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Aprovecho Facilitates Permaculture Design Course with the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde
This winter, we embarked on an exciting and unique collaboration with the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde. Tao Orion and Abel Kloster, Lead Instructors in Aprovecho’s Permaculture Design Certification Program, are facilitating a PDC in Grand Ronde. The Grand … Continue reading
A Local Foods Movement Worth Its Salt: Lessons from Aprovecho’s 100 Mile Diet Program
It first started with an idea in the fall of 2006. I had recently moved to Aprovecho, outside of Cottage Grove, OR, after a brief stint in Portland. My partner Abel Kloster, our new friend and Aprovecho staff member Josh … Continue reading
PermaPoultry
There really is nothing nearly as pleasing as watching hens sharpen their beaks, and roosters do their morning strut on newly revealed fresh lush pasture. It is a very affirming thing to see them moon-walking all over the ground as … Continue reading
Aprovecho’s 100-mile Diet / Riot Zine
The word “diet” is a turn off to a lot of people. So we decided to get a bunch of people together, harvest foods with our friends in the region, eat nourishing foods, and celebrate what we are calling the 100 mile Riot. That is, we are only eating food that is grown within 100 miles of our home in the Southern Willamette Valley. Continue reading