Calling all Permaculture People,

Come gather round the harvest table this coming weekend. See details below and attached flyers.

October 28^th Pumpkin Dinner at SLO Guild Hall (Get your tickets by tomorrow, Oct. 23^rd)

October 29^th Acorn Awakening at SLO Botanical Garden

October 29^th October FEAST at Branch Mill Organic Farm

Also, check out the nice article about the City Farm Harvest Festival in New Times:

https://www.newtimesslo.com/sanluisobispo/central-coast-harvested/Content?oid=3599071

Volunteer work days out at Our Global Family Farm at City Farm are on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons 3pm – 5pm and on the Fourth Saturdays 10am – 2pm. (Except not in Nov. & Dec.)

October 28: SLO Guild Hall Pumpkin Dinner – Get your tickets before October 23^rd

^{Purchase tickets on Brown Paper Tickets. This is a benefit to purchase solar panels for the SLO Guild Hall.  Good food, music, people and wine!}

https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/3094846

We are approaching our first SLO Guild Hall fundraising dinner and we need some of your help.  To save some of our funds for the dinner, we are in need of small 6 oz. soup bowls that we can borrow for the dinner on October 28.  We will need at least 40 more soup bowls, as some of our members on the fund raising committee have offered approximately 60+ borrowed bowls.  Please let us know if we can borrow your smaller soup bowls.  They will be ready for your pick up right after the dinner is over.  We can also use your help during the dinner to serve, clean up, etc.

Also, it would save us greatly if you have contributions of bottles of wine for the dinner.  If you have bottles of wine you can offer, please let us know.  You can email or call the SLO Guild office. The last date to purchase tickets for the Pumpkin Harvest Dinner is October 23, and you can do so through Brown Paper Tickets.  Tickets to the dinner are not available at the door.  We would like to make this a successful venture for our hall, and we would like to be able to plan having more fund raisers in the future to benefit the construction of our additional room with solar panels on the roof of that addition.

Thank you,

Shirley Hanrion, Hall Manager

SLO Guild Hall

543-0639

(Note: If you had October 28^th on your calendar for the Honoring Mother Corn event at City Farm, that event is not happening. Instead there is the Harvest Dinner at the SLO Guild Hall and the Acorn Awakening event on October 29^th.)

October 29: Chumash Kitchen - Acorn Awakening with Jeanette Acosta and Violet Cavanaugh

The Chumash Kitchen – Acorn Awakening
Sunday, October 29 from 8:30 AM – 1 PM
With Violet Cavanaugh and Jeanette Acosta

Fall is a time to harvest, store, and prepare for the coming winter. Join us this fall as we reconnect with the local environment, the season, and your health during the fall Chumash Kitchen offering with Chumash chefs and herbalists, Violet Cavanaugh and Jeanette Acosta. This offering will leave you nourished, connected, and grateful for the gifts of nature.

Violet and Jeanette will share the autumn practices of collecting, processing and transforming acorns into several modern and traditional recipes, paired with other fall flavors. After breakfast, you’ll take a short hike up to visit the traditional Chumash grinding stones, discovering the native plants and sacred space. The beautifully prepared lunch will again feature flavors of the season. You’ll develop a deeper relationship with the oak trees, enjoy a wide selection of prepared wild edibles while learning new methods for incorporating more indigenous foods into modern dishes and your life.  Please wear shoes appropriate for the short hike. Pre-registry is REQUIRED for this intimate offering. http://slobg.org/chumash-kitchen/

NEW OFFERING! – Call 805.541.1400×303 for availability! – 
Friday October 27 from 10am – 1pm, join Jeanette and Violet in the kitchen at the SLO Botanical Garden to learn and help process acorns and other wild foods in preparation for the Sunday offering. You’ll learn how to roast and grind acorns, and collection and harvesting techniques. This hands-on and in-depth work-trade is offered for an additional $25 and is open to the first ten people who select the pre-prep day in the sliding scale PayPal drop-down menu.

NOTE: Also on October 29^th is a Harvest FEAST at Branch Mill Organic Farm. Flyer is attached.

