Hudson Mohawk Re-Skill Festival - April 9, 2011

Forwarding from the Capital District Permaculture Guild

Mark your calendars for...
Hudson Mohawk Re-Skill Festival with Sharon Astyk

Saturday, April 9, 2011: 9a-9p
The Sanctuary for Independent Media
3361 6th Avenue
Troy, NY

A day of skillsharing and planning as we build a local network of shared
values and knowledge around urban gardens, food networking, food
preservation, passive and alternative energies, water catchment, and
social justice. Together we can manifest the critical and necessary
transition from resource-rich industrial capitalism to bioregional
sustainability and community. Workshops with many local and regional
teachers including Andrew Faust of the Center for Bioregional Living.

Sliding scale registration fee $10-30

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE

9am-12pm Morning Tour of Troy Sites:
+ Troy Farmer's Market
+ Capital District Community Gardens - Gardening for Beginners: Planning
Your Garden
+ Hydroponic Window Farm with Carolyn Braunius
+ The Urban Homestead with Amy Holloran and Jack Magai
+ Troy Bike Rescue - Cargo Bike Demonstration

1-6pm Workshop List (evolving):

+ Connecting to the World Around Us - Ancient Living Skills with Felix
Lufkin
+ Trapeze with Leah Penninman (geared towards young people)
+ 'Permaculture: The Growing Edge' Starhawk video & discussion with
Nancy Weber
+ Troy Shares with Abby Lublin
+ Homemade Food Factory: Yogurt, Vegetables and Bread with Amy Halloran
and her son Francis Magai
+ Build A Biochar Kiln with Jim Welch
+ Youth Organics!
+ Working with the City with Albany Chickens and AVillage
+ Confronting our Climate Change Challenge - the Biochar Strategy with
David Yarrow

6pm: Community Potluck

7pm: Sharon Astyk, Featured Speaker

Sharon Astyk is a writer, teacher, blogger, and farmer who covers issues
ranging from agriculture to energy policy, from food preservation and
cooking to religious life and democracy. She is the author of three
books: Depletion and Abundance: Life on the New Home Front, Depletion
and Abundance, and A Nation of Farmers: Defeating the Food Crisis on
American Soil.

Featured Workshop Presenters:

Todd Fabozzi - Faculty member of Geography and Planning Department at
UAlbany, Todd will discuss how auto-oriented growth and other regional
dynamics have played out in New York's Capital District. He will also
articulate the components of ecological urbanism, showing how better
urban design can help address the fiscal, social and environmental
challenges of the 21st century.

Toxic Soil Busters - Youth Led Lead Abatement Cooperative -
Environmental Justice - Community Organizing

Scott Kellogg - co-author of The Toolbox for Sustainable City Living
presenting on Urban Regeneration

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Co-Sponsors: Capital District Permaculture Guild, Capital District
Transition Network, Troy Bike Rescue, Radix Ecological Center, Soulfire
Farm.

For more info go to:
http://www.mediasanctuary.org/reskill2011http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=129783590424439