• Workshops/Gatherings
Spring Tree Clinic: Pruning, Grafting and Tree Care
Saturday, March 1, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
Halfway House Permaculture Learning Center
1165 Perini Rd., McKinleyville
Tuition: $15
Early spring is the best time to prepare your trees for the summer. This workshop will cover the basics of tree care, including pruning and grafting. The Halfway House Permaculture Learning Center has both fruit-bearing trees (plum, apple, pear, peach, lemon, avocado) and alders for deciduous leaf and firewood harvesting. Join permaculturists Blase Bonpane and Marlon Gil for a hands-on, nuts-and-bolt tree clinic on the Halfway site in McKinleyville. Get all your questions answered!
10-12: Pruning – Blase Bonpane started ¡Viva La Paz! Permaculture in Petrolia and now teaches Social Science at Hoopa Valley Middle School. He will demonstrate pruning techniques on various trees at the Halfway House site. Participants can also try their hands and everyone can pose their tree-care questions. We’ll take a half-hour lunch break (bring food and water or beverages).
12:30-2: Grafting – Marlon Gil is a long-time area permaculturist operating Rainshine Permaculture, a family homestead, plant nursery and permaculture demonstration site in Freshwater. He will discuss tools, scion collection, rootstock selection and various grafting methods – and will graft a bare rootstock at Halfway House.
Blase, Marlon and Steve will stick around for further questions and consultations. Click below to register.
Join the Humboldt Natural Building Guild, a growing community that is passionate about building with local and salvaged materials. Stay tuned for future workshops on hempcrete, light-straw clay construction and natural plasters. For a one-time membership dues of $25, you will get into all future events free or at a serious discount. Click below to sign up.
• Reports
California’s Fourth Climate Change Assessment, North Coast Regional Report, State of California (2018)
Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment, CALTRANS (2014)
Climate Change and Health Profile Report: Humboldt County, California Department of Public Health (2017)
Emergency Operations Plan, County of Humboldt (2015)
Ethnogeography and Archaeology of the Wiyot Territory, Llewelyn L. Loud, University of California (1918)
Humboldt Bay Area Plan, Humboldt County Local Coastal Program (2014)
Humboldt Census Tracts, U.S. Census Bureau (2020)
Humboldt County Community Food Assessment Summary, California Center for Rural Policy (2010)
McKinleyville Town Center Survey (2020)
North Coast Regional Climate Adaptation Report, North Coast Resource Partnership (2018)
Prosperity 2018! Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy, County of Humboldt (2018)
RePower Humboldt: Comprehensive Action Plan for Energy (2019 Update), Redwood Coast Energy Authority
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• Links
Humboldt Permaculture Guild on Facebook
Cooperation Humboldt/Transition Humboldt
Transition McKinleyville on Facebook
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• Maps
Arcata/Mad River Transit Routes
Humboldt Bay Municipal Water District
Land Use – Central Humboldt Co.
Tsunami Inundation – Arcata North Quadrangle
Tsunami Inundation – Arcata South Quadrangle
Tsunami Inundation – Eureka Quadrangle
Tsunami Inundation – Fields Landing Quadrangle
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• Plants
Fruits of the Humboldt Bay, a comprehensive guide to fruits and berries growing in the North Coast region, edited by permaculturist Sean Armstrong
Plants For Douglas Fir Forest, compiled by Las Pilitas Nursery, Santa Margarita, Calif.
Plants For Freshwater Marsh, compiled by Las Pilitas Nursery, Santa Margarita, Calif.
Plants For Coastal Strand, compiled by Las Pilitas Nursery, Santa Margarita, Calif.
Plants For North Coastal Sage Scrub, compiled by Las Pilitas Nursery, Santa Margarita, Calif.
Native Edibles, compiled by Lost Foods Nursery’s Monty Caid
Popular Native Plants, compiled by Lost Foods Nursery’s Monty Caid
Favorite Wild Natives, compiled by Lost Foods Nursery’s Monty Caid