Hello Community,
Last Saturday, May 19th we had an wonderful farm to table event at City Farm. Here are some photos:
This week we are co-sponsoring the movie, SEED: The Untold Story on Wednesday. On Saturday there is an amazing program on Peruvian Andes Food Crops by Amalia Escobar and there is a community grief ritual on Memorial Weekend.
Wednesday, May 23rd – SEED: The Untold Story movie to be shown at SLO City Library Community Room at 7pm
Filmmakers will be there for Q&A. SLO library community room - Palm & Osos Streets in San Luis Obispo. Co-sponsored by: CP Center for Sustainability, SLO Permaculture, & SLO Seed Exchange. “Few things on Earth are as miraculous and vital as seeds.” SEED features Vandana Shiva, Dr. Jane Goodall, Andrew Kimbrell, Winona Laduke, Raj Patel, Indigenous Seedkeepers, Organic Farmers, and others.
Flyer: http://cfs.calpoly.edu/pdfs/events/SEED.pdf
Saturday May 26 from 1-3pm - SLO library community room. Harvesting the Sun: Cultivation & Uses of Traditional Peruvian Andes Food Crops – free talk by Amalia Escobar Galpert.
Community Grief Ritual May 25 – 28 at Loving Earth Sanctuary (PDF document is attached for more information.)
This powerful restorative Grief Ritual and healing workshop over Memorial Day weekend draws from the traditional grief rituals of the Dagara tribe of Burkina Faso, West Africa brought to the West by Dagara healer Sobonfu Somé, ritual practices from Joanna Macy’s The Work that Reconnects, and the teachings of grief workers, soul activists and ritualists Francis Weller, Martin Prechtel, and Michael Meade.
What if we had the loving support of community to help us connect with and process the pain of our personal losses along with the anxiety, sadness, and overwhelm many of us are feeling collectively in these unprecedented times of deep social division and injustice, and ongoing environmental devastation? Throughout history people have come together tribally and ceremonially to honor and metabolize their grief.
Please register for this event at the following link: https://goo.gl/forms/aEvv1mEmlPcqI3FV2
SLO Natural Foods Coop offers scholarships to FARMGIRLS Summer Camp
Also SLO Guild Hall is also going to give scholarships to FARMGIRLS Summer Camp!
SLO Natural Foods Co-op is donating the proceeds of May Membership sales to support youth education programs, and FARMGIRLS Summer Camp is a recipient! FARMGIRLS Summer Camp will offer a limited number of full scholarships, courtesy of this partnership. See the application attached as a word document or download an application from Google Docs here. Submit it by May 31st, to Board@SLONaturalFoods.coop.
Anyone can shop at the Co-op. Members get and give special benefits. There's never been a better time to join than this month in May. See more about the Co-op's membership and events attached to this email. Please become a member of the SLO Natural Foods Coop by the end of this month!
FARMGIRLS Summer Camp June 26 – 29, 2018 8am – 12noon
$150/camper
Registration: http://www.permaculture.us.com/farmgirls/farmgirls-summer-camp
FARMGIRLS Summer Camp is Girl Power for our Future Food System! FARMGIRLS Summer Camp is held at Our Global Family Farm, a permaculture demonstration site located at City Farm SLO. It features food crops and indigenous food cropping systems from the four corners of the globe. FARMGIRLS Summer Camp will include farming, cooking, eating, making crafts, singing and nature hikes. The FARMGILRS summer camp is a place where women and girls of all ages can learn about how to grow food in an ecological approach that follows the ethics of permaculture: care for the earth, care for one another, and share the abundance. Together we can create a food system that is Regenerative, Healthy, Local, and Resilient. FARMGIRLS Summer Camp is now open to women too. We want to see generations of women and girls be empowered to learn about agriculture and be empowered to grow their own food!
International connections at FARMGIRLS Summer Camp
This year at FARMGIRLS we have a mother and daughter coming all the way from Sao Paulo, Brazil and another couple of people coming from Costa Rica. These world travelers are connecting to us vis-à-vis the Nu Mundo website by searching for permaculture demonstration sites in California. They will need a place to stay, so please contact me if you have a room in a house the mother and daughter from Brazil can stay and another for the couple from Costa Rica.
Teresa Tree Lees
SLO Permaculture Guild