[MRSG] Tonite! Deans Mountain Permaculture Farm and Homestead Tour

[Mad River Sustainability Group]

Hi gang,

Sorry for the last-minute-ness of this but it really sounds like a
wonderful opportunity and hopefully some of you can attend.  All details
below.....


Dennis Derryberry
dennisd at madriver.com
802-496-7662


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Deans Mountain Permaculture Farm and Homestead Tour

Ben Falk and Kristen Getler hope you can join them for a tour and
discussion of successes and lessons learned from this experimental
landscape designed for a changing climate.

Come tour the regeneration of a Vermont hillside farm! Ben and Kristen's
10-acre site located on Deans Mountain in Moretown serves as combined
homestead and land-use proving ground for perennial food, material and
energy systems. Now 5-years underway, the once over-grazed sheep farm is
the scene of 3 ponds, 1000+ square feet of annual gardens, ~100 fruit, nut
and timber-bearing shrubs and trees, morel mushroom patches, stump and log
mushroom cultivation, soil-building experiments and natural building
systems.

You will see:

Biointensive annual and perennial gardens

Creation of microclimates for hot-loving crops using terraforming, water,
and stone

Use of ponds for ecological restoration, food yield, climate-buffering,
recreation, and daylighting

Degraded land and heavy clay soil building techniques

Low and no-mow groundcovers

Minor fruit and mushroom production

Rainwater harvesting, drip irrigation and keyline agriculture

Biodiverse perennial tree crop establishment

Edible and fuel-wood producing living fences

And more!



Workshop Details:

FREE and open to the Public!
When:  Thursday, June 5 5:30 to 7pm
Where: Deans Mountain Permaculture Farm and Homestead

Register for this tour on-line by visiting
 http://www.vermontlocalvore.org/events/2008workshops.htm#Workshop/Social_Registration

or call Robin McDermott at 496-3567.  When you register you wil be
provided with directions.