Ecology
Action needs a volunteer to work 4 to 6 hours a
week-Tuesday and/or Thursday-in its office on Pine
Mountain in Willits. For more information, call
(707) 459-3963. Be sure to leave a message that
includes your phone number.
Steve Moore, certified intermediate-level
GROW BIOINTENSIVE teacher, will be giving two passive
solar greenhouse workshops in 2005: March 4-5 and
October 14-15. The workshops will cover design,
construction and year-round production. The workshop
is limited to 25 people. Organic lunches, breaks
and free housing are provided on the 55-year-old
organic homestead, farm and natural health facility
and store. Contact: Steve and Carol Moore, 1522
Lefever Lane, Spring Grove PA 17362; (717) 225-2489; sandcmoore@juno.com.
"Newly formed 300-acre
retreat center in Northern Vermont is seeking a
hardworking gardener for the May-September growing
season. Help needed in expanding the Biointensive
vegetable gardens along with maintaining the extensive
landscaped flower and rock gardens. Beautiful, peaceful
environment, very comfortable private accommodations,
swimming ponds, miles of hiking and biking trails.
For more info email ackeefar@earthlink.net or call (802) 635-7889."
The Institute for Social Ecology
is offering summer classes and ongoing Bachelor
and Master of Arts programs. The classes are: Sustainable
Design, Building and Land Use, May 27-June 17; Arts,
Media and Activism, May 27-June 10; Remaking Society:
An Intensive in Social Ecology, June 25-July 23;
and Continuing Studies in Social Ecology, dates
TBA. The Bachelor and Master programs both begin
in June 2005. Contact: 1118 Maple Hill Road, Plainfield
VT 05667; (802) 454-8493; info@social-ecology.org.
Friends of the Trees Society
will be presenting an Inland Northwest Restoration
Conference November 4-6. South Columbia Basin venue
to be announced. A conference on native plant and
habitat restoration in the Inland Northwest-eastern
Washington, eastern Oregon, Idaho, Montana and interior
British Columbia. Contact: PO Box 4469, Bellingham
WA 98227; (360) 927-1274; friendsofthetrees@yahoo.com; www.friendsofthetrees.net.
The Occidental Arts and Ecology
Center will be offering tours on March 13, March
26, April 2, 9, 10, 23 and 30 and May 1 and 8. The
Center will also give classes: Erosion Control and
Water Management for homeowners and land managers
April 24, Medicinal Plant Walk May 15, Intentional
Communities May 20-22, and Introduction to Birding
May 22. Contact: 15290 Coleman Valley Road, Occidental
CA 95465; (707) 874-1557; fax (707) 874-1558; oaec@oaec.org.
The Ninth Annual Conference of
the Community Food Security Coalition will be held
October 6-9 in Atlanta, Georgia, and will include
field trips, workshops, keynote speakers, and networking.
Contact: PO Box 209, Venice CA 90294; www.foodsecurity.org.
Conference brochure and on-line registration will
be available in June.
The Second National Farm to Cafeteria
Conference will be held at Kenyon College in Gambier,
Ohio, June 16-18. The theme is "Putting Local
Food on the Table: Farms and Food Service in Partnership."
Contact: www.foodsecurity.org. |