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Jan. 9, 2010 thru April |
Winter Farmer's Market
Saturdays
9 am - noon
Yellow Springs Methodist Church
Corner of Winter and Dayton St. |
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March 13
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Back
by popular demand...Flying Mouse Farms' Sugar Shack will be open
on
Saturday March 13 from 2-4 p.m.
Sugar Shack and
Sustainability See how maple syrup is made and how young
vegetable and fruit farmers Michele Burns and John DeWine are
stretching the season with wood fire heated green houses. Their
Flying Mouse Farm is on Fairfield Pike, on the north edge of Yellow
Springs.
Dress for the weather in warm, work-type
clothes. Weather dependent with an
alternate date of March 7. Please call ahead at 767-9490.
Stories of People and the Land: A Celebration of Tecumseh Land
Trust's 20th Anniversary
Series
Sponsors: Morgan Family Foundation, Springfield Foundation and
The Turner Foundation |
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March 14
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David
Montgomery, March 14, 2010, 7:00
pm
“Dirt: The Erosion of
Civilizations”
Co-sponsored by the University
of Cincinnati's President's
Advisory Council
on Environment and
Sustainability
David Montgomery is a 2008
MacArthur Fellow. He is a
geologist at the University of
Washington described by the
MacArthur Foundation as someone
who is “making fundamental
contributions to our
understanding of the geophysical
forces that determine landscape
evolution and of how our use of
soils and rivers has shaped
civilizations past and present.”
He will be speaking about his
second book Dirt: The Erosion of
Civilizations (2007), which
explores the crucial role of
soil fertility in the course of
ancient and contemporary
societies.More information is
available at
Xavier University - Ethics, Religion and Society
Program - Lecture Series |
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March 27, 2010
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Roots
Fest 5:00 p.m. to midnight
John Bryan Center
100 Dayton St.
Yellow Springs
Tickets $10 each
The Blues are
full of stories of a tough life working the land. But what are the
stories of the freed slaves who came to Yellow Springs and Clark and
Greene Counties to make a new life? And what are the stories of the
people who are writing and singing the blues here today? Local band
leader Roth Patterson will headline
the event and share some stories, along with other singers and story
tellers. Classic American "roots" foods will be featured, and art
and artifacts related to the Blues will be available for sale.
Stories of People and the Land: A Celebration of Tecumseh Land
Trust's 20th Anniversary
Series
Sponsors: Morgan Family Foundation, Springfield Foundation and
The Turner Foundation |
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April 10, 2010
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An Evening of Nature
Stories, from the Miami Valley Story Tellers.
Your family is sure to
enjoy dramatic presentations of stories about people, animals, and
the land. The Miami Valley Storytellers came to TLT with this great
collaborative event. They’ll be putting together a set of new
material in a retreat April 10 and will share the results that very
night at 7:30 PM at the First Presbyterian Church in Yellow
Springs. This kid friendly event will even include some bedtime
snacks!
Suggested donation $10 per
family.
Stories of People and the Land: A Celebration of Tecumseh Land
Trust's 20th Anniversary
Series
Sponsors: Morgan Family Foundation, Springfield Foundation and
The Turner Foundation |
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April 11, 2010
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Wendell Berry and Wes Jackson
and Gene Logsdon, April 11,
2010, 7:00 pm
“An Informal Conversation”
Co-sponsored by the University
of Cincinnati's President's
Advisory Council
on Environment and
Sustainability and the
Brueggeman Center for Dialogue
Wendell Berry is a Kentucky
farmer and writer, described by
the New York Review of Books as
“perhaps the great moral
essayist of our day.” He is the
author of more than forty
novels, anthologies of essays,
and books of poetry that use his
intimate knowledge of his
Kentucky River farm home as the
starting point for eloquent and
penetrating critiques of the
modern agricultural system and
its consequences for
communities, families, and
politics. Wes Jackson is the
President and co-founder of the
Land Institute in Salina,
Kansas, a research and
demonstration center dedicated
to developing polyculture
perennial grains as an
alternative to our current
annual grain monocultures. Gene
Logsdon farms in northern Ohio
and has written numerous books
and magazine articles on the
subject of small farms, rural
living, cottage farming,
homesteading, alternative
farming practices, organic
gardening, composting,
aquaculture, and other types of
alternative agriculture.
