September 3, 2010 – 5:09 pm
August 28, 2010 – 10:23 am
August 19, 2010 – 7:19 am
MONDAY, August 30th, from 10 am to 1 pm,
…at the Community Gardens and Art-Farm Workshop,
1499 Silver Dr., Traverse City, MI 49684
We are asking for folks coming to this workshop to RSVP, by August 25th, and to commit to a continuation of a modular, PDC/design project for our site on the barns property beginning in November 2010 through April 2011 (See outline below). This three hour session with Peter and Keith will function as a further immersion in a Permaculture brainstorm/consultation for our 4.3 acres, and as, guidance for the final design of the PDC being offered, by Little Artshram.
We will be passing a hat, and asking for donations for Peter and Keith's visit.
RSVP, by August 25th @ penny@littleartshram.org
Peter Bane and Keith Johnson are experienced permaculture site designers and teachers. They have been teaching and consulting on permaculture design for 26 years. They have developed an intimate knowledge of various regional landscapes and resources. With their wealth of experience in temperate climate permaculture systems they can offer a range of teaching and design services to regional and distant clients.
Peter is a native Illinoisan who grew up in the university city of Champaign-Urbana. He has lived in various regions of the U.S., taught permaculture extensively from Canada to Chile for 15 years, and was recognized in 2005 with the Diploma of Permaculture Design for his 18 years of publishing, teaching, design, and community work. He has trained over 1000 students.
Keith was raised in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, and has been a commercial landscaper, stonemason, and organic gardener for over 33 years in places as varied as subtropical California, the White Mountains of New Hampshire, the mountains of W. North Carolina. He's been teaching Permaculture for 13 years and has instructed more than 600 students.
Here are the dates and basic theme/outline of the Traverse City/Northwest Michigan Permaculture
Design Course (based on PDC certification requirements):
Nov. 20-21, 2010 HIstory of Pc, Ethics, Orientation of Little a-land,
Concepts & Themes of Principals of Pc, Observation exercise, Zones/
Sectors, Design Process, Design project introduction/Assignments
Dec. 11-12, 2010 Check in Design and Research FB/Q, Scale of
Permanence/Design Process, Pattern Understanding 2X, Climate,
Landform, Water, Research projects/Assignments
Jan. 15-16, 2011 Check in Design and Research FB/Q, Bioremediation/
Mushrooms, "Waste" Water, Aquaculture, Trees & their Energy
Transactions, Forest Gardens, Urban Permaculture, SIte Anaylsis/
Assignments
Feb. 12-13, 2011 Research Presentations, Global Pc/Internal Health,
Contours/Earthworks/Hands-on, Earthworks Keyline, Landscape Profiles
by Landzone, Methods of Design, Site Anaylsis & Dersign Phase
Assignments
Mar. 12-13, 2011 Design/Feedback, Micro-Climates & Zones of Use,
Buildings/Natural Buildings by Climate, Buildings and Infastructure
Design, Animals, Soil & Gardens, Soil Food Web, Design Phase
Assignments
April 9-10, 2011 Check-in Design/Feedback, Invisible Structures/
Liberation Ecology, Design Presentations, Wrap-up, Next Steps,
Invisible Structures/Next Steps/Certificates
For registration information, and a complete outline of the PDC and instructors, contact:
penny@littleartshram.org
P.O.Box 844
Traverse City, MI 49685
Permaculture and Little Artshram info sharing:
“We humans live as part of the natural world, one member of a community much larger than our species alone. The natural world feeds us and sustains us, and our actions affect all other members of our community: we are all in this together. Yet most of us do not experience these realities with any frequency at all. Permaculture fosters the emergence of a culture which encourages and supports us to experience ourselves in the ways of knowing ourselves as "native" to the places we live in.The basic teaching and strategy of Permaculture is to recognize our human selves as a non-fixed species on the move, and, our absolute, responsible part as collaborators on Earth to do as the planet has always asked of us….to take care-full steps, and action based on the understanding and practice and the fine-art of observation. Being mindful, intentional, and integrity-based in our choices and decisions.
