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Aloha Everyone,
Thank you for your overwhelming response! One of the very cool things that has come out of our TalksS and workshops is an offer to make a TV show. So of course for now we are saying, "Yes!". What our show would include is actual footage of our workshops so more people can learn from our incredible speakers. We are learning that it takes a lot to put on a TV show, so for now we are postponing our Workshops until we can begin taping them. We don't know when that will happen, but we'll be sure to let everyone know.
Mahalo for your patience and continual support in helping to make Hawaii a Healthy place to live!
Up Close and Personal Workshops
We at GreenTalks stand in the belief that knowledge is power and with truthful information about the environmental challenges that lay before us, it becomes easier for each of us to make informed sustainable choices in our daily lives.
We are committed to bringing the Top Experts in the field of Green and Sustainable Living to the people of Hawaii so that we may all choose with open hearts to participate in our proposed model to make Hawaii a living laboratory for planetary sustainability. Here in Hawaii, our Hawaiian ancestors call that, living “Pono”, today it’s called livingorganic, green and/or sustainable. Regardless of labels, we invite you to join us and the rest of our brothers and sisters around the world to making the planetary shift to living a more “Pono” existence with our Mother Earth, “Papa Honua”.
Agriculture 2012; Aina Momona Series: Combining Traditional Wisdom and Future Science Today.
A ten part series of hands-on workshops that assist Farmers and Gardeners to become a model of sustainability.
The first workshop begins in February and will continue through November with a once a month weekend workshop.
We will meet at an organic farm in Pupukea on the North Shore of Oahu; this farm which is now over grown and with incomplete projects, will become the living laboratory/ classroom for applying the sustainable techniques we will learn from our expert speakers. Each month a different topic and project will be introduced. We will first have classroom time to learn and understand the topic. Next we will apply what we learned on the farm in an actual project. There will be time for participants to share how they would approach the project and have an exchange of ideas so there is a community conversation that we can all learn by.
Our ultimate goal at the end of this series of workshops is to give our participants the know-how and experience to create their own sustainable farm. Some participants may have the goal to take their farm off the grid or partially off the grid. Some participants may simply want to learn how to use what is on their land for all their inputs so they can reduce their overhead. In either case we will be re- introducing lost wisdom and ancient farm techniques that has survive the ages along side revolutionary techniques and science for soil regeneration, weeds and pests control that harmonize with nature. We will use inventive and intuitive design philosophies for laying out your farm minimizing outside materials by focusing on the resources available on your farm. In addition you’ll learn planting techniques & plant/soil record keeping, irrigation and water management, how to produce energy without fossil fuel, integrated biological systems to supply your soil input needs and plant nourishment, creating value-added products from your farm, marketing your products and getting your farm ready for those sales.
Basically from start to finish, how to build a farm, grow produce without chemical or synthetic inputs, while reducing the farmers overhead, and increasing your bottom line! All this while saving and healing the earth.
Participation: There are several ways to participate; As a “10 Part Series Farmer who will become a model of ourliving laboratory for planetary sustainability”, as an apprentice staying a full week or more to work side by side with the experts or as a weekend participant.
10 Part Series Farmer:
*To participate as a “10 Series Farmer who will participate for the full year. You must apply and be qualified. These farmers will have their farms documented on film over our year’s program and will later be premiered at a film festival in 2011. Dr. Hepperly will be visiting your farm twice during this program to document and consult you on your farm’s soil regeneration. Farmers must apply for this year long program. There are numerous costs associated with this project that could make this project cost prohibitive to the individual small farmer, so we will be seeking sponsorship for a big part of the cost. Farmer’s out of pocket costs for their weed and pest control equipment is $2600 for one machine or $4400 for both machines (Imprinter/Potenttizer and antidote maker), this also includes 2 hour consultation with Dr. Delphini plus another 2 hours of phone consultation. Each month there will be a $400 charge for the workshop, you may have two people attend for this price: it will include lunch each workshop, (2) 45 minute on the farm consultations during the year with Dr. Hepperly, & (2) soil tests. We will be seeking sponsorship and deep discounts for materials and services we will be using during the year's projects.
You are not required to buy the Bio-energetic equipment. (but it is highly suggested that you do). You may pay Dr. Delphini to make the weed & pest controls, as well as the bio-energetic plant enhancements for $350. You will receive one bio-energetic pest or weed control as part of your first class.
10 Part Series Farmer Participation requirements:
· You must either own or be a manager of a working farm or setting up a working farm.
· You must have a computer and/or someone with a computer to track your farms progress and provide reports during the length of the program.
· You must be able to pay or have a sponsor pay the $4000 ($400 x 10 workshops) fee associated with this program.
· You must apply all the soil regeneration and non-chemical pest & weed controls you learn about in this class monthly with a tracking record.
· You must be able to create a working design plan for your farm.
· You must implement at least 50% of the plan by the end of the 10 workshops.
· You must apply two or more of the growing techniques to increase your growing space and crop production.
· You or a representative from your farm must attend all 10 workshops.
