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Regenerative Market Gardening - 1 Day Workshop - Oct 3, 2024
In partnership with MU Extension Office!
Part of the Laclede County Commission Agriconomy Week 2024
On Thursday October 3rd, 2024
Invitation:
Join us for a day of hands-on, in the field learning, about growing veggies, herbs, flowers and fruits for the market with regenerative practices. Sun And Bloom Farms started growing for the market in 2021, and is selling their produce, herbs, flowers, some fruit and animal products via a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program, at farmers’ markets, from their farm stand and buyers clubs. They also partner with other farmers that grow organically or beyond. They use regenerative soil practices and produce much of their natural fertilizers and pesticides on the farm. Regenerative practices go beyond organic and mean that no chemicals are used, soil and local healthy biodiversity are enhanced, and the focus is on building the resilience of the local ecosystems and food system, for generations to come.
Schedule & Topics:
This workshop will include a lunch with farm fresh goodies and the following schedule and topics:
8:30 am - welcome, check in, introductions and refreshments
9:00 am - a tour of the market gardens with briefs on the infrastructure, tools and materials used
10:00 am - the no till soil management system - with a row making demonstration
11:00 am - the compost and vermicompost systems - with a soil life observations on our microscope
12:00 pm - Lunch & Networking
1:00 pm - irrigation, high tunnels, pests and weeds
2:00 pm - how to plan and advertise the market garden for CSA, farmers’ markets and other sales
3:00 pm - q & a, feedback and adjournment
3:30 pm - workshop is over
We will be outdoors most of the day with brief breaks and will sit down and cool off for lunch at 12 and again for the 2:00 pm session.
All participants will receive a packet with practical informational fact sheets that cover each topic discussed, other educational resources for further learning and guide sheets to help plan their market garden. Some materials will be printed, others will be sent in digital format via email.
About Your Teachers:
Lucian Toma
Lucian is an ecological farmer, designer, educator and consultant with a decade of professional experience in the design, development and implementation of regenerative programs in academic, government, business and nonprofit environments. He has led over 350 workshops, lectures and courses on topics from the realm of permaculture farmsteading, touching the lives of over 7500 individuals. Lucian taught college for a while and currently serves underserved farmers with the Lincoln University of Missouri Horticulture Program. He holds a BA in International Relations, a MA in Global Leadership and Sustainable Development from Hawaii Pacific University and multiple Permaculture Design certifications. His favorite work on his farmstead is in the market garden, the plant nursery and the growing food forests.
Anna Maria Desipris
Anna Maria is a regenerative beekeeper, herbalist, farmer, consultant and educator with over a decade of professional experience in the realm of beekeeping, urban farming and community building around the farm to table movement. As an educator she has led over 100 workshops, lectures and courses on topics from the realms of beekeeping, urban farming and regenerative food systems. As a farmer she has been a key designer, planner and manager of multiple neighborhood farms and farming based educational spaces in Reno, Nevada and Orange County, California. Anna Maria has proudly taught college also. She holds a BA in Political Science from the University of Reno and an array of certifications in Permaculture, Master Beekeeping and Herbalism. Her favorite work on her farmstead is in the medicinal herb gardens, caring for the goats, the dogs and pollinator babies, and cooking magical meals with the food we grow.
Cost:
$127 (includes morning refreshments, lunch and educational packet)
Refunds Policy:
We are aware that life circumstances can change and you may not be able to attend a course that you booked in advance. We have a clear returns policy.
- For on-farm trainings up to 4 days duration or online courses; as long as you notify us at least 30 days prior to the commencement of the course, we will refund the fee amount received, less an administration fee of $50. Alternatively we can credit the full amount towards a future course. If you notify us of your need to cancel within 30 days of course commencement, your payment is not refundable. However, you can transfer your ticket to another name for that same course or join a later course.
- In the unlikely event that we are forced to cancel a course you will promptly receive a full refund. Sun And Bloom Farms is not liable for travel arrangements/ expenses under any circumstance.
LEVEL UP PERMACULTURE™ COURSE
PERMACULTURE EDUCATION REIMAGINED
LEVEL UP PERMACULTURE™ IS OUR TRADE MARKED APPROACH TO BRING PERMACULTURE EDUCATION TO AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE!
FIRST THING IS FIRST: WHAT IS PERMACULTURE?
