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All Electric Utility Vehicle Presentation & Test Rides
Barefoot Motors will be showing their M-1 EUV (Electric Utility Vehicle) at Peaceful Valley Farm Supply and providing test rides to riders 21 years of age or older with a current drivers license. >> read more
How to Grow Your Own Vegetables - During Hard Times
Ellen Solomon, Gardener, Horticulturist and Certified Arborist will present simple and practical, down-to-earth, and economical garden how-to's for success in your garden!
This is the time to plant summer vegetables - Tomatoes, peppers, mesclun, onions, dill, parsley - indoors. >> read more
Tipping Point Community Day
Featured Presentations:
Transpartisan Grassroots Organizing
With Joseph McCormick and Amanda (Hydro) Roman, leadership team, Transpartisan Alliance >> read more
Insulate your windows – without replacing them
The A.P.P.L.E Center for Sustainable Living invites you to a seminar on how to reduce energy loss by adding insulating windows. Around half of your building’s heat disappears through your windows. This loss of energy and money can be saved with Castle Window Covers. Come and learn what you can do to reduce your heating bill by 20-50%. >> read more
Grass Valley Green Drinks
Dear Friends:
You are invited to Grass Valley Green Drinks. Our next meeting is on Wednesday, March 24 at 6:00 pm. Leo Chapman of Living Lands Agrarian Network and SIGBA (the Sierra Green Building Association) will each provide a brief description of their upcoming events. >> read more
Movie Night at the APPLE Center: "Homegrown"
If you weren't able to see Homegrown at the SYRCL Film Fest or this month at the Briar Patch, come see it at the APPLE Center!
From the movie's website: >> read more
Just Grow It! Everyday food for everyday people
Showing March 3rd through May 2nd, 2010
APPLE Center for Sustainable Living - 412 Commercial St., Nevada City
The current exhibit at the APPLE Center focuses on home food production. The exhibit features a demonstration garden complete with living plants, a gardener, soil, and more. Each piece of the garden is explained on a placard and special activities such as identifying soil types, plants and a worm bin are part of the display. Fun facts and startling statistics are peppered through the information fit for hours of interesting browsing for all ages!
Biomass Task Force Publishes Report
Reprint of the Executive Summary:
The North Sierra Biomass Utilization Task Force was formed for the purpose of engaging a diverse group of community leaders from relevant stakeholder groups to address two fundamental issues: the growing threat of catastrophic wildfire in Nevada and Sierra counties and what renewable energy technologies, if any, have both economic and operational feasibility for utilizing the biomass removed from the forests. >> read more
Democracy School in Nevada City this March
Democracy Schools trace the history of corporate privilege and influence in the United States, and offer strategies and solutions for taking back our right to democratic local self-governance. A Democracy School in Nevada City has been scheduled for March 26-28, at a cost of $250.00/person. Click Here for more information on the national Democracy School model. >> read more
2010 Living Lands Gardening Workshop Series - Begins Feb. 27
Grow MORE of your own food - Spring, Summer, and Fall Gardening Workshop Series
From our friends at Living Lands Agrarian Network:
The Living Lands Agrarian Network (www.livinglandsagrariannetwork.org) is offering an eight-part workshop series for the second year in a row. The goal is to teach people to grow more of their own food throughout the four seasons. In these workshops we shadow the farming season as practiced by the various sites of the Living Lands Agrarian Network. From our farmers you will learn about planting schedules, bed preparation, home composting methods, site selection, food preparation and preservation techniques and much more. Throughout the workshop season we will tour our different farm sites while learning practical ways of growing food on a home-scale. Each workshop will end with a farm-fresh lunch prepared by In The Kitchen (www.wendyvanwagner.com). >> read more