[ShareTompkins] Fwd: Swale Building and Contouring - This Friday and Saturday!

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> From:	Ari Rockland-Miller <anr44 at cornell.edu>
> Subject:	Swale Building and Contouring - This Friday and Saturday!
> Date:	Wed, 9 Jun 2010 01:02:46 -0400
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> Hello Friends of MacDaniels Nut Grove!
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> I sent those of you who are friends of the MNG on Facebook an email  
> a couple of weeks back about the swale building and contouring  
> workshops/workdays, taking place this Friday and Saturday (June 11  
> and 12). Steve Gabriel, Program Coordinator for the Fingerlakes  
> Permaculture Institute, will lead this exciting and educational  
> hands-on event. While we would love to see you on both days,  
> Saturday is a priority if you can only make it to one, since Steve's  
> permaculture summer apprentices will already be helping out on  
> Friday. Also, you are not required to stay for the full duration of  
> either day, so feel free to stop by even if you cannot stay for too  
> long. Steve will be teaching us how to use a laser level and A-Frame  
> to mark contours, a very useful skill, and then we will install  
> swales on contour which will help harvest natural flows of water and  
> build the Nut Grove's generally eroded soils on its slopes. If you  
> work on a farm, own land, or ever intend or ever intend to work a  
> piece of land, swale building is an invaluable technique and an  
> essential element of the permaculture toolbox.
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> Below is an outline of the rough schedule for the two days:
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> Friday, June 11
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> 9:30 am to 11:00 am -- TOUR of MNG with Ken Mudge to apprentices,  
> any interested public
> 11:00 am -- Discussion of design and work plan for hill side - begin  
> clearing brush
> 12:30 ish  -- Break for LUNCH
> 1:30 - 5:00 -- Continue clearing brush, mark contours with laser  
> level and a frame
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> Saturday, June 12
> 10:00 -- Overview of project, contour swaling - Steve
> 10:30 -- 12:30 -- Finish any brush or contour work, begin mounding  
> swales
> LUNCH
> 1:30 - 4:00 -- Finish mounding swales, mulching, seeding and plants  
> in ground
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> Please bring your own lunch and wear good, closed toe boots or  
> shoes. If you have your own work gloves or any digging/raking tools,  
> it would be wonderful if you could bring them as well. Otherwise, we  
> will supply gloves and tools.
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> Hope to see you there!
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> Ari
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> Ari Rockland-Miller
> (413) 687-2184
> anr44 at cornell.edu
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> -- 
> Steve Gabriel
> Owner, Lead Designer
> Work With Nature *ecological design solutions*
> www.WorkWithNature.net
> PO Box 54, Ithaca, NY 14851
>  607.342.2825 - steve at WorkWithNature.net
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