Beekeeping Class at the Ecology Center in San Juan Capistrano

...no-treatment beekeeping at the Ecology Center in San Juan Capistrano this Saturday at 1 pm. To sign up buzz over here. Here’s the class description: Become a backyard beekeeper and enjoy a healthy garden full of pollinators. Understand beekeeping tools, materials, and techniques to get started. Beekeeping, or apiculture, is said to have begun with the Egyptians who used logs, boxes, and pottery vessels to make hives. Today, with bees dissapearing...

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Permaculture Design Course at the Ecology Center in San Juan Capistrano

...9 Every other Saturday/Sunday from 10am – 4pm. 10am-11am – Design charrette 11am-noon – Lecture noon-1pm – Lunch break 1pm-4pm – Hands-on workshop/demo Schedule will vary on days with off-site engagement Course Objectives: The intention of this course is that each apprentice will graduate as an eco-advocate who can better design human settlement. This course will shape how we think about community and culture, as a whole and individually, resultin...

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Pumpkin Spice Pandemic

...ns and unemployment. Rather than the usual roundup of links that I post on Saturday I thought I’d put up just a few, three serious and one a lark. They all need a brief introduction. This first link is an interview with two Harvard epidemiologists Katherine Yih and Martin Kulldorf, “We Need a Radically Different Approach to the Pandemic and Our Economy as a Whole.” If you’d like to dig deeper in this particular pandemic hot take there’s another in...

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