Orcas Island Permaculture Action Day w/ Rising Appalachia

Wednesday, August 24th! 10am-4pm
Location: Orcasong Farm, 280 Dolphin Bay Rd., Eastsound, Washington 98245

Join the Permaculture Action Network and Rising Appalachia Music as we host the first ever Salish Sea Permaculture Action Day on Orcas Island off the coast of Washington State!

We are so excited to be teaming up with Orcasong Farm, New Stories’ Thrive San Juan Islands & Thriving Resilient Communities Collaboratory to bring permaculture action to the San Juan Islands.

Together we will bring together a day of ecological learning, community building, regenerative systems implementation and awesome entertainment while sharing the beauty of Orcas Island.

The Day’s Projects:

• Building a cob oven to cook for large gatherings using straw, clay, sand, and stones
• Mounding *Hügelkultur beds to sequester carbon, grow polycultures of useful plants, and retain water for the adjacent Fall orchards
• Creating paths through the forest to the meditation huts
• Constructing a passive-solar spiral shower
• Harvesting and preparing poles to build the meditation hut
• Planting the garden beds with Fall crops

We will of course have live music to enjoy and delicious food to share.  Please bring a dish to share *POTLUCK* style if you can. Please also bring any tools you can, work gloves, a water bottle, close-toed shoes, a bowl/plate, utensils, and mug.  

Orcasong Farm is regenerating 80 acres of land in Crow Valley. This intentional community of land stewards focus on sustainable education, transformational leadership and catalyzing social change.  Orcasong is setting themselves up as a community-building center for the bioregion that can host gatherings, permaculture workshop, council spaces, and town meetings.  

What better way to get down and deep than to camp out at Orcasong Farm after the Permaculture Action Day and head right to the Rising Appalachia show at the Orcas Center the next day?  

Orcasong Farm Camping is available, for an additional fee:  http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2569906
And be sure to grab your tickets to the Orcas Island show if you plan on seeing Rising Appalachia: https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pesptpm/10093786/1028910

Goldentree Hostel has accommodations available, too.

http://www.goldentreehostel.com/

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Rising Appalachia will be performing on Lopez, San Juan and Orcas Islands.

Rising Appalachia is super excited to launch our new project “the Slow Music Movement”, an effort to promote sustainable touring practices, bring in local outreach to each event, reduce single-use waste at our shows, source farm-to-table food for backstage, and continue to create and promote sustainable touring practices across the board.

“It’s our effort to take the glitz and glam out of the music industry and bring performance back to its roots- that of public service. A service where musicians are not just part of fast-paced entertainment world, but instead influence the cultural shift as troubadours, activists, story tellers, and catalysts of justice,” explains Leah.

We have been working alongside incredible leaders and organizations including Winona LaDuke, Joanna Macey, Climbing Poetree, Gulf Restoration Network, the Permaculture Action Network, the Prison Yoga Project, and 1 Billion Rising (along with many more on-the ground efforts) to bring you more direct action and involvement throughout our concerts, and to help maintain an independent musical spirit in the face of such a fast-paced world. Stay tuned for more ways to get involved!

Lopez Island on August 19

Tickets: http://www.lopezcenter.org/goto.php?page=details&item=1648

San Juan Island on August 21

Tickets: http://www.sjctheatre.org/whats-happening/calendar/eventdetail/99/rising-appalachia

Salish Sea Permaculture Action Day on August 24 Orcas Island

10:00 AM- 4:00 PM FREE / Potluck

Orcas Island on August 25

For tickets: https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pesptpm/10093786/1028910

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Stay tuned in at the Facebook Event page here:  https://www.facebook.com/events/1361580340535063/
And look for live updates the day of from @PermaAction and #PermacultureAction on Twitter
And @PermacultureAction on Instagram