Prairie Roots: Growing a Sustainable Future
30th Anniversary KAW Council Gathering
May 4 – 6, 2012, Camp Hammond
Deer Creek Watershed of the Wakarusa River (between Lawrence & Topeka)
featuring Stephanie Mills, author of Epicurean Simplicity,
In Gandhi’s Path and Whatever Happened to Ecology?
Gene & Joyce Marshall, bioregional movement authors and organizers,
and founders of Realistic Living Research Institute and Training Center
The Event: The weekend event explores and celebrates life in the Kansas Area Watershed, Prairie Bioregion and Planet Earth, and how to live artfully and soulfully with ecological integrity. Workshops include “Photography on the Prairie with Jerry Sipe,” “Urban Permaculture” with Steve Moring and Amber Lehrman, “Write from the Earth” with Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg, “Growing, Sharing and Sustaining Fruit Trees” with Skyler Adamson and Wade Myslivy, “A Poor Woman’s Guide to Green Living” with Rachel Myslivy, “Primitive Skills for Kids” with Wade Myslivy, a Star Walk with withDavidNeuenschwander, “Nightime Spider Eyeshine Walk” with Hank Guarisco, plus many more. The event also features children’s activities, an open mic, storytelling and singing around the fire, a display on seed saving (and chance to swap plant starts), plus information on over a dozen ecological organizations and businesses. Most of all, this event is a chance to make more friends, find ideas and inspiration, and learn more ways to reinhabit our prairie bioregion.
Co-sponsorships: We invite your organization to become a co-sponsor. In exchange for $30 and helping us get out the word on this event, we will list your organization with a short description, logo and link on our website, and on much of our publicity. Cosponsoring organizations so far confirmed: Kaw Valley Seeds Project, The Light Center, Sustainability Action Network and Permaculture Collaborative, Critter Craters (Oseola, MO), The Blissful Bite, Seeds from Italy, Lawrence Fruit Tree Project, and over a dozen more to come. To become a co-sponsor, please contact Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg at KSpoetlaureate@gmail.com or 785/766-7159.
KAW Council: When we started the Kansas Area Watershed Council in 1982, we envisioned this community growing and lasting over 100 years. We’ve made it to age 30 now, one of the oldest bioregional groups on the continent. We explore, protect and celebrate the prairie and local culture. Our not-for-profit status has allowed us to serve as fiscal sponsors for the Kaw Valley Seeds Project. We’ve been primary organizers in the continental bioregional movement, and we published two decades of a bioregional journal, and Ken Lassman’s Seasons & Cycles and Wild Douglas County. A generation of KAW kids grew up with a close connection to the earth. We invite you to come grow with us for generations to come!
The Kansas Area Watershed Council is one of the oldest bioregional groups on the continent. Our vision is to explore and celebrate the prairie ecosystem, and make community with each other, the land and sky.Many of us are active in continental bioregional organizing, local peace and justice work, ecofeminism, wetlands preservation, prairie restoration, holistic health and healing, consensus training, and many manner of enhancing and sustaining local culture. Contact us for more information on how you can get involved.
It is taking the time to learn the possibilities of place. It is a mindfulness of local environment, history, and community aspirations that leads to a sustainable future. It relies on safe and renewable sources of food and energy. It ensures employment by supplying a rich diversity of services within the community, by recycling our resources, and by exchanging prudent surpluses with other regions. Bioregionalism is working to satisfy basic needs locally, such as education, health care and self-governance. The bioregional perspective recreates a widely-shared sense of regional identity founded upon a renewed critical awareness of and respect for the integrity of our ecological communities.
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