Tuesday  May 3, 2011 - Sunrise 5:56 A.M. Sunset 8:07 P.M - New Moon 2:51 AM. 
"Spring - an experience in immortality." -  Henry D. Thoreau  

1] Build With Earth Postponed: Education & Release Series
2] Edible Forest Garden Working Group Forming
3] Intentional Communities Discussion Potluck
4] Stop Signs: Cars and Capitalism Book Tour 
5] Themselves Has Been A Gathering at the Redhouse

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1] Build With Earth Postponed: Education & Release Series

The Build With Earth workshop scheduled for Saturday May 7 has been postponed, and will be rescheduled at a later date.  Delays in the site’s construction schedule, materials acquisition, and weather patterns is forcing the move to a date later in the year.  To be placed on the registration list to be notified directly when the new date is chosen, please send an email to info@alchemicalnusery.org.

Our April workshops have resulted in the construction of an herb spiral with Valerie Dawnstar, herbal medicine creation with NickCavanaugh and Adrienne Allen, a yurt raising with Josh Morrow, and permaculture site preparation through sheet mulching with Dorothy Goodman and Frank Cetera.  Currently, pictures and video of some of these activities are available at our Facebook pagehttp://www.facebook.com/AlchemicalNursery

We’ve been very pleased to share these moments with many of you and hope you will be able to join us for The Work That Reconnects - the Education & Release Series’ final offering on June 11.  More at http://www.alchemicalnursery.org/news/358-education-a-release-series-practicing-synergy.html

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2] Edible Forest Garden Working Group Forming

A Working Group is currently forming to implement the Edible Forest Garden project at the Rahma Clinic.  Our first meeting will take place on Monday May 9, starting at 6:30 pm and will take place at the clinic on 3100 South Salina St, Syracuse.  We will work together to determine a planting plan, resource acquisition and allocation for the site, outreach, and event/planting dates and timeline.  

This is an excellent opportunity to learn Permaculture and forest garden design and construction skills through an experiential process.  Please join us if you are interested in participating, or contact Frank with any questions at frcetera@alchemicalnursery.org or 315-308-1372. 

“Edible forest gardening is the art and science of putting plants together in woodlandlike patterns that forge mutually beneficial relationships, creating a garden ecosystem that is more than the sum of its parts. You can grow fruits, nuts, vegetables, herbs, mushrooms, and other useful plants, in a way that mimics natural ecosystems. You can create a beautiful, diverse, high-yield garden. If designed with care and deep understanding of ecosystem function, you can also design a garden that is largely self-maintaining.”

Join The Alchemical Nursery for a potluck discussion about Intentional Community, on Tuesday May 10 starting at 6pm at 1125Westcott St.  Interest in cooperative houses, ecovillages, property sharing (such as tools and cars) and more has been on many people’s minds recently who have contacted us; so we’re hosting this event to further the sharing conversation.

“The narrative has an over-arching plot, one in which human civilization has ultimately changed due to human technological creations that have infused with the body, creating a new human. Civilization, history, culture.... all has been forgotten in this future world as the technological infusion split cognition, rendering human beings incapable of self-recognition. During the split, human beings no longer had self awareness, they become aimless wanderers living on a primal instinct.”