Social Forestry Talk – July 15th – 6-8pm
Social Forestry talk with author, teacher, and permaculture elder, Hazel Ward.
Tuesday, July 15th, 6 to 8pm, upstairs at the Collaboratory of Atlan Center, 37 Nestor Peak Road, White Salmon, WA 98672. Join us as we explore the basics of social forestry and learn from Hazel’s long experience how to be better land stewards and rooted “people of place”. Hazel will introduce the concept of Social Forestry; a participatory, interactive, and observant practice for people of all ages and backgrounds.
$20 donation requested.
Please carpool if possible, as we appreciate efforts to help us keep this a low carbon footprint event. Feel free to bring light snacks and beverages for a snack-luck
Social Forestry Site Assessment Workshop – July 16th – 9-5pm
Social Forestry workshop with author, teacher, and permaculture elder, Hazel Ward. From 9 to 5, Wednesday July 16th.
Don’t miss this unique opportunity for an immersive exploration of social forestry. If you are interested in deepening your connection to place and the land, wish to broaden your understanding of permaculture and restoration principles, want to have a better understanding of the tools and techniques for woodscrafts, or desire a better understanding of how to read the land, then this event is for you! The Atlan Center is offering a one day workshop on their land where participants will learn the basics of social forestry and participate in a land assessment, all led by Hazel Ward.
About Hazel:
Hazel (Friend/they/she pronouns) is a long time resident of the Southern Oregon/Mount Shasta bioregion first settling here in the early 70’s, and has been advising farms, stewarding forests, and teaching Environmental Sciences for more than fifty years. Hazel has degrees in Forestry and Systematic Botany from Syracuse University and SUNY College of Forestry, has 6 permaculture diplomas, and has taught dozens of Permaculture courses over the last 37 years. They have written two books: “Greenward Ho! Herbal Home Remedies: An Ecological Approach to Sustainable Health” & “Social Forestry: Tending the Land as People of Place”, along with numerous articles.
https://siskiyoupermaculture.org/hazel-ward/
About the Hosts:
Living Trace Ecoversity at Atlan is a hub for bioregional regeneration through learning and unlearning. Stewarding over 150 acres since 2010, growing toward integrated community housing, with a learning and wellness center, Atlan is evolving toward a community land trust for long term regenerative stewardship of the land and cooperative culture and organizational structures for thriving as people of place. An emerging multi-stakeholder cooperative at Atlan is incubating a social forestry cooperative to support our shared resources and culture in our bioregion and will be hosting this workshop.
Co-host and event partner Cascadia Education Project is located in the heart of the Cascade mountains in the Gorge. CEP is a bioregional education and community support organization that seeks to catalyze local solidarity using a commons-based, watershed context to regenerate culture and ecology.
Logistics:
Please carpool if possible.
Please pack a sack lunch. Some light snacks and beverages will be provided.
A communal dinner will follow the event at 6pm. We will be providing a stew, salad, and bread. All are welcome to contribute something to the meal. This will be a time to reflect and connect about the materials covered during the discussion and workshop, as well as a social networking opportunity to further discussions of the social forestry cooperative and other patterns of collaboration.
Camping is available onsite for a nightly fee of $20 per person in Atlan’s Forest Camp
More details and directions provided upon registration – please register here!