Fwd: November 29th Public Meeting, Mid-Hudson Regional Sustainability Plan, Westchester County - SAVE DATE AND DISTRIBUTE

Car pool this THursday anyone? 

Call me

Pauline

914-886-8506

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From: Nina Orville <nina@sweac.org>

Subject: Fwd: November 29th Public Meeting, Mid-Hudson Regional Sustainability Plan, Westchester County - SAVE DATE AND DISTRIBUTE

Date: November 26, 2012 9:25:42 AM EST

To: Nina Orville <nina@sweac.org>

Bcc: paulineschneider4@gmail.com

Dear All -

The draft Mid-Hudson Regional Sustainability Plan is now available for your review.  Comments and suggestions are welcome and should be submitted by following the instructions on the site linked to above (you may have to copy and paste the google doc link into your browser to access the document where you can submit comments).  Comments will be accepted until December 7th at 5 p.m.

Please also join us at the upcoming public meeting this Thursday at 6:30 p.m. at the Westchester County Center (details below) for a review of the plan and the opportunity to ask questions and provide input. 

Thank you,

Nina Orville
Executive Director
SWEAC
914-693-6222

Dear Mid-Hudson Sustainability Planning Partners:

 

The Mid-Hudson Regional Sustainability Plan's second public meeting will take place on Tuesday, November 27 at 6:30 p.m. in Kaplan Hall's Great Room within SUNY Orange's Newburgh Campus and at the Westchester County Center on Thursday, November 29th^th at 6:30 PM . Please forward to all parties that may be interested in attending.

 

 

 

Mid-Hudson Regional Sustainability Plan

Public Meeting Notice

 

DATE:  Thursday, November 29, 2012

 

TIME:   6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.

Doors will open at 6:00 for refreshments.

 

LOCATION: Westchester County Center

198 Central Avenue White Plains, NY 10606

 

Please RSVP at KEversley@greenburghny.com

 

TOPIC: Seven-County Mid-Hudson Regional Sustainability Plan

Dutchess ▪ Orange ▪ Putnam ▪ Rockland ▪ Sullivan ▪ Ulster ▪ Westchester

 

Please join the Mid-Hudson Sustainability Planning Consortium for a presentation of the draft regional sustainability plan will be followed by a question/ answer session and open discussion.

 

The Mid-Hudson Regional Sustainability Plan looks to utilize the combined knowledge of stakeholders in the seven counties of the Mid-Hudson Regional Economic Development Council Region to create a plan that will lead to a more sustainable region.  The Plan is one of ten such collaborative initiatives taking place around New York State as part of Phase One of Governor Cuomo's Cleaner, Greener Communities program. The draft Plan compiles regional trends related to land use, infrastructure, energy, transportation, and environmental practices and identifies project ideas that could significantly improve the economic and environmental health.  The plan is expected to be finalized by the end of 2012.

 

The Program empowers regions to create more sustainable communities by funding smart development practices. Planning teams are partnering with public and private experts across a wide range of fields, along with community residents, to lead the development of regional sustainability plans and to implement the projects that will significantly improve the economic and environmental health of their areas. The plan will guide integrated, sustainable solutions—from statewide investments to regional decision-making on land use, housing, transportation, infrastructure, energy, and environmental practices—to improve our quality of life.

 

Visit Engage MidHudson at www.engagemidhudson.com for more information and to join the ongoing discussion!

 

Fwd: SAVE THE DATE: Local Resilience: A Transition Town Weekend Coming This February

  

Local Resilience: 
A Transition Town Weekend

Date: February 1st to 3rd, 2013 (Friday to Sunday)

Times: Friday  6 - 9 PM (includes dinner) / Saturday, 8:30 AM - 5 PM (includes lunch) / Sunday 1 - 6 PM (includes closing dinner)

Place:  South Presbyterian Church, 343 Broadway, Dobbs Ferry, New York

Transition is what we've been through this fall, post Sandy. Realizing the importance of community . . . a deep pantry . . . an alternate source of heat in your house. This is called local resilience. 

The Transition Movement is the worldwide expert in building local resilience in the face of such challenges as peak oil, climate change and the economic crisis--and not just preparing for emergencies but as a preferable way of living. 

