Classes: Central Texas
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NOTE: Last 2 Winter Series Talks at Habitat Suites – Thursday, March 25 and April 1, 2010 – 7:00 PM
(Note that there is no Talk on March 18th – it’s Spring Break and SXSW in Austin – enjoy)
- March 25 – “Eco-Villages, Co-Housing, Intentional Communities – In the US and Around the World.” Slides and video clips of Earthaven, NC, Findhorn, Scotland, etc., and [soon] in Austin TX. Great info, experience, ideas whether you are thinking of changing your venue and lifestyle or jus a few new ideas for your family and neighborhood. 7:00 -8:30 PM plus dicsussion at Habitat Suites Hotel, 500 E Highland Mall Blvd, near I-35 and Rt. 290, north of Mall, next to Sailboat Center. Free and open to you, friends, family, associates.
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-April 1 (no fooling) -”The Science & Spirituality [& Religious] Sides of Permaculture.” A slide talk by Dick Pierce – the objective is to see the need and look for ways to put these 3-4 major world forces together to work for ways that we and our grandchildren will be allowed to live in sustainably, along side our fellow creatures and God’s creations. “Same time, same station” as above.
NOTE: If you’ve missed all or any of the 2010 Winter Series of Talks – this is your last chance. Find out what hundreds have found out this year and in the past – these talks are good, informative, fun, and inspiring.
NOTE: Winter/Spring PDC Course is almost over – 17 happy, enthusiastic, passionate designers. It’s time to think about signing up for the Fall 2010 Design Course – 10 Satrurdays, starting Oct. 2nd and going through Dec. 4th. Check www.austinperm.com with Jenny for details and to enroll. Prices and agenda will be the same as the Spring Course described here.
Permaculture Design Course – Austin – Jan 30 – Arp 3, 2010 – 10 Saturdays.
Check www.permie.us or Jenny at jnazak@yahoogroups.com to enroll and with questions. Ask her about credit cards/Pay-Pal, possible payment plans, and partial work exchanges program via ATEN.
Join a great group of like-minded folks who care deeply about the local environment and their role in sustaining it, improving it, living within our resources, and passing it on better than we found it. Tactical, practical, theoretical, spiritual, convivial – you’ll love it and amaze yourself with your knowledge and your professional design.
Do enquire. Do enroll/attend. Over 100 very, very satisfied and energized folks – young, medium, mature; men and women, rural property owners, suburban/urban homeowners, apartment renters, owners/planners/dreamers, landscape/architect/construction professionals and brand-new-to-it-all’s – have attended this PDC Course – literally every one of them would be happy to tell you about it and the effect on their lives.
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Citizen Gardener Basics Classes for Central Texas
NOTE: The Winter/Spring Classes are finito – we had almost 120 new gardeners who are now out About 100 folks helped the Fall 2009 Citizen Gardener Grads celebrate at a luscious Local Food pot-luck on Dec 3rd at the Barr Mansion. It was a Local Food Potluck – there were over 70 dishes made lovingly from local ingredients, many of which came from the graduates’ own gardens. They felt good, and it tasted ohh-so- good. The CG graduation potluck for spring 2010 classes will be in Austin in early mid-May – you won’t want to miss it – why not make it your own graduation? So enroll now for a Spring 2010 Citizen Gardener-Basics Course. They are each 2 Sat. AMs from 9:00 – 12:30 with a meeting on the Wed. evening in-between, from 7:00 – 8:30 PM. There are 5 (five) Courses so you can pick the Course whose dates fit best with your schedule. Each class size is limited, so please enroll now to get the dates you wnat. – Sat’s. Jan 16 & 23, Wed. Jan 20 – Dick Pierce – E-Central Austin, TBD – Sat’s. Jan 30 & Feb 6, Wed Feb 10 – Khaled Jafar – South Austin – TBD – Sat’s. Feb 13 & 20, Wed Feb 17 – Jared Sudekum – Liberty Hill Library – TBC – Sat’s, Feb 27 & Mar 6, Wed Mar 3 – Leslie Keller – NE Austin – TBD – Sat’s. Mar 13 & 20, Wed Mar 10 – Stephanie Peronne – E-E-Austin – Kipp Academy The Course Fee of $50 is waived if you pledge/complete 10 hours of volunteer time wit a PC Garden Partner. There is a $20 material/teacher fee. For more inf and to enroll, please check www.citizengardener.ning.com or email citizengardener08@gmail.com. The promo flyer is reprinted below – please look over, copy, post and pass to friends…Sorry no graphics: The Austin/C-TX Citizen Gardener Group Presents: The “Spring”Garden” – 2010 – A New Decade – A New Garden – A New You/Community Want to learn about Austin’s unique growing season(s), climate, soils, plants, and water resources? Want to raise safe, nutritious food for your family, and your children to know and enjoy gardening? Don’t have a lot of time, money, patience, or space…but want food and want it to work, now? What will I learn? Basics: Turn your bare ground or Bermuda grass lawn into raised-garden beds – in the right place, with The “Spring” Garden – Plant in mid-Jan thru mid- March – Then Harvest from March thru mid June -Mid-Jan – mid-March is the planting time for most veggies in Austin’s unique Spring Gardening season Details - For more information, please check our website www.citizengardener.ning.com. – Check website for locations (N, S, E) and questions/enrollments to citizengardener08@gmail.com Start the new Decade off right – Check/Enroll at www.citizengardener.ning.com
tending their gardens – contributing to family exercise & nutrition, stronger neighborhoods, and the Local Food Movement. All that’s left is the Graduation and Local Food Potluck in early May – all are welcome; we are expecting you to attend. The Fall 2010 Courses will coincide with the C-TX Fall Planting calendar -starting on August 14 through Sept 25. Each course is 2 Sat. AM’s of hands-on experience and a Wednesday evening discussion group. Please check www.citizengardener.ning.com for details and to enroll.
Please check or email enrollment request/question to “Citizen Gardener”
Hands-On Organic Gardening Class
Locations: N, S, E of Austin
the right soil. Small enough to manage, big enough to provide real food.
Techniques: Raised beds; soil, mulch, and compost; bio-intensive/square-foot gardening; plant
varieties for
Central Texas; water management; plant starts, seeds, and propagation; good and bad bugs.
Do It,…Learn I,…Go Home and Do It:. Saturday AM workshops include fun outdoor activities with a
great group. Schedule coincides with our fall planting season.
-Grow/harvest until late May – mid June.(and beyond).
-It’s great weather to be active and outdoors. Help add to your family’s well-being, and nutrition,
your exercise, and Austin’s food movement and local food supply – become a “Foodie”
- Course Fee is $50 for two hands-on classes and one evening discussion, or FREE with a pledge of ten
hours of volunteer time to a CG Garden Partner (list available on website). The material fee is $20.
- A new Course (3 classes) will start every other Sat., starting Jan.16th.