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Workshops will cover:
Description: The workshop will include the following three topics:
About the Presenter:
Jessica Curl Rose is an Acupuncturist and Herbalist practicing in Mendocino, California. She has been involved in the world of East Asian medicine and herbalism since the late 90s. Her interest in the production of safe sustainable Chinese herbal medicine started in acupuncture school. She worked on the Chinese herbal garden at American College of Traditional Chinese medicine where she completed her Masters Degree in Science of Traditional Chinese Medicine. This interest lead her to Kunming, in Yunnan province, PRC where she worked with Kunming Herbal Medicine Research Institute and local herbalists to understand the production and wild-crafting techniques of that area. After spending 2004-2005 in China studying Chinese medicine, she and her husband, Ken Rose, returned to Jessica’s family ranch on Philo-Greenwood Rd to raise Chinese herbal medicine and medicinal mushrooms. They founded Three Springs Institute (www.threespringsinstitute.com), a school of Chinese medicine, tai ji chuan, tui na and Three springs clinic. In 2009 she founded Mendocino Community Acupuncture (www.mendocinocommunityacupuncture.com), the first sliding scale community acupuncture clinic in Mendocino county to provide access to Chinese medicine services to the Mendocino community. Jessica continues to be involved in the creation of a thriving alternative medicine community to help sustain the health of our community and its members.
Contact: jessicacurlrose@gmail.com
Description: The workshop will cover:
About the Presenter: I was born and I am still alive!!!!
Arrived in Mendocino county in 1972 and farmed a fifteen acre vegetable farm for two years in Potter Valley. Bought eighty acres in ’73 back in the mountains behind Potter. The land is a valley on top of mid mountain at 3000 feet. I planted forty fruit and nut trees in ’75 which today are still alive and thriving. Through the years have added many more trees including an arboretum of 250 rare and endangered conifer species. Now more than 525 trees with more than 200 fruit and nut trees. Many of my business ventures were related to procuring all the things one needs in settling a new piece of land, (building materials, fencing, fruit trees, bulk food,etc.)
Hence I was a founder of Shamaz trading company, Homestead Exchange (now Ukiah food coop), All Heart Lumber Company, Rare Conifer Nursery and Foundation, and Performance Coatings.
I’m seeing more and more “why not utilize the natural resources like the native and abundant oaks for more than firewood.” The acorn provides nutritious and tasty food. Learning and sharing how in a simple way to enjoy this native food.
Contact: darshanji@msn.com or 489-7002
Description: How to choose an area and read the landscape to find a particular species of edible mushroom. Tips for mushroom identification. In-depth description and pictures of several commonly found mushrooms in the Anderson Valley.
About the Presenter:
Tom has been an avid mushroom hunter for over a dozen years, beginning in the Santa Cruz area. For the past five winters, he has gained an intimate knowledge of the edible mushrooms occurring at Emerald Earth, a 190 acre intentional community on a ridge overlooking the Anderson Valley. Tom provides mushrooms for group meals and has sold over ten varieties at the Boonville Winter Market. In addition to presentations at last year’s NSSLF and the Navarro Mill Inn, Tom led a series of three mushroom foraging workshops last winter at Emerald Earth.
Contact Info: 707-972-3096
tom@emeraldearth.org
www.emeraldearth.org
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
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.
About the Presenter: Jack Started hunting in northern California at sixteen. He moved to the Yorkville Ranch in 1989 with his wife Joannie and three kids Ryan, Brittany, and Ehrin. A carpenter, he built his own house and barn on the property as well as roads, a water system, off-grid power supply, and early cellular phone system. Jack supplied his family with most of its own meat from hunting wild boar, deer, and turkey. The Davis family moved to Tahoe in 2000 but returns often to visit and hunt.
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.
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
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
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
About the Presenter:
Corine Pearce
About the Presenter:
Corine Pearce
About the Presenter: Corine Pearce is a certified herbalist, director of Mendocino School of Holistic Massage and Advanced Healing Arts. She is also a traditional Pomo dancer and singer.
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.