Come to Local Resilience: a Transition Town Weekend and move toward a life that is more fulfilling, more socially connected and more equitable than the one we have today. This weekend is sponsored by Roots & Wings, the sustainable initiative of South Church, in partnership with Transition Hastings and Transition Westchester.

WHAT CAN YOU EXPECT? A highly interactive event that will connect you to your neighbors who share your concerns for positive, effective action. - Learn how to describe the triple challenge of peak oil, climate instability, and economic deterioration and move people to action. - Explore ways to create and strengthen your local community. - Connect with others who share your concerns and are on a similar path. - Become a part of a rapidly growing positive, inspirational, global movement. The three-day course presented by Transition US is an in-depth experiential introduction to the Transition Movement. Packed with imaginative and successful ways to engage your community, the course describes how to catalyze, build, and facilitate a successful Transition Initiative. It delves into the theory and practice of Transition that has worked well in hundreds of communities around the world. 

WHO SHOULD ATTEND? People interested in learning about the Transition Movement in depth and leaders already creating a Transition Initiative in their community. 

WHAT PEOPLE SAY "Tina was a great inspiration at the Katonah library this weekend. The attendees were all powerful movers and shakers in their communities. Folks who know how to roll up sleeves and make things happen. It was a rich conversation!! Deeper than usual. Tina gets people inspired!" - Pauline 

Instructors: Tina Clarke, other TBA

Fee: $140, $50 for full time students.  No one will be turned away for lack of funds. 

Everyone must pre-register. To register or for more information, click here.  Contact Kathy Dean atkpokoik@verizon.net or 914-693-7389 if you are interested in attending and unable to pay the full tuition.

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Fwd: SAVE THE DATE: Local Resilience: A Transition Town Weekend Coming This February

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From: "Transition Westchester" <mailinglist@transitionwestchester.org>

Subject: SAVE THE DATE: Local Resilience: A Transition Town Weekend Coming This February

Date: November 17, 2012 9:58:37 PM EST

To: paulineschneider4@gmail.com

Reply-To: "Transition Westchester" <mailinglist@transitionwestchester.org>

  

Local Resilience: 
A Transition Town Weekend

Date: February 1st to 3rd, 2013 (Friday to Sunday)

Times: Friday  6 - 9 PM (includes dinner) / Saturday, 8:30 AM - 5 PM (includes lunch) / Sunday 1 - 6 PM (includes closing dinner)

Place:  South Presbyterian Church, 343 Broadway, Dobbs Ferry, New York

Transition is what we've been through this fall, post Sandy. Realizing the importance of community . . . a deep pantry . . . an alternate source of heat in your house. This is called local resilience. 

The Transition Movement is the worldwide expert in building local resilience in the face of such challenges as peak oil, climate change and the economic crisis--and not just preparing for emergencies but as a preferable way of living.

Come to Local Resilience: a Transition Town Weekend and move toward a life that is more fulfilling, more socially connected and more equitable than the one we have today. This weekend is sponsored by Roots & Wings, the sustainable initiative of South Church, in partnership with Transition Hastings and Transition Westchester.

WHAT CAN YOU EXPECT? A highly interactive event that will connect you to your neighbors who share your concerns for positive, effective action. - Learn how to describe the triple challenge of peak oil, climate instability, and economic deterioration and move people to action. - Explore ways to create and strengthen your local community. - Connect with others who share your concerns and are on a similar path. - Become a part of a rapidly growing positive, inspirational, global movement. The three-day course presented by Transition US is an in-depth experiential introduction to the Transition Movement. Packed with imaginative and successful ways to engage your community, the course describes how to catalyze, build, and facilitate a successful Transition Initiative. It delves into the theory and practice of Transition that has worked well in hundreds of communities around the world. 

WHO SHOULD ATTEND? People interested in learning about the Transition Movement in depth and leaders already creating a Transition Initiative in their community. 

WHAT PEOPLE SAY "Tina was a great inspiration at the Katonah library this weekend. The attendees were all powerful movers and shakers in their communities. Folks who know how to roll up sleeves and make things happen. It was a rich conversation!! Deeper than usual. Tina gets people inspired!" - Pauline 

Instructors: Tina Clarke, other TBA

Fee: $140, $50 for full time students.  No one will be turned away for lack of funds. 

