Upcoming Events:
Jono will be presenting for the North Quabbin Garden Club, Date: November 18, 7p.m., Millers River Environmental Center, Athol, MA Title: Permaculture: Ecological gardening for food, habitat, and health
This presentation will explore sustainable garden strategies, integration of perennial polycultures, low maintenance food systems, self-renewing fertility, animals, alternative energy and waste systems. Permaculture is a whole systems perspective, design system, and network aims to create a more sustainable society.
Tom Benjamin continues to teach the “Sustainable Landscape Design and Energy” course in Greenfield Community College’s innovative Renewable Energy/Energy Efficiency program. Link: http://web.gcc.mass.edu/renewable-energy/
Where Jono will be presenting: Intro to Permaculture, October 2010
Tom Benjamin is preparing to teach online Sustainable Sites course in UMass Green Building Masters Program Link: http://bct.eco.umass.edu/index.php/academics/bct-online-courses/
For which Jono will be doing his very first Webinar called “Principles, Processes and Permaculture Practice”
Recent Events:
Did you catch us on the cover of the Gazette Home Magazine with a story on Green Roofs? Sue Bridge Green Roof, August 2010
Tom recently presented “The Aesthetics of Contemporary Sustainable Landscapes” at the Boston Society of Architects’ Build Boston Residential Design conference.
Hope you caught us at the Ecological Landscaping Association winter conference Thursday, February 25, 2010 at the MassMutual Center in Springfield. We had a table with the western mass permaculture guild at the eco-marketplace and a great time. http://www.ecolandscaping.org/
Saturday, March 6th 2010- Keith taught a workshop at the Connecticut NOFA Winter Conference entitled Permaculture Design for Productive Conservation: Grow Food, Envigorate Ecosystems. Keith explored responsible ways to create productive forage ecosystems filled with food, fuel, fiber, and habitat for people, livestock, and wildlife in the marginal and sensitive areas of your farm or garden. Learn more at the NOFA CT website.
Keith as part of a star-studded teaching team executed an exciting 3-day Forest Garden Immersion Course at the Dunphy School in Williamsburg, MA on Memorial Day Weekend (May 28th-31st). Through a mix of theory-rich classroom time and engaging hands-on learning participants learned how to design, establish, and maintain an Edible Forest Garden while creating a gorgeous and food-filled school-yard garden.
Jono spoke with engineers, architects, and landscape designers at the Sustainable Landscaping and onsite Treatment Systems one-day seminar in Albany N.Y. on February 5, 2010 on the topic of Sustainable and Ecological Design. You can get more information at: half moon seminars-sustainable landscaping website link
Thank you to all who visited our table on January 16th at this year’s door-busting NOFA MA winter conference in Worchester, MA!
2009 Events:
The Woven River Project opened on Saturday October 3rd: This artistic pathway is a project of RiverCulture that links the downtown Turners Falls to the “Hill” section of the village. Through five sculptural installations linked together by an undulating woven wall of branches and graffiti poetry, Sebastian Gutwein of RDG exposes some of the history of Turners Falls and the process of reincorporation of the past into the present. Learn more about the project and read what the press has to say about our local art installation by clicking here.
An Edible Forest Garden for the Garlic & Arts Festival: On October 3rd, RDG unveiled an Edible Forest Garden and perennial vegetable garden bed at the 11th annual Garlic & Arts Festival. With the help of Tamzeena Hutchinson- landscape designer, other volunteers and donations from local businesses, RDG created a permanent installation that embodies the beauty, hope and productiveness of perennial agriculture.
RDG on TV: Keith Zaltzberg & RDG collaborator Dave Jacke visit with host Sandy Thomas on EcoExchange, a television show exploring how to live more sustainalby in the Pioneer Valley, to discuss regenerative design, permaculture & Edible Forest Gardens. Stream episode #107 here.