· You must report your progress monthly at the beginning of each monthly workshop so we can assist you in areas you may need help.
· You must agree to participate with enthusiasm, humor and joy so it will be a fun experience for all who participate.
· You must agree to be filmed and have your photo’s and films of you and your farm published by GreenTalks.
· You must remember that if chosen to be one of the “10 Series” participants you will be part of a 10 month experiment to heal the earth, and participate in becoming a living laboratory for planetary sustainability. This is your opportunity to share with Hawaii how you are healing our Mother Earth and what it looks like to be committed to a sustainable future for the generations to come.
Participation is limited. (Down load application)
Apprentice Program: Work side by side with the speaker/ masters on the topic of the month. Be the speaker’s assistant during the project until its completion. You must apply and have the skill set to qualify for this position; the speaker, along with the farm manager will choose the apprentice assistants; so make sure you sell your skills. Your fee will include workshop, room and board for a week and you are expected to stay the length of the project. (Download application here) Participation is limited.
Fee: $800 per week.
Weekend Participant: Pay a flat fee to participate in a 2 day workshop. (Private consulting with the speakers is available at additional fees. Click here to sign up for Private Consulting. Weekend workshop Fee: $400.00 includes lunch.
Monthly Topics:
February 5, & 6: Featuring Dr. Hepperly and Dr. Delphini; Combining Traditional Know-how’s with Future Science:
Soil Regeneration and Pest and Weed Controls w/o Chemicals.
Dr. Hepperly, the Plant Doctor, will explain his regenerative soil techniques in detail, focusing on bio-char. He will have all farmers take soil tests of their farm so there will be a base line for recording soil improvements. At the end of this series there will be another soil test to evaluate soil improvement and additional recommendations for next seasons growing preparation. Dr. Hepperly will be making house calls throughout the year to check on participants soil and plant improvements. (Dr. Hepperly is available for house calls at an additional fee. Click on link for more info)
Dr. Delphini will be taking us into the world of Bio-Energetic/ Vibrational Medicine. Through her proprietary designed equipment she will show us how simple it is to make your own chemical free weed and pest controls. In this workshop we will make weed controls that will be applied to our farm/ classroom. Over the next month we will monitor and document changes. We ask all participants to bring one of their most toxic weeds for us to make a control for it. You will then be asked to go back to your farm and use it, documenting the changes day by day. We'll ask you to report your results in the next workshop. (Dr. Delphini will also be available for house calls at an additional fee. Click on link for more info
For Dr. Hepperly’s ability to better track the participating 10 series farmers'your soil, plant and profitability bottom line, we will have a special workshop later in the month with the Computer Wizard to create an Excel worksheet to track your Soil and Plant changes on your computer, he will also be be giving a class on QuickBooks. Some type of accounting program must be used to track your profitability growth. For those of you who prefer to have a bookkeeper do the work for you, we will have a bookkeeper available for you to hire if you do not have one. Keeping a set of computerized books and soil & plant history records is a requirement to becoming accepted as a 10 Series Farmer.
March 6 & 7: Planning your farm/garden layout using Ancient Wisdom and Permaculture techniques.
Using various planning philosophies, we will explore the best way to set up your farm. We will learn to identify your farm's elements and use those elements to help you construct a design plan. Today all farms are required to setting
up a production packing center. We will complete a building conversion that interfaces with our farm
operation. We will examine how to recycle and reuse all our grey water & green waste using vermiculture. We'll research which energy star storage/
refrigeration options are available and we will build a tool room for storage and maintenance, input & feed storage. The hands on portion of the workshop will be under the guidance of a carpenter who will teach us how to re-purpose what we already have and to evaluate the cost effectiveness of the conversion vs. starting from scratch.
April 3 & 4: Planting Techniques that Enhance your Plant Growth and Crop Production. Learn how to grow 2 to 3 times more in the same space. Explore the Hawaiian and Bio-Dynamic planting calendars, sacred geometry, intercropping, vertical growing, bio-dynamic soil & compost inoculations. Growing with Prayer; using Ancient Hawaiian Farming and Yoko Farming techniques.
May 1 & 2: Water Wisdom: Irrigation, Water Harvesting/Catchment, & Purification. Explore and combine ancient techniques with modern marvels.Learn to evaluate which methods are best for your farm or garden.
June 5 & 6: Dr. Hepperly, the Plant Doctor, returns: Soil check-up & Learn How nature communicates with us. Know your Critters; Friend or Faux, Soil Breath, Seed Collection and Storage. Seed Exchange. Part I Intergrated Biological Systems: Composting with tree trimmings and weeds, vermiculture.
July 3 & 4: Part 2: Intergrated Biological Systems: Turning waste into feed for our soil and plants, Building a Chicken Coops with manure collection capacity, Fishponds for fertilizer, Composting with tree trimmings and weeds, Vermiculture castings for soil starter. Preparing our farms for hurricane season.
August 6 & 7: Powering up with Renewable Energy: Solar, Wind, & Magnetic.