Everyone must pre-register. To register or for more information, click here.  Contact Kathy Dean atkpokoik@verizon.net or 914-693-7389 if you are interested in attending and unable to pay the full tuition.

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Fwd: A death in the family

We're all in for Bill McKibben's Do The Math! campaign.  Now, read Working Families Party Exec. Director, Dan Cantor's email below

for how you can help spread the truth.  Many of us were lucky in this latest storm, but too many were not. 

Pauline Schneider, 

District Manager

Independent Consultant

Arbonne International

ID#: 12862130

Transition Westchester Core team member

(914)886-8506

http://paulineschneider.myarbonne.com/

http://www.transitionwestchester.org/default.html

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Pauline, We really are all connected. Hurricane Sandy was an equal opportunity destroyer, whether in New Jersey or New York. Listed below are groups that are working to provide aid to the "power-less," especially poor people living in public housing. No light, no heat, no water. We urge you to donate as generously as you can. It has been two weeks since the storm, but our hearts are still heavy. We want to take a minute to also talk about those who died, and what this all means. Sandy killed nearly 200 people in the U.S, in Haiti, in the Bahamas.  Each death tore apart someone's heart. That included us. On the morning after the storm, the Working Families "family" learned that the daughter of two of our most beloved and dedicated leaders was killed when a tree fell on her and a friend. Her name was Jessie Streich-Kest. Her friend Jacob Vogelman also perished. She was 24, he was 23. Jessie was in her first year as a high school teacher in New York City. She was one of those lucky young people who figured out early in life what she wanted to be. She had worked hard to qualify for the difficult job of teaching 10th grade Special Education students, and she loved it. Friends of the family could tell that she was poised for a long career as an educator, a valued colleague, and a leader both in her profession and in her union.  People die every day, of course. But there is no pain greater than losing a child, and every parent reading this knows the fear of not being able to reach a child, of breathing a sigh of relief when fears turn out to be unfounded. Sometimes, of course, the news is bad. When it's a so-called natural disaster, some people blame fate, others God, still others just bad luck.  But it's really not about luck at all, and this is why we're writing to the many WFP supporters who did not know Jessie or anyone else hurt in this hurricane. A few days ago, an environmental thinker and writer named Bill McKibben made a point worth repeating.  It is time, he wrote, that we stop giving these storms the names of people, and start naming them after fossil fuel companies. McKibben's point is that global warming makes normal storms into terrible ones, and terrible ones into killers. The oil and coal companies are the biggest contributors to the global warming that causes sea levels to rise and the waters to warm, which in turn boost the awesome, terrible power of a hurricane. They fund the lobbying and political campaigns that guarantee that we do nothing real to challenge climate change. And they fail to accept any responsibility for the death and destruction that result.  If you are the kind of person who likes to connect the dots, consider this: just before the election, Chevron just made the single-biggest corporate campaign contribution of all time, giving $2.5 million to some god-awful super PAC that they know will keep profits high and responsibility low. What does a 24 year-old teacher mean to an oil company, after all? The WFP was formed 15 years ago with a simple purpose: Tell the truth. Tell the truth about our society and what we owe each other. Tell the truth about what it's going to take to put our country and world on a better path.  Like McKibben, we cannot help but think that the cost of inaction is too high. We are therefore asking you to consider two actions.  First, send money to relief efforts along the Atlantic coast. In New York City, below are five groups working to coordinate relief in some of the hardest-hit neighborhoods.  And second, please join us in standing with 350.org, the organization founded by Bill McKibben to tell the truth about climate change, and sign their petition. We need to send a message to the oil companies and ask them to STOP funding election and lobbying campaigns and START using the money for recovery efforts.  It's the least they can do.  You can sign the petition here, and forward it on as you see fit: http://act.350.org/sign/sandy-wfp/ Thank you for reading.  Dan Cantor WFP Executive Director P.S. -- Please donate whatever you can to these organizations doing fine work to help the recovery across New York. Some of these are general donation pages -- make sure to designate your contribution for Hurricane Sandy relief: Red Hook Initiative New York Communities for Change Make the Road NY Island Harvest Occupy Sandy Become a WFP fan on Facebook.  Follow the WFP on Twitter. Become a WFP Sustainer! Other political groups have corporate donors. We have you. Just $5 a month supports our fight for a better New York.  This is a message from the Working Families Party. To change your email address or update your contact info click here To remove yourself from this list, click here

Fwd: Our Home is Your Home, Birdhouse Building, & Vote YES for Open Space!

