melanie Mindlin

Greetings Friends,

Social Forestry: Tending the Land as People of Place is a new book from Tomi Hazel Vaarde. We are in the last week of the crowdfunding campaign which is being released soon by Synergetic Press.  

There are people who put a lot of work into this project that were not in the publisher’s budget, and we want to pay the Illustrators, photographer and others for their efforts. In addition, the campaign is an opportunity to buy the book directly from Siskiyou Permaculture. Hazel will get about 10 times more if folks buy it through the campaign than if purchased through any other venue. We will not be selling the book online after the campaign

There’s lots of information about the book on the Indiegogo Page. We hope you will support this work by donating and/or pre-ordering the Social Forestry book now.

GO TO THE INDIEGOGO CAMPAIGN HERE
https://igg.me/at/SocForBook/x/31300529#/

With deep gratitude for your help with the campaign,

Melanie, Karen and Hazel
https://siskiyoupermaculture.org/

PERMACULTURE DESIGN COURSE 2018
Early registration ends January 10th
6 weekends starting February 10th

Read more about the course and register now at:
https://sites.google.com/site/siskiyouper/permaculture-design-course
You can get a full $100 discount by registering by January 10th.

The PDC is the foundational course for permaculture education.  This is where you learn where you learn the breadth and depth of permaculture thinking and how to plan permaculture projects.  Offered over 6 weekends, our 12 day PDC focuses on regional approaches and always gets rave reviews.  

Siskiyou Permaculture has helped farmers, urban homesteaders, natural product businesses and community organizers to not only improve their activities, but to be more clear about their mission and how their work fits into the ongoing maintenance of resilience on this planet.  Many of our previous students are now fully engaged in important projects and some of them are working with us on ecovillages, farms and forestry.  Some of our previous students have gone on to become illustrious permaculturists in their own right.

The PDC is a survey course in which we cover a wide range of subjects.  You will learn useful terminology, concepts, patterns and principles. You will do a design project that includes mapping, planning, visioning.  We will be supporting you with links to educational materials, handouts, access to tools, books and mentoring.  There will be hands-on practice in surveying, mapping, plant identification, plant selection and soils.  Our course is focused on the Siskiyou region of nCA and S OR, and you will be learning lots of local information that will help you understand this wonderful place we live.

As you may have noticed, the nature of our times is change!  This course is a basket of tools and ideas that will contribute to re-localization and a wonderful grounded life in place.
PERMACULTURE DESIGN COURSE REGISTRATION

https://sites.google.com/site/siskiyouper/permaculture-design-course[size=18]
Contact us for more information at siskiyoupermaculture@gmail.com.

Optical Surveying for Earthworks and Water
Advanced Permaculture Course with Tom Ward
6 days at Wolf Gulch Farm in Southern Oregon
October 10-15, 2017

Basic surveying and layout are essential skill sets for every farmer, homesteader, designer and consultant. Tom Ward teaches the use of many types of analog (non-battery operated) surveying tools, along with advanced skills in keyline, pond and swale layout, mapping, and other core knowledge necessary for design and execution of permaculture projects.

Students will become familiar with swale, terrace, ditch and pond layout, profile cross-section drawing, keyline and trail system locating, solar assessment, ditch and wiggle water way layout, small cabin orientation and pad layout, staking, note taking, and compass and map reading. We will use telescope-like devices and other hand tools such as sight levels, pocket transits, builders levels, A-frames and various vertical measurement rods, as well as measuring tapes and wheels. The course will include flagging for trails, swales and ponds, as well as observations on the landscape with mapping of plants, birds and trees.

The course is held at Wolf Gulch Farm where Tom has designed and surveyed trails, ponds, swales, keyline terraces, and water & irrigation systems over the last 15 years.  Tom Ward is a certified instructor with the Permaculture Institute of North America, and has been teaching and consulting for over 30 years.  This is a certified advanced course.

The Permaculture Design Course is a prerequisite for getting a certificate from this course. Others may have the certificate held until they have taken their PDC. You must complete all six days of the course to get your certificate. The course is open to all who have a working knowledge of Permaculture.

