop is designed with you in mind. Learn more...
A TALK BY ANNE PARKER PhD: BIOREGIONAL WALKING: INSPIRATIONS FOR THE CAMINO DE SANTIAGO IN SPAIN, March 16, noon - 1:15 p.m., Sycamore Hall, Room 8150, Naropa Univ., 2130 Arapaho Ave., Boulder. This ancient pilgrimage route across Spain, silent for some 500 years, has been waking up since the 1980's in concert with our need to reconnect with the living earth and repair our relationship. As this route wakes up with thousands of people walking it annually, it is activating the synapses of ancient routes across France, Belgium, Switzerland, Germany and beyond. People are walking the land as spiritual and healing practice once again in Europe - a sign of the healing of that world and a movement towards repairing the damage the dis-connected world view that engendered around the globe. In this slide show we will explore the history, the present, and the gifts we can bring from it into our lives.  PIONEERING GARDEN TECHNIQUES: WHY HEIRLOOM GARDENS STILL WORK TODAY, March 17, 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m., Denver Botanic Gardens, 1007 York Street, Denver. Pioneers, these brave people grew gardens for food and beauty with nary a drop of pressurized irrigation water and without the aid of the combustion engine. It's 2011 and heirloom gardens are hotter than ever. This enlightening program will look at what kinds of gardening techniques and principles still work in today's gardens, and why. Learn more...
DESIGNING WITH HEIRLOOMS, March 18, 10:00 a.m. - noon, Denver Botanic Gardens, 1007 York Street, Denver. Join Idaho native and garden blogger Mary Ann Newcomer for a showcase of contemporary gardens featuring heirloom plant materials. Special attention will be given to plants suited to the Rocky Mountain region. Website ROCKY MOUNTAIN HORTICULTURE II, Mar. 19 - Apr. 2, Denver Botanic Gardens, 1005 York St., Denver. An introduction to general information on plant management. Each of these three classes will present an overview by an expert from the Colorado State University Cooperative Extension Service. Topics include the identification and control of lawn and garden weeds, diseases and insects, and integrated pest management. Call 720-865-3580. LEADER LEARNER GARDENING, March 19 & 26, 10:00 a.m. to noon, Crescent Grange, 7901 W 120th Avenue, Broomfield. Come to our Community Garden! Experienced gardeners are available for questions and demonstration of Permaculture gardening techniques. Learner gardeners can team up with Leaders and share in the team produce. Weather permitting. To the top |
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AGRICULTURE-RELATED EVENTS
& ANNOUNCEMENTS
FARM AND RANCH PANEL DISCUSSION, March 9, 7:00 - 9:00 p.m., Monarch High School, 329 Campus Drive, Louisville. Click here for Map. Local Farmers and Ranchers will share and discuss their stories, their Agricultural challenges, successes and ideas on sustainable agriculture. Question and answer period will follow the panel discussions. If you have any questions, please contact Jesse Rounds, Resource Planner at croplandpolicy@bouldercounty.org or at 303-678-6271.
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