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From: Candace Schafer <candace@westchesterlandtrust.org>
Date: October 23, 2012, 3:05:21 PM EDT
To: paulineschneider4@gmail.com
Subject: Our Home is Your Home, Birdhouse Building, & Vote YES for Open Space!
Reply-To: hannah@westchesterlandtrust.org

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3rd Annual   Open House and Harvest Celebration   To THANK YOU for a year of generosity, hard work, and dedication to our natural environment, we have lined up a fantastic afternoon this Friday!   Enjoy a glass of wine while listening to the talented Brooklyn-based blues, country and experimental band "The Woes." Bring the family and decorate a spooky pumpkin! Grab a delicious bite of a pizzette from Mount Kisco's Via Vanti!, made with ingredients from local farms.  Westchester Land Trust Friday, October 26 4:30 - 6:30 pm Sugar Hill Farm,   403 Harris Road, Bedford Hills     Please bring a non-perishable item for the local food banks.   Are you a Bedford Resident? Vote 'YES' Nov. 6 for Clean Water and Open Space.  For more information go to /bedfordcleanwateropenspace.weebly.com     BUILD IT, THEY WILL COME   It's birdhouse building time! Bring the family, build a birdhouse, and get lots of birdie tips from our naturalist. Registration is limited and will close after the first 20 participants.   Saturday, November 10 1:00 - 3:00 PM Sugar Hill Farm  403 Harris Road,   Bedford Hills NY 10507   Register: Grace@westchesterlandtrust.org or 914-241-6346 x-23. The first 10 people to register receive a complimentary kit.     $8.00 per Bird House Kit This event is generously supported by   National Leader in Energy Procurement and Energy & Environmental Reporting     www.westchesterlandtrust.org

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Anti Fracking Vigil in Mt Kisco Wed. August 1st

This Wednesday, August 1st

Join your fellow Westchesterites in Mt Kisco,

 Governor Cuomo's home town, 

at the Mt Kisco Village Hall

From 6:00- 7:00pm

104 Main St, Mt 

Kisco, NY 10549

(1 1/2 blocks from Metro North train station)

Bring a poster, bring your friends and neighbors

Take action now: Tell Governor Cuomo to ban fracking

Call him: 518-474-8390

or

www.amillionfrackingletters.com

For more information contact Vitalah Simon

Vitalah@verizon.net or 914-683-5829

Pete Seeger Asks Governor Cuomo to Ban Fracking in New York

Check out this video on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLnoqFAt9TQ&feature=youtube_gdata_player


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Fwd: David Brancaccio's "Fixing the Future" Shown on Wednesday, July 18, at 7: 30 PM in Pelham

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From: "Transition Westchester" <mailinglist@transitionwestchester.org>
Date: July 5, 2012 9:55:28 PM EDT
To: pepki@aol.com
Subject: David Brancaccio's "Fixing the Future" Shown on Wednesday, July 18, at 7: 30 PM in Pelham
Reply-To: "Transition Westchester" <mailinglist@transitionwestchester.org>

Join us for a Screening and Community Discussion

Fixing the Future
A Documentary about "the Reinvention of the
American Economy"

Wednesday, July 18th at 7:30 pm
The Picture House, Pelham, NY

In recent years the news has brought daily reports of teetering corporations, vast lay-offs, and a stock market that can't find its footing. When we watch and listen to the big picture, it can feel overwhelming, and we can feel powerless.

Yet these times are also creating a renaissance of new thinking about how to reclaim stability and vitality in our communities. We may not be able to do much about the Euro crisis, however, we can buy from businesses that hire area residents and contribute to our shared local economy. Nowhere is this more evident than at the farmers market, where week-by-week, shoppers purchase directly from producers, strengthening both the local food system and economic activity.

