Garden Apprenticeship Deadline TODAY + Permaculture School Update + How To Make Cheese
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Ashevillage Institute: Supporting people who want to work on behalf of the Earth to become Earth Champions.
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ASHEVILLAGE SANCTUARY TEAM: Welcoming an exciting season ahead!
Janell Kapoor, Founder & Co-Director. I appreciate the deepening community, projects coming to completion, new programming, and an organizational restructuring that is clarifying and boosting our work. We'll share updates over the next few months about the changes underway.
Kate Hanford, Garden & Site Manager. I manage the Sanctuary's gardens and food production that contributes to the education and healing that happens at the Sanctuary. I'm also directing an apprenticeship program eco-urban homesteading this coming year.
Quinn Asteak, Hospitality & Program Manager. I'm here to support guests to have magic moments, and hopefully feel inspired to make ecological upgrades in their own homes. I'm also creating programming that I'll be announcing soon!
Carl Fritschel, Building & Site Manager. I'm helping to complete projects at our urban oasis through (natural) building and community engagement. I'm also mentoring apprentices who will be learning about building and infrastructure systems.
Celine Cooper, Outreach & Program Assistant. I'm helping to share the story of this place and inspire visitors to find deeper meaning and more beauty in their lives. I look forward to meeting all the people who will come through here in the year ahead!
Sherman the Cat, Meeter Greeter. I welcome the people who come up the drive. I escort them in and then climb on their laps. And then I purr. Loudly. Come visit!
Read more: www.ashevillage.org/sanctuary-team.
Visit Ashevillage Sanctuary online at www.ashevillage.org/sanctuary.
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PERMACULTURE SCHOOL UPDATE: Welcoming Keri Evjy as Program Coordinator
Keri Evjy has been a teacher of Permaculture since 2008. She brings deep care for her students, enthusiasm and passion for the topics, and real life grounding in the subject matter. Keri is a graduate of Yestermorrow's Design/Build School in Vermont, as well of Kleiwerks International's Permaculture Design Practicum in Patagonia, Argentina. She applies her knowledge as a Certified Clinical Herbalist from the Appalachian School of Holistic Herbalism and as a graduate of the Chestnut School of Herbal Medicine. Keri is co-founder of Herban Farmacy, an herbal CSA, as well as Healing Roots Design, a triple bottom line enterprise that promotes healthy human communities through education, demonstration and collaboration on ecological design. Keri will be supporting all Permaculture School students to learn and be all that is possible.
For details & November's early bird special visit: www.ThePermacultureSchool.org
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ASHEVILLAGE SANCTUARY: Come Stay With Us This Winter At Our Eco-Urban Guest House
Come stay with us for a month at the Ashevillage Sanctuary in January, February, or March. Our naturally light-filled, wood-fired guest house has four beautiful, earthen-finished rooms and is a peaceful retreat space. We’re on one acre of edible permaculture gardens and woods, and just minutes from the progressive downtown of Asheville, NC. Mountains surround us in all directions and walking trails are a block away. If you are interested in living in a collectively conscious, healthy, beautiful home for a month, we look forward to hearing from you.
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For details visit: www.ashevillage.org/asheville-winter-rentals
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FERMENTATION FUN: How To Make Cheese
Learning how to make cheese can be intimating the first time around. There’s a fear of spoiled milk and of diving into unfamiliar territory. What if it molds? Even worse, what if it tastes like socks?! While this can stop someone before they even get started, learning how to make cheese can be an opportunity for empowerment, as any good hand- and home-made project can be. Plus, you can impress your friends and family with your new found cheese grandeur! Ashevillage's 'Art of Food Fermentation and Preservation Immersion' jumped on the cheese wagon with local teacher and fermentation extraordinaire, Michael Gentry. Gentry shared secrets of the trade from simple nut cheeses to delicious tofu-Parmesan with red miso!
Learn how to make your own cheese.
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EARLY BIRD DEALS
2015 ECO-URBAN HOMESTEAD APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAM Application Deadline is TODAY!
What apprentices will gain over their seven months working with Kate Hanford, Ashevillage's Garden & Site Coordinator: Hands-On Learning • Weekly Mentorship in Site Management & Organic Gardening • Permaculture Certification • Water Retention Landscape Course • Natural Building Extravaganza • Primitive Skills Gathering • Field trips & more.
Dates: March 23 - October 23, 2015
Details: www.ashevillage.org/Garden-Apprenticeship
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COMMUNITY HAPPENINGS
RE-IMAGINE. RESIST. REFORM. RE-CREATE: NC Climate Justice Summit
We are all thought leaders with a crucial contribution to make toward answering these questions: How do we manifest climate justice in North Carolina? How can we make all of our communities more resilient? Explore how climate change impacts our food, water, energy, housing, transportation, health and economy in NC. Don't miss our director, Janell Kapoor's, summit presentation!
Dates: November 21-23, 2014
Location: Haw River State Park, Browns Summit, NC
Details: www.ashevillage.org/climate-justice-summit
The NC Climate Justice Summit has SOLD OUT of tickets. They do have a waiting list and the pre-Summit Racial Equity Basecamp on Fri. Nov. 21st still has space.
Hosted by co-luminate at Ashevillage Sanctuary
THIS Friday
Would you like to learn better skills in creating healthy relationships with family, friends, partners, lovers, and co-workers? If so, then join us for this evening of practicing techniques and learning tools to improve relationships in your life. We will explore common struggles we all face and work on some issues people are having in their life at this time. Things like, how do I tell the truth when I am afraid of the other person’s reaction? What do I do when someone yells at me? What do I do when someone won’t talk to me?
There are very clear and simple answers that we will explore. And the power of the group energy is also a positive factor in growth and healing. Together we create a community of learning and transformation.
Dates: This Friday, November 14th, 8-10pm
Location: 80 Buchanan Ave Asheville 28801
Hosts: BJ Hardin, Annie Kim, Steve Torma
Details: Visit the Facebook event page.
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ON THE HOMEFRONT
URBAN PERMACULTURE TOUR
Ashevillage recently hosted Morganton Day School middle school students for an urban permaculture tour as research for a school project. Called Feeding Future Cities, students are asked to select one vegetable and one protein and design a way to grow enough of each within their city limits to feed the citizens. Students visited the Ashevillage permaculture site and Pearson Community Garden.
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QUOTE OF THE WEEK
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
- Mary Oliver
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