Sundays 7pm, City Repair Head Quarters, Contact: Leonard

Seed Swap with Marisha
11 am – 1pm at Ninja Hows Cafe
Come bring seeds and starts to trade of others, or just bring yourself.

Permaculture Principles with Marisha
1pm -3pm at City Repair Headquaters Co-creative Gardening: working with nature spirits with Angela Zehava
2:30-4:30 This could just as easily be called shamanic gardening. You will learn how to use applied kinesiology to work in direct partnership with nature and nature spirits. This is an introduction only. If there is demand, I may offer a second workshop later during VBC. Come early to participate in the live music jam that happens every day at 1:30.Coho Nehalem

Disconnecting from Civilization with Norris Thomlinson and Theressa Latoski
11am – 2 pm at 4510 NE Going St
How someone living on an urban lot can be less dependent on the grid and the grocery store.
We have spent the past year on this site working and creating an experimental urban forest garden using permaculture design. Our goal is to create a self-sustaining site that requires no inputs from outside and that itself creates no waste outputs. Another goal is to find out if we can feed 2 people on our .2 acre site. Using our forest garden and annual vegetable garden, chickens, and bees (and ducks planned soon). See our blog for more info on our philosophy and plans at http://farmerscrub.blogspot.com
Limit number to 12-15
Phone: 503-288-5331 email: Norris is scrub@corrupt.net Theressa’s is entwife112@gmail.com

Permaculture Systems Design with Marisha
11am- 2 pm at NEST 9034 N Edison
Design Charette to create Multi home and family sustainable food, water, and energy systems using permaculture priniciples at NEST.

Rainbarrel Water Catchment Workshop with Brian Smith
3 – 5 pm at Watershed 5040 SE Milwaukie
Hands on workshop to create rain barrel. Please bring following materials or contact Brian at 503-777-1689 or tomclub@gmail.com to order materials for workshop and take home your very own rain barrel!

Materials for making one barrel:

• 55 gal plastic food grade drum(can get them from Yoshida Sauces by the airport for $5)
• 3/4” garden faucet
• 3/4” male to female adapter(to connect multiple barrels)
• plumbers goop for sealing fittings
• 2” ABS pipe and downspout adapter

Plant Propagation Workshop with Marisha and Leonard
1 -3 pm at Waakena Woods

Fruit Gardening for Small Spaces with Willow Sage
3 – 5 pm at Waakena Woods

Real World Permaculture Design with Pam from Portland Permaculture Institute
1-2:30 pm at City Repair Headquaters

Bees with Bev Cooke and Glen Andresen
2:30 pm – 4:30 pm at Nest
from Portland Metro Beekeepers Association
Interested in keeping bees? Sweet. Have your questions answered and find out if the apiarist’s life is right for you.

Seed Saving with Marc from NW Resistance Against Genetic Engineering
at NEST 10am – 11:30 am
Gardeners and farmers the world over have freely shared their seeds and plants since agriculture began over 12,000 years ago. In a world of genetic engineering and the corporate patenting of the commons we invite you to continue this age-old tradition by sharing your seeds, and plants with your community.
As the biotech industry continues to consolidate and monopolize the world’s seed industry it becomes ever more imperative for farmers and gardeners to continue the 12,000 year tradition of saving, breeding and swapping seeds. More than 1.4 billion people depend on this free exchange of seeds and plants for their livelihoods, crop biodiversity and cultural survival.
The history of our cultures is represented in the vast diversity of the crops we eat, from black and white tomatoes, orange eggplant, red corn, blue potatoes, and a vast rainbow of colors in between.

Seed Bombs Workshop with Jadene Foreman
3-5 pm Permaculture Demonstration Garden 1720 SE Alder
Create little ecological bombs for guerilla gardening for bioremediation.

Transplanting Workshop with Marisha

Greywater workshop with Greywater Guerrillas (Laura Allen, Cleo Woelfle-Erskine) at Toby Hemenway’s
Hands-on greywater workshop, either direct greywater system or constructed wetland with optional wildlife habitat pond depending on site.
Cleo Woelfle-Erskine is a Bay Area based writer, teacher and agitator. His books include Urban Wilds: Gardener’s Stories of the Struggle for Land and Justice (water/under/ground, 2001), the kids book Sink or Swim: A History of Sausal Creek (water/under/ground, 2004) and the infamous The Guerrilla Graywater Girls’ Guide to Water zine (with Laura Allen). His water conservation projects have been featured in The Utne Reader and The San Francisco Chronicle. Cleo has lived in Los Angeles, and Santa Fe and currently lives in Oakland, CA.

