Upcoming Events
Dear friends and fellow forest gardeners,
After almost four years of intensive travel and teaching, I am taking a break from being in the public eye for a while so I can rest, recoup, and consider my next steps. Thank you all for your support and interest. Do continue getting in touch, I may take you up on offers of teaching gigs, especially for the fall and into next year. For now, though, I am looking forward to enjoying a summer mostly in my own garden and in the woods of my beloved New England.
I should also announce that I have passed on my teaching responsibilities for the Forest Garden Design Intensive below to my friend and coauthor Eric Toensmeier.
See you 'round the garden and around my own region. 'Til we meet again, may your hearts and your gardens grow with grace and beauty! Much love and peace to all.
Dave
Sunday, July 26 through Friday, July 31, 2009; Sirius Community, Shutesbury, MA
Eden Arising: A 6-Day Forest Garden Design Intensive
Location: Sirius Community, Shutesbury, MASponsored by Living Routes Ecovillage Education
as the last week of the annual Summer Institute in Sustainable Living
Contact: Living Routes
www.livingroutes.org/programs/p_sirius.htm
888-515-7333
Eat your friendly neighborhood forest, woodland, thicket, or backyard! Learn to design edible ecosystems from soup to nuts in this intensive participatory learning experience. Together, we’ll develop plans for a range of productive ecosystems using various ecological design processes. The Sirius Community’s sprawling campus will provide our canvas. We’ll offer the information, inspiration, guidance, and support you need—you’ll develop your design skills, your scientific mind, and your artistic eyes, ears, and hands through interactive exercises. Take this course either as a standalone six-day immersion or as an advanced continuation of the preceding two-week Living Routes Permaculture Design Course with Jono Neiger, Ethan Roland, and Kay Cafasso.
Primary Instructor Dave Jacke wrote the book on food forestry as primary author of the classic two-volume tome Edible Forest Gardens. He has studied and practiced ecological design in New England and around the world since the 1970s , and has run Dynamics Ecological Design, a design firm in Greenfield, MA, sicne 1984. Dave’s reputation as a deeply engaging and transformational educator has led him to teach across the US and Canada in recent years.
