Looking for faculty, teachers, farmers and folk school instructors . . . for something new!
WEI will be expanding on our education program this year to include a new menu of courses and workshops designed for youth, adults, and farmers. All of our WEI research, community organizing, policy work is informed by our mission of environmental, agricultural, food and social justice. After six years of building our programs and projects, we are now ready to start building our farm campus and education prograom to become at best a beacon of ideas and free-standing education.
We expect to open the first phase of this program on April 1, 2010, with registration opening in February 2010. What can you expect to see in 2010.
Growing Power and Farm Workshops – participate in organic farming skill-building on-site at the WEI farm and join the Growing Power Training Sessions at Little Earth and at WEI. This year we will be helping with the urban farming project at Little Earth, and as a Growing Power Regional Outreach Training Center we will be building hoop houses, a passive solar greenhouse, more beehives, a chicken tractors, and a composting toilet, and further developing the WEI farm and Little Earth composting sites and vermiculture worm depositories. Learn how to do this stuff. Join with us and help support this effort when Will and Erika Allen visit WEI’s Regional Outreach Training Center and Little Earth for building workshops and educational classes.
Amador Hill Folk School – learn personal sustainability skills and practical arts for making your life more energy efficient, your eating more nutrition and your life-skills better prepared for taking care of family, friends and pets in sustainable and life giving ways.
Organic Farm School (June-August) – learn about the social and historical context of organic farming and participate in hands-on workshops on the WEI farm campus
Environmental Justice and Political Economies of Harm (a post-secondary class for adults September –December Adult Distance Learning class)
The Future of Food (a post-secondary class for adults September –December Adult Distance Learning class)
Cooking, Bread-making and Canning Demonstration classes– learn from the folks who know how to do this – grow food and put-it-by for winter , learn to make bread in a wood fired oven, spin honey and press cider. Bring home back to the kitchen! Sit down together for dinner?
Women’s Health and Nutrition Weekend – get focused on environmental health issues, nutritional education, personal fitness, self-care practices, meditation and movement therapies, heal burn-out and enhance your radical /positive thinking for social change.
Farmer-for-a-Day, youth workshops for groups of young visitors to the WEI farm
Girl Farm, a special program for young inner city girls looking for a place to farm where they can grow, harvest, and produce a food product for farmer’s market
Farmer-to-Farmer Thinking Circles: thinking about becoming an organic farmer or transitioning to organic farming? watch for WEI’s North Circle workshops on organic certification and organic tips for farmers and gardeners – a thinking circle for all participants – share the knowledge and take it home.
If you have any ideas for classes or workshops, please contact WEI at 651-583-0705.
