Wow, it’s sure has been a hot, dry and crazy busy summer. We hope everyone has been able to enjoy the summer despite the heat and drought.
We spent part of the time here and part of the time away on vacation and work related trips. Guy was fortunate enough to escape much of the worst heat. Here's a few of the summer events related to Adventure Farm.
Here he's training ropes course facilitators to perform rescues.
The native prairie plants cooperated for the second Sustainable Backyard Tour. This year was a great success with 145 people visiting Adventure Farm. Last year we had 40 people visit.
Guy did a staff climb at EarthDance Farms. Everyone had a good time and had an opportunity to climb before a much needed thunderstorm rolled through.
Despite all that we did, it was
our plan to have some more events at Adventure Farm this summer. However, it was so hot and we’ve been so busy with other things and trying to keep
what we’ve already done alive that we have let a lot of things drop.
Communicating on the blog is certainly one of them.
We absolutely need to update people on our search for opportunities for expansion from our last posting. We are so excited about
the outpouring of responses we received. Very quickly we heard from many people and have found several
places around St. Louis that are perfect for helping us expand our outreach in both tree climbing and
permaculture. It's not surprising to find such generosity and encouragement from the people in St. Louis, but we still can't help but be amazed.
EarthDance Farms is one of the places that has generously agreed to allow Guy to do tree climbing events in their space. It is very exciting to have the opportunity to partner with EarthDance, which will allow Adventure Farm to extend our reach and hopefully have the opportunity to support EarthDance in their mission. If you aren't yet familiar with EarthDance, please take a moment and check out their website here http://www.earthdancefarms.org
At the moment our plan is to have some tree climbing events this
Fall at a few of the places that have so generously offered their space. Along with the tree climbing
opportunities, there are two friends of Adventure Farm that would like to support opportunities for others to learn about permaculture by hosting a permaculture project event. Both sites have rainwater harvesting projects that Deanna and Guy will be leading. One is a multiple rainbarrel installation and the other is a
raingarden installation. We look forward to posting some dates for these events in the coming month or two. We hope many of you will come out and support both Adventure Farm and the folks who are opening up their property to support community through recreational tree climbing and permaculture.
There are a few other events schedules that you may be interested in.
8/23-Permaculture talk- Deanna will be giving a short talk at Longview Farm Park.
Town and Country Green Speaker Series
Longview Farm Park
13525 Clayton Rd.
63141 (In the farmhouse)
7:00 pm-8:00 pm
10/6-Permaculture 101
Deanna will be presenting a continuing education course
through St. Louis Community College.
10/13-Recreational Tree Climbing
Guy will be presenting an introductory session through St.
Louis Community College.
11/3-Intro to Householding
Deanna and Terry Winkelmann of Home Eco will be
co-presenting this continuing education course through St. Louis Community
College.
You can find the Community College events at http://www.stlcc.edu/Continuing-Education/ Permaculture 101 and Intro to
Householding can be found in the Ecology and Sustainability section and
Recreational Tree Climbing can be found in the Sports and Fitness section or
the Recreation section depending on how you search. .
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