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The Interconnection of Landscape and Culture

Designing Hedgerows Class Coming Up!

This amazing class on designing hedgerows is coming up in Portland.

Three Day Course: Hedgerow Design Intensive

For farmers, permaculturalists, landscape designers/installers, and gardeners

May 18th - 20th with Jude Hobbs & Jenny Pell

Overview

A hedgerow is a beautiful, functional and biologically diverse feature in many rural, suburban, and urban landscapes. These multi-tiered collections of trees, shrubs, ground covers, vines, flowers and herbs create bountiful borders for fields, waterways, and city lots. During this three day workshop you will learn to design and establish different types of hedgerows for:
  • soil stabilization
  • insectaries and nectaries
  • biodiverse habitat for wildlife
  • windbreaks
  • abundant and delicious food for people
  • privacy screens
  • beauty and fragrance
  • noise reduction
  • income potential
  • … and more!

We will explore concepts of soil preparation, plant selection, planting techniques, irrigation, and ways to reduce maintenance, with ample time for understanding budgets, phase planning, and time-lines.  Each day includes classroom theory, design, and easy-to-replicate hands-on hedgerow projects.

Course fee includes farm lunch, snacks, materials for hands-on projects, and a student handbook with resources and explanations. Optional evening lectures and slide shows on Friday and Saturday nights are also included.
We have a limited number of partial scholarships, barter, and worktrade opportunities available.  Please contact us for details, and include work-trade skills and barter items!

To sign up for the course follow this link:
http://www.manav.org/courses/

Details
Instructors: Jude Hobbs & Jenny Pell
Dates: Friday, May 18th to Sunday, May 20st
Cost: $360
Available spots: 17
Location: Portland, Oregon

For questions and more information contact Jenny Pell at jennypell@gmail.com or (206) 949-0496
Lead Instructor
Jude Hobbs
Jude Hobbs has 30 years experience in the design and teaching fields, where she utilizes whole systems design to generate environmentally sound solutions that inspire sustainable actions in rural and urban settings. She teaches throughout the US and Canada and has developed curricula that encompass diverse learning styles and methods. Jude has written an Oregon State University Publication: A Guide to Multi-Functional Hedgerows.
http://cascadiapermaculture.com/Course Host
Jenny Pell
Jenny Pell is a permaculture designer, consultant, and teacher based in Seattle, WA. Jenny specializes in edible landscapes, urban permaculture, and creating “living genetic banks” of useful and valuable plant materials on projects large and small.  Recent designs include a 7-acre permaculture food forest on public lands in Seattle, a two-acre demonstration garden at Evergreen State College, and a collaborative project integrating permaculture on a 60-acre organic farm outside of Portland, OR.  She has a small urban farm in Seattle where she experiments with mixed annual and perennial hedgerows.
http://www.permaculturenow.com

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Demeter’s Garden Food Forest Design

So, Jenny Pell of Permaculture Now! and I have finished a design project with a student group at The Evergreen State College. The group, Developing Ecologically Aware Practices, or D.E.A.P. hired us to develop a plan for Demeter’s Garden, an 8-year Permaculture site in need of new ideas and energy.

Here’s what we came up with:

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http://issuu.com/wapato/docs/demetersgarden

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sunfoundation:

Live Wind Map Shows Flow Patterns

I get kind of giddy whenever I see a tweet from Martin Wattenberg and Fernanda Viegas. They rarely tweet, but when they do it’s usually because they’ve released a new project and they always announce it simultaneously. Their latest piece shows live wind patterns, based on data from the National Digital Forecast Database. It’s beautiful to look at.

Incredible.

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My Design Process

Design Process for Landscape Design Projects

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Residential Garden Design, Permaculture Planning, and Sustainability Consulting Services

Hello,
My name is Jordan Fink.
I have over 11 years of experience working in Ecological Design, Permaculture Education, and Community Facilitation.
I am prepared to offer my services in Permaculture Planning and Regenerative Design and will be starting with a special deal for the first 5 people that hire me for a consultation.
For urban lots in the Portland and Seattle areas I am offering a package deal:
  • 3 hour on-site visit: site analysis, interview, and working through some ideas
  • research and concept development
  • a report with recommendations
This package will be of use to anyone interested in thinking through ideas for their home and yard and thinking how to go about implementing Permaculture on their site. Normally I’d charge $400 for this but for the first people who contact me I’d be offering this package for $300.
Most of my experience is with much more detailed design work, and if you want further design assistance, we can work out an arrangement that works for you.
In all of my work, I seek to heal the division between landscape and culture. It is important to me that projects build community, improve ecological literacy, create landscapes for people, restore ecosystem processes, and repair the effects of climate change.
I am so excited to find ways to be useful to our community! If you or anyone you know need support in making good decisions for your home and yard, please contact me.
—
Jordan Fink
M.A. in Sustainable Landscape Planning and Design

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mistercrew: New Post: American Art in the Age of Exploration.  Painting by Albert Bierstadt, Puget Sound on the Pacific Coast, 1870.

mistercrew:

New Post: American Art in the Age of Exploration.  Painting by Albert Bierstadt, Puget Sound on the Pacific Coast, 1870.

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slavin: The lines between states and even countries are pretty arbitrary: The ties you have with people 50 miles away aren’t going to be too-much affected by some imaginary line drawn up 200 years ago. What if you could remap the United States — not by geography, but rather social ties? MIT’s SENSEable City Lab has done just that, by analyzing mobile-phone calling patterns across the country. By looking at calls between cellphones, they’ve revealed states and cities that are closely connected — and similarly, regions which aren’t nearly as closely connected as you’d think. Here’s their main result, color-coded by regional affiliation (via Infographic Of The Day: Cellphone Calls Reveal The United States’s Invisible Ties | Co.Design) (word to your mother, SENSEable City Lab!)

slavin:

The lines between states and even countries are pretty arbitrary: The ties you have with people 50 miles away aren’t going to be too-much affected by some imaginary line drawn up 200 years ago. What if you could remap the United States — not by geography, but rather social ties?

MIT’s SENSEable City Lab has done just that, by analyzing mobile-phone calling patterns across the country. By looking at calls between cellphones, they’ve revealed states and cities that are closely connected — and similarly, regions which aren’t nearly as closely connected as you’d think. Here’s their main result, color-coded by regional affiliation

(via Infographic Of The Day: Cellphone Calls Reveal The United States’s Invisible Ties | Co.Design)

(word to your mother, SENSEable City Lab!)

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thefactory-: Ginsberg with Maretta Greer and Gary Snyder at the Human Be-In, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, January 14, 1967.

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Ginsberg with Maretta Greer and Gary Snyder at the Human Be-In, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, January 14, 1967.

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