Lots of additional information about the course is on our website at siskiyoupermaculture.com including student reviews and logistics.

Please register early and take advantage of the $100 discount.  (Early registration price is $525 and includes camping).
Early registration ends September 10th. Please contact us with any questions. siskiyoupermaculture@gmail.com

Social Forestry, Advanced Permaculture Course
6 days in the woods with Hazel aka Tom Ward
Presented by Siskiyou Permaculture, visit us at siskiyoupermaculture.com
Location: Wolf Gulch Farm, Applegate, Southern Oregon

This Social Forestry course will explore reconnecting with forests through ecological knowledge, the use of hand tools and woodscrafts, seasonal festivals and work cycles, childrens’ stories, pilgrimages and stewardship covenants. We will learn ecological assessment, carbon sequestration methods, restoration forestry and the crafts and products that can be enjoyed while we are re-establishing our heart space and wonder in the woods.

Social Forestry connects villages and communities to their forested water catchment basin. Here in a developed industrial empire, the forests are lonely. We have lost our sense of living with forests as friends.

Join us for underburning, forest management, coppicing, basketry and more at this hands on course.
Course price $600, early registration by December 23rd $500, includes camping.
Registration, information, course reviews and more on our website at https://sites.google.com/site/siskiyouper/social-forestry-course

Optical Surveying For Earthworks and Water with Siskiyou Permaculture
Advanced Permaculture Certificate Course
September 29 - October 4, 2015
Location: Little Applegate, Southern Oregon
Description:
Basic surveying and layout are essential skill sets for every farmer, homesteader, designer and consultant. In this 6 day course, Tom Ward teaches the use of many analog (non-battery operated) surveying tools, along with advanced skills in keyline, pond and swale layout, mapping and other core knowledge necessary for design and implementation of permaculture projects. The course is held at Wolf Gulch Farm where Tom has designed and surveyed trails, ponds, swales, keyline terraces and water and irrigation systems over the last 15 years.
The course is open to all who have a working knowledge of permaculture. An advanced certificate through Cascadia Permacultuare Institute is offered to those who have their PDC. This is the 6th annual offering of this powerful course and curriculum and reviews are available on the Siskiyou Permaculture website.
Instructor: Tom Ward with assistants Melanie Mindlin and Karen Taylor
Cost: $575; early registration by August 29th is $500; includes camping
Contact: Siskiyou Permaculture 541-482-7909; siskiyoupermaculture.com; siskiyoupermaculture@gmail.com

One of our students says, "This has been THE best educational experience that I have ever had! The wealth of information that Tom has to offer goes light years beyond the scope of this course. I wish I had more time to spend with them; it was completely and overwhelmingly engaging." You can read all the reviews on our website to see what folks have said about the course.

Hello, It's been a few months since you posted but I'm just seeing it now. I started on-line partner searching recently and rapidly found that virtually no matches come up for key words of permaculture, homesteading, organic gardening, farming. I live in Ashland, Oregon and am seeking to live in an ecovillage situation. Maybe this can happen near here; that would be great I love this area and am deeply connected. Maybe not. I'm pretty committed to the west coast. I'm a permaculture teacher, 59 years old, active in my community, enjoy intelligent conversation, dancer. Probably won't check my PM so you can see more about me and message me on FB. Melanie Mindlin. Good luck to you Viking.

Social Forestry, Advanced Permaculture Course
6 day certificate course
February 2-7, 2015

The Social Forestry course will explore reconnecting with forests through ecological knowledge, the use of hand tools and woodscrafts, seasonal festivals and work cycles, childrens’ stories, pilgrimages and stewardship covenants. Social Forestry connects villages and communities to their forested water catchment basin. Here in a developed industrial empire, the forests are lonely. We have lost our sense of living with forests as friends. We will learn ecological assessment, carbon sequestration methods, restoration forestry and the crafts and products that can be enjoyed while we are re-establishing our heart space and wonder in the woods. Join us for underburning, forest management, coppicing, basketry and more at this hands on course.