On Wednesday, July 18th, Community Markets invites you to an evening all about solution. We're screening the documentary, Fixing the Future, a 70-minute film narrated by David Brancaccio (of public radio's Marketplace and NOW on PBS). Brancaccio interviewed people from around the U.S. who are taking on new approaches to enliven their communities. From initiatives such as worker cooperatives and "time banks" to community banks and local currencies, come hear these inspiring voices share their experiments in reinventing the American economy.

After the film, Jon Zeltsman, Community Markets Co-Founder, will facilitate a discussion about how to jumpstart grassroots solutions for our area. He'll be joined by kindred thinkers and encourage audience involvement in the conversation.

The venue is The Picture House in Pelham, NY, a gorgeous, fully-restored 1921 movie theater that seats 300 people. The Picture House is located at 175 Wolfs Lane in Pelham. Tickets are $9 online ($12 at the door) and you get can them right here.

You can also join this conversation, and many more about local food and livelihood, on our Facebook page or via Twitter: @farmersmarket5 (Westchester/Rockland markets) and @farmersmktcity (NYC markets).

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Primitive Technologies

Learning primitive technologies has never been so easy.   The internet and Youtube connect us instantly to the wisdom keepers and practitioners of  the old ways.Here is a terrific website from a group based on the West coast.  http://www.primitiveways.com/Just scanning their pages you get an idea of all the skills we humans once used to know and can relearn.   There are local primitive teachers here as well, like Mountain Scout Survival School in the Beacon area run by Shane Hobel. http://mtnscoutsurvival.com/He teaches in the Hudson Valley and in Manhattan,and does private and group instruction as well as parties.A great guy!
  

Shane Hobel

 

Why is learning primitive skills important?
As Primitive Ways website says, these ancient skills connect us to our ancestors, remind us of our grandmothers and grandfathers who worked hard to survive and are the reason we are here today.  However, another more basic reason is the practical nature of these skills that can be lifesaving in many different challenging situations.  Oh, and they're fun to learn and practice!  My friends who have learned to start fire from sticks tell me of the elation they felt the first moment that flame came to life successfully.  The flint stones made into knives are also some of the sharpest tools out there and never need sharpening, nor do they rust.  They may chip, but so can a metal blade which has to be sharpened regularly and kept from rusting.

This bloodthirsty hot summer has its own primitive lessons to teach us.  Going lower into a basement is cooler, and a basement is like a cave. Power outages from overuse of air conditioner units tell us another primitive lesson, don't be in a hot room or you will dehydrate.  Staying cool and hydrated are two huge survival lessons Shane teaches, and he shows you how to do it. How to find water, how to stay cool. In his Wilderness Surival 1 course you will learn the basic essentials of survival http://mtnscoutsurvival.com/Wilderness1.html

• "Wilderness Survival Class with instructor Shane Hobel is made up of many skills and is offered throughout the Hudson Valley in both wilderness and urban environments. The first class introduces you to the scope of this subject of study and particularly the Seven Arrows:
• Shelter, Water, Fire & Food, Tracking, Awareness & Movement
• Wilderness 1 will open your eyes to truly appreciate the gifts Mother Earth has to offer. Awaken to how capable you are and how fulfilling it is to be shed the need for today's comforts we are accustomed to. From this experience, choose your Trail of Journey and continue your modern renaissance in primitive and survival skills.

Good luck on your adventure connecting with our ancestors who had to figure these skills out for themselves and use them every day. 

 

June 6-7, Take Root! training @ John Jay Homestead & Mt Kisco Child Care Center

Take Root! A Training for Garden Educators

Cornell Garden-Based Learning (CGBL) is pleased to announce a new professional development approach called Take Root! A Training for Garden Educators.

Host a Take Root! Training: CGBL is looking for partners in New York State to host and facilitate these trainings with us. Partners may include Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE) County offices and non-profits or community organizations that are interested in garden-based learning program development or expansion.

Attend a Take Root! Training: Take Root! is open to educators and youth workers from NYS interested in, or already implementing, garden-based learning. Attendees from organizations are encouraged to bring along at least two other staff and/or volunteers. Up to .5 hours Continuing Education Units may be earned from the training.

