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01/01/0001 |
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07/02/2011 |
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07/10/2015 |
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510 1/2 Second St., P.O. Box 844, Traverse City, MI, US |
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231-735-8370 |
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www.littleartshram.org |
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Cool Temperate |
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Project: Traverse City Permaculture Design Project
Posted by Penny Krebiehl about 11 years ago
The Traverse City Permaculture Design Project began in 2008 with the first site visit to our 4.5 acre parcel of land jointly owned by two governmental agencies and co-managed by three non-profits. Our project is dynamically growing and transforming, as we have departed the City and Township owned land-base, and focusing on supporting the creation of a Michigan Permaculture Convergence and other opportunities to share permaculture education, help establish permaculture sites, in various locations, reghionally state-wide while centrally focusing on local projects such as those outlined below.
The Traverse City/NW Michigan project is sponsored and supported by Little Artshram a non-profit, 20 year old Michigan based 501.c3. Little Artshram is also supporting the work of O'k CSA and the LLOOF(Learning Local on Organic Farms) project, which directly links to another branch of the TC/NW Michigan project work, Urban Farming Collective.
The LLOOF (Learning Local o Organic Farms) program presently fills the niche for part of our Summer 2013 apprentice and intern needs:
We celebrate O'k CSA and the Market Garden's 7th year as Traverse City's first Urban CSA involving area youth and adults as market garden-farmers. We have exciting changes in this year’s Market Garden and CSA program, which is part of the Urban Farm Collective and includes 3 additional, neighborhood and community gardens in Traverse City. AND, also celebrating the second year of the LLOOF (Learning Local on Organic Farms) program that provides a work-exchange and permaculture training for green-collar jobs planning, planting, tending and harvesting the CSA gardens!
REGISTRATION IS OPEN, from February 1st, until March 1st, 2013 to apply for the 12 LLOOFing positions that will be offered during this growing season.
This project is based on both a CSA, or Community Supported Agriculture, and inspired by WWOOF, the world-wide version of what we are bringing you locally through LLOOFing.
Basic HOW-to become a LLOOFer: LLOOFers fill out an application (Feb-March 2013) and sign an agreement that informs them of their work schedule/hours; the garden-farm lesson and Intro. to permaculture training schedule; and PDC certification schedule. While the Introduction to Urban Permaculture Design is a prerequisite to earning a Permaculture Design Certificate through O’k CSA and Permaculture Design, to earn a PDC requires no less than 72 hours of class time plus a group design project, field practice and a final test. The value of the six-month training for each LLOOFer who completes the work-exchange agreement (commitment ) is offered as follows:
After the 2013 growing season in Traverse City, our vision is to expand and offer LLOOF throughout Michigan, dividing into regions. Each region’s organization will exist independently within the LLOOF network and the original LLOOF Project located in Traverse City will organize a low annual membership fee--in any combination of the following economic forms of: money, gifting, bartering, trade or work-exchange.
In order to meet the pre-season and post-season work schedule for our CSA and Market garden, we'll be staggering the LLOOF positions to cover a full-six months of Permaculture and Garden-Farming experiential learning, beginning in April through September 2013. LLOOFers who complete 285 hours of work exchange hours, (with work hours fully documented) are eligible to receive all or part of the above offerings.
Contact: [email protected] 231-922-2014 (Please leave a message)
Application & Agreement - http://www.littleartshram.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/LLOOF-application-and-agreement-2013.pdf
Download a brochure to become a shareholder in O'k CSA here: http://pennyokart.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Ok-CSA-Brochure-2013.pdf
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