workshops 2007, east vancouver,
three sessions for earthworkers on the ecosystems we live within, how to be better animals to our landbase.
* soil/compost/mulch march 24
* eat your weeds! march 31
* intro to gardening with the cosmos april 07
10 am to noon.* eat your weeds! march 31
* intro to gardening with the cosmos april 07
@the M.O.B.Y. gardens, between 10th & 11th on Commercial Drive, under the skytrain.
by donation. (suggested donation $5)
please rsvp so i can get an idea of numbers; ineffable@riseup.net
* soil/compost/mulch
Exposed soil is wounded soil. Soil is a living skin.
This session lays out the basis of soil components and their functions -bacteria, fungi, and carbon-nitrogen ratios- for a holistic perspective of how fertility is built and maintained by the soil ecosystem; and how to accelate and accentuate these processes with composts and mulch.
* eat your weeds!
What plants arrive first to wounded soil? 'Weeds', and as they are medicines for wounded soils, they are also medicines for animals. Learn which weeds are medicines, what they do for the soil, what they indicate, and how they help you.
* intro to gardening with the cosmos
The Egyptians, the Mayans, the Pagans, the ancient Chinese all gardened according to cosmological patterns. Biodynamics is a modern language for how to hold the cosmos in mind while dancing through the web of life. This class is an introductory class; I do not position myself as 'expert' but as fellow student. A base framework from which to begin observing patterns of moon, season, growth, and energy .
As Plato said, we are midwifes to knowledge,
and for the love of earth,
I want passionately to encourage a more engaged way of working with our land.
My motive is the love of life, of biodiversity, of Earth; of food and medicine; for the grace of the future.
My education comes from Linnaea Ecological Gardening Program, the 8 month intensive on Cortes Island that includes an indepth Permaculture component, taught by Oliver Kellhammer (of M.O.P., Greening the Grandview Cut, and Cottonwood Gardens). I worked in the Hollyhock gardens, farmed in Ontario, and landscaped. Last year in Ontario I ran the Garden Ninja school, and co-facilitated the Master Organic Gardeners course for Canadian Organic Growers, from which these workshops are based.
I use the term 'earthworker' after my summer working at Hollyhock (Retreat Center). There are a lot of bodyworkers - massage therapist, yoga instructors, reiki practitioners, - and on the island there are many gardeners. I love playing upon the parallel of working the help the bodies of healing humans and working to help our body of earth are both elements of healing ourselves. This is work.
*custom settings:
If there is a bunch of you interested, I can come to you. Email me: ineffable@riseup.net
PS. I am only in town until mid-April.
(Then out to Nova Scotia for schooling).