More information is
available at
Xavier University - Ethics, Religion and Society
Program - Lecture Series |
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April 12, 2010
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Wes Jackson, April 12, 2010,
1:30 pm
"The Necessity and Possibility
of an Agriculture Where Nature
is the Measure"
Wes
Jackson is president and
co-founder of the Land Institute
in Salina, Kan., a research and
demonstration center dedicated
to developing polyculture
perennial grains as an
alternative to our current
annual grain monocultures.
All
lectures are held in the Cintas
Center and are free and open to
the public.
More information is
available at
Xavier University - Ethics, Religion and Society
Program - Lecture Series |
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April 12, 2010 |
Wes Jackson at the
Glen.
Widely admired founder of
the Kansas Land Institute. Wes Jackson is devoted to a style of
farming that leaves the earth more fertile as time goes on. There
will be a limited number of seats for this special talk -- e-mail
cathy@tecumsehlandtrust.org if you’re interested in reserving a
spot. Priority reservations will be given to members of
Tecumseh Land Trust or Glen Helen Association. So if you are
not already a member, join us!
Stories of People and the Land: A Celebration of Tecumseh Land
Trust's 20th Anniversary
Series
Sponsors: Morgan Family Foundation, Springfield Foundation and
The Turner Foundation |
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April 23-24, 2010 |
2010 Ohio Barn Conference
Arden Shisler Conference Center, Wooster, Ohio
Friends of Ohio Barns |
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May 1, 2010
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You are
invited to participate in Tecumseh Land
Trust’s Responding to Nature workshop on May 1, 2010, at the
Glen Helen Building on the edge of Antioch College’s beautiful
1,000-acre nature preserve in Yellow Springs, Ohio. Tecumseh
Land Trust is the organization that has preserved from urban
development the historically important site of the old Shawnee
village at Old Town.
As part of TLT’s
celebration of its 20th anniversary, the one-day workshop
will focus on artful responses to nature, particularly writing and
drawing, and include informative displays—a great chance to sell
books and distribute materials about your publication and/or
organization.
Local writers Ed
Davis, Bill Felker, Bill Vernon, and artist Julie Karlson will lead
WORKSHOP SESSIONS, which will precede THEMED HIKES into Glen Helen
with experts knowledgeable on everything from birds to history to
geology. Then “FREE TIME” will allow for immediate ARTFUL RESPONSES
that the hikes might inspire, with small discussion groups devoted
to these responses following. Finally, a WRAP-UP SESSION will
feature some of the writing and art generated by these groups.
Concurrent with
the workshop, displays will emphasize material from nature-oriented
organizations, magazines and books, flyers with publication
information and subscription forms. Authors and publishers are
invited to attend, offer their books for sale and chat with
participants. For publishers and authors unable to attend, we’ll be
glad to display the free material, overseen by Tecumseh Land
Trust volunteers, if received before the event.
Your
participation assures you the chance for a peaceful day in nature as
well as an inspirational educational and networking opportunity.
Also, you’ll be benefitting Tecumseh Land Trust, an award-winning
organization with over 17,000 acres of farm land preserved so far,
mostly in Greene County, Ohio.
Please let us
know if you’d like to participate and we will send you the details.
Send requests to
cathy@tecumsehlandtrust.org.
Stories of People and the Land: A Celebration of Tecumseh Land
Trust's 20th Anniversary
Series
Sponsors: Morgan Family Foundation, Springfield Foundation and
The Turner Foundation |
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June 6, 2010 |
Annual Meeting |
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