Take Root! Training Objectives:

• Promote our garden-based learning resources with a positive youth development focus.
• Bring together CCE and community educators to develop an ability to incorporate gardens into their scope of work, to make gardens projects successful and sustainable, and to facilitate more lead educators on these topics in each region.
• Gather information about local projects to determine and demonstrate effectiveness, as well as better understand areas of improvement.
• Foster community partnerships, coalition building, and linkages to other programs.
• Grow significant youth and adult leadership in local food systems, “green,” and garden-based learning movements.

Take Root! Training Topics:

Session A – Plant a Seed, Inspire Interest. Introduction to garden-based learning; what is it, why is it important (researched based findings), and connecting gardens to all sectors of work. Begin to develop a garden program that promotes positive youth development, opportunities for leadership and community & volunteer participation, and review tips on effective teaching methods. An in-depth overview of CGBL and other resources will be reviewed. Groups new to garden-based learning or groups struggling with community involvement and program structure will particularly benefit from this session.

Session B – Tend the Garden. Develop an intentional, long-term approach to garden-based programs, expand existing programs.  Using a logic model as a tool, we introduce methods to create project sustainability. Groups with an existing garden program hoping to expand and increase project sustainability are a good fit for this session.

Session C – Building Capacity/Train-the-Trainer. Dig deeper than Session B, more extensive information on program and garden sustainability, ecological design, increasing yields and season extension, and building leadership of involved participants, including youth apprentice programs, teaching effectively, and mentoring.  Groups are a fit for this session if they have an existing project underway, have already taken some steps towards enhanced sustainability but want to go further both programmatic ally and ecologically.

Other topics CGBL offers, for which an additional program fee will be required:

• How to construct living sculpture such as sod furniture
• Introduction and intermediate Permaculture
• The garden as a gateway to environmental awareness
• Aquaponics
• Intensive introductions to our curricula, such as Dig Art!, Discovering our Food System, and Seed to Salad

More info on being a partner/host organization –>

View the 2012 Take Root! Training Schedule –>

Stay up to date as new sessions are scheduled, join CGBL on Facebook and subscribe tothe CGBL Blog.

Inner Transition Workshop June 23, 10:00am-4:00pm

Is fundamental, lasting change in the world possible without authenticity and awareness at the core of the people committed to helping it happen?

We can only see in the world what we have realized in ourselves. Compassion, cooperation, and community are more than learned behaviors; they are the visible signs of deep inner discovery.

How are we each making this inner transition?

What can we learn from each other?

Join the Mid-Hudson Valley Transition Initiative Community

June 23, 10:00AM- 4:00 PM

Miriam's Well ~ Saugerties

First in a series of gatherings to deepen appreciation of the processes of

Inner Transition 

Who should attend?:  People actively involved in movements for social change

Facilitators: Pamela Boyce Simms, Clark Strand, and Janet Asiain

Participants will: 

              Discuss Stages of Change and the FRAMES models (Transition's "Heart and Soul")

              

              Explore the essential connection between inner work, and meaningful effective

              work in the world. 

              Discover and share practices for self-inquiry/observation/understanding from 

              a variety of perspectives

When:  Saturday June 23, 10-4

Where: Miriam's Well, 13 Simmons Street, Saugerties, NY

Donation: On a sliding scale of $10-$25

A box lunch (reservations required before noon 6/22) will be available for $10, or participants may bring their own. 

Space is limited, reservations are required.

Contact Janet: janetasiain@gmail.com or  845-514-0194

Fwd: Fresh News

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Workshop in Marathon NY on haymaking with horses

