To Register or for Questions: Please Contact Braden at Info@This-Land.org or by phone at 513-569-2579

Course Fee: If you register before February 1st, the course is only $500, $550 after. Also if you bring a friend it will be $450 for each of you. Financial Assistance is also available.

We hope you can join us and evolve into the 21st century when humanity becomes locally activated and Globally Harmonized!

We will be at Market to Mid-june or until it is too hot for the plants. Each week we have our full selection of edible perennials which now totals up to 80 varieties of fruit trees, nut trees, berry bushes and perennial veggies. All profits go to support This-Land’s mission of a Regenerative Ohio Valley. So Come on down and support us and join in the creation of a sustainable future!

CORV Guide Ad: To Start, look out for our ad in the CORV Local Food Guide (Central Ohio River Valley) which will be released this week in the Earth Day Edition of CityBeat. It will also be at Farmer’s Markets throughout the coming year. If you mention the ad we will offer a 10% discount off the course price

Earthday 2012 Celebration: Saturday April 21st Sawyer Point Park 12pm-5pm We will be hosting a booth at Cincinnati’s Earthday Celebration. We will have our Edible Perennials for sale along with educational exhibits to raise awareness about Permaculture here in the Ohio River Valley.

This-Land’s Edible Perennial Nursery: We are pleased to share that the Nursery continues to grow in 2012 with the addition of 10 more varieties of plants. We have been selling at Northside’s Farmer’s Market every Wednesday. We plan on being there through early June. Our line up includes Fruit and Nut Trees along with Berry Bushes, Perennial Greens and many support plants. Our selections range from the obscure to the mundane. All profits go to support This-Land and its mission of a Regenerative Ohio Valley, Midwest and of course Planet.

Natural Building Lecture and Workshop with Ted Elsasser: May 4th-13th We are pleased to bring in one of the Top Sustainable Builders in the World for an Evening lecture and 10 day Hands on workshop constructing a small Passive solar Earthbag and Rammed Earth Tire Greenhouse. It will incorporate Adobe and Recycled Windows and Doors donated by Northside’s Building Value.

Cob Oven Construction Workshop: Saturday May 19th & June 2nd Suellyn Schupe and Braden Trauth will be working with Permaganic and Children’s Hunger Alliance to construct a small Cob Oven at the Permaganic Permaculture Gardens in Urban Over the Rhine. It will be a 2 day workshop where students will learn how to make adobe and create a Cob Oven, one of the oldest ways of baking. To register please Contact Wade At Info@this-land.org

Summer Residential Permaculture Design Certification: July 16th-July 29th This is shaping up to be our best PDC yet. It will be an Urban and Rural training hosted by Doug Crouch of TreeYo Permaculture and Braden Trauth of OM Valley Permaculture  along with our traditional crew of support teachers. It will be hosted for 5 days in the City of Cincinnati where you will get hands on experience of applying Permaculture to an Urban Environ, followed up by 7.5 tranquil days of Rural application at Grailville Retreat Center where the students will finish up the course and their design work. You will be visiting some of the Midwests and Eastern US’s Oldest and most Established Permaculture sites. Price: 1150$ before 6/16, 1250$ after 6/16    To register or for questions please contact Doug through TreeyoPermaculture.com

Well we hope you can join us for some of the upcoming courses and events to further your journey in the creation of a Regenerative Ohio Valley

We are learning many tools to assist in the later creation, be it Keyline Farm planning, Holistic Management, the role of Animals in healing the land, or working with Perennial agriculture. These are the practices, combined with many other insights from our crew of teachers and their experience of applying these principles to their varied professions.

I’m sure that these evolutionary discussions will carry into this 6^th PDC to help train the most cutting edge Regenerative designers in whatever field or interest you may have in applying this knowledge. Be it Farming, Urban Planning, Architecture, Landscape architecture, Rural and Urban Homesteading, you name it, the sky is the limit in applying this knowledge in the creation of a regenerative culture. We will show you how to design net yield buildings, yards, farms and communities with the tools you will learn in this course. Some of these tools and methodologies have re-greened deserts, recharged hydrological cycles and created low work agriculture systems modeled after the Garden of Eden.

If you have any questions or would like to register please contact Wade Johnston at info@This-Land.org or by phone at 513-675-0468

Protection of Coal Ash Recycling

Protect Children from Dangerous Air Pollution

Legalize Raw Milk Sales on the Federal Level

Require all GMO Foods to be Labelled as Such

End Taxpayer Subsidies for Nuclear Reactors

Reject the Keystone XL Pipeline

Allow Industrial Hemp to be Grown in the US Again

Mandate that New US Government and USPS Vehicles by Natural Gas Powered

Put a Fee on Carbon-based Fuels and Return the Revenue to Households

And of course…Restore Democracy by Ending Corporate Personhood

Each petition must receive at least 5,000 votes within a 30-day period to be official recognized by the White House.  Spread the word and make an impact!

The Free Lecture Series brought to you by This-Land.Org is pleased to present:

Professor Virginia Russell, FASLA, LEED AP, GRP

Associate Professor of Architecture

Coordinator of the Horticulture Program

College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning at the University of Cincinnati

Professor Russell is a Certified Green Roof Professional, who lectures and facilitates workshops on Green Roofs, in this region and around the world.

She has graciously agreed to share with us an Introduction to Green Roofs, including benefits and costs, growing systems, plant typologies, structural considerations, and how to determine if a green roof might be suitable for your structure.

Please join us at:

Taken The Cake  Lecture Starts @ 7:30…. 4035 Hamilton Ave. Northside

We are glad to announce that last night’s Textiles And Fibers Lecture lead by fashion designer Margaret Mussman was a success, riveting a table full of community members for more than an hour!

Margarets lecture started with a conversational tone.  A brief explanation of the historical significance of fiber dying was followed by her personal insights into the current fashion industry, having studied and worked in the fashion industry. Attendees were surprised by much of the information and often contributed to the conversation.

We then discussed basic home fiber dying methodes using salt and vinegar as a mordent (the substance that opens and fixes color in the fibers) , with household natural dyes (like cumin or onion skins for example).  Many of us were pleasantly surprised that so much of what we find in the kitchen can be repurposed for dying well!

The lecture concluded with a small conversation regarding the future and direction of This-Land.  Many at the table had great ideas to contribute. (Thanks y’all!)

This-Land Community Lectures are held ever Wednesday, 7:30 at Take The Cake in Northside, after the Northside Farmers Market, and are free to the public. Coming up next week, Seeding And Soil 101 with urban farmer and industrial design student, Kristen Gustafaro.

This lecture will be covering the super exciting and nearly invisible world of soil animals. There is a lot going on in terms of life and activity in dirt and we’ll explore the basics of what living and non living components are there, how they interact, and  why they are so cool and important to farmer/gardeners. After a brief break we’ll talk about how to mix a five star potting soil, where to order seeds from, how to decide what seeds to buy, and finally how to start growing them.

It’s gonna be a blast!