Robin's Program & Workshop Schedule for 2010
Sustainable Microfarm Forum - Understanding your Land, Sustenance gardening, Food Cycles, Resources and More
February 20, 2010 (9:30 am to 3:30 pm)
Texada Island Community Centre, 9:30 - 3:30
Email ravenbaywoods@yahoo.ca for info.
"Get Growing" Workshop and Seed Saving Talk
February 21, 2010
Powell River - Community Resource Centre
Contact
David Parkinson at fsp@prepsociety.org for more info (and times!).
Sustainable Microfarm Forum
February 28, 2010 (9:30 am to 3:30 pm)
Pender Harbour Music School
Food cycles, resources, shade growing, water wisdom and more. $55 includes lunch.
Contact Robin or Teri at 604.883.2817 (tarebare53@yahoo.ca)
Food Cycles
First and third Monday of the month, beginning March 1
Edible Landscapes (1732 Pell Road, Roberts Creek)
Move through an entire season of food growing basics. $300 for 14 sessions or $25 for drop in. Some shifts in topic may occur. To register, just pick the workshops you'd like and send me an email with your choices. You can pay via PayPal (send a PayPal payment to info@ediblelandscapes.ca or by mailing a cheque to Edible Landscapes, 1732 Pell Road, Roberts Creek, BC V0N 2W1. Robin can be reached at 604.885.4505 or via email at info@ediblelandscapes.ca with questions.
March 1 - plant selection, garden mapping, stockpiling matter, seed starting
March 15 - herb garden prep, slug patrol, forest garden, planting garden.
April 5 - Perennial plant recognition and care, propagation and transplanting.
April 19 - Weed and pest management, attracting wildlife, making a salve.
May 3 - Observing plants, checking water system, harvesting, preparing for squash.
May 17 - Water wisdom, predator management, tool care, nursery care.
June 7 - planning the winter garden, harvesting herbs, checking mulch and setting up feeding system.
June 21 - Feed your plants. Chicken tractor and design a chicken coop.
July 5 - In home food systems, dehydrator basics, seed check, make a bamboo gate.
July - 19 - Make a tincture, make infused oil, mulch.
Aug 2 - observation and triage, harvest and pickling.
Aug - 16 - the wood shed - preparing for winter.
Sept 6 - Assess winter foods, herb recognition
Sept 20 - Seed Saving, winter gifts, lactofermentation.
Village Vancouver (Topic TBA)
March 7, 2010
Richmond (Topic TBA)
March 12, 2010
Medicine Making Basics
March 13, 2010
Richmond, BC
Details TBA
Village Vancouver (Topic TBA)
April 10 & 11, 2010
Village Vancouver (Topic TBA)
May 1 & 2, 2010
Wild Weekend
May 8 & 9, 2010
Edible Landscapes (1732 Pell Road, Roberts Creek)
Wild edibles, wildcrafting herbs, native technology, making containers, cleaning water and making fire, tune in and out with Peter Light. Camp out and get dirty. $150 - $200.
Bush Farming
May 15 & 16, 2010
Edible Landscapes (1732 Pell Road, Roberts Creek)
For the farmer facing raw land, visit bush farms, learn to select from a woodlot, discern and work with water issues, repair and maintain tools and more. $25 per class.
Herb Weekend
June 19 & 20, 2010
Edible Landscapes (1732 Pell Road, Roberts Creek)
Plant recognition, harvest and long term storage, small scale commercial production, native herb use, making plant medicine. $25 per class.
Roberts Creek Sprouts Camp
June 26 & 27, 2010
Edible Landscapes (1732 Pell Road, Roberts Creek)
Botany fun for kids 4 - 8 (or so!). Again being offered - a weekend in Roberts Creek with learning opportunities for young children. Weekend charge for 4 children classes and one adult class is $125. To register email robindigsit@telus.net or call Robin at 604.885.4505 for more information.
Camping on site is $5 per night. Parents are responsible for food and water.
(Camping charge is to cover incidentals such as TP/bandaids/coffee/that missing spoon and all those other forgotten items!!! Don't worry about the small stuff - we have it here.)
TO REGISTER: Cheques payable to:
Edible Landscapes,
1732 Pell Road,
Roberts Creek, BC
V0N 2W1 or email info@ediblelandscapes.ca to pay via Paypal (we'll send you a PayPal invoice).
Regular fee -
4 kids workshops = $100,
1 adult workshop = $25,
Camping fee $10 =
Total $135.
Directions to Edible Landscapes will be emailed/mailed to participating families with last minute hints.
Goals:
Children learn a safe method of tasting plants
Children learn how to pick leaves and flowers without damaging plants
Children become curious and discerning about different types of plants.
Children learn the basic skill of comparing plant parts.
Children begin to name plants.
Children experience different human uses of plants.
Children connect the garden with food and drink.
Children are more confident, respectful and safe around plants.
I realize the children will not remember much true info, but they will get some skills and become more aware. PS - The "Reading Room" is a cool covered meeting place so kids are not in the sun too long.
For those of you who attended last year, yes, we are doing much the same over again! This time there will be deeper memory and participation - the kids won't mind the repeat!
Schedule:
Friday - set up tents and get kids off to bed.
Saturday
9:30 - Meeting and Greeting - How to taste and smell plants; How to pick a leaf or flower, or berry.
10:00 - Taste and Smell Walk
10:30 - Gathering our snacks from the garden (peas, greens, tea)
11:00 - Snacks and tea (talking about the food we are eating); Free period - reading, napping, drawing, beach visit
1:00 - Garden walk - eating and naming many kinds of berries, cultivated and wild.
1:30 - Creative plant project - Annette Clark may help with this one.
2:30 - Class over, but we can feed the goldfish and talk about water!
3:00 - 4:30 - Adult class - "Timely Actions" - We will do "Timely Actions" again (unless there is a vote otherwise) with a walking tour and visual analysis of what needs mulching, shaping, tending, harvesting - actions that would happen early summer.
Saturday night - shared dinner, visit around fire, solstice candles.
Sunday
10:00 - Nature walk along driveway to talk about wild plants. Taste, smell, feel. Note different insects on each plant. Pick and compare grasses.
10:30 - How plants protect themselves - prickles and bad flavours (a classic!)
11:00 - Kids choose and make tea and snacks for adults.
Free period.
1:00 - Reading Room - What plant parts make what?
1:40 - Test! Garden walk - How many plants can we name?
2:00 - Reading Room - learning plant parts.
2:30 - Saying goodbye to the fish!
Slow dissolve . Ferry at 4:30 pm gets most people home to Vancouver by 6 pm.
Permie Primer
July 11 & 12, 2010
Edible Landscapes (1732 Pell Road, Roberts Creek)
Land analysis, soil improvement, cheese making, still filling in the blanks - stay tuned for these summer and fall courses!
Permie Weekend
July 24 & 25, 2010
Edible Landscapes (1732 Pell Road, Roberts Creek)
Bee care, chicken tractor, winter gardening, and more.
Permie Weekend
August 28 & 29, 2010
Edible Landscapes (1732 Pell Road, Roberts Creek)
Food preservation - Harvesting, brining, dehydrating, food storage retrofit ($50 for morning).
Sprouts Camp
Sept 11 & 12, 2010
Edible Landscapes (1732 Pell Road, Roberts Creek)
See description above.
