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Things to Know
DATE: July 27, 28, 29, 2012.
PLACE: Mendocino County Fairgrounds, Boonville, CA
CONTACT: info@notsosimple.info or 707.895.2949
WE ARE OUTSIDE: Expect warm weather. There is some shade, but wear a hat and appropriate clothes.
NO DOGS PERMITTED.
BRING YOUR OWN PLACE SETTING: Limit the amount of stuff we send to the landfill and help develop the habit of using our own dishes for take out food as well as potlucks.
Monthly Archives: July 2011
Food: Mendough’s Wood Fired Pizza and Pita (2011)
Workshop Presenters: Olan and Lia Cox and Colin Fissenden
Time: Saturday, 10:00 – 11:20 am
Description: We will discuss and share tips and techniques associated with cooking and baking in a word fired oven and making pizzas and pita utilizing local grown and milled grain.
About the Presenters: Olan and Lia Cox, livingroots@cox.net.
Farm & Garden: Growing Organic Vegetables (2011)
Workshop Presenter: To be Announced
Time: sunday, 11:30 am – 1:00 pm
Farm & Garden: School Gardens Forum (2011)
Forum Hosts: Charlene Rowland and Antonia Partridge
Time: Sunday, 10:00 – 11:20 am
Mendo Time Bank (2011)
Demonstration Presenter: Mendo Time Bank
Time: All Day Saturday and Sunday
About the Presenter:
Mendo Time Bank is a community organization with 165 members that participate in an economy based on time. Members use time credits, called “Time Dollars” to buy and sell services and goods. By connecting untapped time and labor with unfulfilled wants and needs, the Time Bank brings people together to create a more secure, caring, productive, and sustainable community.
Web Site: mendotimebank.com
Shelter: Clay Plasters (2011)
Workshop Presenter: Veronica Morales, Emerald Earth
Time: Sunday, 2:00 – 3:20 pm
About the Presenter:
Emerald Earth is an intentional community located in the Anderson Valley.
Shelter: Natural Remodel (2011)
Workshop Presenter: Brent Levin, Emerald Earth
Time: Saturday, 2:00 – 3:20 pm and
Sunday, 11:30 am – 1:00 pm
About the Presenter:
Emerald Earth is an intentional community located in the Anderson Valley.
Shelter: Slip Straw Walls (2011)
Workshop Presenter: Liz Schroeder, Emerald Earth
Time: Saturday, 11:30 am – 1:00 pm
About the Presenter:
Emerald Earth is an intentional community located in the Anderson Valley.
Wild Food: The Scythe – Its Use and Maintenance (2011)
Wild Food: The Scythe
Time: Sunday, 3:30 – 5:00 pm
Description: A well tuned and fitted scythe in experienced hands is a formidable tool which can often compete with or beat machines commonly used for cutting weeds, grass and hay. I’m convinced that this technology can find a place in the our lives and culture. This will be a discussion and demo of the European style scythe, its advantages and limitations, use and maintenance. Hopefully we can find something to cut on the fair grounds.
About the Presenter:
Steven Edholm
Walk & Bike Mendocino (2011)
Demonstration Presenter: Walk & Bike Mendocino
Time: All Day Saturday and Sunday
Solar Living Institute (2011)
Demonstration Presenter: Solar Living Institute
Time: All Day Saturday and Sunday
Description:
Solar Living Institute is headquartered at the Solar Living Center in Hopland. We provide nationally accredited solar training for green career seekers and hands-on workshops for back-yard do-it-your-selfers seeking a sustainable lifestyle.
Call 707.472.2468 for information or visit our website at www.solarliving.org.
August 13th is the MoonDance 2011, an afternoon and evening of inspired celebration and rockin’ good time. Tickets $15, available online. Ages 12 and under free.
Shelter: Wind, Biofuels, and Water Pumping (2011)
Demonstration Presenters: Charlie Acker and Lucy Geever
Time: Ongoing Saturday and Sunday
About the Presenters:
Charlie Acker
Cycked (2011)
Demonstration Presenter: Cycked
Time: All Day Saturday and Sunday
Description:
Cycked is a community group devoted to cycle based travel, bike power, and bicycle commuting. We have the ability to have a walking or biking path from Boonville to the coast. The infrastructure is there, lets make it happen! Cycked was founded in June 2011.
