From ashley at svionline.org Tue May 26 20:00:04 2009 From: ashley at svionline.org (ashley ironwood) Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 19:00:04 -0500 Subject: [Sviannouncements] food for life - second weekend Message-ID: hi there! we have made some changes to the second weekend's schedule. please see below our first weekend was incredibly successful - check out these pictures on our facebook page (they'll be up on www.svionline.org soon, too): http://www.facebook.com/photo_search.php?oid=43379214048&view=all#/ group.php?gid=43379214048 we hope you can join us for this weekend's workshops - it's going to be amazing! - asha and the moonshadow crew ********************** THURSDAY, MAY 28 10:00 * SEQUATCHIE COVE FARM TOUR - This day will start with a trip to the ?Sequatchie Cove Farm,? a diversified family-run biodynamic farm working with available resources, focusing on grass-based animal protein (eggs, meat). They also raise bees and native plants, operate a pick-your-own berry patch and have made their own biodiesel. 12:00-2:15 ARRIVALS AT MOONSHADOW, TENT SET-UP and LUNCH 2:30-3:30 * PERMACULTURE (Patrick Ironwood) - The moonshadow homestead is a great example of permaculture.. we will explore and disscuss the key ideas behind these concepts. 3:45-5:45 * BASIC BREADMAKING BY HAND (John Sweet from Niedlov?s Breadworks in Chattanooga) - There will be discussion, demonstration and participation in easy and reliable hand-mixing techniques, basic bread shaping, and baking of our handmade bread. 4:45-5:45 * ARTISTS/ACTIVISTS PARTICIPATORY THEATER - PART ONE - (Cerulean, Aurelia Crumb, Trish Woolbright and Patrick Ironwood) - Group games, improv, automatic play writing and exploring fearless narratives! All ages invited to play. We will create a play to be performed on Saturday night. 6:00 DINNER 7:30 ?LIFE AND DEBT? (facilitator, Jeff Rodgers) ?Life and Debt? explores the effect of the International Monetary Fund?s (IMF) policies on developing countries through Jamaica?s experience with the organization. Jamaica, having gained its independence from Britain in 1962, found itself struggling as a result of the oil embargo the following year. In order to receive loans from the IMF, the country entered into a tricky agreement with its lenders. The terms of the loan stipulated that Jamaica had to agree to reduce trade barriers by withdrawing its local import restrictions, and thus enter the world market. The local economy became flooded with foreign goods, which were cheaper than those produced locally, resulting in a loss of jobs and economic self-reliance. A powerful example of the cycle of dependence is seen through the method of milk production. Jeff will lead a discussion after the movie. FRIDAY, MAY 29 8:00-9:00 BREAKFAST 9:15 MORNING CIRCLE 9:30-10:30 * SLOW FOOD, FARM TO SCHOOL, PRESERVING FARMLAND (Trish King) - Discussion on the philosophy of Slow Food USA: promoting good, clean, and fair food. How will a good, clean, and fair food system benefit communities? What are the implications for institutional food systems such as school lunches? What will happen to our local food economy as land use changes and farmland is threatened by sprawl? From a global movement to the local food scene, we?ll discuss what it means to live Slow. 9:30-10:30 (During Slow Food) PLANT A SPAGHETTI GARDEN (Tricia Baehr) - Kids will have fun starting seeds for their very own spaghetti garden. Plan for the kids to get dirty and their spaghetti garden will get a great start with a rich composted soil. Then we?ll plant the seeds for tomatoes, zucchini, oregano and basil for the children to take home and watch grow! Please bring 4 recycled tin cans or other recycled containers that they can decorate and punch holes in for drainage. 10:45-11:45 CHOICE OF TWO WORKSHOPS: * BEER BREWING, BOTTLING AND KEGGING (Andrew Armstrong) - We?ll keg an ale brewed the prior weekend, learn a bit about brewing, and participants will each fill a bottle to take home and savor when the time is right. * ARTISTS/ACTIVISTS PARTICIPATORY THEATER - PART TWO (Cerulean, Aurelia Crumb, Trish Woolbright and Patrick Ironwood) - We look for the play. Characters start appearing? 12:00-1:15 LUNCH 1:30-3:30 * HANDS-ON TEMPEH AND VEGETABLE FERMENTATION WORKSHOP (Sandor Katz): More fermentation demystification. In this multi- tasking workshop we?ll ferment tempeh and sauerkraut/kimchi. 3:45-5:45 CHEESE-MAKING FOR BEGINNERS (Spiky) - What more needs to be said? 6:00 DINNER 7:30 ?MAN AND FUNGI: A JOURNEY INTO THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE OF MUSHROOMS ON EARTH (Tradd Cotter) SATURDAY, MAY 30 8:00-9:00 BREAKFAST 9:15 MORNING CIRCLE 9:30-11:30 * MUSHROOMS: CULTIVATION, COMPOSTING AND BIOLOGICAL FILTERS (Tradd Cotter) - Participants will learn the basics of log and straw cultivation of most edible mushrooms. Included will be techniques for enhancing yields of garden crops by creating hybrid systems to optimize water conservation, filtering livestock runoff using mushroom compost filters, and converting agricultural and household waste streams into edible protein. Creating perpetual and circular systems will also be discussed. 9:30-11:30 (same time as Mushroom Cultivation) THE MAD HATTER TEA PARTY (Tricia & Birke Baehr) - Kids can wear their favorite hat as we explore herbs and teas, tasting, smelling and touching different things from the garden and woods while learning about the healing properties and health benefits of drinking tea. Bring a small recycled container for your child to make their own tea blend to enjoy at home after the workshop. 11:45-1:00 LUNCH 1:15-3:00 * FARM ACTIVIST NETWORKING PANEL - (Padgett from Sequatchie Cove Farm, Sandorkraut from Little Short Mountain Farm, Bradley from Ulinawi, Trish King from Slow Food and Land Trust for TN, a representative from Crabtree Farms and a representative from Williams Island. Asha Ironwood, facilitator) 3:15-5:15 * ARTISTS/ACTIVISTS PARTICIPATORY THEATER - PART THREE (Cerulean, Aurelia Crumb, Trish Woolbright and Patrick Ironwood) - One last rehearsal? 