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Things to Know
DATE: July 27, 28, 29, 2012.
PLACE: Mendocino County Fairgrounds, Boonville, CA
CONTACT: info@notsosimple.info or 707.895.2949
WE ARE OUTSIDE: Expect warm weather. There is some shade, but wear a hat and appropriate clothes.
NO DOGS PERMITTED.
BRING YOUR OWN PLACE SETTING: Limit the amount of stuff we send to the landfill and help develop the habit of using our own dishes for take out food as well as potlucks.
Saturday PM: 3:30-5:00
Wild Food: Local Native Plants – Restoring Your Land
Workshop Presenter: Ken Montgomery
Time: Saturday, 3:30 – 5:00 pm
Description: In this workshop, we’ll explore steps you can take to help restore your land using native plants. We will discuss the broader importance of environmental restoration, the impact of exotic invasive species, watershed ecology and related topics. Ken will define what “local native plants” are and will identify many different habitats around the county. Finally, he will offer a practical guide for restoration – from site evaluation to invasive plant removal and from collecting/propagating native plants to planting and care.
About the Presenter: With BS and MS degrees in botany, ecology and horticulture, after 12 years working in research at the Los Angeles County Arboretum and teaching at UCLA, Ken knew it was time for a career change. So in 1978 he dropped out of the academic scene, moved with his family to Boonville and opened the Anderson Valley Nursery, where he primarily grows and sells California Native and Mediterranean plants. He was Director of the Mendocino Coast Botanical Garden in the mid-1990’s; founded the Mendocino Natives Nursery Project in collaboration with the local high school as a means of involving students in growing native plants, does custom propagation for CalTrans and other public agencies and works closely with the Navarro River Resource Center.
Anderson Valley Nursery
18151 Mountain View Road
P.O. Box 504
Boonville, CA 95415
(707) 895-3853 FAX: (707) 895-2850
Shelter: Dirt on the Wall – Making Homegrown Paint
Workshop Presenter: Sara McCamant, Emerald Earth
Time: Saturday, 3:30 – 5:00 pm
Description: Dirt on the Wall – Making Homegrown paint. Store bought paint contains all kinds of chemicals that are harmful to the environment when being created and harmful to you when using. Why not create beautiful paint from found dirt and pigments. Sara shares how.
About the Presenter: Sara has been making walls beautiful with natural paints and plasters for over fifteen years. She loves creating beauty with simple materials and demystifying the process so that anyone can be empowered to make their own paint with a bowl and a kitchen whisk.
Shelter: Sea Shells to Lime Putty Part I
Workshop Presenter: Tonia Sing Chi and Steven Edholm
Time: Saturday, 3:30 – 5:00 pm
Description:
Uses and types of lime, the lime cycle, kiln building, and burning.
Lime is a traditional, natural building material that has been used for thousands of years as a binder in foundations, mortar for stone and brick masonry, plasters, renders, paints, and other finishes. In this workshop, we will be introducing the practice of making your own lime putty from locally gathered sea shells and then discuss and demonstrate its applications in building.
About the Presenters:
tonia sing chi is human. She’s totally into lime… and corn. She seems to end up carrying gross things around in her car due to her unique priorities to create and disseminate alternative paradigms in the physical realm. If it were not for being but 25 years old she would have a long history of contributing to said paradigms. She did not write this.
Food: Olive Oil Making, Pressing, and Tasting
Workshop Presenter: Yvonne Hall
Time: Saturday, 3:30 – 5:00 pm
Description: How far does your olive oil travel? Do you want to know exactly where it comes from? How would you like it to taste, fruity, peppery or bitter? This workshop explores how choosing the right tree varietals for your taste and your climate will influence your end product, a beautiful and wonderful extra virgin olive oil that you will be happy to include as part of your home grown and garden fresh bounty.
