April, 2009
Online videos for beginning farmers, from Cornell
Thursday, April 23rd, 2009USDA listening tour on NAIS
Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009Good News for Change
Saturday, April 18th, 2009Or is that supposed to be “good news for a (more…)
Three Sisters - Gardening for Sustainability
Thursday, April 16th, 2009| May 21, 2009 | ||
| 6:00 pm | to | 8:00 pm |
Dry corn, dry beans and winter squash, a guild of sustaining foods. Grown in the Americas for thousands of years, sustains culture and the soil. Come learns how to plant, save seeds and store theses precious foods that can help us become self-sufficient in home grown food.
@ AllTogetherNow! Community Art Center in East Montpelier
Health Care is a Human Right! Rally
Thursday, April 16th, 2009| May 1, 2009 | ||
| 12:00 pm |
Friday MAY 1st HEALTH CARE IS A HUMAN RIGHT! RALLY Statehouse Lawn,
Montpelier at Noon. More than seventy organizations have endorsed this effort and local organizing committees are mobilizing for the rally in
almost every county of the state. The event will include speakers, music,
street theater, giant puppets, and even a
Dump-the-Insurance-Companies-Dunk-Tank! For more info, contact
www.workerscenter.org/healthcare, info@workerscenter.org, (802) 861-2877.
Energy Rally @ Statehouse
Wednesday, April 15th, 2009| April 29, 2009 | ||
| 10:00 am | to | 3:00 pm |
Renewable Energy Fair Wed, April 29 (on the Statehouse lawn West) featuring Greenpeace's Rolling Sunlight AND/OR Vermont Yankee: an On-going Catastrophe Mock Evacuation (on the Statehouse lawn East) 11 am: Press Conference 12 pm: Lunch Lobby in Statehouse
Natural Timberframing Workshop
Tuesday, April 14th, 2009| June 20, 2009 10:00 am | to | June 21, 2009 10:00 am |
With Josh Jackson and Ben Graham in Montpelier
Time and exact locations TBA
For more info call 802-454-1167
or click http://transitionvermont.ning.com/events/natural-timberframing
We will focus on using round timbers in structural frames. The workshop will cover bubble and plumb line(French) scribing methods and look at different options for natural enclosures towards Passivehaus standards. These include strawbale, light clay and cellulose walls. We will cut the frame using traditional and modern hand tools.
This is an intermediate skill level workshop for those with some woodworking experience.
Picturing Harmony
Saturday, April 11th, 2009Any and all ideas you have for improving society are important. This survey is focused on ideals - your ideals.