This 6 day course is held at Wolf Gulch Farm in the Little Applegate area of Southern Oregon. Be sure to read the Logistics section on our website when considering this winter course. Course fee $550 includes camping. Just 4 spaces left as of January 7th, so register now. https://sites.google.com/site/siskiyouper/social-forestry-course

Tom Ward aka Tomi Hazel, a long time resident of the Southern Oregon bioregion, has been advising farms and teaching Permaculture for over thirty years. He has degrees in Forestry and Botany from Syracuse University. TH is presently managing a Social Forestry experimental station in Little Wolf Gulch near Ruch, OR, demonstrating natural building, fuel hazard materials utilization, multiple products woods-crafting, wildlife enhancement and desert forest water management. TH is a collaborator in Siskiyou Permaculture which offers permaculture education, counseling and design services. TH is the author of Greenward Ho! Herbal Home Remedies: An Ecological Approach to Sustainable Health.

More information, reviews and resources on our website at https://sites.google.com/site/siskiyouper/social-forestry-course. Also see, siskiyoupermaculture.com.

The West Coast Women's Permaculture Gathering is happening soon, so purchase your tickets today. Come join permaculture's finest women in the woods on the Fall Equinox at a special place tucked away in the mountains near Monroe, Washington.
http://westcoastwomenspc.weebly.com

We have the Schedule for the event up on the website now with some great presentations.

• Lindsay Huettman: Pacific Northwest Native Plants, Connection and Permaculture

• Jessi Bloom: Why We Need More Feminine Leaders in Permaculture and How to Become One

• Starhawk & Presenters: Panel Discussion on Permaculture & Climate Change

• Jacqueline Freeman: Falling in Love with Honeybees

• Jeanette Acosta: Traditional Indigenous Knowledge, Values & a Maritime Perspective

• EagleSong: Hedge Medicine; Weaving an Emerald Cloak with the Ancients

• Marisha Auerback: Soil Improvement; A Permaculture Approach to Tending & Building Soil

• Emet Degirmenci: Re-Skilling for Edible Landscaping


Plus daily morning yoga, ritual, fire circles & singing, open space, Village Marketplace, Local Site Tours and more.

When we gather we facilitate growth, strengthen bonds, nurture each other and inspire change. You must pre-register for this event by Sept. 8th. Early registration assists in the organizing this event. You may register for Saturday only. Please register now to join us for this amazing event. http://westcoastwomenspc.weebly.com/tickets.html

See you there.

West Coast Women's Permaculture Gathering 2014
September 18th-21st at Camp Hamilton, near Monroe, Washington

Register Now! Early registration ends June 30th.
http://westcoastwomenspc.weebly.com

This amazing event has been held twice in California and once in southern Oregon. This year it's being held in Washington, and all northwest women can grab the chance to join us for a weekend in the woods with amazing women sharing stories, skills and ideas, singing songs and dancing in the firelight. Get inspired and invigorated! When we gather we facilitate growth, strengthen bonds, nurture each other and inspire change.

We will take a central focus of taking permaculture beyond an interest or hobby to inspiring women with permaculture examples to find their path to right-livelihood and thrive! This years Gathering will feature exciting presentations, skill-building opportunities and our first ever Saturday Market Place to support your right-livelihoods, followed by our first ever Dance Party around the fire near the lake! Tickets are available for the entire three days, Saturday only, children at a reduced rate, child care is FREE with ticket for whole weekend. See ticketing page for details.

Presenters for 2014 include:
We have an amazing line up of extraordinary speakers!
EagleSong - Founder of RavenCroft Gardens and Healing From the Ground Up herbal apprentice program.
Starhawk - The Fifth Sacred Thing,The Last Wild Witch & Earth Activist Training
Jacqueline Freeman - Biodynamic Beekeeper and owner of Friendly Haven Rise Farm in Venersborg, WA
Jeanette Acosta - Author and composer raised by traditional indigenous healers, designer and ethnobotanist.
Emet Degirmenci - International urban and indigenous permaculture community design.

For more information and registration: http://westcoastwomenspc.weebly.com
Hope to see you there.