Chickens at NEST with Tonya Meyer
1-3 pm
Focusing on raising healthy birds in the backyard. I would also like bringing several full grown and newly hatched chickens for everyone to get a good look at. Many people don’t fully realize the size a full grown layer will achieve and a visual aid is helpful. Also a “tour” of helpful websites and on-line groups that a new chicken keeper could use.
503.313.7142 or at my email, cutegirltoo@comcast.net.

Weeding for Soil Fertility with Elizabeth Fox
2 -4 pm Tryon Life Community Farm
The focus will be on setting up a personalized system that is realistic and easy to maintain. We will cover which weeds add fertility and how best to return them to the soil; when and how often to cultivate; other uses for certain weeds (such as medicine, fodder and food); unwelcome weeds and how to take them out, and how to minimize weeds by replacing them with other plants. Also a discussion of how to communicate with these wild plants. Limit to 15 people.
503-888-2970 cobgarden@hotmail.com 310 NW Island Cir #B10 Beaverton OR 97006

Grow All the produce you need in 2 ½ years - Marisha
at City Repair Headquaters 3 - 5pm

Guerilla Gardening with Leonard
meet at CRHQ at 10 am and leave from there
You won’t want to miss this one.

Urban Rabbits with Connie VanDyke of Tabor Tilth Urban Farm
NEST 9034 N Edison

Worm Bins and Vermiculture with Pam Leitch of Portland Permaculture Institute
NEST 9034 N Edison

Permaculture Design Charette with Jadene Foreman
3-5 pm
Designing space in preparation for this Fall’s Village Planting Convergence
Permaculture Demonstration Garden 1720 SE Alder

Soil Foodweb Gardening:Intro to Soil Biology, Aerobic Compost and Aerobic Compost Teas
Ariadne Garden 3606 NE 11th Ave with Kim McDodge, head gardener
We offer an introduction to the critters in the soil who can help us garden more carefully, with fewer imported supplements, with greater understanding of their cycles and the cycles of the plants they feed. We show how to bring life into the soil through cultural practices that are generative. The making of aerobic compost and compost tea will be covered.
503-284-7116 mcdodge@spiritone.com

Rain water catchment and hand washing station workshop
10-5 both Saturdays at TLC

Swales and more swales with Angela Zehava
2:30-3:30
We will learn about four different types of swales, how to construct them, and you will see examples of three types. After the workshop, you will have an opportunity to help construct swales. Come an hour early for the live music jam that happens everyday at 1:30.
Coho Nehalem

We come together after planting the spring crops in a season of renewal. We celebrate with each other as our ancestors did. We teach each other. We share resources. We build together. This is how we remember our collective knowledge, our common sense and design the future together.

From May 18th through May 27th, 2007 we will celebrate Village Building Convergence 7. Activities will include natural building demonstrations, ecological design projects, celebratory evening events, intersection repairs, block parties, and workshops.

City Repair is looking for permaculturists to lead workshops at this year’s VBC sites. Possible workshops topics range from practical to theoretical and include:

We are also specifically looking for people to give urban permaculture animal workshops on raising chickens, bees, rabbits, ducks, and worms. Offer to lead a workshop during the VBC, or host a site where a workshop can blossom!

This is a great opportunity to share you skills with the community and exposure to a large audience. Workshops are free of charge to participants (except for a possible materials charge). They typically last one to three hours, and will be held in the afternoon. All workshop information is published in the Village Builder prior to VBC7. A write-up will be requested after the deadline.

Proposal must include:

ALL PROPOSALS MUST BE SUBMITTED BY APRIL 15th, 2007
Thanks for sharing your wisdom with the community!

Submit by email to Page Hawley
Questions: 503-235-8946 (City Repair Office)

Download Here:
vbc7.workshop.proposal.application.pdf

Call for submissions!

Questions: Page Hawley Page

Check out the volunteer opportunities!

Click here: Permaculture Volunteer Roles