Animal Husbandry: Draft Animals (2011)
Demonstration Presenters: Anne Siri and Michael Holmberg
Time: Saturday and Sunday
Farm & Garden: Local Grain Milling and Processing Demonstration (2011)
Demonstration Presenter: Doug Mosel Time: Sunday only
Farm & Garden: Beekeeping Workshop B (2011)
Workshop Presenter: Keith Feigin
Time: Sunday, 3:30 – 5:00 pm
Farm & Garden: Growing Quality Hay for Animals (2011)
Workshop Presenter: Paige Poulos
Time: Sunday, 3:30 – 5:00 pm
Description: This 90 minute program provides an overview of the types of hay best grown here on the North Coast and the merits of each in different types of farm enterprises. We will also discuss a calendar for preparing and planting a new hay field, methods of irrigation and harvest, how to create simple storage solutions when a barn is not available, what weeds to worry about, and more. Samples of various hays will be on display.
About the Presenter: Paige Poulos is a fifth generation Mendocino County resident with a lifelong commitment to the health and vitality of our local farming and ranching community. She and her husband, John Woolley, traded their executive life for a certified organic hay farm in Potter Valley in 2005, devoting themselves to organic and Biodynamic farming practices. This year Paige founded John Woolley Ranch hay sales, with a focus on local and certified organic hay and forages. She’s on a mission: get more land in quality hay production right here where our meat, dairy, equine and other farm animals need it. It’s a calling she plans to pursue for the next 50 years or so…..
Farm & Garden: Growing Vegetables (2011)
Workshop Presenter: Antonia Partridge
Time: Saturday, 3:30 – 5:00 pm
Food: Wine Making and an Introduction to Distilling (2011)
Workshop Presenter: Rob Guiliani
Time: Sunday, 10:00 – 11:20 am
About the Presenter: I am a long time home wine maker who hopes to share a few simple methods that will help the beginning wine maker get started.
Food: Intro to Solar Oven Building and Baking (2011)
Workshop Presenter: Ziggy Daniels
Time: Saturday, 3:30 – 5:00 pm
Food: Processing Olives (2011)
Workshop Presenter: Steven Edholm
Time: Saturday, 11:30 am – 1:00 pm
Description: Olives grow well in our climate and are easy enough to cure into a delectable and nutritious gourmet food. There is no good reason that we should not have a local culture which utilizes this resource which often goes to waste due to lack of essential knowledge and motive. We will cover varieties, harvesting and preparation by many methods, parameters for safe olive curing and propagation of olive trees. processing methods will include lacto-fermentation, dry salting, salt brining, lye and wood ash treatment and fresh water treatment. Oil pressing will not be covered.
About the Presenter:
Steven Edholm has been practicing and experimenting with a wide array of primitive and archaic living skills for the past 25 years or so. He knows a lot of cool stuff if he does say so himself. That is not accidental. Steven really likes apples and spends his time experimenting with and practicing not always so simple stuff on a 40 acre homestead. He is cofounder of Paleotechnics (www.paleotechnics.com), keeps a blog on some of his projects and thoughts at turkeysong.wordpress.com and started (and occasionally sort of runs) the food gardeners forum mendolakefoodgardens at groups.yahoo.com/group/Mendolakefoodgardens/.
PALEOTECHNICS
Steven Edholm & Tamara Wilder
PO Box 876 Boonville, CA 95415
707-391-8683
ts@paleotechnics.com
Wild Food: Seaweed Harvesting (2011)
Demonstration Presenters: Ed Nieves and Julie Drucker
Time: Ongoing Saturday and Sunday
Wild Foods: Salad University (2011)
Workshop Presenter: Bill Taylor
Time: Saturday, 3:30 – 5:00 pm
Sunday, 3:30 – 5:00 pm
Description: Salad is more than mixed greens or lettuce and tomato. Bill Taylor will show you how to cultivate, wildcraft, and harvest edible flowers, herbs, and greens, increasing your garden’s biodiversity and productivity. The right foods provide an energized feeling combined with a stronger constitution with which to fight off disease. A greater diversity of plants provides a healthy garden ecosystem to limit pests and plant diseases. You will learn common cultivated and wild plants with diverse flavors, textures, and healing properties. The class will illustrate many of the over 40 ingredients and include chart handouts to help you combine them into salads and green smoothies for a mix of flavors and health-giving properties. These foods are for the adventurous spirit, yet they can be crafted to please many palates.
