March Mid-Wales Permaculture News

Tue Mar 1 23:32:51 GMT 2011

To view the newsletter as a Word document, please open the attachment:

Newsletter March 2011

Mid Wales Permaculture Network

There are some great articles up on our website to set your
Permaculture aspirations free this spring!

To access any of these, go to http://www.permaculture-wales.org.uk
And click on the links on the home page to go directly to your chosen
target!

Peace and Permaculture in Bolivia
- an interview with Kim Glick, a Permaculture graduate who took her
skills to Bolivia as a Peace Corps Volunteer.  Read how Kims
knowledge of global Permaculture has been deepened by her 3 year
service with a remote South American community where she initiated a
project to rejuvenate seed stocks.

The Wisdom Offerings of a Garden
by Michelle Vesser

The Gardens at the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center in Occidental,
California are a unique combination of abundance, wildness, and
spectacular beauty. These 36 year hand-tilled gardens focus on growing
living soil, honoring biodiversity, and reconnecting the human world
with the diversity of food, flowers, and spirit. When most people walk
through the gardens, they are touched by a deeper knowing of what
nourishes us - something so many of us yearn for today.

If you are about to work on a design for your patch, this one could be
important

The Lie of the Land
Why knowing the orientation of your plot is crucial,
Roz Brown looks at microclimates, frost pockets, opportunities and
constraints.

Re-enchanting the World
Dave Prescott  (lyrically, as always) reviews
Towards Re-enchantment: Place and its meanings  edited by Gareth
Evans and Di Robson

What to grow this year: Comfrey

Why, where and which variety

A Bit of a Caper?

Plan for nasturtiums in 2011:  they are famed as a culinary
substitute, salad flowers, and as a good bee plant.

Modular Permaculture Design Course

Michele Fitzsimmons writes about how this new format is bringing the
design course to many more students

Ian Watts thinking on sustainable well-being has moved from the
Members Preview to general release  see Transition Healthcare,

And, still on health, but new to the Members Preview is the first in
a new series on Complementary Healthcare:

Julia Briscoe on the well attested health benefits of Molasses.

In the News and Events pages you will find an amazing cross section of
Permaculture, Transition and environmental happenings, including where
to swap your seeds this spring, how to get on a course and learn a new
skill, new legislation and bureaucratic ways of stewarding our
ecosystems, and even how to Bake Your Lawn.

Please use the News and Events sections regularly as they are
constantly updated. Also send us your own news and events for
inclusion. We now circulate to over 350 people all over Mid Wales who
are agog to know whats going on in your bit of the country.

Enjoy!

Best regards

Roz

Coordinating

Mid Wales Permaculture Network

.

To view the newsletter as a Word document, please open the attachment:

Newsletter March 2011

Mid Wales Permaculture Network

There are some great articles up on our website 
to set your Permaculture aspirations free this spring!

To access any of these, go to 
<http://www.permaculture-wales.org.uk/>http://www.permaculture-wales.org.uk
And click on the links on the home page to go directly to your chosen target!

Peace and Permaculture in Bolivia

- an interview with Kim Glick, a Permaculture 
graduate who took her skills to Bolivia as a 
Peace Corps Volunteer.  Read how Kims knowledge 
of global Permaculture has been deepened by her 3 
year service with a remote South American 
community where she initiated a project to rejuvenate seed stocks.

The Wisdom Offerings of a Garden
by Michelle Vesser

The Gardens at the Occidental Arts and Ecology 
Center in Occidental, California are a unique 
combination of abundance, wildness, and 
spectacular beauty. These 36 year hand-tilled 
gardens focus on growing living soil, honoring 
biodiversity, and reconnecting the human world 
with the diversity of food, flowers, and spirit. 
When most people walk through the gardens, they 
are touched by a deeper knowing of what nourishes 
us - something so many of us yearn for today.

If you are about to work on a design for your 
patch, this one could be important

The Lie of the Land
Why knowing the orientation of your plot is crucial,
Roz Brown looks at microclimates, frost pockets, opportunities and constraints.

Re-enchanting the World
Dave Prescott  (lyrically, as always) reviews

Towards Re-enchantment: Place and its 
meanings  edited by Gareth Evans and Di Robson

What to grow this year: Comfrey

Why, where and which variety

A Bit of a Caper?

Plan for nasturtiums in 2011:  they are famed as 
a culinary substitute, salad flowers, and as a good bee plant.

Modular Permaculture Design Course

Michele Fitzsimmons writes about how this new 
format is bringing the design course to many more students

Ian Watts thinking on sustainable well-being has 
moved from the Members Preview to general release  see Transition Healthcare,

And, still on health, but new to the Members 
Preview is the first in a new series on Complementary Healthcare:

Julia Briscoe on the well attested health benefits of Molasses.

In the News and Events pages you will find an 
amazing cross section of Permaculture, Transition 
and environmental happenings, including where to 
swap your seeds this spring, how to get on a 
course and learn a new skill, new legislation and 
bureaucratic ways of stewarding our ecosystems, and even how to Bake Your Lawn.

Please use the News and Events sections regularly 
as they are constantly updated. Also send us your 
own news and events for inclusion. We now 
circulate to over 350 people all over Mid Wales 
who are agog to know whats going on in your bit of the country.

Enjoy!

Best regards

Roz

Coordinating

Mid Wales Permaculture Network

.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://mailman.gn.apc.org/mailman/private/diggers350/attachments/20110301/c3cf50ca/attachment.html>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/x-ygp-stripped
Size: 183 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <https://mailman.gn.apc.org/mailman/private/diggers350/attachments/20110301/c3cf50ca/attachment.bin>