Permaculture is a holistic-system design approach for creating and managing regenerative and sustainable human living and social spaces, as well as institutions, to have the diversity, stability and resilience of natural ecosystems. Permaculture design creates spaces and socio-economic interactions that meet evolving human needs, while also maintaining the continuous health of our life sustaining ecosystems. With permaculture we can design small gardens, 1 or more acres homesteads, large scale farms, school gardens, community centers, entire neighborhoods, and even more complex agro ecological productive systems - any of these spaces would contribute to a better and more resilient life for all involved and touched by its effects. The design approach is scalable and it can be applied to business, community, and other human arrangements. In fact a complete permaculture design of a space, usually includes a business, community or even personal or family life plan. Permaculture was first presented together by an Australian scientist and systems' thinker, Bill Mollison, who combined earth and agricultural sciences with indigenous wisdoms he gathered from around the world, and patterns observed in nature. Permaculture Design courses have been taught around the world since the 1980's and have evolved to become a blueprint for resiliently thriving on planet earth. We, the team from Sun And Bloom, have been teaching, consulting and living permaculture for over a decade and believe that it should be an education all citizens of the world have. We are here to make it happen.
LEVEL UP PERMACULTURE™
OUR NEW 2024 ONLINE PERMACULTURE DESIGN COURSE THAT IS UNIQUE IN THE REGENERATIVE EDUCATION AND TRAINING REALM. HERE IS HOW:
- You can choose your level of participation and upgrade anytime from Free to Donation Based, Full Content or Design Certification. All 20 main course presentations are 2 hours long and broadcasted Live.
- You can choose to design and launch your permaculture business, design your land, join another participant's project, just grow your wisdom, or expand your network and community, or all of the above.
- You can choose to get broad exposure in the community as a regenerative systems thinker and designer via our reach.
- You can choose to be paid for your creativity and hard work - best project designs will be voted by the course community for cash prizes!
LEVEL UP PERMACULTURE™ SCHEDULE
The Live Webinar Presentation Sessions start on Wednesday, September 4th, 2024, and happen every Wednesday from 7pm to 9 pm Central Standard time till December 18th, 2024, with a short break before starting again on Wednesday, January 8th, 2025, till Wednesday, January 29th, 2025. Final Project Presentations will take place during the week of February 17th, 2025, every day, and the Certifications and Grand Prize Award will complete the course on Saturday, February 22nd, 2025. See the Detailed schedule with the course themes and topics in the 2nd picture of this product page.
LEVELS OF ENGAGEMENT
LEVEL UP PERMACULTURE™ COURSE LEVEL:
FREE
Goals:
- To give you an awareness and better understanding of Permaculture and Permaculture Design.
What you Get at the FREE LEVEL:
- 72 hours access to the 20, 2 hour, Live Webinar Sessions and public final presentations.
- Weekly reminders with links to the Live Webinar Sessions viewing locations on multiple platforms.
- Optional access to other free resources, live courses, webinars and related community communications.
- Opportunity to upgrade to a higher course level anytime before January 1st, 2025.
LEVEL UP PERMACULTURE™ COURSE LEVEL:
DONATION BASED (starts at $17) ($37 AFTER 9/4/24)
Goals:
- All from the Free Course Level + opportunities to reflect on and study further the topics presented in each Live Session.
What you get at the DONATION BASED LEVEL:
- Everything from the Free Course Level.
- Unlimited LifeTime Access to the Private Facebook Group for this Course (includes higher levels participants).
- Unlimited LifeTime Access to the Recordings of the 20 Live Webinar Sessions and public final presentations.
- Unlimited LifeTime Access to the PDF presentations of the 20 Live Webinar Sessions (20 PDFs).
- Unlimited LifeTime Access to 1 additional educational resource for each Live Webinar Session (20 resources).
- Opportunity to see all the presentations of the Certification Course Level participants and vote for the best.
- Access to resources that teach you how to raise funds to engage in the higher course levels.
LEVEL UP PERMACULTURE™ COURSE LEVEL:
FULL CONTENT ($197) ($247 AFTER 9/4/24)
Goals:
- All from the Donation Based Course Level + the resources for a deep dive study of Permaculture and Permaculture Design.
What you get at the FULL CONTENT LEVEL:
- Everything from the Donation Based Course Level.
- Unlimited LifeTime Access to one additional 1 hour Recorded Live Q&A for each Live Sessions (20 additional hours)
- Unlimited LifeTime Access to one additional 1 hour Recorded Design Group Mentorship every 2 weeks (10 additional hours)
- Unlimited LifeTime Access to a full course worth of resources for each topic covered, including multiple from each of the following categories: list of links, videos, audios, articles, free courses, research based guide and fact sheets, book chapters and full books - you will receive access to a new folder with these resources after each session!