November 4: Central Coast Bioneers – Tim LaSalle to speak about Carbon Farming at 1:30pm at SLO Guild Hall

Carbon farming a major topic at Central Coast Bioneers Conference

Cal Poly Professor Emeritus Tim LaSalle, who is the International Agriculture Coordinator for the Open Burning Project for the International Cryosphere Climate Initiative, will do a Q&A session on carbon farming following the viewing of the National Bioneers Conference address by John Wick and Calla Rose Ostrander on Carbon Farming.  Tim is also, Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Regenerative Agriculture Initiative, CSU Chico, focused on regenerating soils and drawing down atmospheric CO2 levels.

Sequestering carbon from the atmosphere back into the soil is emerging as among the top biological strategies to radically mitigate climate disruption on large scales. It’s also a rapidly growing movement among farmers across the country, including in conservative communities – because it IS conservative… of the land and soil. John and Calla Rose are visionary leaders of the Marin Carbon Project, a gold standard of carbon farming research demonstrations. John is co-owner (with his wife Peggy Rathmann) of the Nicasio Native Grass Ranch. Calla Rose, former Fellow with the Rocky Mountain Institute, has led policy and climate action programs with Aspen, CO and San Francisco, CA, and is a leading advocate for and expert on agricultural carbon sequestration.

This talk (1:30pm) and Q&A session with Tim LaSalle (2:00pm) are part of the 2017 Central Coast Bioneers Conference to be held November 4, 2017, at the SLO Guild Hall.  For tickets and more information: https://ecologistics.org/ccb-empower-slo-2017/

November 14^th – SLOW Money SLO Five Year Anniversary

Fall Gathering and Five Year celebration!  Tuesday, November 14, 6 pm at the SLO Guild Hall, 2880 Broad St. SLO

Join Slow Money SLO fans, foodies, investors and food entrepreneurs as we celebrate SLO County Restaurants. Just a few of the participants will be Mint+Craft (a Novo group restaurant), Back Porch Bakery, Bliss Café and the SLO Coop grocery. 

Great food to sample, door prizes, restaurant announcements and new menu items as well as their plans for the holidays. More details here. http://slowmoneyslo.org/

Also, as we pass the five year milestone, Slow Money SLO is excited to announce that we are now a tax exempt 501(c)(3) non-profit!  Suggested event donation $5 pp.

EARTHWORKS FOR FARM RESILIENCE

With Warren Brush
DECEMBER 6-10, 2017
San Luis Obispo | California
http://permaculturedesign.us/resilience/

See Video: https://vimeo.com/238458969

Join international educator, Warren Brush, with a dynamic teaching team, in San Luis Obispo, California. Learn about earthworks and hydration strategies for ecological farming, land restoration, water harvesting and earth reparation for agroecosystem stability...

Worldwide, topsoil erosion averages 30 to 40 tons per hectare (2.5 acres) a year or 30- to 40- times faster than the replacement rate of topsoil. The need for people is growing daily with hands-on skills in hydrological restoration and the integration of farming utilizing the principles that lead to ecological stability. Whether you are working on your own landscape, farm, or as a consultant, this course will grow your skills in the appropriate design and construction of structures that will reduce erosion, increase productivity, harvest & store water, and create resiliency in the ecologies that sustain us.

REGISTER TODAY
The program offers an overview of: 
Ethics and principles of permaculture as applied to land restoration and regenerative design
Land component identification
Natural patterning in farm application
Water harvesting, drought-proofing and erosion mitigation systems applications
Natural patterning classification and an introduction to Fluvial Geomorphology

Earthworks & soil renovation techniques and machinery applications. 
Planting structures and guild development 
The following systems will be explained and participants will be able to assist in surveying, mapping and construction of various elements of:

Swales
Soil Armoring
Dams
Anti-evaporation structures
Water flow harvest structures
Keyline Plow 
Erosion mitigation structures

Warren Brush

Don't forget to join us: http://permaculturedesign.us/resilience/

Let’s create an abundant future together,

Teresa Tree Lees – SLO Permaculture Guild