Farm News/ Food for Sale

We have expanded our 2008 plantings and now have 1.3 acres in a wide diversity of crops: vegetables, berries, trees and medicinal herbs.

Plantings have done well this year and the farm is an explosion of food waiting to happen! We need help marketing and eating it all! For instance we will have 2,000 pounds of apricots ripen by the end of July and need to find markets. We’d appreciate any leads you can send.

We would especially like to see individuals and groups doing bulk buys with friends and neighbors. Send someone over to pick up a load of food from Okanogan Biododiversity Farm and farms cooperating with us.

APRICOTS
TOMATOES
PEPPERS
MELONS
POTATOES

+ A WIDE VARIETY OF FRESH VEGETABLES & BERRIES

+ FRESH AND DRIED CULINARY & MEDICINAL HERBS

WHOLESALE PRICES! Bulk orders.
You pick up at our farm in Tonasket.

Purchase a winter food stash custom order with root crops and winter squash.

INTERNS NEEDED
Farm interns, and volunteers needed from time to time on the farm.

PARTNERS SOUGHT. Partners wanted for cooperative venture farming medicinal herbs, vegetables and berries in the Okanogan Valley and looking for partners with resources and skills.

www.friendsofthetrees.net

2nd Washington State Permaculture Convergence

September 18-20, 2009
Sahale Learning Center, Belfair Washington

The 2008 WSPC was very successful with 125 people attending. We hope to be even bigger and better in 2009.

The Convergence features presentations by many of Washington’s most experienced permaculturists. This is a great opportunity to meet permaculturists from around Washington State and beyond. We get together to share knowledge, insights, and ideas. Would you like to give a presentation, lead a discussion, do a demo, entertain us or be part of the organizing team? Contact Michael Pilarski

For registration info contact: permaculture@earthlink.net
360-820-8586

Anastasia Movement & Permaculture

On the international level, perhaps the biggest news for permaculture is the widespread adoption of permaculture by the Anastasia movement in Russia.

Based on the 9 books in the Ringing Cedar series written by Vladimir Menem. If you haven't heard of the Anastasia movement, here is a nutshell sketch. Anastacia is a mythical person in the Siberian taiga who promotes a back-to-the-land, self-reliant lifestyle. She promotes that every person has the right to a small parcel of land to grow their own food, build their own house, and raise their family, without taxes. The movement is petitioning the Russian government to give title to these properties (Kin's Domains, she calls them), as well as petitioning the United Nations to facilitate this internationally.

This is a large, land reform movement. The movement claims 11 million members and is growing fast in Russia and internationally. This movement has publicly embraced permaculture and the Transitions Town movement. I highly recommend the books as well as the videos produced by the English translator Leonid Sharashkin. http://www.ringingcedars.com

Ringing Cedars website

Pacific Northwest Events

9th Montana Herb Gathering
Great Falls, Montana
July 10-13, 2009
www.montanaherbgathering.org

3rd Annual Big Sky Country Harvest Festival
September 18-20, 2009, Hot Springs, Montana
www.bigskyharvestfestival.com
Montana’s barter fair.

Singing Alive, 3rd Annual
September 11-13, Cosmopolis Washington.
A weekend of circle songs, group singing, chanting, and music.
www.tribesofcreation.com/singing_alive.html

36th Annual Okanogan Family Faire
(Tonasket Barter Faire)
Usually the 3rd weekend in October but it won't be announced till August. www.okanoganfamilyfaire.net

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