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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: 3:30-5:00
Wild Food: How to Propagate Native Plants
Workshop Presenter: Ken Montgomery
Time: Sunday, 3:30 – 5:00 pm
Description: Want to produce your own native plants for landscaping or restoration? This workshop will show you how to propagate dozens of species from seeds, cuttings, sprigs, layers and divisions. Ken will focus on “site-specific” propagations, but he will also give lots of information on cultivation of California native plants in general.
About the Presenter:
Ken Montgomery
Wild Food: Wild Foods Discussion
Discussion Leader: Tamara Wilder
Time: Sunday, 3:30 – 5:00 pm
About the Presenter:
Tamara Wilder is a paleo-technologist, educator & author who has been practicing, teaching & demonstrating ancient living skills for over two decades. She is co-founder of, and primary working force behind, Paleotechnics. She lives in Mendocino County and offers a variety of workshops and programs for fairs, museums and schools all around Northern California.
PALEOTECHNICS.
Steven Edholm & Tamara Wilder
PO Box 876 Boonville, CA 95415
707-391-8683
ts@paleotechnics.com
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.
Farm & Garden: Growing Quality Hay for Animals
Workshop Presenter: Paige Poulos
Time: Sunday, 3:30 – 5:00 pm
Description: This 90 minute program provides an overview of the types of hay best grown here on the North Coast and the merits of each in different types of farm enterprises. We will also discuss a calendar for preparing and planting a new hay field, methods of irrigation and harvest, how to create simple storage solutions when a barn is not available, what weeds to worry about, and more. Samples of various hays will be on display.
About the Presenter: Paige Poulos is a fifth generation Mendocino County resident with a lifelong commitment to the health and vitality of our local farming and ranching community. She and her husband, John Woolley, traded their executive life for a certified organic hay farm in Potter Valley in 2005, devoting themselves to organic and Biodynamic farming practices. This year Paige founded John Woolley Ranch hay sales, with a focus on local and certified organic hay and forages. She’s on a mission: get more land in quality hay production right here where our meat, dairy, equine and other farm animals need it. It’s a calling she plans to pursue for the next 50 years or so…..
Animal Husbandry: Sheep Dog Training
Workshop Presenter: Ellen Schilling
Time: Sunday, 10:00 – 11:20 am
Sunday, 3:30 – 5:00 pm
Description: We are very pleased to have Ellen Schilling with us on Sunday. She will be demonstrating, offering information, and answering questions about sheepdogs and working sheep with dogs on Sunday from 10-11:20 and 3:30 – 5:00. She will also be offering a special opportunity for people who have sheepdogs and are serious about starting their dogs on sheep in a safe environment with a skilled trainer. This will take place on Sunday in the round pen at Pennyroyal Farms (adjacent property to the fairgrounds) between Ellen’s demonstrations. This is a separate event from the Not-So-Simple Living Fair and there will be a fee charged to work one on one with Ellen and your dog (and the sheep of course). Please call Ellen (707-775-8929) to sign up and discuss details.