LEVEL UP PERMACULTURE™ COURSE LEVEL:
DESIGN CERTIFICATION ($497) ($597 AFTER 9/4/2024) (SPOTS ARE LIMITED)
Goals:
- All from the Full Content Course Level + our professional and community support for you to complete a certification + the opportunity to win a cash prize for your project presentation!
What you get at the DESIGN CERTIFICATION LEVEL:
- Everything from the Full Content Course Level
- Chat Access to the 20 Live Webinar Sessions with 1 additional hour for Live Q&A after each session (20 additional hours) (recordings will also be made available to you)
- Chat Access to 10 additional 1 hour Live Design Group Mentorship every 2 weeks (10 additional hours) (recordings will also be made available for you)
- Access to a separate private Course Platform to pose questions at anytime during the course and get answers from the course instructors via an additional weekly 1 hour Live Q&A and anytime on the Course Platform by the Certification Course Level Community (20 additional hours + unlimited Design Certification Course Level Community support during the course)
- 30 minutes per month of additional 1-on-1 mentorship and consulting from the course instructors and other permaculture professionals from our network between September 2024 and February 2025 period to help you complete your project design and presentation (3 additional hours) (they do not compound, you must use the 30 minutes each month)
- Opportunity to present your project design publicly to our entire network or just the paying course participants community, and get it voted by the paying course participant community to win a cash prize. The cash prize is 10% of the total revenue gathered from the Design Certification Course Level participants' registration fee of $497. You can also opt out of participating in winning the cash prize. To get certified you will have to present your project to the paying Course Level community, including the Donation Based, Full Content and Design Certification levels, but can choose to also share it publicly - in case you are not able to do it during the week of presentations in February 2025, you will have to do it during one of the next round of Certification Presentations in 2026 or beyond. See other details below in the logistics, disclaimers and rules section.
LEVEL UP PERMACULTURE™ COURSE LOGISTICS, DISCLAIMERS, RULES:
- WHEN YOU REGISTER FOR THE COURSE, YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE READ, UNDERSTAND AND AGREE TO ALL OF ITS LOGISTICS, DISCLAIMERS AND RULES!
- We invite you to make this course an opportunity to improve your life and the life of those you cared about, while also making the world a better world. We invite you to bring your best attitude, intentions and positive communication to this course - in fact we will share a lot of resources on what that can look like and its benefits. There are infinite possibilities for growth with the wisdom shared in the course content and with the course community.
- The Course will have a designated public Facebook Page open to all, where all the Live Webinar Sessions, other announcements and resources, as well as the final public project presentations will be shared - this is a space solely used for this purpose and no other - comments will be open and monitored for course related communication that is humane, courteous, respectful and positive (unfortunately, users with any other communication will be blocked from commenting) (additional details will be posted on the page)
- The Course paying participants will have access to a designated private Facebook Group, where all the recordings of the Live Webinar Sessions and PDF presentations will live as well as other course announcements, resources and conversations - this is a space solely used for this purpose and no other - comments will be open and monitored for course related communication that is humane, courteous, respectful and positive (unfortunately, users with any other communication will be blocked from commenting) (additional details will be posted on the group)
- Anyone can upgrade to the next level up anytime. All the past promised recordings and resources will be available to them after upgrading. However, if you upgrade to the Design Certificate any time after any of the Live Webinar Sessions, you will loose access to getting Live or priority Written answers to questions related to Live Webinar Sessions topics you missed, as well as the 1-on-1 mentorship.
- For Certification: you must complete a master conceptual design, accompanied by a rationale and details report, and perform a presentation in front of your peers or the public (you can choose to present only to your peers and not opt in for the voting). You will also have to provide feedback to at least one other project proposals or final project presentations. Please note that we are not looking for perfection, we do have a certification 100 points standard on what the design, report and presentation must contain, and that information will be available as early as October 1st 2024. You must achieve a minimum of 80 out of 100 points for the certification. Teams can also form and produce one project design, report and presentation and all can get certified - they all need to be registered to the Design Certificate Course Level.
- For the cash prize: you must do everything for the certification. You must announce your intention to go for the cash price as early as October 1st 2024 and as late as December 31st 2024. You also must use a specific free app for the design and one specific free app for the presentation, and you will need a google account to use them. If you already have a Permaculture Design Certification, you will have to share that with the paying course community when you announce your intention to run for the cash prize. Teams can also form from the Design Certification Course Level to enter to be voted for the cash prize, the cash prize will remain the same, 10% off the revenue gathered from the registration fee of the Design Certification Level Participants of $497 each, and team members will have to decide which individual will receive the prize to split it how the team sees fit. All Design Certification Course Level participants will know what the revenue gathered is by the number of participants in the private Course Platform. The voting community will be comprised of the Donation Based, Full Content and Design Certificate course community, will have 1 vote per participant and will vote for one project only on February 22nd, 2025 between 7 am and 2 pm CST. All votes will be live on the Facebook Group.
