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Sunday, 07 February 2010 |
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  Permaculture beginners and aficionados alike are invited to come together for the 2010 Upstate NY Permaculture Gathering.
Saturday, March 13, 2010
9:30 am - 5:00 pm
The Gear Factory, 200 S. Geddes St
Syracuse, NY
This event is a regional
scaled event designed to foster networking, coordination, and learning
among the Permaculture and homesteading communities of Upstate New
York. Permaculture is a whole-systems approach to community and
landscape design that integrates regenerative agriculture techniques in
order to meet human and animal needs in development projects to allow
for more self-sufficient living.
The event will include an Open Space attendee directed agenda, a stone soup lunch, a 'zine created on site, childcare activities, and special presentations by LIndsay Speer, Andrew Leslie Phillips, Scott Kellogg, and Jason Eaton
PLEASE CLICK HERE TO RSVP ON OUR MEETUP SITE. Your RSVP is appreciated as it helps with planning for food, childcare activities, and space planning and setup.
Click through for more details, or click on the flyer thumb for full-scale pdf of the event details . . . .
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Thursday, 04 February 2010 |
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 The Democratic Economy Network - a collective of individuals and organizations supporting grassroots democratic economy education and organizing - is now active in Syracuse. DEconN will be hosting a film screening and discussion of the 1980 BBC documentary of The Mondragon Experiment (50 minutes) - "Mondragon, in the Basque region of Spain, is a flourishing industrial town with over 80 factories which are the most efficient in Spain - and all are cooperatively owned". join us on Tuesday February 3rd at 6:30pm, in the lobby of the Assisi Center (800 North Salina St) for this FREE film event.
DEconN has also released into the wild "The Podium Project" - a traveling podium and journal in which we seek to share the collective knowledge about the democratic economy of Syracuse. The podium is currently located at . . . . .
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Sunday, 31 January 2010 |
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 First, a very big and gracious thank you to everyone who donated thier time, energy, materials, and money towards the Haitian Relief Benefit Concert we held on Friday January 22 at Spark Contemporary Art Space here in Syracuse, NY. After all was said and done, $725.00 will be split between Partners in Health for health care in Haiti, and Permacultura American Latina (through the permaculturehaiti.org website) for Permaculture relief efforts in Haiti.
Some pics from the event are now online in our Photos Gallery , please check them out.
And finally, for an idea of how permaculture will be able to help relief efforts in Haiti, please take a read of Cory Brennan'sblog . . . .
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Wednesday, 20 January 2010 |
 The Alchemical Nursery is proud to co-sponsor this event at Spark on Friday night to bring assistance to our Haitian brothers and sisters. A portion of the proceeds will be used for future Permaculture related relief efforts in Haiti.
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Monday, 18 January 2010 |
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 Canopy and Syracuse Grows, a fiscally sponsored project of the Alchemical Nursery , Present "Gardening in Syracuse".
Saturday, February 13, 10:00 am - 1:00 pm at the Bob Cecile Center, 1st floor, 174 W Seneca Tpke, Syracuse, NY
Free and open to the public! Refreshments and information tables will be provided at this workshop. Contact Lee Gechas at 446-5319 or
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if your group would like to
host an information table at this event.
Sessions include: Managing the Physical Conditions of Soil for Gardening in Syracuse, The Dirt on Your Dirt : Soil Toxicity & the Health Risks of Gardening in Contaminated Soil, and Successful Vegetable Gardening in Syracuse.
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