This Sunday May 29, learn how to prune and graft citrus and avocados with consulting arborist, ecological designer, sustainable landscaping specialist, and teacher C. Darren Butler. Slots are still available. It’s a double workshop (pruning in the morning and grafting in the afternoon). You can sign up for one or both. Hope to see some of you there!
For more information contact Darren at: [email protected]
Hey all you local-type neighbors: We’re pleased and proud to be speaking at Vroman’s Pasadena store on June 17th at 7 PM. Hope you can stop by!
We had a nice chat about all things homesteady with Darcy over at the Stumbling Homestead. If you’d like to listen to the podcast, click here. Their backlog of episodes is well worth checking out, too.
Today , Wednesday, May 4th: We’ll be speaking and signing in the community room at People’s Food Co-op, 3029 Southeast 21st Avenue at 6PM. Please note that we gave an incorrect time in our last post–were on at 6 not 7.
To our readers elsewhere in the world, well return to our normal DIY posts soon.
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| Photo from bikejuju.com |
Dig that tallbike, welded up by our host in Seattle Tom, a.k.a. “bikejuju” who has a blog at www.bikejuju.com. His wife Lyanda is the author of a book readers of this blog will enjoy, Crow Planet: Essential Wisdom from the Urban Wilderness
This afternoon we head to Portland. Hope to see you at one of our appearances.
Tuesday May 3rd: Feel like going out for a drink? We’ll be hanging out at The Tugboat Brewery, 711 Southwest Ankeny Street, Portland. We’ll arrive around 7:30, and will stay as long as anyone is willing to hang with us. Stop by for a brew and a chat!
Wednesday, May 4th: We’ll be speaking and signing in the community room at People’s Food Co-op, 3029 Southeast 21st Avenue. 7PM 6PM.
Sunday May 1: Talking and signing at Elliot Bay Book Company, Seattle. 1 PM
Sunday May 1: Talking and signing at the Vashon Island Land Trust Building, 10014 SW Bank Rd, Vashon, WA 98070. 7 PM.
Monday, May 2: Talking and signing at The University Place-Pierce County Library, 7 PM
This Friday, April 29, we’ll be talking and signing at Book Passage in Corte Madera: 7:00 PM
Saturday, April 30th, we’re gathering for a forage at Sutro Heights Park, San Francisco. It’s supposed to be a pretty day. Bring drinks, and we’ll gather a salad to share. Feel free to bring more food, your guide books, gathering implements, things to sit upon, and most especially, any local knowledge you have. Very casual. Meet up at the lookout point. 12 noon.
This Saturday Kelly and I will be joining a panel discussion on urban homesteading along with our good friends Craig Ruggless of Winnetka Farms and goat keepers and cheese makers Gloria Putnam and Stephen Rucidel. The panel will take place at Artisinal LA on Saturday April 16th at 2 pm in Santa Monica.
I will also be taking part in a bread baking demo along with the LA Bread Bakers the same day at 1 pm.
More information at artisinalla.com.
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| Erik does in fact bear an uncanny resemblance to Pierre Trudeau. Credit: Duncan Cameron/National Archives of Canada, PA-136972 |
Rodale, the publisher of our new book, is sending us on a speaking tour of the Pacific Northwest to promote Making It
San Francisco Events:
Friday, April 29, 7 PM: Speaking at Book PassageCorte Madera Book Passage Store–not the one at the end of Market, the one on the other end of the ferry line: 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera, CA 94925
Saturday, April 30, 12 PM: Meet us at 12 noon on the lookout point of Sutro Heights Park.
We’ll take a walk along the cliffs and forage a salad, then hang out and chat while we eat. BYOB and anything else you want to eat or share. Afterward we might retire to the Cliff House for cocktails. If it’s pouring rain that day, you’ll find us at the Cliff House bar instead of in Sutro.
Seattle Area Events
Sunday, May 1st, 2 PM: Speaking at the Elliot Bay Book Company
1521 10th Avenue, Seattle, WA 98122
Sunday, May 1st, 7 PM: Speaking at the Land Trust Building on Vashon Island
This talk is brought to you by a partnership between Books by the Way and the Vashon Island Growers Association (VIGA)
Monday, May 2, 7 PM: Speaking at the University Place – Pierce County Library
3609 Market Place W., University Place, WA 98466
Portland Events:
Tuesday, May 3rd: Possibly will do a gathering in some public place this evening, to meet any of you who want to come out and chat. TBA. Suggestions welcome.
Wednesday, May 4, 6-7:30 PM: Lecture at The People’s Food Cooperative
3029 Southeast 21st Avenue, Portland, OR 97202
(And before you all ask why we’re not speaking at Powell’s, the answer is we’d love to, but they’re all booked up. The timing wasn’t right. We hope someday to speak there, and will definitely be visiting anyway just to look around.)