About the Presenter: Organic gardener for 30 years, creating and selling Floodgate Farm salad mix and other produce since 2003. Bill Taylor founded and directed EarthWorks Projects in Boston, creating urban orchards in schoolyards, parks, urban wilds and vacant lots. He taught hundreds of urban residents fruit horticulture and brought environmental education to thousands of public school students. He has also taught both fruit growing and edible landscaping at the Solar Living Institute, Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens, and at Northeast
Organic Farming Association conferences in Massachusetts. In addition to his market gardens, Bill works for private clients.
Camping
We have a big grassy field adjacent to the event for people to set up tents or car camp around the edges.The fairgrounds is in downtown Boonville which is completely accessible by foot. Please limit vehicle traffic through the event (if you must drive out there is a back gate, if you plan on going in and out a lot, please park outside fairgrounds in stadium parking). There are showers available to campers along the creek behind the animal husbandry barn. Cost is $10/car/night.
There are full RV hook ups available through the fairgrounds back campground. For reservations contact the camp host at (831) 238-5345. .
Musical Entertainment: PURA VIDA! (2011)
Salsa band PURA VIDA brings the hot Latin sound of Afro-Caribbean music to northern California. The show includes traditional Cuban rumba, mambo, and chachacha, as well as cumbia from South America and samba from Brazil.
PURA VIDA was recently voted Best Local Talent in Ukiah, California, where they played to a crowd of over a thousand. They have played for weddings, wineries private parties, and clubs all over Mendocino and Sonoma Counties, all to rave reviews. Jorge Gomez’ spontaneous and genuine vocals blend with veteran Bay Area congero Amunka Davila’s percussion section to make the perfect choice to bring the crowd together.
Wild Food: How to Propagate Native Plants (2011)
Workshop Presenter: Ken Montgomery
Time: Sunday, 3:30 – 5:00 pm
Description: Want to produce your own native plants for landscaping or restoration? This workshop will show you how to propagate dozens of species from seeds, cuttings, sprigs, layers and divisions. Ken will focus on “site-specific” propagations, but he will also give lots of information on cultivation of California native plants in general.
About the Presenter:
Ken Montgomery
Animal Husbandry: Are Draft Animals Appropriate for You? (2011)
Workshop Presenter: Anne Siri and Michael Holmberg
Time: Sunday, 2:00 – 3:20 pm
Description: Are Draft Animals Appropriate for You? A-Z care, use, and cost.
About the Presenters: Ann and Mike have had horses always and draft horses for 20 years. They breed, train, shoe, work, pleasure drive, ride, show, and live with and learn from, pay for, and stress about their Shires. They have made every mistake in the book and are very pleased to share what they have learned over the years. They also own and operate Mendo Machine Shop in Philo, where they can fix or build pretty much anything anyone could ever dream up. They have built, rebuilt, redesigned, and restored all of the horse drawn equipment they use.
Contact info:707.895.2582
info@siriholmberg.com
www.siriholmberg.com
Animal Husbandry: Sheep Pasture Management (2011)
Workshop Presenter: Sarah Cahn Bennett
Time: Sunday, 2:00 – 3:20 pm
Description:
Sarah Cahn Benentt currently grazes and cares for approximately 250 sheep. In this session we will go over sheep handling basics, and basic sheep care. The second half of this demonstration will be hands on electric fence options and uses. If time allows, we will talk about shearing and tagging and possibly bring out the equipment.
About the Presenter:
Sarah Cahn Benentt has been intensively grazing sheep in vineyards and rangeland for the last five years.
Contact info: sarahcb@hotmail.com