Permaculture is a friend of the Right Brain and helps us recognize our role as artists, designers, and gardeners on a mission to make and do, tend and mend, and feed ourselves and our families. With guiding principals and ethics, the Permaculture tool-box or re-skilling set, allows us to utilize a basic, intelligent and creative Ecological Design process, which contributes to a self-regulating, harmonious and healing system. This we know is necessary in our peak oil, post-industrial world, and for the sake of our children.”
Little Artshram’s mission is to inspire both a deeper learning and daily practice of the Permaculture ethics that guide us: Caring for people, caring for the earth and giving something back. Little Artshram fosters alternative education through a unique combination of permaculture principles, visual, musical and puppet artistry, service to the natural world and inclusive social activism. We provide programs which inspire and educate people of all ages to live creatively and in harmony with nature. We observe and take inspiration from nature, learn about growing our own food and living sustainably, gather recyclables to create fantastic art, write stories and songs, build parades and invite the public to our seasonal community celebrations. Our theme and focus of both study and creation are: Observation, Food, Water, Shelter and Community."
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August 12, 2010 – 9:46 am
JOIN Little Artshram, as we join our friends at Porterhouse Productions and help support the National Writers Series Youth Scholarship Fund, AND, our Youth-Market Garden CSA! Come to the "Evening with Mario Batali" fundraiser and support both the NWS and, Youth-Market Garden CSA going into it's 2011 season….
More info at:
http://www.porterhouseproductions.com/2010/07/07/an-evening-with-mario-batali/
CALLING Girls!
It's your last chance to register…..
You are invited to join a bunch of great gals, along with Penny and Dede, and special guest mentors, for a very special week of OUTLOUD! Gal fun… August 16th-20th….9-3pm….AND/OR… join us for a Weekend Get-Away to the Eco-Learning Center.
This is a "reunion" year for new and returning OUTLOUD! Girls! We wish to bring our "circle" of girl/woman energy together at our growing, blooming home-place on the barns property and our Art-Farm Workshop and Community Garden, as well as have a fun-filled weekend at the Eco-Learning Center. It's been a LONG journey of planning and crafting ourselves as an organization continues, and this "girl and womens' group" has been a very, very strong part of shaping our destiny and inspiring our work as an organization rooted in teaching the wisdom of nature as our ally, along with a Permaculture based curriculum in the Traverse City area.
So in this 7th year, in our OUTLOUD! Girl camp week, we are focusing on Wild-crafting, designing a Medicine Wheel Garden in our 7-Sisters Garden, along with the usual yoga,woods-wandering, tree-climbing, art-making, singing, drumming, while, visiting many, many special places on the barns-property and in the Munson Woods…Then it's off to Jayne Leatherman Walker's wonderful Eco-Learning Center for a weekend get-away!
IF you can't join us during the day-camp-week, there is always the camping party out at the Eco-Learning Center, with our great friend, Jayne Leatherman Walker….Aug. 20, 21st, Friday/Sat night….
REGISTER for the Camp and/or RSVP the Weekend get-away…penny@littleartshram.org 231-510-3491
Under age 9, please bring an adult girl/woman friend to the Weekend get-away…
Day-camp fee is $99.00, and the Weekend Get-Away at Eco-Learning Center is a donation of $20.00 per person, which we will share, with our host at the center.
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You are invited to join a bunch of great gals, along with Penny and Dede, and special guest mentors, for a very special week of OUTLOUD! Gal fun… August 16th-20th….9-3pm….AND join us for a Weekend Get-Away to the Eco-Learning Center.
This is a "reunion" year for our OUTLOUD! Girls camp, our 7th Annual gathering for girls and women! Several of the older OUTLOUD! girls are returning from travels, college and various adventures.
We wish to bring our "circle" of girl/woman energy together at our growing, blooming home-place on the barns property and our Art-Farm Workshop and Community Garden, as well as have a fun-filled weekend at the Eco-Learning Center.
It's been a LONG journey of planning and crafting ourselves as an organization continues, and this "girl and womens' group" has been a very, very strong part of shaping our destiny and inspiring our work as an organization rooted in teaching the wisdom of nature as our ally and teacher and the practice of a circling/twisty-turny/permaculture based curriculum in the Traverse City area.