5:30 DINNER 7:00 PERFORMANCE BY THE FOOD FOR LIFE IMPROV THEATER TROUPE ? After dinner theatre. Please bring instruments. Dress: festive. A long-form improvisational narrative will be presented. Be prepared for fun! SUNDAY, MAY 31 8:00-9:00 BREAKFAST 9:15 MORNING CIRCLE 9:30-11:00 * ORGANIC MEATS, BUTCHERY AND SAUSAGE MAKING (Trae Moore) - We will talk a bit about butchery, sausage making and cured/ fermented meats. We may even make a bit of sausage too! 9:30-11:00 (Same time as Sausage Making) SPROUTING WITH SPROUTS! (Tricia Baehr) What?s more fun than watching food grow in your own kitchen and eating it in just a few days? Kids will learn all about sprouting, how it works, what you can sprout, recipes and ideas as well as a sprout tasting. Bring a quart jar and your child will go home with a grow it and eat it project! They?ll learn responsibility with rinsing and draining and about a healthy new food for life! 11:15-12:15 * RAINBARRELS: A HOW-TO AND WHY (Jon Cable) - This workshop will be an overview of the purpose and use of rainbarrels followed with a demonstration of how to construct one with simple tools. There will be a hand-out for folks to take home to reference with helpful sources. 12:30-1:45 LUNCH CLOSING CIRCLE Throughout the second weekend Food for Life participants will have the opportunity to be involved in the following bioregional art project: Voices for Appalachia, Written and Narrated by Hundreds ? A Portrait- Story Project (Casey and Cesco) - Being our own media. Be your own ethnographer and historian. A positive self-fulfilling paradigm of expression? If you?d like to participate, you can write your anecdotal, Appalachia bioregional, narrative (with a clear sense of TIME, PLACE, and ACTION) in advance or on site. When Cesco is finished sketching your face (using a combination of wet and dry media), you will copy your narrative in your own handwriting onto the page around our portrait of your face. This series of hundreds of stories and portraits travels as a show, and the images also go online to make perspectives widely available. * for more info about this project see: voicesforappalachia.org and portraitstoryproject.org please note my new email address ************************************ ashley "asha" ironwood sequatchie valley institute 1233 cartwright loop whitwell, tn 37397 423-949-5922 ashley at svionline.org www.svionline.org "some changes may look negative on the surface, but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge. there may be a period of insecurity and uncertainty. what should i do? as the ego is no longer running your life, the psychological need for external security, which is illusory anyway, lessens. you're able to live with uncertainty - even enjoy it. when you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life. it means fear is no longer a dominant factor in what you do and no longer prevents you from taking action to initiate change. the roman philosopher, tasitus, rightly observed that 'the desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.' if uncertainty is unacceptable to you, it turns into fear. if it's perfectly acceptable, it turns into increased aliveness, alertness and creativity." eckhart tolle - chapter 9 of "a new earth" -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ashley at svionline.org Wed May 27 09:38:11 2009 From: ashley at svionline.org (ashley ironwood) Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 08:38:11 -0500 Subject: [Sviannouncements] oops - sunday changes for food for life Message-ID: <42C340F3-890F-4302-B102-52352E5728EB@svionline.org> oops - i forgot to make the changes on sunday's schedule! it's very similar, but allows for us to sleep in a bit more - we will inevitably have a party on saturday night :) hope to see you there! - asha and the moonshadow crew ******************** FOOD FOR LIFE SUNDAY, MAY 31 9:00-10:00 BREAKFAST 10:15 MORNING CIRCLE 10:30-12:00 * ORGANIC MEATS, BUTCHERY AND SAUSAGE MAKING (Trae Moore) - We will talk a bit about butchery, sausage making and cured/ fermented meats. We may even make a bit of sausage too! 10:30-12:00 (Same time as Sausage Making) SPROUTING WITH SPROUTS! (Tricia Baehr) What?s more fun than watching food grow in your own kitchen and eating it in just a few days? Kids will learn all about sprouting, how it works, what you can sprout, recipes and ideas as well as a sprout tasting. Bring a quart jar and your child will go home with a grow it and eat it project! They?ll learn responsibility with rinsing and draining and about a healthy new food for life! 12:15-1:15 * RAINBARRELS: A HOW-TO AND WHY (Jon Cable) - This workshop will be an overview of the purpose and use of rainbarrels followed with a demonstration of how to construct one with simple tools. There will be a hand-out for folks to take home to reference with helpful sources. 1:30-2:45 LUNCH CLOSING CIRCLE and CLEAN-UP please note my new email address ************************************ ashley "asha" ironwood sequatchie valley institute 1233 cartwright loop whitwell, tn 37397 423-949-5922 ashley at svionline.org www.svionline.org "some changes may look negative on the surface, but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge. there may be a period of insecurity and uncertainty. what should i do? as the ego is no longer running your life, the psychological need for external security, which is illusory anyway, lessens. you're able to live with uncertainty - even enjoy it. when you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life. it means fear is no longer a dominant factor in what you do and no longer prevents you from taking action to initiate change. the roman philosopher, tasitus, rightly observed that 'the desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.' if uncertainty is unacceptable to you, it turns into fear. if it's perfectly acceptable, it turns into increased aliveness, alertness and creativity." eckhart tolle - chapter 9 of "a new earth" -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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