SEEKING INTERNS FOR SUSTAINABLE FARMING INSTITUTE

Hi Everyone - Especially Aspiring - or Experienced - Farmers!! There is a Place For You Here!



  Here is a message from Land & Sea's good friend, the wonderful and talented Keith Keyser:

"I want to pass along info on a project I'm starting on the Kanaka Bay Rd. property (SAN JUAN ISLAND, WA)  I once lived on.

Next month I'll be renting it again and I am hoping to place 2 or 3 interns on the property to facilitate utilizing the land as an institute dedicated to teaching and practicing sustainable farming skills and the preservation of traditional living skills.

We'll be gardening/farming vegetables, fruit, herbs, raising bees, chickens, goats, putting food up in various ways, greenhousing, building with stone and timbers, using wattle for fences and gates, irrigating from water catchment systems pumped with solar energy, wildcrafting, developing cottage industries that allow for more time on the land such as basketry and furniture making with materials grown on the island, landscaping etc.

I've got the land, a comfortable Guesthouse with all the amenities, and shop, all on 4.5 acres.

Now all I need is people committed to the lifestyle, eager to learn and work.


This is a live/work quasi communal situation seeking to break away from the usual capitalist economic dynamic of employer/employee relations.  The house and land is available next month, sooner if a good mix of folks can be found.

Thanks for putting this out there,

Keith Keyser
1-360-472-1384 

* See ISLA poster at the bottom of this post for workshop and other information. First workshop will be Nov 6th.





LAND & SEA GARDEN/COMMUNITY GREENHOUSE

Our next post will have information on the progress of the wonderful new student initiated community greenhouse now being erected at the Land & Sea Garden site across from the High School and Middle School on Blair Ave. 

Students from Jenny Wilson's Community Projects class, heroically mentored by Marion Melville, and mightily assisted by adult volunteers contractor Terry Whalen, the generous John Stamey, the hardworking Chris Wilson, Jim and Cathy Cole, and Keith Keyser, able go-to person Helen Venada, generous John Towson and his youth Leo Lions crew, and other kind volunteers have spent a number of weekends putting up this lovely greenhouse, and need only a few more days, and a few more able hands to finish up this pretty building which will provide a community site for greenhouse growing for years to come. 

Please stay posted for more information on the next date and time we will be finishing this building up - maybe you can come and take part! 

Also look here in coming days for more info on how to sign up for greenhouse use!

Please write to slowfoodlandandsea@gmail.com with questions, or call Linda at 350-317-5890


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