Green Valley CSA

31 Things To Do With Confusing CSA Vegetables Q: There's an enormous sack of weird-looking bulbs in my fridge. What should I do?! A: Breathe. Get a peeler and start peeling them. Soon you'll have pickles (or something else delicious) a...

Permaculture Skills Center The Ecological landscaper Immersion at the Permaculture Skills center is a nine-month professional training in all aspects of ecological landscape design, installation, and maintenance. We will cover all you need to know to manage a landscaping firm, vineyard, farm or contracting business. The goal…

2013 Building Resilient Communities Convergence Welcome to the first ever Building Resilient Communities Convergence, at the beautiful Solar Living Institute, brings together the best of the Northern California Permaculture Convergence and the Northern California Regional Transition Network Conference for an action-packed weekend designed to buil...

Sonoma County friends: if you haven't seen the sunset spectacle of thousands of Vaux's Swifts spiraling into a chimney to roost at the Rio Lindo Academy in Healdsburg, now's the time! More info: http://www.riolindo.org/article/367/news/vaux-s-swifts-at-rio-lindo

Here's a YouTube clip of the scene: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83RdKheh_xU&feature=youtu.be

Thanks, Brock Dolman and Michael Ellis, for the footage.

Greywater Mulch Pits

Permaculture Skills Center - Great Educational Perks Inside! Take ecological agriculture, green economy and land regeneration to scale with our professional trainings and land based models!

Small Brush Fire erupted here at Green Valley CSA last week. Out for an afternoon of mowing and the grass caught on fire. Over 2 acres burned, but mostly just grass. But we learned some valuable lessons: Mow early and have a fire extinguisher on you when using gas powered machines. Stay safe out there.

Intensive Rotational Grazing_Whole Systems Design Carbon Farming A carbon farming description of how to build topsoil rapidly, while sequestering carbon and growing meat and milk via pasture animals. Produced by Whole Syst...

We'll be taking part in this year's Sit Spot Challenge. Are you with us?

When I am dead you will be so tall... Right now you are a mere 2 and a 1/2 feet tall. I tower above you with my 5 foot 3 stature. I put you in the ground 16 days ago in a hole that was just deep enough to cover your root ball and twice...

Advanced Cell Grazing - Permaculture Livestock Systems at Zaytuna Farm The Zaytuna Grazing Method (ZGM), invented by Geoff Lawton, hybridizes a multitude of different animal management systems from Allan Savory to Joel Salatin and Regen Ag. The ZGM then incorporates a permaculture twist that will regenerate landscape and grow both productive food, crops, and even veget...

This Thursday is a volunteer workparty at Green Valley CSA from 8-noon. We will be making Fermented Plant Juice, send us an email for more info.