Dallas-Fort Worth, North
Central Texas
Teachers Needed: Homesteading Skills
Rural Produce Farming near Dallas-Fort Worth
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Ecovillage
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Local Sustainable Groups |
We all need homesteading skills for our ecovillage--or even if we are not moving to the ecovillage. We are starting classes in homesteading two Sunday afternoons per month and possibly one week night. Free and open to the public.
We NEED TEACHERS. If you have homesteading skills in any of the following (or a few we may have missed), please share them with us and others needing your knowledge in DFW. In turn, you can attend the classes of others. Skill sharing!.
Reply to village at cyberparent dot com or call me at 817 545-0140.
| Barter Basket making Beer making Beginning carpentry Berry growing Bicycle maintenance/repair Blacksmithing Blade sharpening Braided rug Build a rocket stove Build chicken coop Build herb spiral Build outdoor cooking pits/brick ovens Build outhouse Build raised garden Building a hoop house Building consensus & facilitation Candle making Candle making from soy Chickens for eggs Cob Composting Cooking over a campfire. Cooking w cast iron |
Cooking with solar Cooking with woodstoves Crochet Earning money from home Earning money from multiple sources Essential oils Earning money from the land Energy garden Food canning--pressure canner Food canning--water bath Food drying Food fermenting Food gardening Food pickling Food preservation--long term Fruit tree grafting Fruit tree growing Fruit tree pruning Gasoline-to-electric conversions Greenhouse construction Greenhouse heat alternatives Hair cutting Herbal remedies Herbal remedies from North Texas native plants |
Irrigation Knitting Make home beauty products Make home cleaning products Making soap (cold process from oils and lye) Mushrooms grow & forage Passive solar Rainwater harvesting Root cellars Rope making Salve making Seed saving Simple appliance repair Simple electrical Simple plumbing Simple woodworking Solar electricity Solar hot water Spinning Starting CSA Wild edible plants Wind energy Wine making Wood lot Worm composting |
Events
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Strategies for Sustainable Living After-Party: Anyone interested in discussing the intentional
community forming for this area or just having a beverage and/or dinner with the
group, please join us after the last event on the Rockwall Square at 101 North
Goliad (Hwy 205) Rockwall 75087.
Phone: 972-772-9100
Betty has scheduled 2 full days of Permaculture
DVDs with Geoff Lawton--a total of five Lawton screenings with short
discussions in between and potluck lunch.
Open to potential new members. It starts each Saturday at 10 am at Community
Seeds (the old high school), 602 College St, Lone Oak 75453. Feel free to
come for one or both Saturdays. Please bring a potluck dish to share or your
own lunch. Community Seeds has a great place for a potluck--the old home
economics classroom. There is no cost to this event but we do need
an RSVP. Among other planning, we need to print your copy of the handouts. Schedule Sat, Feb 18, starting 10 am We should finish around 4 pm each day. Community Seeds will be a great non-profit
garden for volunteering, too. Direction & descriptions of Permaculture DVDs
here: http://fedfw.com/...
A Day of Solutions
Saturday, January 28
This is a come-and-go
event that covers 2 components of sustainability. It lasts from 10 am to 4 pm or
later.
The two
components of sustainability covered here are:
1. Growing your own food, preferably the Permaculture way
2. Knowing and sharing support with your neighbors 10
am: Seed Swap.
11 am:
Screen The Power of
Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil.
12:45 pm:
Screen Permaculture guru Geoff Lawton's
Urban Permaculture: Sustainable Strategies
for Urban Living.
2:45 pm: Intentional
Community Speaker.
More information about
this day of sustainability is here: http://fedfw.com
Open to potential new members.
Rockwall Library
is located at 1215 E Yellowstone Ln, Rockwall 75087.
Sat, February 11 and Sat, February 18
Sat, Feb 11, starting 10 am
Introduction to Permaculture
Harvesting Water
Permaculture Soils
Urban Permaculture
Food forests
Compressed Earth Block Building Speaker
Saturday, February 25
Details to be announced by February 10
Many of our events are for potential new members. However, some of them are not. Some are for those who have been to several meetings, understand, and agree with, the the underlying premises of the ecovillage.
But these are the types of events we have on a regular basis for potential new members:
Classes:
Homesteading skills
Alternative energy
Growing food
Raising chickens
Permaculture
Preserving food
Green building and passive solar
Rainwater harvesting and water
Socials:
With each other
With natives who will be our neighbors
Tours:
Such as tours of green buildings, farms, or alternative energy
Meetings:
Which introduce the ecovillage to new folks
Which pertain to those who know the ecovillage, often require
discussion/voting.
Which pertain to building a strong and resilient local economy in our bioregion
Other:
Seed swap
DVD/Video showings
Self-reliance
General sustainability
Consensus
Energy descent
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