Wattle Hollow Event
From2010 Schedule, Spring 2010
2nd Annual ‘A Greener America’ Workshop – May 27-30
4 p.m., Thursday, May 27th - 2 p.m., Sunday, May 30th
Cobbing Fun at A Greener America workshop
We will continue to build the newest cob building: Sea World, with more emphasis on sculptural furniture, adobe floors and the last of the windows. Expect your building experience to be accompanied by music, whimsy, and dancing. No suffering allowed.
We will also have a guest lecturer for a couple of hours on the weekend days, Richard Herman, sharing his expertise on permaculture.
Our meals will be gourmet vegetarian (from local sources), some of it cooked in solar ovens. Daily yoga classes for those who wish. This is a time to relax, learn, and commune with friends and nature.
Cost:$130., entire workshop, or $40/day includes lodging, gourmet meals, and hands-on experience.
Retreat Registration Form (pdf)
About Richard:
Richard Herman has devoted his life’s work to sustainable agriculture, animal husbandry and medical care, permaculture, and leading youth in wilderness adventures and education.
Trained from childhood on Ozarks farms, Herman has done extensive and varied work on three continents. He served for six years as large- and small-animal veterinary assistant, followed by stints in herd health management for Heifer International and physician’s assistant in schools and clinics in Kenya. His international experience has brought diverse perspectives in agricultural and health customs and traditions.
A certified consultant in permaculture, Herman teaches at community colleges and by invitation for numerous organizations. He served a tour in the U.S. Peace Corps in Lesotho, Africa, assisting schools with agriculture using permaculture principles. In Lesotho, he was member of a permaculture guild which established weekend workshops for teachers.
With the Lambourne charity for troubled youth in England, Herman designed and set up a farm using animals as therapy for young people. A field instructor with Outward Bound in Maine, he led groups into the wilderness for 2 and 3 week treks, orienteering, white water rafting, rock climbing, and canoeing.
Herman lives a low impact lifestyle, harvesting water from rooftops, collecting water in ponds and soil and has transformed a dry stream bed to a near year-round flowing stream. Using permaculture design on his land, Herman has also developed a forest garden, no-till kitchen gardens, intensive grazing systems, and a sustainably harvested forest; grows rishi and shitake mushrooms; and introduced tree grafting (creating a genetic library for scion woodland).