Thursday, June 15th ~ 10:30am-4pm

District ONE Farm, Fiesta Park @ Russell St., Walsenburg, CO 

Join us on the opening day of SONIC BLOOM 2017 just before going through the gates for a Permaculture Action Day in the local community of Walsenburg. These festive convergences give us an incredible opportunity to connect, learn, and build together; and taking action in the local community where we’ll spend four days with one another gives us the chance to literally build the infrastructure of the better world we’re stepping into.

District ONE operates two community farms in Walsenburg that aim to grow and provide organic food to a farm-to-table, pay-what-you-can restaurant in the downtown strip, as well as to the local school cafeterias and directly to the people inhabiting the area. Huerfano County is both the second poorest county in the state as well as that with the worst food nutrition on record. We know that when we take agency over our own lives and regenerate the ecology around us, we can provide an abundance of nutrient-rich food, medicine, building materials, water, and more for ourselves and our communities.

Projects:
– Build Garden and Farm Beds to Plant with Food
– Install Drip Irrigation System
– Make and Spread Compost Tea
– Build a Simple Compost System
– Paint Murals
– Add Additional Rainwater Storage Tank

We’ll have food, music, workshops, and conversation to share. We’ll also provide the tools and materials we need, but please do bring additional tools if you can, as well as work shoes, gloves, a water bottle, and dishware. If you want to get down with planning the various projects, collecting tools and materials leading up, or adding something special to the action day, get in touch with us at Contact@PermacultureAction.org

Workshops at the Permaculture Action Day:

– Political Empowerment & Proactive Health through Wildcrafting & Cultivating Herbal Medicine

Join Laura Shiels of The Growing Project & Herbalmagik for this action day-only skillshare on political empowerment through taking control of your own health, nutrition and medicine. Laura will discuss collecting and using herbs yourself and teach a hands-on session for making health drink remedies with wild greens.

 – Making and Applying Compost Tea w/ Edaphic Solutions

– Inoculating Mushrooms

**You do not HAVE to be attending the festival or the academy to participate. This event is free and open to everyone.**

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Check out our report back on last year’s Sonic Bloom Permaculture Action Day.
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Sonic Bloom Permaculture Academy
June 11th-14th on site at Hummingbird Ranch

Want to really take a deep dive into permaculture, ecological design, community organizing, social permaculture, and get the 101 on soils, compost, the design process, water systems, alternative energy and appropriate technology, perennial agriculture, and more? Check out the Sonic Bloom Permaculture Academy with Ryan Rising, Mike Wird, Kendra Krueger, and other Permaculture Action Network facilitators: http://sonicbloomfestival.com/academy/permaculture/