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Organic Farm School: a ten week lecture, discussion, and field course on organic agriculture and the food revolution, connecting environmental, agricultural & food justice. Class meets every Monday evening, starting June 8th (6-8pm) at the Midtown Global Market located at 920 E Lake St, Minneapolis (the old Sears Building).
Full school  registration is $120, drop-in class- $20. Register on-line.

Monday Night’s Lecture:

Monday, July 13, 6-8 PM: Collie Graddick, “Urban Agriculture and Marketing in the Twin Cities: Farming African and African American Foods”

Collie Graddick is an Agricultural Consultant with the Minnesota Department of Agriculture and has worked for the department for 16 years, working in the Seed, Noxious Weed and Pesticide Regulatory Units.   Prior to MDA Collie was an extension educator working in the areas of commercial vegetables, small grains and youth development. Collie grew up on a 200-acre sustainable farm in Hamilton, Georgia producing vegetables, poultry, beef and pork.  He received his B.S. degree in 1984 from Fort Valley State University, GA and his M.S. degree in 1989 from Tuskegee University, Alabama in Commercial Fruit and Vegetable Production. Collie is an active member in a number of Twin Cities community organizations including The Minnesota Environmental Partnership, AfroEco, Inc., the Center for Cross Cultural Health, Permaculture Research Institute among many others. Collie is also an active WEI board member.

Upcoming Field Days and Lectures:

Saturday, July 18, , Field Day: Composting 101, Women's Environmental Institute

Monday, July 20, 6-8 PM- Pat Farrell: "It All Comes Down to Humus"

Monday, July 27, 6-8 PM- Ron Spinosa: “Will Mushrooms Save the World?  Mushrooms and  Sustainable Agriculture”

Monday, August 3, 6-8 PM: Winona LaDuke “Wild Rice and Biological Patents”

Saturday, August 8, 9:30-1:00: Salsa Saturday at WEI (all WEI staff, CSA and WEI members, and OFS students invited) to explore salsa making, salsa music, and salsa lunch. Bring your favorite salsa recipe and/or CD salsa music. Produce provided by WEI.

Monday, August 10, 6-8 PM: Elaine Evans, “Our Precious Pollinators”

Monday, August 17, 6-8 PM: Will Allen, Growing Power Dismantling Racism

 

Where: Women’s Environmental Institute
When: late July, 2009 / Fri Eve & 9-5 Sat & Sun.
Level: beginners.
Cost: $200 per person. Includes organic breakfast & snacks, catered lunches, copy of The Bread Builders: Hearth Loaves & Masonry Ovens and bread recipes. Learn how to make your own bread, pizza and other baked goods in your own outdoor wood-fired bread oven.
Registration printable form.                Register on-line.

Help WEI build its new oven and learn how to build your very own outdoor bread oven at the same time. Wood-fired masonry ovens have been made popular by Alan Scott in his co-authored book The Bread Builders: Hearth Loaves and Masonry Ovens. Using Scott’s techniques, join in the construction of building oven walls with firebrick, calculating and building the dome, and finishing the front with decorative brick. Written instructions and photos will be given for building the foundation, hearth slab, block walls, and ideas for finishing the exterior. Join in a field trip Saturday night to see the instructor's finished oven and make pizza in the oven. Stay-over rooms are available at the WEI Eco Retreat Center at special reduced rates. Limited camping may be available at WEI by prior arrangement or in the Wild River State Park (with a prior reservation,1-866-85PARKS 8 am-8pm).

Instructor Bio: Darrold Glanville's love of bread making grew out of his interest and training in the Alan Scott method for building outdoor bread ovens. An artisan bread master, Darrold operates his own outdoor wood-fired bread oven at his home in rural North Branch and is an emerging proprietor of a local small-scale home-based flour mill where he fresh grinds his own flour, often using organic grains. Visit his website at: www.sunriseflourmill.com

For more information, call 651.583.0705.

The  Amador-Sunrise Land Registry is supported by a grant received from Embrace Open Space, initiated by the McKnight Foundation. After receiving this grant, WEi has assembled an advisory team, selected consulting ecologists to serve Registry members, and completed a baseline ecological inventory of the Registry's 62-acre anchor property (WEI and adjacent parcels), by local ecologist Barbara Delaney. The program's focus has now shfited to a community outreach campaign, with design and printing of a program brochure, informational booths at area events and news releases in local media. The Amador-Sunrise Land Registry is coordinated by Laurie Allmann, WEI's Land Registry Consultant. All environmental-and conservation-minded landowners in Amador and Sunrise Townships are welcome join this effort. 

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WEI survives with the help of all our contributing members and volunteers. Our mission is becoming ever more pressing as environmental justice, agricultural justice, food security, and environmental health issues become the forefront struggles in the coming decades. To continue this vitally important work, we need your investment in the form of an annual membership, and we especially encourage your participation in WEI programs and volunteer opportunities in the coming year.

For Membership Options and Perks, click here. You can apply directly on-line or by check sent to WEI, P.O. Box 128, North Branch, Minnesota 55056. If sending by mail, please download our new membership form. Individual memberships are $48/year or $58/year for you and a friend. Student memberships are $25.