August Book Club Meeting
Anne stone writes: I have chosen “Middlesex” by Jeffrey Eugenides as the next book
club book. It will be at my house (64 W. Holly Street in Willo) at 7:00 pm
on September 8.
Class and Event Line-Up At the Downtown Phoenix Public Market
721 N. Central Ave (Central and McKinley)
Please sign-in and make donations at our tent located across from the classroom door at the market.
Saturday, July 12th
8:00-10:00AM
Sustainability Book Club Meeting
Requested Donation: $2 to the Market for A/C etc.
Classroom will be the FRONT building meeting area
Join us as we discus Gary Paul Nabhan’s “Coming Home to Eat: The Pleasures and Politics of Local Foods”
8:30 to 10:00
Designing a Vegetable Garden - Part 1 of 4 with Heather Welch
Requested Donation: $10
NOTE: Due to the overwhelming response to this class, it is now CLOSED to walk-ins at this time If you have previously RSVP’d you’re OK. In order to meet demand and make classes smaller, 3 additional 4-part series have been added to our calendar. See the “Additional Vegetable Garden Classes” section below for dates and times. If you have questions or concerns, please contact Jennifer at phoenixhomesteader@gmail.com or 602-252-8977
Learn all aspects of designing a productive vegetable garden in the low desert. This is a multi-part series that will guide you through the design process so that in fall you’ll be ready to plant your first garden and be eating out of it shortly afterwards. Nothing tastes as good as homegrown food!
In Designing a Vegetable Garden: Part 1 ,we will be focusing on learning the steps for finding the ideal location for the garden plot. This basic site analysis will include recognizing the grade of the property and how this relates to water usage, microclimates and basic soil analysis. We will also go over basic tools for the beginning gardener.
10:30 to Noon
Bermuda Grass Removal - a double-edged sword with Don Titmus
$10 Requested Donation.
Tired of digging stolons? Frustrated with solarizing? Then perhaps this radical method is for you. Merging two contradicting practices in a beneficial way will result in grass-free growing soil in one season. This method uses a popular chemical for grass eradication and then bioremediation of the area with microbes. This method allows you to be rid of the No. 2 invasive weed in the world - Bermuda grass.
Upcoming classes: (http://www.phoenixpermaculture.org/events)
• Designing a Vegetable Garden - Part 2 of 4 with Heather Welch
• Introduction to Permaculture with Don Titmus
• Designing a Vegetable Garden - Part 3 of 4 with Heather Welch
• What to do in Your Garden this Month with Doreen Pollack
• Designing a Vegetable Garden - Part 1 of 4 with Heather Welch (Weds evening)
• Designing a Vegetable Garden - Part 4 of 4 with Heather Welch
• Pollution Solutions - Paper or Plastic? Neither!! with Anne Goldfeld (a “green kid” event)
Additional Vegetable Garden Series for the remainder of 2008:
• August Series: Weds 6:30 to 8:00 PM 7/30, 8/6, 8/13, 8/20
• September Series: Sat 8:30 to 10:00 AM 9/6, 9/13, (skip a week), 9/27, 10/4
• October Series: Sat 8:30 to 10:00 AM 10/11, 10/18, 10/25, 11/1
Due to the popularity of these classes, you must RSVP either online or by emailing Jennifer at phoenixhomesteader@gmail.com. Please RSVP for each date of the series. We are limiting these classes to 35 participants to provide a quality experience for our students.
You can see all our classes at http://www.phoenixpermaculture.org/events
To see blogs on people’s projects, participate in discussions on permaculture topics and view photos and videos pertaining to permaculture, visit us at www.phoenixpermaculture.org
Agenda for July Steering Committee Meeting
The steering committee meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, July 8. here is a link to a pdf file with the proposed agenda for the meeting.
2008-2009 Committees
Here’s a pdf of the various committees and chairpeople for 2008-2009
Upcoming SPA Committee meetings for 2008-2009
Here’s a pdf file of the meetings including dates, selected topics, deadlines for agenda submissions and locations.
July Book Club Meeting
Here is the time and date and of course more info is on the blog at http://fqstorybookclub.chezmatch.com/
Him, Her, Him Again, the End of Him
Monday, July 21
Todd has offered to host July’s book club event at his home at 707 W. Willetta Street. This month we will be reading Him, Her, Him Again, the End of Him by Patricia Marx. Join us at 7 pm.
See you there…..
patricia
May steering committee meeting
Tonight is the 1st meeting of the 2008/09 SPA committee.
As always the meetings begin at 6:30pm and again tonight will be at the Encanto Park Boathouse.
If you are unable to attend, please make sure and notify someone on the board, so we can mark you as excused.
In these days of high gas prices, if anyone needs a ride, please let me know, I am sure we can find several car-poolers willing to offer rides.
See all of you tonight!
C.J.
Book Club Meeting
May 26 at 7 pm
This month we will have two book club meetings. Since this book is very short. I also recommended that we see the movie, everyone at the last meeting thought this would be fun, but agreed to watch the movie at home so we can discuss both at book club. We will meet at my house, 1517 W. Willetta Street on May 26 at 7 pm to discuss The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death, by Jean-Dominique Bauby, who dictated the whole book with his left eye, one letter at a time.
The book is a translation of the French memoir Le Scaphandre et le Papillon and describes what Bauby’s life is like after suffering a massive stroke that left him with a condition called Locked-In syndrome.
–Patricia Sahertian