From: NOFA-NY <e-news@nofany.org>
Date: May 30, 2012 2:54:32 PM EDT
To: pepki@aol.com
Subject: Fresh News
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Fresh News Wednesday, May 30th, 2012   Dear Pauline,     Join NOFA-NY on June 17th at the Northland Sheep Dairy for "Make Hay While the Sun Shines: Working with Horses and Mules" field day. The day will include a morning session from 9am to noon titled "Working the Loose Horse - What to do When You Bring Home a New Horse or a New Teamster". With horses loose in a corral, we will talk about; and try to demonstrate, how horses interact with each other. We will discuss their senses, communication, and natural responses. We will work on teaching new and old teamsters alike how to use this information when beginning a relationship with a horse or team. We will consider how experienced teamsters can use this information while helping a beginning teamster.   The afternoon session  "Making Hay with Horses - Mowing, Tedding, Raking, and Baling Demonstrated," will go from 1pm. to 4pm. Making hay with horses and mules is one of their primary tasks on the farm. We will hook up and demonstrate two horse drawn mowers, rakes, and tedders. We will pull a baler with a gas powered PTO forecart. We will answer questions about equipment, preparing animals for this work, and how much to expect to get done.  A potluck lunch will hopefully include plenty of time for folks to visit and talk to other horse farmers.     Northland Sheep Dairy: 3501 Hoxie Gorge Freetown Rd., Marathon, NY 13803 (Cortland Co.)  FREE for NOFA-NY and DAPNet Members / $15 All Others. To register please contact Stephanie Backer-Bertsch at (585) 271-1979 ext 509 or register online at http://tinyurl.com/nofanyevents.  NOFA-NY Job Openings   Education Director We are seeking an Education Director to work with the Executive Director and Education Team to lead the organization's farmer, gardener,  and small business educational initiatives, including the Winter Conference, Organic Dairy & Field Crop Conference, on-farm field day series, intensive workshops, and general technical assistance.  This is a middle-management position.  Please see our website for more information and help spread the word!: http://www.nofany.org/about/work-us.     Organic Fruit & Vegetable Coordinator We are hiring an Organic Fruit & Vegetable Coordinator to coordinate and plan the organization's education and technical assistance education for fruit and vegetable farmers including planning on-farm field days, advanced farmer workshops, conference fruit and vegetable workshops, general technical assistance, and planning the new NOFA bulk program. This is position is one of 5 education team members and located in the Rochester office or a NYS telecommuting position. Please see our website for more information and help spread the word!: http://www.nofany.org/about/work-us.   NOFA-NY Field Days Be on the lookout for the FULL listing of NOFA-NY Summer Field Days in the upcoming newsletter! To register for NOFA-NY Field Days, please call Stephanie Backer Bertsch at (585) 271-1979 ext 509 or register online at http://www.tinyurl.com/nofanyevents.    Sustainability and Reality: Lessons Learned from Ten Years as Diversified Small-Scale Farmers Kent Family Growers: 1301 CR 31, Lisbon, NY 13658 (St. Lawrence Co.) FREE for NOFA-NY Members / $15 All Others  Join NOFA-NY and Kent Family Growers on Saturday June 9th from 2:00-5:00 PM at Sustainability and Reality: Lessons Learned from Ten Years as Diversified Small-Scale Farmers. The day will include a tour of Kent Family Growers - a vegetable farm that uses human, draft-animal and petroleum power- and discussion will center on production and management practices that evolved through seasons of tears and cheers. Daniel and Megan Kent will teach us how pests, weeds, diseases, labor, crops and the farm are sustainably managed today, relating the background stories and experiences that explain the all-important "why" behind their management decisions. Participants will learn to judge a practice's value to the overall production system by assessing the pros and cons of its inputs, investment and results. This field day is part of our Beginning Farmer Program; all participants are invited to stay for an informal farmer-to-farmer networking reception and potluck dinner following the presentation. For more information, click here.   Biological IPM Strategies with Abby Seaman on Gonzalez Farm Gonzalez Farm, 473 Pine Island Turnpike, Pine Island, NY 10924 FREE for NOFA-NY Members/ $15 All Others Come tour Gonzalez Farm with Cornell University's Vegetable IPM Coordinator Abby Seaman June 17th from 9:00 AM- Noon. The rich muck soil on Gonzalez Farm presents unique soil, weed and pest management challenges, including issues with cutworms, brassica flea beetles and phytophthora blight. This workshop will focus on understanding the life cycles of these pests, and Abby will present research-based IPM strategies, including biological and cultural control methods, as well as organic pesticides.    