So we get the question sometimes: why just girls? And our short answer is: why not? This is more about healing, honoring, strengthening, and celebrating our unique female energies than it is about competing and separating off from boys. Women and girls need this time and space, and so we have created this OUTLOUD! Girl and Women framework.
So in this 7th year, in our OUTLOUD! Girl camp week, we are focusing on Wild-crafting, designing a Medicine Wheel Garden in our 7-Sisters Garden, along with the usual yoga,
woods-wandering, tree-climbing, art-making, singing, drumming, while, visiting many, many special places on the barns-property and in the Munson Woods…Then it's off to Jayne Leatherman Walker's wonderful Eco-Learning Center for a weekend get-away!
For those of you who have been with us before, we would love for you to join us with a little sharing of your beautiful OUTLOUD Girl/Woman self with the new girls, mingling with girls from your OUTLOUD! gal group, and meeting some of the older girls.
Maybe you wish to join Dede and I as a mentor or assist with a workshop? Let us know.
IF you can't join us during the day-camp-week, there is always the camping party out at the Eco-Learning Center, with our great friend, Jayne Leatherman Walker….Aug. 20, 21st, Friday/Sat night….(Under age 9, please bring an adult girl/woman friend).
Day-camp fee is $99.00, and the Weekend Get-Away at Eco-Learning Center is a donation of $20.00 per person, which we will share, with our host at the center.
Let us know, if you need more information, or would like a weekend outline of our gathering at the Eco-Learning Center….Email penny@littleartshram.org
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 Mighty big garlic! Little Artshram Community Galendar of events, programs, workbees:
Wed, July 21 – 6:30 – 8:30 pm- Community Garden Potluck & Workbee
Wednesday, August 4 – 6:30 – 8:30 pm – Community Garden Workbee only
Saturday, August 14th, "An Evening with Mario Bateli" fundraiser benefitting the National Writers Series/Community Foundation and Little Artshram's Youth-Market Garden CSA program, on the lawn of the Village of Grand Traverse Commons. This is a special evening celebrating good food, and as a co-sponsor, Little Artshram will raise funds to benefit our Youth-Market Garden CSA program.
Wednesday, August 25th – 6:30 – 8:30 pm – Community Garden Potluck only
Friday and Saturday, August 27th and 28th, Annual Microwbrew Festival on the lawn of the Village of Grand Traverse Commons, presented by Porterhouse Productions benefit for Little Artshram . This is a TWO-day event, celebrating the community harvest of food and beverage, that takes place on our neighbors property, and will benefit our Beehive Summer Camp program and Fall/WInter programming.
Wednesday, September 15th – 6:30 – 8:30 pm – Community Garden Potluck & Workbee
Saturday, September 25th – 10am – 12 pm – Set-up for Harvest Festival and …
Annual Little Artshram and Community Garden HARVEST FESTIVAL, Sat. Sept 25th from 12-5 PM This is a day-long fundraising event, celebrating the end of the growing season and harvest at our Art-Farm and Community Garden on the barns property, and funds raised will go towards improvements for our Art-Farm Workshop and Community Garden expansion.
Youth-Market Garden CSA and Beehive Camp news:
Still space to sign-up for 3 weeks of Beehive Camp…Here's what's still open for registration:
Week of July 19-23rd, and August 2-6, for boys and girls 6 years and older.
Week of August 16th-20th, for girls only…OUTLOUD! Girls Camp.
Download the registration form here:
The Y-M Garden crew would like to welcome our newest share member, Linda Carps. That takes our Youth-Market Garden CSA family to 11 members/families! Thanks for joining our CSA, Linda!
We also thank our crew-member and say so long to Nikki Rousseau and wish her good luck with her work and college endeavors. Thanks Nikki.
This week in July, we are sending THANKS to: All of the Beehive Kids and their families. Our Youth-Market Garden crew really spans a group of kids from age 4 and 3/4 to 25 years, plus a handful of us older folks who mentor and volunteer with them. Really there are DOZENS of people and a beautiful community of Little Artshram friends and family that make-up this community that is contributing to the little 4.3 acres that Little Artshram tends on barns property. We are still feeling mighty thankful for the abundance of fresh, clean water that is feeding our plants from both the well and the rooftop catchment system. We are thrilled to be a part of a watershed that is supplied by a series of natural springs up in the Munson Woods.
