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All Activities in 2012 (redirected from All Activities in 2013)

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Jan 8 - Feb 8, 2012           Winter Internship (and throughout the year)  Reed Collecting & Workshops below.                                           
January 9, 2012 Fermenting & Simple Cheese Making  
January 9, 2012 Full Moon Potluck  
January 12, 2012 Ann Arbor Montessori Middle School Tour & Lashing Activity Contact:Colleen Carlson
January 14, 2012 Basics of Thatching & Reed Collecting with Intern
January 18, 2012 Tour for Shannon and Serina Wudkewvych  
January 21, 2012 Round Pole Framing Workshop  
January 28, 2012 Earth Plaster & Sculpting Class Host location: Jim McDonald, White Lake, MI
February 7, 2012         Fermenting & Simple Cheese Making                              
February 7, 2012 Full Moon Potluck  
February 13, 2012 Reed Collect with a group.   
February 14, 2012 Tour and Plaster Workshop for Kelly Kelly Vallelunga - strawbale in Kalamazoo                        
March 8, 2012 Full Moon Potluck  
March 10, 2012 Earth Plaster & Sculpting Class Host location: Jim McDonald, White Lake, MI
March 26, 2012 Reed Collect with Jen and Andrew.  
March 28, 2012 Tour for Stephanie and Aaron Hainnah   
April 1, 2012           Reed Collecting with Ilana   
April 3, 2012 Interviewed for a Report on Natural Building. Alan for Flint U of M Sustainability Course Paper.   
April 6, 2012                                The Joy of Foraging                                                                                        
April 6, 2012 Full Moon Potluck  
April 22, 2012 Strawbale Studio Exhibit & Eart Oven Demo at Huron Valley Earth Day Festival  Milford, MI 4H Grounds. 
April 28, 2012 Earth Oven Workshop Host location: Kensington Metropark Farm Center, Milford, MI. 
May 5, 2012 Full Moon Potluck  
May 10, 2012 Tour for group of  organized by Helen Slomovits Earth Mixing & Sculpting.  She gave me lots of presents. Oils, music, books. 
May 12, 2012 Permaculture, Plants & Plasters Co-taught with Jared Bogdonov-Hanna and Jim McDonald. 
May 17, 2012 Tour & Host the Michigan Science Leadership Association  Contact: Eileen Byrnes, Ronna Fisher
May 26, 2012                                                  The Joy of Foraging    
May 27, 2012 Earth Oven mini-class                                                                                               Host location: Kensington Metropark Farm Center, Milford, MI.                                                                        
June 4, 2012 Full Moon Potluck  
June 16 & 17, 2012 Tall Trees Farm Spiral Chamber - Natural Building Workshop  Tall Trees Farm Solstice Gathering, White Lake, MI.  
June 22-24, 2012 Green Living Festival - Rochester MI. SBS Exhibit, demonstrations & strawbale climbing pyramid.                    Rochester, MI
June 30, 2012 Plant Walk, co-lead by Deanne at the Spirit Women of the Earth retreat.  Location: Heritage Park, Farmington, MI. Host: Carol Fink.
July 3, 2012    
July 5-7, 2012 Thatching Workshop at Kinstone Circle. Instructor: Deanne Bednar Kinstone Circle, Fountain City, WI. Host: Kristine Beck
July 14-28,                             2012               Natural Cottage Project 2 week workshop                                                                                                              4 instructors, 8 worktraders. Arriving early, staying after.               
August 1, 2012 Full Moon Potluck  
August 8-11, 2012 Super Hero Bike Tour !  25 people on bikes helped out with projects at the SBS !  Organizers: Emily Brezinski, Michael Mallon
August 25, 2012 Pocket Rocket Workshop with Ernie & Erica Wisner.  Detroit, MI.  Host, Kate Devlon, Spirit Hope Church & Community Farm
August 26, 2012 "Dirty Secrets of a Clean Fire" - Rocket Stove Principles with Ernie & Erica Wisner.   
August 28, 2012 Dolmans Russian Group Tour of SBS Dolores Rubio and family 
August 28, 2012 Rennaisance Festival Folks Tour & Earth Plaster Retreat Cabin  Jon Weyhravch organizer. 
August 31, 2012 Full Moon Potluck  
September 12. 2012           Introduction to Natural Building & Sustainable Living  
September 15, 2012 Earth Plaster Class  
September 22, 2012 Humanure presentation at the 6th Annual Farmgirl Revival Location: "Yule Love It" Lavender Farm. Host: Iris Underwood. 
September 29. 2012 Round Pole Construction "FIOT" .  Tree platform in Fairy Forest.   
September 29. 2012 Full Moon Potluck  
October 5, 2012 Volunteer Day - Green Living Roof on Wood Shelter  
October 13, 2012 Rocket Stove Workshop - Outdoor Cook Stove  
October 19-21, 2912 Bioneers Detroit  Conference - SBS Exhibit & Hands-on Demos.  Marygrove College, Detroit, MI 
October 27, 2912                                Rennaisance Evening - Fundraiser for the North Oakland Headwaters Land Conservency  Lois Robbins, organizer.  Music: A Reasonable Facimile.                                                    
October 29, 2012 Full Moon Potluck  
November 10, 2012 Fermenting & Simple Cheese Making with Ruth Hoyt & interns  
November 11, 2012 Fermenting & Simple Cheese Making with Ruth Hoyt & interns Mariek & Bee
November 28, 2012 Full Moon Potluck  
December 2, 2012 Oakland Community College, Renewable Energy Class, Tour Dr. Debra Rowe, instructor
December 8, 2012 Holiday Crafts & Bees Wax Candle Making  Mariek & Bee
December 22, 2012 Birth 2012 Celebration  Upland Hills School

December 28, 2012                  Full Moon Potluck  

 
   
Consultations:                                2012 - Consulted on a Thatching Project in Wisconsin  for Kinstone,:  reed collection, storage, tools, and taught thatching application.
5/24/2012 Consultaton with Dawn Holtz on building a wood shelter with round poles in the ground her Buddhist Center in VT. 
 
4/10/2012 Consultation on Thatching with Conrado Tognetti, Ypsilanti, MI  12/7/2012  Consultation with Doug Lovelace on Rocket Stove Heated Bench.  
Consultation with Alan Harris.  Interview for a paper on Natural Building for his Environmental Classes at U of M Flint.  
 Projects:  Repair & Plant Greenhouse. Harvest Garden Thatch Ridge of Spiral Chamber
 

. Finish sculpting Rumford Fireplace

Contruction of a new Retreat Cabin by the 2 week course participants.   

Attend Monthly Permaculture Oakland County MEETUPs. 

 

 

Teachers:                                     

Jared Bogdonov-Hanna- Permaculture taught several classes to interns, in the development of permaculture principles to the garden & grounds:  Soil improvement, Planting Seedlings, Preparing the Greenhouse, Rotation System,  Planting Fruit Trees & Bushes. 

The Natural Cottage Project 2 week class included Sarah Highland, timber framer from VT.  Christina Ott, Cob & Natural Building Teach from TN, and Chris McClellan, Natural Building Network and more. 

 
 
 
 
Interns:   10 interns participated in the Strawbale Studio Program, which included such sustainability components as solar cooking, goat milking at the neighbors, harvesting wood, building projects, gardens & more.    
Invitations: :   co-teach at Yestermorrow, VT and Cob Cottage OR.   Declined due to busy schedule !    
     
     
     
     

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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