[Video] How Mushrooms Can Save The World + Natural Building Apprenticeship
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[Video] PAUL STAMETS: How Mushrooms Can Save Bees & Our Food Supply #mycoresilience
How can mushrooms save the world - and how can you grow your own edible and medicinal mushrooms? Last week we had the honor of seeing Paul Stamets, world-renowned mycologist, speak in Asheville. Paul has been doing groundbreaking work on how fungi, particularly mushrooms, offer uniquely powerful, practical solutions we can implement now to boost the biosphere’s immune system and equip us with benign breakthrough mycotechnologies to accelerate the transition to a restored world. Watch this video where Paul shares the ways that mushrooms are helping humans create resilience.
>> Learn Mushroom Cultivation: Growing Shiitakes & Oyster Mushrooms
Gain mushroom inoculation know-how at the Resilient Living Workshop.
Early Bird discounts end this Wednesday, September 30th at midnight EDT!
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[Recipe] MAKE YOUR OWN SAUERKRAUT: Reap The Benefits Of Fermented Food - Your Gut Will Love It!
Did you know that in just a few ounces of sauerkraut there are literally TRILLIONS of beneficial bacteria!? Now is the perfect time of year to make your own kraut with this incredibly quick and simple method. For much of human history, we have been 'putting up' food for the winter, and fermentation not only preserves food - it makes it MORE nutritious.
Some of the nutritive benefits of sauerkraut include: • Vitamin B1, B6, B9, C and K
• Manganese, calcium, potassium, magnesium, phosphorus and iron
• A great source of dietary fiber
• An excellent source of antioxidants and phytonutrients
• Rich in indole-3-carbinol
However, not all sauerkraut is equal. Most conventional store bought sauerkraut does not have the same benefits as homemade does. This is because it is heavily treated and pasteurized, thus destroying the fragile bacteria that sauerkraut is known for. Making your own sauerkraut is a great way to make sure you are getting enough probiotics.
Click here for recipe directions
>> Learn Traditional Food Preparation, Fermentation & Preservation
Come learn more traditional food wisdom at the Resilient Living Workshop.
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[Special Deal] Register for RESILIENT LIVING WORKSHOP with a friend & you'll both receive a
$75 discount! Offer ends THIS Wednesday 9/30.
>> Use discount code RESILIENTLIFE when you register to get the $75 discount
This 5-day workshop is an overview of the basic skills you’ll need to create a resilient life. Dig deep into what it takes to build and maintain a vibrant homestead. Learn from Asheville’s top teachers, gardeners, fermenters, healers, and botanists how to create a thriving, regenerative ecosystem in community or at home. In this workshop you will learn about homesteading, gardening, foraging, fermenting, food preservation, and herbal medicine making. If you are an aspiring urban homesteader, naturalist, local food activist, health professional, or hungry student, you will gain life-long wisdom in this week-long immersion. If you care about sustainability, take it one step further toward resilient living.
Charles Eisenstein: Special Guest Presenter on Tuesday night, and author of The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know is Possible, Sacred Economics, and Ascent of Humanity. Charles is a speaker and writer focusing on themes of civilization, consciousness, money, and human cultural evolution. His viral short films and essays online have established him as a genre-defying social philosopher and countercultural intellectual.
Gardening 101: Organic gardening, mushrooms, compost with Kate Hanford
Herbal Medicine Making:
Tinctures, teas, infusions, syrups with Asia Suler
Living Skills: Woven baskets, hand carved spoons, cooking on fire with Natalie Bogwalker
Wild Edibles: Foraging walk & wild tea party with
Luke Cannon
Food Preservation: Canning, pickling & preserving the harvest with Quinn Asteak
Fermentation: Kraut, kimchi, mead & more with
Marc Williams
Join some of Asheville's favorite local teachers this fall, plus special guest presenter Charles Eisenstein. Connect with the land and your natural instincts. Know where your food comes from. Gain hands-on experience. Take steps towards a more sustainable life and living skills. You will walk away with a deepened understanding of how to sustain yourself, what it takes to grow food, and the work necessary to have (and preserve) a bountiful harvest — all while building your real-life skills for a healthier future.
DATES: October 12-16, 2015 LOCATION: Asheville, NC DETAILS: For details & to register: www.ashevillage.org/Resilient-Living-Workshop
>>Sign up now & save 20%: Register in September and get the Early Bird Discount. This workshop has limited seats and is first come, first served!
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OTHER COMMUNITY LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES: Evolution of Medicine Summit + Youth Ecovillage Summit + Sustainable Agriculture Conference
Southeast Wise Women's Herbal
Conference, Oct. 2-4 near Asheville
THIS WEEKEND - LAST CHANCE TO
REGISTER! Ashevillage is proud to be a
sponsor of one of our staff's favorite local
events. At the Southeast Wise Women
Herbal Conference, dozens of inspiring
teachers offer over 60 classes on plant
identification, using herbs, traditional
medicine, health and healing, nutrition,
sacred sexuality, the wise woman ways,
and more. This year's keynote teacher
is Rosemary Gladstar, who has been
called the 'godmother of American Herbalism.' Details: www.ashevillage.org/
womens-herbal-conference
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Youth Ecovillage Summit Oct. 9-11 at Earthaven Ecovillage near Asheville
Whether you are interested in forming
your own intentional community or want
to create more cooperative culture were
you are living right now, ecovillages have something to teach everyone. For three
days, you will immerse in community life
at Earthaven Ecovillage, share meals, and volunteer on the land alongside residents. Explore broader concepts of ecovillages as
a model for sustainability education and experimentation in social, environmental, economic, and cultural dimensions.