We would also like to thank our friend, Brenin Wertz-Roth, who has plunged into a great permaculture and farm project just south of Traverse City, and invited Y-M crew member Scott and myself to visit for a tour his place. Complete with a greenhouse in the middle of his property, he has started a lovely and very successful first year garden. Along with our neighbor farmer-in-residence, Nicholas Theisen, Brenin lends a good perspective and example on how to thoughtfully, create a sustainable, organic garden and set-up a thriving first-year market operation.
Week 3 of the Beehive Camp has given us an opportunity to continue the focus of caretaking, observing and harvesting. This week we mentored the Beehive kids in pest management (ie: potato bugs) and recycled them in good permaculture fashion by feeding them to the neighbor's chickens when we went on our afternoon hike. The kids also worked alongside of Chris pulling out quack grass so that we could thickly mulch with leaves that have been composting in a huge pile out front of our community garden. Wednesday and Thursday was our garlic harvest, and we had a very good time pulling out those big beautiful garlic bulbs. The little people put in several hours cleaning the garlic and bundling them for hanging. The garlic bundles will be hung in our Art-Farm workshop to cure for several weeks, and you will have a nice supply of garlic for the winter!
This week's share: Fresh Peas and a bundle of White Onions, Basil, Salad Greens, Kale, Chives, a baby bundle of Beets (more to come), Sorrel, and a flower and lavendar herb bouquet. Our apologies for the missing bouquet last week. Coming over the next few weeks—green beans, squash, potatoes, eggplant…and more!
Thanks for helping Little Atshram's Y-M Garden CSA and programs grow! Check out the upcoming events and happenings at our Little Artshram workshop and Community Garden growing space, above in the calendar section. Please stop by and meet the Y-M Crew and the other neighboring community gardeners. Roll up your sleeves and join us if you wish.
`The Y-M crew and `penny
 Squash-bug free, happy, yellow squash!  3-Sisters Seed Balls.....  Mixing up the potent compost tea.....  Meeting Mr. Quack Grass in the green-bean patch...  Garlic Harvesters  BLueprint and a model of a natural house, by Amelia, 7 years Share This
June 10, 2010
Greetings to our Youth-Market Garden CSA members and friends!
We still have shares available if you know anyone else who'd like to participate in Traverse City's FIRST urban CSA!
Check out these photos:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=442054&id=735580454&l=ab998516f1
We are happy to announce that even though we've been in the greenhouse and in the gardens since early March, the beginning of our CSA season finally and officially starts next Friday, June 18th!
For our first CSA pick-up, we would like to invite you and your family to join us for a picnic and community and Youth-Market Garden tour, on June 18th, from 5:30 until 7:30 pm.
This will happen right at our community garden site, down near the big barns where we are growing your food, rather than at the Village Farmers Market site. (See directions below to our gardens)
We plan to harvest salad greens, arugula, radishes and garlic scapes. We'll also be sending you home with basil, chive and sage plants (in pots), that you can either transplant into your garden, or keep in pots on your window sill or patio, and snip as needed.
We're looking forward to this tour, realizing that even after several weeks of good, hard work, we are really just getting started. We've put a lot of time into designing, shaping and planting the garden beds and they are really looking green and great! One of our biggest tasks has been to organize a watering system, and still have some work to do, to make this more efficient. We are VERY grateful to have our pump hooked up to a generator, helping us transport the water through hoses to our water barrels in each section of the Y-M Gardens.
Thanks for helping our Youth-Market Garden and CSA grow! We think this is going to be a great summer!
Nikki, Chris, Scott, Zach, Shelby
and Penny
 the blessed water barrels FULL!  Second week of May, seeds in the beds.  Building the garden beds and ammending the soil. Share This
Download the copy of our Youth-Market Garden CSA brochure, pictured below: http://www.littleartshram.org/docs/ymcsa.pdf
 
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