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New Orleans Permaculture Action Day
April 30, 2016 @ 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
@ CRISP Farms – 1310 Lesseps Street, New Orleans, Louisiana 70117
Join us and Rising Appalachia in the upper 9th ward for our *FIRST* Permaculture Action Day in New Orleans at CRISP Farms.
This day will be focusing on cobb building, installations, planting and listening to music together! Crisp is already a thriving garden and now wishes to be more of a space for neighbors to spend time together and create deeper relationships- true resilience. Please come and support Crisp Farms in being a beautiful, edible resource for the 9th ward!
Projects Include:
Cobb Oven
Bench building
Pond Installation
Building with cobb workshop
Pergula Installation
Tree Planting
More TBA…
We will have live music by Biko Casini ( of Rising Appalachia) and Arouna Diarra (Burkina Faso), POT LUCK lunch and snacks, and other live guest performances.
What to Bring:
Comfortable cloths ( to get dirty)
Dish for POT LUCK lunch
Bottle for Water
Work gloves/ Shoes
Instruments (if you wish to contribute some music while we work party!)
More about Crisp Farms:
Crisp Farms was established in 2013. With the help of some neighbors the once blighted property is now a thriving community garden that focuses on research into sustainable permaculture and exploring alternative growing practices for an urban environment. The farm hosts various events on its stages including the well known 9th Ward Festival. Learn more at : http://www.crispfarmsnola.com/?page_id=14
Check out Rising Appalachia here: http://www.risingappalachia.com/
Learn more about Permaculture Action Network and past events here : http://PermacultureAction.org/
Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/143443979384268/