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Dartington’s Schumacher College is offering members of the local community a chance to develop skills in growing their own produce and sustainably working land for maximum benefit.

The forward-looking College, which has an international reputation for its education work in environmental and social sustainability, will host a series of one-day practical sessions from 19th to 21st July, with contributions from leading land and agricultural practitioners.

Entitled Practical Skills for Sustainable Local Food, the sessions will demonstrate sustainable agriculture in action and teach participants how to grow and harvest their own vegetables, herbs and crops.

Educator and professional gardener Dyane Osborne, who holds a degree in Environmental Education from specialist agricultural school Bicton College, leads the course. Martin Crawford, founder of the Agroforestry Research Trust, will demonstrate methods used in the Forest Garden at Dartington; Horticulturalist Nick Gooderham will show students around the pioneering School Farm; and Permaculture expert Rhamis Kent will explain how agriculture can transform urban areas for the better, using his regeneration work in Detroit as an example.

In order to get a real flavour of College life, Taster Day students also have the opportunity to engage with the community living ethos – an essential part of the Schumacher experience. In supervised morning and afternoon sessions, students can spend time in the Schumacher kitchen, playing their part in the creation of the delicious vegetarian food that the College has become famous for or in discussion forums and workshops.

The taster days take place on Monday 19th July, Tuesday 20th July and Wednesday 21st July. Each one-day session costs £75 and includes access all tuition and course materials; vegetarian lunch and refreshments; and access to the College’s Open Evening with Rhamis Kent on Tuesday 20th July.

Full information can be found at www.schumachercollege.org.uk and you can book your place by contacting Schumacher College on 01803 865934 or admin@schumachercollege.org.uk.

About Schumacher College and Dartington
Schumacher College is a department of The Dartington Hall Trust.
Dartington is an international centre for the arts, social justice and sustainability – a unique place where enterprise, creativity, social and environmental responsibility flourish together. In our charitable activities, we work to create social change in collaboration with pioneering thinkers, artists, entrepreneurs and activists in the UK and around the world. Our enterprise activities include the Cider Press Shopping Centre with 15 boutique shops, a conference centre with accommodation and the award-winning White Hart restaurant and bar. Over 1 million visitors annually come to visit Dartington. For more information, visit www.dartington.org.

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June 6-12 — Strawbale Construction
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Join us for a fun week of hands-on experience building a hermitage using
straw bales and mud at the Turtle Rock Farm and Retreat on the Oklahoma
prairie. This educational workshop will be led by natural building
experts Steve Kemble and Mollie Curry of MudStrawLove, LLC from
Asheville, NC and local builder Tom Temple of Sustainable Design. During
this week, we will stack the bales and apply the first coat of mud on a
small hermitage.

For those who want a shorter workshop, Mollie and Steve will lead a
Stray-Bale Instruction class on Sunday, which week-long participants
will also join.

Fee for the week of instruction, lodging and meals is $425. Couples,
$375 each. Instruction, meals and camping, $375. Deposit to hold your
space is $150. Spaces for this retreat will be limited. Call for more
information.

*Date: June 6 – 12, 2010 *

* Registration ends May 6.* All classes have a non-refundable
reservation fee. If the class is cancelled, all funds will be returned
to you. If you are unable to attend, funds can be applied to a later class.

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Whether you’re a foodie or just a food lover … Whether your tastes lean towards comfort food or haute cuisine, the POV (Point of View) series invites you to get your pots, pans, televisions, computers and friends ready for the special broadcast of the Academy Award-nominated documentary Food, Inc., on Wednesday, April 21, 2010 at 9 p.m. on PBS,
in celebration of Earth Day. (Check local listings.)

Food, Inc. asks: How much do we know about the food we buy at our local supermarkets and serve to our families? Though our food appears the same as ever, it has been radically transformed. Producer-director Robert
Kenner and investigative authors Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation) and Michael Pollan (The Omnivore’s Dilemma) lift the veil on the U.S. food industry, exposing how our nation’s food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations. The livelihood of the American farmer and the safety of workers and consumers are potentially at risk. Food, Inc. reveals surprising — and shocking — truths about what we eat, how it’s produced, who we have become as a nation and where we may go from here.

Beyond the national broadcast, the POV website (www.pbs.org/ipov/foodinc) will offer viewers many opportunities to learn and participate:

• Invite your family and friends over for a healthy, delicious, affordable and sustainable potluck meal. Then watch Food, Inc. and discuss the many issues it raises. POV will be giving away books, DVDs, sustainable food items and more to potluck hosts and participants.
• Plan your party with POV’s Potluck Party Guide, which features an online invitation, checklists, discussion topics, links, resources and recipes. (See samples below.)http://www.pbs. org/pov/foodinc/ party_kit. php
• If you missed the broadcast, watch the film online in its entirety from April 22-29 at http://video. pbs.org.
• Join our Potluck Campaign and you may be selected for a free POV gift basket — Visit the POV website (www.pbs.org/ pov/foodinc) from April 22 to May 3 to enter the giveaway. Gifts include autographed copies of Fast Food Nation and The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Food, Inc. DVDs, autographed Food, Inc. movie posters and more. POV will select gift basket recipients the week of May 3 — Check back for details.
• Blog/Tweet/Facebook about your potluck — POV wants to know what you served, who joined in, what you thought of the film and what you talked about. Blog about your potluck and send us a link. Tweet @povdocs to tell us what you ate. Fan POV on Facebook and leave us a comment about your party.
• Calling all bloggers — Food bloggers are joining the Food, Inc. potluck campaign by sharing recipes, reaching out to their readers, hosting potlucks and more. Bloggers, including the cooks behind Food 52, Not Eating Out in New York, Last Night’s Dinner and many more sites, will be encouraging their readers to host potlucks and discuss the issues raised in the film.

http://www.pbs. org/pov/foodinc/ blogger_info. php

• Take action and take part — The social action network Take Part has partnered with POV to help viewers find out how to support healthy school lunches, and stay up to date on the issue by reading the Hungry for Change Blog.
• 10 Simple Things You Can Do — Take steps to change your diet and change the food system with these tips from the Food, Inc. filmmakers.
• Schools and community groups — Are you interested in hosting a public Food, Inc. screening and/or potluck? It’s simple — Just join the POV community network http://www.amdoc. org/outreach/ events/, request Food, Inc. and
  we’ll lend you a screening kit that includes a DVD.

/Source: American Documentary Inc. news release/

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