CLASSES

COOKING

Eva Tobie –

Celebrate the Vegetable!

In The Kitchen – www.wendyvanwagner.com -

Enjoy an evening of hands-on learning with In The Kitchen cooking classes. We emphasize the use of seasonal, local and organic produce. Our menus range from season-based fare, special vegetarian classes to basic skills classes. Kids classes typically are held in the afternoons, while adult classes are held in the mornings and evenings. Classes include a meal prepared by YOU, knife skills and bits of culinary wisdom.

At the end class, we sit down in the dinning salon and toast each other and our culinary efforts and enjoy a home-cooked meal!

648 Zion Street, Nevada City, CA 95959 – 530. 478.0669 info@wendyvanwagner.com

For schedule of classes go to  – www.wendyvanwagner.com/classes/

FARMING and GARDENING

Grow MORE of your own food – Spring, Summer, and Fall Gardening Workshop Series

Home Garden Workshops

“Local food” doesn’t get any more local than your own yard!

• Are you serious about growing more of your own food, using your front or back yard?
• Do you want to learn how to grow a garden that thrives (and not just survives?)
• Do you want to use ecologically sound techniques that weave your garden into they rhythms of the natural world?

This year at Living Lands, we have created a new format of classes that allows you to pick and choose the workshops that will be most helpful to you as you integrate more food into own home garden.  Take one class or take them all!  We want to help you turn your back or front yard into a place you can successfully grow your own delicious vegetables and happily graze from throughout the seasons.

Classes are taught by Living Lands farmers and other talented members from our local community.  We express gratitude to the APPLE Center for co-sponsoring these workshops!

Class fees:

$65  standard fee
$55 ($10 discount) for Living Lands Members
$58 (10% discount) for APPLE Center Members
$55 sliding scale fee for for student/low-income individuals

Come with a friend or come alone and make some new home gardener friends!

Please register early – class sizes are limited! We cannot guarantee availability if you register in the final days before class.

FOR MORE INFO GO TO: www.livinglandsagrariannetwork.org/Farmeducation.

Peaceful Valley Farm Supply – Organic gardening classes -  http://www.groworganic.com

Master Gardeners - http://ceplacer.ucdavis.edu/Custom_Program860/2010_Workshop_Calendar.htm

Soil Born Farms – Sacramento – http://www.soilborn.org/events.html -

Gardening Classes

Register for classes at the Sacramento Natural Foods Co-op, 1900 Alhambra Blvd. Sacramento or call the Customer Service Desk at 916 455-2667 weekdays, 9 am – 5 pm and pay by credit card. You can also register online.

Classes will be held at Soil Born Farms American River Ranch 2140 Chase Dr. Rancho Cordova

HERBAL BODY CARE

Do-it-Yourself Herbal Classes

Rachel Berry – www.backyardbotanics.com - Learn how to make your own lotions, salves, topical body care, baby care, and more using local plants and other easy to find, organic ingredients.  Save money, reduce your carbon footprint, avoid chemicals in commercial products, and enjoy a deeper connection and appreciation for the plants growing in your bioregion.  Each course will include a how-to on basic herbal preparations, recipes to try at home, a list of easy to grow and useful herbs to put in your garden, and a set of products to take home at the end of the day.

Nourish Thyself, June 26
Spend a day in the garden making nourishing remedies for the body, and take home your own cream, salve, facial scrub and more.  You’ll also leave with a basic know-how to make your own, and a handful of recipes to experiment even more.  www.backyardbotanics.com/Nourish_Thyself.html

Herbal  Baby Care, June 27
A great class for parents and parents-to-be who want to make their own pure and clean baby care products that really work.  Learn basic preparation methods and leave with a diaper salve, baby massage oil, diaper powder & more. www.backyardbotanics.com/BabyCareEssentials.html

Herbal First Aid, September 25
Learn about basic herbal preparations by making your own herbal first aid kit.  You’ll get hands-on experience making a medicinal salve, tincture, powder, and more.  Leave with your own travel-size kit to take home. www.backyardbotanics.com/Herbal_First_Aid.html

Coming Soon: Herbal Personal Care
Learn how to make your own toothpaste, deodorant, shampoo, conditioner, mouthwash and more.

Classes held in at a home garden in Grass Valley.  $60-$70 per class, plus materials fee. Trades may be negotiated.  For more information, call 530-273-3083, email info(at)backyardbotanics.com, or visit www.backyardbotanics.com

PERMACULTURE

8-Day Permaculture Design Certification Course

Co-Hosted by Midwest Permaculture and Sivananda Ashram Yoga Farm

Location: The Yoga Farm, Grass Valley, CA

Dates: Nov. 6- 13th, 2010 — Additional Hands-on Permaculture Work Week: Nov. 13-19th, 2010

Focus: Rural & Suburban Permaculture Design

What permaculturists are doing is some of the most important activity that any group is doing on the planet.

Scientist and Author, David Suzuki -Many of us are concerned today about the big challenges facing ourselves, our families, our culture and our country — the uncertainty of the economy and our energy supplies, the changing climate, food safety, health care, living costs and more. Permaculture takes a deep look at how systems work and how they fail. More importantly it embraces the kind of ideas and thinking that can turn these challenges into opportunities.

In a good permaculture design, work is minimized, yields (food, energy, income) are increased, wastes are eliminated and the environment is restored. Once all the essential needs of a family or neighborhood are met, there are resources remaining to care for the greater community. This is the basis for a truly permanent-culture or ‘perma-culture’.

The emphasis of this course is:

1. Making our homes, lots and lands economically productive

2. Increasing their natural health and vitality

3. Designing long-term, productive food systems

4. Minimizing our fossil fuel (energy) requirements

5. Creating long term security for ourselves, our homes, our neighborhoods and communities.

Click here for full details

http://www.midwestpermaculture.com/PDC-YogaFarm-Nov.10.php

Design course includes text, self-study questions, internet-networking site,

pre-training handouts, live and recorded webinars and the 8-days of training.

Graduates receive certification and may use the name ‘Permaculture’

In the promotion of their work, craft or knowledge base.

There are only a few places left on this course BOOK NOW

Midwest Permaculture(.com), Community – Permaculture – Sustainability

125 Crescent Lane, Stelle, IL 60919 – Email: Bill@MidwestPermaculture.com — Ph: 815-256-2215

ADVENTURES WITH MATT

Matt Berry offers a unique approach to ecological education, blending his interests and expertise in field biology, primitive skills, and Permaculture.  Matt has been practicing and teaching primitive living skills and nature awareness for over a decade, and holds a BS in Forestry and Wildlife.  With his passion for indigenous skills, he created a Wildcrafting Series at the Regenerative Design Institute, where he was the garden manager for several years.  He currently lives in Grass Valley with his wife Rachel and daughter Amara.  He works as a seasonal wildlife biologist, continues to teach wild crafting courses, and consults in permaculture and natural For info on classes on basket making, wildfood walks and greywater systems. For more info: http://adventureswithmatt.com/Classes.html

Introduction to Permaculture with Paul Racko