Alternative Meat Markets and Halal Production Norwich Meadow Farms, 4450 State Hwy 23, Norwich, NY (Chenango Co.) FREE for NOFA-NY Members/ $15 for All Others Want to learn more about on farm processing and alternative meat marketing? Join us on June 20 from 11:00 AM-2:00 PM to hear from Zaid Kurdieh as he explain how Norwich Meadows Farm has expanded their farm to include on-farm Halal Processing. Join us as we tour the far, learn the basics of Halal processing, and discuss strategies for securing alternative meat markets. Attendees will go home with an understanding of the regulations associated with adding on-farm processing to a farm business, as well as the challenges that produces may encounter when first entering an alternative market.     NOFA-NY News   NOFA Summer Conference Online Registration Open! Join over 1400 people from across the Northeast for NOFA's famous Summer conference at UMass Amherst from August 10-12, 2012. The conference will host keynote speakers Congresswoman Chellie Pengree (ME) and Jeffrey Smith, Institute for Responsible Technology. We will also feature over 200 workshops on organic gardening, farming, food politics, permaculture, homesteading, landscaping, alternative energy, livestock, cooking, and more! Hundreds of vendors and exhibitors, live enterainment, a Children's and Teen Conference, and a county fair will take place as well. To register, please the website www.nofasummerconference.org. For questions, please call (413) 362-2143 or email info@nofasummerconference.org.    Get Your NOFA Credit Card Today! Go Organic when you shop!  Sign up for a NOFA credit card through Capital One to support NOFA's important policy work to build a strong, regional organic food system. It's easy! Just shop for things you buy every day and NOFA gets a $50 donation upon first use and at least 1% of all purchases. What a great way to buy a gift for Father's Day, June 17th!  SIGN UP TODAY!  Policy & Action     New Yorkers Against Fracking need your help to build a list of 1,000 businesses against fracking in the next week! It's easy to do, but NYAF needs help from all of their allies and members across the state if we are going to get this done! 1. Check out the toolkit that we prepared to walk you through this process. 2. Print out 5 copies of the business endorsement form. 3. Make a list of local business owners to speak to about fracking. We are particularly targeting anyone that works with food (chefs, restaurants, farms, delis, caterers, etc.), but any business would be great. Not sure who to visit? Think of your employer or any professional contacts that you may have. Or consider the places that know you because you are a regular customer. 4. Speak to 5 - 10 local business about the dangers of fracking. Ask them to use the endorsement form to sign-up to support our coalition efforts. 5. When you get home, use the endorsement form to submit the information about the businesses that signed on into our web site. 6. Ask 5 friends, neighbors or co-workers to get 5 businesses signed on for a ban. Forward this email, share the toolkit and talk to them about how easy the process is. You can always promise to invite them to your celebration party when we permanently ban fracking in NY State! General Information & Regional Events                   Hemp History Week June 4-10 The 3rd Annual Hemp History Week will be held June 4-10, 2012. A national grassroots education campaign designed to renew strong support for hemp farming in the U.S., Hemp History Week 2012 will feature events in cities and towns throughout all fifty states. For more information see: www.HempHistoryWeek.com.  A primary objective of Hemp History Week is to advocate for a federal policy change to end the ban on hemp farming and let farmers grow the versatile and profitable crop--this is a policy that NOFA-NY has supported in our annual policy resolution process. A Senate bill is expected to be introduced later this year.  To write your Senators to urge them to co-sign the Industrial Hemp Farming Act HR 1831 visit: http://capwiz.com/votehemp/home/.       In this Issue:   NOFA-NY Jobs Openings   NOFA-NY Field Days    NOFA-NY News   General Information    Policy and Action   Quick Links:     About NOFA-NY Join as a Member Field Day Evaluations NOFA-NY Regional Representatives Regional Events Classified Ads Marketing Opportunities Beginning Farmer Apprenticeship Bulletin Board   Regional Events        Learn about Farm Insurance, Choosing Markets Workshops in WNY May 30-31, 2012   Women's Afternoon Tea June 3, 2012   The New Approach to Organic Gardening: Maintain and Enjoy! June 4 ,2012   Food Workers & Food Justice Conference June 5, 2012                                    NOFA-NY Certified Organic, LLC     Any farms or businesses interested in becoming certified organic through NOFA-NY can reach the certification office by phone at (607)724-9851 or by email certifiedorganic@nofany.org                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Northeast Organic Farming Association of New York, Inc. NOFA-NY  (585) 271-1979 249 Highland Ave Rochester, NY 14620 info@nofany.org   www.nofany.org

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