Home School group using pavilion @ Demory Field for approximately 20 students. 10:30am - 1:30pm
Sept 17, USTR Trail marking
Sept 18, USTR - JPR preparations
Sept 19, USTR - JPR (Judged Pleasure Ride)
BIRDING the BLUE RIDGE CENTER. On the fourth Saturday of each month (except December), the Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy (LWC) leads a free bird walk at the Blue Ridge Center for Environmental Stewardship (BRCES). This beautiful 900-acre preserve is located on Harpers Ferry Road, Rte 671, in northwestern Loudoun County. Only a few miles south of Harpers Ferry and the confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers, the property includes meadows in the valley and heavily forested slopes on the Blue Ridge. We’ll meet at the BRCES Visitor Center at 8:00am the morning of the walk. For more information, please contact Joe Coleman at 540-554-2542 or jcoleman@loudounwildlife.org.
National Public Lands Day – Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010 9:00am
The Blue Ridge Center for Environmental Stewardship (BRCES) has registered (for its 3rd year) to be a part of the National Public Lands Day (NPLD) event on September 25, 2010 (www.publiclandsday.org). NPLD is a national day of caring for the land, a coast-to-coast effort to improve and enhance our treasured lands. We are currently seeking volunteers for this event to help with repairing/maintaining trails, building/repairing bridges; planting trees, clearing brush, collecting seed, etc., (anything that will "beautify" the land). All projects start at 9:00 a.m. There is no time commitment required. You can decide what you want to do, and how much time you want to volunteer. Pre-registration is required. Please contact Darlene Lamoureux, DLamoureux@blueridgecenter.org, 540-668-7640.
Instructor - Michael JuddJoin us for a hands-on course in designing and creating a food forest on a typical residential landscape. Imagine a yard where trees are dripping with fresh fruits and ripening nuts, shrubs are packed with delicious berries, and every other plant is a medicinal herb, culinary spice, or beautiful edible flower. Tubers and root crops are abundant underfoot, gourmet mushrooms sprout in the shade, and hardy kiwi vines climb back up through the layers of this multi-functional forest of foodBeginning with just a few strawbales, newspaper and cardboard we will move through the easy steps to begin transforming your yard into a thriving edible landscape.
Michael Judd has worked with agro-ecological systems and landscapes throughout the Americas for the last 16 years focusing on applying permaculture and ecological design to increase local food security and community health in both tropical and temperate growing regions. The founder of both Ecologia LLC, edible and ecological landscape design and Project Bona Fide, an international non-profit supporting agro-ecology research. While he continues to raise awareness and funds for his project in Nicaragua in the U.S., Michael currently offers design consultation and implementation services specializing in edible landscapes through Ecologia, LLC.
Any questions about the workshop may be directed to BRCES Program Director Jeffrey Alvey at jalvey@blueridgecenter.org