About the Presenter: Yvonne Hall, partner in Olivino Inc. www.olivino.com in Hopland built the olive mill with her partners in 2005 from bare ground. They imported their first Tuscan olive trees in 1998 and planted their Cloverdale orchard in 1999. Through trial and error and sensory evaluation classes at UC Davis, they learned a great deal about maintenance, tree health and vigor and ultimately producing liquid gold from fresh and certified organic fruit. Today, they process olives not only from their own orchard but for other growers in Mendocino, Sonoma, Lake Counties and beyond. She will share lessons learned from thirteen years of farming, producing and marketing.
Food: Intro to Solar Oven Building and Baking
Workshop Presenter: Ziggy Daniels
Time: Saturday, 3:30 – 5:00 pm
Farm & Garden: Creating Abundance in Our Not-So-Simple Climate – 200 Years of Plant Knowledge
Workshop Presenters: Mark Albert and Patrick Schafer
Time: Saturday, 3:30 – 5:00 pm
Sunday, 2:00 – 3:20 pm
Description: Mark Albert and Pat Schafer will give away 200 cumulative years of discoveries made by our elder group of permaculture explorers in Mendocino County. The fruit and nut trees and the vines that succeed here, as well as the secrets you need to know to make your own plants. Hands-on demonstration of summer
budding, the technique that allows you to graft a tree a now, when you can taste the fruit. No need to wait until winter.
About the Presenters:
Patrick Schafer: 707.895.3722 coolhybrids@wildblue.net
Mark Albert: 707.462.7843 albert@pacific.net
Farm & Garden: Growing Vegetables
Workshop Presenter: Antonia Partridge
Time: Saturday, 3:30 – 5:00 pm
Animal Husbandry: Homesteader’s Goat Forum
Forum Moderator: Sophia Bates. With Roxanne Boyle, Phaedra Savage, Marty Johnson
Time: Saturday, 3:30 – 5:00 pm
Description: This is an opportunity for a number of local goat keepers to get together and compare notes. We will go through a season and have a conversation about what our experiences thus far in our journeys with goats have taught us. We are all small scale goat keepers who have found ways to integrate goats by bending the rules of commercial high production dairy models to meet our busy and diverse lifestyles. This will be a somewhat informal panel, with space for questions and comments from the audience and within the panel. Please call Sophia if you are interested in being on the panel: 707.684.0028.
About the Participants:
Sophia Bates
Roxanne Boyle. As far back as I can remember, I wanted to have a farm. So, the first order of business, after my husband and I bought our home, was to get farm animals. Two baby goats. I have had goats in my life for nearly 20 years. They started out as pets and became a passion. For the last 10 years I have been keeping, milking and showing my herd of goats.
Contact information:
Cell: 707-621-0406 home: 707-485-0504
Email:qgarden@pacific.net
Wild Foods: Salad University
Workshop Presenter: Bill Taylor
Time: Saturday, 3:30 – 5:00 pm
Sunday, 3:30 – 5:00 pm
Description: Salad is more than mixed greens or lettuce and tomato. Bill Taylor will show you how to cultivate, wildcraft, and harvest edible flowers, herbs, and greens, increasing your garden’s biodiversity and productivity. The right foods provide an energized feeling combined with a stronger constitution with which to fight off disease. A greater diversity of plants provides a healthy garden ecosystem to limit pests and plant diseases. You will learn common cultivated and wild plants with diverse flavors, textures, and healing properties. The class will illustrate many of the over 40 ingredients and include chart handouts to help you combine them into salads and green smoothies for a mix of flavors and health-giving properties. These foods are for the adventurous spirit, yet they can be crafted to please many palates.
About the Presenter: Organic gardener for 30 years, creating and selling Floodgate Farm salad mix and other produce since 2003. Bill Taylor founded and directed EarthWorks Projects in Boston, creating urban orchards in schoolyards, parks, urban wilds and vacant lots. He taught hundreds of urban residents fruit horticulture and brought environmental education to thousands of public school students. He has also taught both fruit growing and edible landscaping at the Solar Living Institute, Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens, and at Northeast
Organic Farming Association conferences in Massachusetts. In addition to his market gardens, Bill works for private clients.