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Past Events and Workshops
Permaculture Design: Certification Course at World Steward's
Highland Farm
Join us for a two-week intensive design course facilitated by Toby Hemenway and Jude Hobbs at Highland Farm.
Permaculture is a whole-systems method of design that organizes ideas, strategies, and techniques from agriculture, appropriate technology, natural building, economics, and other disciplines into a pattern of mutually supportive relationships. By using principles from nature to thoughtfully integrate land, water, plants, people, animals, shelter, technologies, and community. Permaculture lets us design sustainable places to live.
WHERE: Across from Hood River in Underwood Washington. Located in the heart of the Columbia River Gorge in the inspirational complexity of both east and west Cascade ecosystems, Highland Farm is dedicated to landscape based education for a sustainable culture.
COST: $1,400 includes local organic farm-fresh meals, covered camping, workshops and course materials, and a subscription to the Permaculture Activist. Certification is available upon completion of the two-week course.
Generous Scholarships are available to those interested in doing work exchange.
Check out the web sites:
www.cascadiapermaculture.com
www.patternliteracy.com
Amory Lovins
Physicist, inventor of the hydrogen Hypercar, CEO of the Rocky Mountain Institute, co–author of the bestseller Natural Capitalism and released this month: Small is Profitable.>
Join us for a dialogue on strategies for building a sustainable Northwest!
Great Barn Restoration at Highland
Landscape Painting Demonstration
by Alice Wanke Stephens
Alice will paint "a plein air", or outdoor landscape of the Highland Center site. She'll discuss her techniques and unveil last year's painting of Cold Spring Farm. Children love to participate in this exhibition so bring along paints, papers and brushes if you like. Alice's exhibit, "Lewis & Clark Encampments & Sightings: Paintings of the Columbia River Gorge Scenic Area was featured last year at the World Forestry Center.
World Steward Summer Gathering
Celebrate the Solstice with Us at Cold Spring Farm
Walk in the Woods, with Russell Jolly, the Northwest's authority on wildflowers, Picnic lunch, watercolor landscape demonstration with Alice Wanke Stephens, stay overnight at Highland Farm.
Catlin Gabel Summer Program
Leaves in the Fir Grove: Nature, Writing & Clay Art
A collaborative exploration with Catlin Gabel School in Portland, Oregon and World Steward. Explore creative writing, original art created from "found materials", An overnight to World Steward's Highland Farm. For Completed grades 5–7
Masters in Wood Series –Lecture/Concert #2
World renowned classical guitar maker Jeffrey Elliott, harpsichord maker and harpsichordist Byron John Will and master guitarist Bryan Johanson return to World Steward/Highland to share their life work and music making.
A discussion of the critical importance of teaching and sharing their skills and discoveries with others, and the role of World Steward's ambitious Woodworking School Project will also be presented.
Annual Naturalist Hike
Identify the variety of species found in one of the richest wildlife habitats in the Pacific Northwest. This year's focus will be on insects. Please bring camera, pen & notebook, or colored pencils and sketchpad to help us inventory our native diversity. The habit of noting the species attends one of the critical components of sustainable practice which fulfills World Steward's essential mission. Wear hiking shoes and long pants to avoid the poison oak.
Have your school or business sponsor your tally of species and contribute to our sustainability project through donations to World Steward.
Picnic Lunch by the Herb Garden
Bring a picnic lunch or join us for an organic greens fresh farm salad, local Loafers‚ bread, cheese, and Cold Spring honey mint lemonade or iced tea.
Please sign up for a local organic lunch from our "food not lawns" kitchen
garden, serving you as well as Skamania Lodge. Price- $10
It's a Breeze -World Steward Welcomes Northwest SEED
Enjoy dinner discussion and walk on the site of the Highland’s proposed Wind Hydrogen Small Turbine Array. Savor salmon broiled on cherry wood with local brew and a world class organic salad as we enjoy and discuss one of the most dramatic wind turbine locations in the West, and a proposed center for applied stewardship and sustainable watershed management.
$25.00 Donation for Dinner
Activities start at 6:00 PM, Dinner at 7:00 PM