Details: www.ashevillage.org/
youth-ecovillage-summit
Sustainable Agriculture Conference,
Nov. 6-8 in Durham, NC
The food & farming conference you don't want to miss! Carolina Farm Stewardship Association's 30th annual Sustainable Agriculture Conference is one of our favorite events of the year. Join farmers, health advocates, gardeners, homesteaders, agri-preneurs, ag-tivists, consumers and everyone in-between to learn, celebrate, network, and champion local & organic foods and farms. The conference features amazing meals, great opportunities to network, make friends and new professional contacts, and extend the learning. Details: www.ashevillage.org/cfsa-sustainable-agriculture-conference
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Cycles of Life Workshop with Wild Abundance, Nov. 7-8 near Asheville
This fall, Wild Abundance will offer an exploration of respectful butchering. This
two-day event is happening November 7-8 and will focus on honoring the life of the animals who feed us. Students will learn
about humane slaughtering, skinning, butchering, curing and basic meat preparation. Other traditional uses such
as hide and bones for tool making and
leather-making will be discussed. At the
end of the class students will share
a feast. Details:
www.ashevillage.org/wild-abundance
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EARLY BIRD DISCOUNTS
ONE DAY LEFT TO Save: Discounts end Wednesday, September 30th at 12am
RESILIENT LIVING WORKSHOP IN OCT.
This 5-day workshop is an introduction to the skills you’ll need to create a resilient life. Dig deep into what it takes to build and maintain a vibrant homestead. Learn from Asheville’s top teachers, gardeners, fermenters, healers, and botanists how to create a thriving, regenerative ecosystem in community or at home. Learn about homesteading, gardening, foraging, fermenting, food preservation, herbal medicine making & more. If you are an aspiring urban homesteader, naturalist, local food activist, health professional, or hungry student, you will gain life-long wisdom in this week-long immersion. If you care about sustainability, why not go one step further?
>> Sign up now & save! Earliest Bird rate ends September 30th.
Dates & Location: October 12-16, 2015; Asheville, NC. Details & Registration: www.ashevillage.org/RLW
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RESILIENT LIVING SCHOOL 2016
Are you ready to step into your resilient life and experience a living community? Would you like to dive into a transformative program where you can explore your role in creating the more beautiful world your heart knows is possible? Are you yearning to learn hands-on skills that you can really use? We invite you... to come connect with the land, your natural instincts, and a group of passionate peers and practitioners in the oldest mountains on the planet. Explore your purpose and path in the world while living in community. Gain earth- and heart-based living skills. Learn to grow food, harvest from the wild, make medicine, go within, connect with others, and much more! Take the next steps toward your resilient life.
>> Sign up now & save! Earliest Bird rate ends September 30th.
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WORK WITH ASHEVILLAGE
Work trade positions available: Details & application are here. Positions include
workshop assistants, site & garden, outreach, hospitality & more.
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LIVE AT THE SANCTUARY
Come stay this fall at Ashevillage Sanctuary LLC, a few blocks from downtown Asheville, NC. Contact Quinn for details: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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COMMUNITY HAPPENINGS
Natural Building Program in Costa Rica
Have you ever thought about building your own house? Not sure where or how to start? Learn natural building in a beautiful tropical setting at Rancho Mastatal, an environmental learning center and lodge in Costa Rica. (Note: This program is not run by Ashevillage but we recommend it.) This unique natural building apprenticeship will solely focus on natural building with the aim of building a complete structure from foundation, to roof, to walls. The aim of this program is for participants to learn all the skills necessary to build their own house.
This is a dedicated 4-month course for people who are extremely interested in learning the skills to build their own house, barn or cabin. You will learn the theory and practice of every stage of our building. The group will be building a structure from the ground up using a variety of techniques that will be applicable to whatever your climate and building regulations.
Skills that will be learned include:
• Levelling foundation site
• Squaring foundation site
• Making rebar for concrete piers
• Mixing concrete by hand and pouring piers
• Laying out and cutting the timber frame
• Installing framing for windows & doors
• Earthen wall systems
• Clay plastering
• Lime plastering
• Finish details
• Roof installation
Dates: August 1 - November 30, 2016 Details: www.ashevillage.org/rancho-mastatal
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Asheville City Council Candidate Food Security Forum on October 12th
Please join the Asheville Buncombe Food Policy Council for this public and open forum. Asheville City Council Candidates will discuss questions relating to food security and resilient food systems in Asheville. Each candidate will answer 3 moderated questions. Responses will be posted on the ABFPC's website. Light refreshments provided. Details: Click here for the Facebook event.
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QUOTE OF THE WEEK
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. - Charles Darwin
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