Our Winter 2012 PDC was our 5th annual Winter PDC. It was one of our smaller classes, which made for a very personalized learning environment. The students, as always, vary across demographics, culture and age, yet, as always, make for a wonderful class. This class was headed up by Braden Trauth with the support...
Read more →We are pleased to share with you This-Land’s 6th Annual Winter Permaculture Design Certification. The Course will kick off March 1st and run through March 24th. Class is friday evening, all day saturday & part of Sunday (no class on friday 3/15 & sunday 3/17). This course will teach you how to design and begin...
Read more →We are currently selling our plants at Northside Farmers Market every Wednesday from 4-7pm in the Gym of North Presbyterian Church at 4222 Hamilton Ave. It will move outside in mid-May to Hoffner Park on the corner of Hamilton and Blue Rock Ave. We will be at Market to Mid-june or until it is...
Read more →So Here’s the Quick run down: City Beat/CORV Guide, Earthday, Nursery, Natural Building with Ted Elsasser, Cob Oven Construction, and our First Summer Permaculture Design Certification…. Whoah! 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...
Read more →With our website up and running again (after some technical difficulties) and a month to go before the start of our 6th Cincinnati PDC I am polishing up on my education at the Carbon Farming Course with likes of Wes Jackson, Joel Salatin, Dr. Elaine Ingham and Dave Jacke just to name a few....
Read more →Utilize your First Amendment right to petition by checking out these Permaculture related petitions on the White House’s website! Signing up to make your voice heard is easy and can be done in about a minute. Here are a few issues that might pertain to you as a Permaculturist: Protection of Coal Ash Recycling...
Read more →Here’s an interesting article about a North American native fruit tree, the Pawpaw. A delicious edible perennial to add to your forest garden!
Read more →Want to Learn More About Green Roofs? 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...
Read more →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...
Read more →Energy, Economics and the Environment (3E) Summit Date and Time: Wednesday, September 7, 2011 - 8:00am - 1:30pm Area of Uptown: Clifton Business or Location: University of Cincinnati’s Tangeman University Center Register now for the 2011 3E Summit, a forum on sustainability practices that can help impact the bottom line. This year’s Summit focuses on some of the leading...
Read more →This lecture is an all around lesson in Textiles and Fibers with a focus on dying and processing fibers. The speaker is a student at DAAP majoring in Fashion Design who has been raised on spinning, weaving, dying, and processing of all fibers. She would like to share her knowledge with you and get...
Read more →This week’s (September 14th) 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...
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