September 2020
Having reliable access to good healthy food has always been an important part of survival, and in a changing climate, we need to grow food in a way that reduces greenhouse gas emissions while being able to adapt to and even mitigate some aspects of our climate crisis. This weekend training, featuring Will Allen, former…
Find out moreOctober 2020
Aquaponic Farming is the art and science for the cultivation of fish and plants together in a constructed, re-circulating closed-loop ecosystem utilizing natural bacterial cycles to convert fish wastes to plant nutrients. WEI's aquaponic certificate training is an eight-month hands-on course which will follow an annual aquaponic cycle, from fingerlings to mature yellow perch. Aquaponic…
Find out moreSpend a day on WEI's Amador Hill Farm learning best practices in garlic farming. This is a family friendly working and learning day with WEI farmers. The event is free but space is limited, please RSVP to wei@w-e-i.org. A vegan soup lunch will be provided.
Find out moreNovember 2020
In this workshop we will collaboratively examine the growing trend of reclaiming the naturalness of our death processes including embracing the dying journey, home vigils, family directed rituals and funerals, and options for green/environmentally friendly burials. Death, Dying, and Green Burials When: Saturday November 2nd, 2019, 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Where: WEI’s Amador Hill Farm…
Find out moreA free community event! We invite you to join the Amador Hill Orchard farmers in the fun of making fresh organic cider using an old fashioned hand-crank press. Bring your own bottles or jars, washed and sterilized. Take home your own for immediate drink or for freezing or hard cider making. This cider is not…
Find out morePoetry has the power to restore and heal, both within our lives and in our relations with land and neighbors. In this one day workshop, we will reflect on a series of poems by Mary Oliver, Joy Harjo, Wendell Berry, and Alice Walker. Their wise words invite us to see anew our place in Earth-community,…
Find out moreDecember 2020
An intimate soul-searching night of Awakening. During the Longest Night of the year, nestled into deep winter, we'll look into the emotional burdens we've each been carrying this year and invoke transformation and release from them as the Sun begins its return. Join Kaia Svien, M.S., Spiritual Guide, Program Designer Mindfulness - Changing Times and…
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