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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.
Sunday PM: 2:00-3:20
Wild Food: Restoring Our Watersheds – One Step at a Time
Workshop Presenters: Linda MacElwee and Patty Madigan
Time: Sunday, 2:00 – 3:20 pm
Description: This Workshop will be a slide show presentation giving a broad overview of Restoration work that has been implemented in the Navarro Watershed over the last decade. Linda and Patty will give an outline of the challenges and opportunities in the Navarro Watershed, but that also have relevance to all North Coast River Systems. A conversation will follow focusing on “take home lessons” that anyone can implement to help restore and take care of our North Coast watersheds.
About the Presenters:
How we eat, how we feed ourselves and how we are connected to our surrounding landscape seems to be a recurring theme in Linda MacElwee’s life as she spends most of her time learning about the flora and fauna and patterning to the Navarro Watershed and the local surroundings, growing fruits, vegetables and herbs along with her partner Andy and two dogs, cat and free ranging chickens. She is a founding member of both the Anderson Valley Foodshed group and the Navarro Watershed Working Group and an organizer for the Not-So-Simple Living Fair.Linda MacElwee
Fish and fishing were the family passion that led Patty Madigan to seasonal fieldwork in salmon and steelhead studies. Realizing that historic fish runs were in peril, it became her mission to engage the public in active stewardship of our local watersheds. Patty served as the Navarro Watershed Coordinator from 2001 to 2007 for the Mendocino County RCD. This year she passes “the rod” to Linda MacElwee while continuing to assist landowners, countywide, with project development—and continues to volunteer with the Navarro Watershed Working Group. Patty now lives in the old Comptche School with husband Tom Brown and two rescue dogs.
Contact info: The Navarro River Resource Center 707.895.3230 or www.nwwg.org.
Wild Food: Acorn Processing Workshop
Workshop Presenter: Corine Pearce
Time: Saturday, 2:00 – 3:20 pm and
Sunday, 2:00 – 3:20 pm
About the Presenter:
Corine Pearce
Wild Food: The Scythe – Its Use and Maintenance
Wild Food: The Scythe
Time: Sunday, 3:30 – 5:00 pm
Description: A well tuned and fitted scythe in experienced hands is a formidable tool which can often compete with or beat machines commonly used for cutting weeds, grass and hay. I’m convinced that this technology can find a place in the our lives and culture. This will be a discussion and demo of the European style scythe, its advantages and limitations, use and maintenance. Hopefully we can find something to cut on the fair grounds.
About the Presenter:
Steven Edholm
Shelter: Clay Plasters
Workshop Presenter: Veronica Morales, Emerald Earth
Time: Sunday, 2:00 – 3:20 pm
About the Presenter:
Emerald Earth is an intentional community located in the Anderson Valley.
Shelter: Blacksmithing – Hand Forged Kitchenwares
Workshop Presenter: Ken Maxfield and Wendy Lawrence
Time: Saturday, 2:00 – 3:20 pm
Sunday, 2:00 – 3:20 pm
Description: We will be forging the elements for kitchen wares such as spoons and ladles, followed by a discussion and demonstration on joinery with shop made copper rivets.
About the Presenters:
Wendy Lawrence: I have been forging iron and playing in the smithy for ten years. The California Blacksmith Association has provided me with a community of smiths and seasonal events where workshops, information sharing, and education are keys aspects. I have taught beginning blacksmithing for the CBA as well as developed a private class for teens and a personal empowerment class for women. I am currently working on developing a line of functional art for the home and garden.
Contact info: wendywonder5@hotmail.com or 707.839.5142
Food: Homemade Kombucha aka “Creature Tea”
Workshop Presenter: Jenny Burnstad and Lynda McClure
Time: Sunday, 2:00 – 3:20 pm
Description: Learn a simple process for brewing your own Kombucha at home. We will have samples to taste as well as a few “skins” to give away.
About the Presenters:
Jenny Burnstad has been brewing Kombucha since the early nineties. She is a dedicated “do-it-yourselfer.”
Contact info: 707.895.3243, jen@cloudforest.org
Lynda McClure has been making Kombucha tea since her first encounter with it in Panama in 1991.
Contact info: Lynda McClure: 707.895.3243, lynda@pacific.net
Farm & Garden: Building and Using a Home Greenhouse
Workshop Presenter: Jan Pallazola and Flick McDonald
Time: Sunday, 2:00 – 3:20 pm
Description: Jan and Flick will talk about their experience building and operating a home greenhouse since 1995.
Contact info: 707.895.2701
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
Animal Husbandry: Sheep Pasture Management
Workshop Presenter: Sarah Cahn Bennett
Time: Sunday, 2:00 – 3:20 pm
Description:
Sarah Cahn Benentt currently grazes and cares for approximately 250 sheep. In this session we will go over sheep handling basics, and basic sheep care. The second half of this demonstration will be hands on electric fence options and uses. If time allows, we will talk about shearing and tagging and possibly bring out the equipment.
About the Presenter:
Sarah Cahn Benentt has been intensively grazing sheep in vineyards and rangeland for the last five years.
Contact info: sarahcb@hotmail.com
Animal Husbandry: Are Draft Animals Appropriate for You?
Workshop Presenter: Anne Siri and Michael Holmberg
Time: Sunday, 2:00 – 3:20 pm
Description: Are Draft Animals Appropriate for You? A-Z care, use, and cost.
About the Presenters: Ann and Mike have had horses always and draft horses for 20 years. They breed, train, shoe, work, pleasure drive, ride, show, and live with and learn from, pay for, and stress about their Shires. They have made every mistake in the book and are very pleased to share what they have learned over the years. They also own and operate Mendo Machine Shop in Philo, where they can fix or build pretty much anything anyone could ever dream up. They have built, rebuilt, redesigned, and restored all of the horse drawn equipment they use.
Contact info:707.895.2582
info@siriholmberg.com
www.siriholmberg.com