- Due to the course format, we do not offer refunds at any time, unless the unlikely event that course is cancelled.
JOIN THE LEARNING CONDUCIVE TO A RESILIENTLY THRIVING ON PLANET EARTH!
Herbal Apothecary CSA
Monthly, August through December
Invitation:
Our Seasonal Herbal Apothecary CSA is back, packed with organically grown and wild picked plants from our farm and land, with a few additional ingredients curated with care to meet our earth and people centered standards. We are offering an Herbal CSA box for August, September, October, November and December. The box is shipped, or can be picked up on our farm, at the end of each month. You can order one box or all 5. You can also choose to send any of them as a gift - just let us know! For December, we will make sure to have them to you or your loved ones before Christmas!
Benefits of our Herbal Creations CSA:
- all herbal apothecary items come from an established and experienced herbalist, farmer and forager - mainly Anna Maria
- for some foraged goods, we partner with local experienced ecological foragers - we are all about supporting the local economy and ecology
- learn about new plants and their uses, as well as new and unique herbal preparations
- all ingredients are beyond organic - no pesticides, herbicides or chemical fertilizers - maximizing the potential of each plant.
What each month will include:
- 3 to 4 featured plants
- 2 preparations to be taken orally, like tinctures or syrups, or both
- 1 topical preparation like a salve or oil
- 1 ounce of dried herbs - leaf, stem and/or flowers
- 1 monograph and recipes for the herbs included
Cost:
$50 per month + $10 shipping
$200 for all 5 months + $50 shipping (5 months x $10)
August Box:
- Radiant Summer - our classic 2 oz Facial Oil
- Chill Summer Tincture - our 2 oz magic with tulsi, ashwagandha, lemon balm, lions mane
- Soothing Salve - our ½ oz calendula and yarrow stick
- Dried Calendula Flowers - 1 oz portion
The items of the September, October, November boxes will be announced soon!
Your Herbalist:
Anna Maria has been studying, practicing, teaching and mentoring herbalism for close to 15 years. She created the first Herbalism CSA in 2019 and has helped thousands of women engage with the natural healing that comes from learning, using and working with herbal creations. Anna Maria has medical school experience and is a graduate of multiple herbalism trainings, including from the powerful Gaia School of Healing and Chestnut School of Herbalism. She is currently growing an array of 12 different medicinal herbs and has identified another 8 growing wild that can be harvested on our farm.
We thank you for supporting independent herbalists.
Disclaimer:
None of the labels of each herbal creation are medical advices. Products are not FDA approved. Use best judgement and if you see necessary consult with your health care provider before using any of these products.
Healing Salve - Cooling
Our Brand New Salve
A handcrafted salve to help alleviate hot and burning skin conditions like hives, rashes, eczema and burns. Ideal also for lymphatic massage and fluid movement within the body. This cool salve contains olive oil, beeswax, wild harvested Violet leaf and Plantain.
Price: $15 + shipping (can be picked up on our farm also)
Size: 2 oz
Sourcing:
Herbs/plants: Sun And Bloom Farms - Missouri
Beeswax: Sun And Bloom Farms - Missouri (cared for naturally with treatment free methods)
Olive oil: Temecula Olive Oil Company - our Southern California friends
Healing Salve - Blessed Bee
Our Original Salve
A luscious combination of olive oil, beeswax, Plantain, Comfrey, Calendula, Yarrow and St. John’s Wort. This is our favorite tool for daily face and body skin care. Olive oil hydrates skin while beeswax gives a protective barrier to moisture loss and prevents dryness. The blend of herbs rebuilds skin cells, disinfects, and heals scars, abrasions, and scabs. Also effective on eczema, calluses, extreme dryness/peeling, sunburns and acne. It’s a beautiful powerhouse!
Price: $15 + shipping (can be picked up on our farm also)
Size: 2 oz
Sourcing:
Herbs/plants: Sun And Bloom Farms - Missouri
Beeswax: Sun And Bloom Farms - Missouri (cared for naturally with treatment free methods)
Olive oil: Temecula Olive Oil Company - our Southern California friends