Photo: Courtesy the Rhizome Collective

The Sustainable Landscape, Mycoscaping, + Liberation Ecology

Rafter Sass + Skott Kellog

June 18th (Thursday mid-day) to June 22nd (Sunday afternoon)

This four-day participatory workshop offers the tools to start reclaiming ecological and social health - all the way from broad strategies to specific techniques. It combines the mushroom permaculture of the Mycoscaping Intensive , the technology skills of the Sustainable Landscape, building aquacultures + compost teas, and the social project design tools of Liberation Ecology. You can come for the whole 4 days, or drop-in Thursday, Friday, or Saturday.

THURSDAY AFTERNOON - Introduction to Permaculture, Introduction to Mycoscaping, and a Mushroom Walk on the Land. Permaculture works to create sustainable, labor-saving ways of meeting all our needs for food, shelter, and infrastructure. As both a design science and a global movement, it is accessible to ordinary folks AND scientifically grounded. Permaculture is a powerful toolbox for individuals and communities to take charge of their livelihoods and their ecological impacts. This workshop will introduce participants to the history, ethics, principles and principles of permaculture - and the strategies, and techniques we need to create harmonious relationships with the environment and everything we do.

DAILY MORNING TRACK - LIBERATION ECOLOGY (For full-time workshop participants only). Other permaculture techniques will be incorporated along the way. Come prepared for a hands-on experience - we'll be wrestling with hard questions, and going outside and getting our hands dirty!

FRIDAY - MYCOSCAPING: Mushrooms in the Permaculture Landscape . Mushrooms everywhere! Food, medicine, bioremediation, and more - fungi have a crucial role to play in creating healthy and abundant landscapes. Come explore the world of wild and cultivated fungi through a holistic permaculture lens. Includes lots of hands-on! 

SATURDAY - THE SUSTAINABLE LANDSCAPE: Aquatic Polycultures and Bio Brews. We will overview sustainable technologies and then focus on making aquacultures and compost teas. We will build a pond that will be stacked with anarray of aquafic plants and animals for making food, fuel, and fertilizer. We will also brew compost tea: a liquid culture of beneficial microorganisms that can be applied as a fertilizer to crops or be used to remediate contaminated soils.

SUNDAY - Liberation Ecology and Mycoscaping Wrap-Up (for full-time participants only)

Rafter T. Sass has been studying, practicing, and teaching permaculture since 2003 (right around the time he became obsessed with mushrooms). He's been involved with the global justice movement for a decade. Since 2005, he's been facilitating the Liberation Ecology Workshop, in order to help create a more dynamic relationship between sustainability strategies and social justice priorities. He currently lives in Burlington, Vermont, studying ecological design at the graduate level.

Scott Kellogg is a co-founder of Austin, Texas's Rhizome Collective ( www.rhizomecollective.org ) and the teacher of R.U.S.T. – The Radical Urban Sustainability Training. Also, he is the co-author of Toolbox for Sustainable City Living: A Do-It-Ourselves Guide . He is currently earning a masters degree in environmental science from Johns Hopkins University.

Tuition/Room/Board All Inclusive

Tuition, includes room & board (4 Tiers Available):
   Student Rate: Economically challenged students and the unemployed: $270
   Regular Rate: Employed but struggling (teacher, librarian, lots of kids, etc.): $295
   Professional Rate: Actually contributing to your retirement plan (support the arts!): $320
   Contributor Rate: Contributing additional funds to support the Earthdance Scholarship Fund: $370

Single Day Option: $75 - $95 (Thursday, 1/2 day = $35)
Room & Board: Included in tuition.
Deposit Required*: $75

Limited work study is available for the SEEDS Festival. For information, click here.

Arrival Thursday 6/18 by 12 noon
Last session ends Sunday 6/22 at 1pm

*You will not be officially registered until we receive your deposit. If your registration is cancelled up to 3 weeks prior to a workshop, you may either transfer the entire deposit amount to another event or be refunded 1/2 of the deposit. Cancellations within 3 weeks of the start date are not eligible for a refund or transfer.