Explore different options for non-fossil fuel energy generation. Steps involved in bringing solar, wind and magnetic systems onto your property, net metering and who qualifies to sell energy back to HECO and what is involved.
September 4 & 5: The Business side of Farming: Examining your bottom line. Work with Bookkeepers to examine your bottom line. Do cost analysis per crop, evaluate which crops you are going to move forward with in the year coming or if you must supplement your crop with other crops. Plan for slow winter production periods identify value added products that can keep your income up when production is down. Begin the planning process for winter slow periods. Generate cost analysis for tooling up for your value- added winter sales.
October 2 & 3: Makahiki: A Harvest Celebration!
This month is your time to shine! We will be going on field trips to your farms.
November 6 & 7: Put Your Beds to Rest
All Workshops are on the weekend in Pupukea on the North Shore of Oahu. They start at 10a-4pm and include lunch.
Healthy Kino 2012
Without our health we don't have anything. Sometimes when people get sick all the riches in the world can't seem to buy you good health. We believe Good Health is as simple as good healthy fresh local grown food, learning how to maintain our body through good detoxing methods and Healthy Self Talk as a part of their daily lives.
Our goal is that all people of Hawaii will be allowed to recapture the quality of their lives and environment, while harmonizing with nature, by learning our simple techniques that are not a trend, but a smart lifestyle choice the embraces all family members and builds our whole health to its optimum and maximum ability!
Saturday and Sunday, Date to be announced
Weekend Wellness Workshop with Routh Bolomet, Clare Apana & Tia Pearson
For total health and well being to exists, all aspects of our body and emotions are interconnected, in constant communication with one another and must be addresses as a whole and a sum of its parts. Our three hostess have traveled a long road to bringing balance back into their lives after having had themselves and loved ones exposed to toxic chemicals in the form of everyday garden products that can be bought in a garden, or hardware store.
The long road back has taught them many valuable lessons with each focusing on a different aspect of the wholeness of total well being.
All three had to learn how to detox their bodies, all three had to learn how to deal with the devasting emotional impacts of being less of themselves and use emotional building tools to regain their lives again.
All three had to find doctors that could help them understand how their chemical exposures had thrown their body's off balance and give them the right kind of testing and medicine to bring them back into balance.
All three had to learn the healing powers of food, and how to use agricultural/ growing practices that heals our bodies and environment in which our bodies reside in.
All three had to learn to go from the grocery store to the kitchen and cook.
And now two of the three are learning how to take total control of their life by simply growing their own food.
The scientific fields of quantum physics, biology & biochemistry have all made exciting discoveries about the interconnectedness of the human body, and these discoveries have led to new and profoundly effective rebalancing techniques. Learn how to manifest that in your cooking, in your healing and in your daily conversations with yourself.
Day 1: Morning Session: 9am to 10:30am
RECLAIM & MAINTAIN YOUR HEALTH THROUGH GOOD FOODS, BODY WORK & EMOTIONAL REBALANCING
We start out the morning with an 1 1/2 hour discussion with Routh, Clare and Tia, each sharing their area of focus in regaining their health, well being and environment.
Routh will speak on the healing powers of food, Clare will speak on the medical side of regaining health, and Tia will speak on the emotional side of healing.
There will be a short question and answer period before going into the garden to learn a little bit about growing food organically. While out there we will collect food for lunch.
Mid Morning Session: 10:45 to 12
Routh will take everyone out into the garden to learn about the different variety of veggies and what they can do for our individual organs. Also learn about our body's natural ability to detox specific organs, during specific seasons.
Next we will go into the kitchen to prepare lunch together. Routh will help us understand how our thoughts, emotions and intentions that are with us while preparing our food is an integral part of the total healing process and can be all the difference in having food that merely fills your stomach or can becomes medicine for total healing. We will do taste test that infuse different intentions into food to demonstrate the impacts of our thoughts on taste of food and our total wellness.
Lunch: 12 to 1pm
Afternoon Session: 1 to 2:30pm:
Clare Apana takes us into the world of medicine: what is available to us today
The power of detoxing; Rebuilding through supplementation and foods
The need for body work to assist in toxic build up release
Clare's ability to take complex medical subjects, and turn them into simple and understandable concepts makes all listening feel as if they have hope in regaining their health just in making simple daily choices.
Clare will be able to direct participants to doctors, clinics, healers, and introduce you to the tools that has help her regain her health.
Late Afternoon Session: 3:00 to 4:30pm
Talk with Tia.
Learn simple techniques to release your past emotional traumas and see how your health condition shifts. Tia will gives you tools to handle the emotional roller coaster that some people go on when they are transitioning to a new sustainable lifestyle or recovering from an illness. On going private consultation sessions available.
5:30pm to 8:30pm Optional: Meal & Movie: Join for dinner and a movie that inspires sustainable living, good food and friends. (Additional $35.00 donation to pay our wonderful Award Winning Chef, Kevin 2 Boots for his healthy and tasty creations.)
Day two:
Day two is about putting into action what you learned in Day one.
You'll be broken into 3 groups and throughout the day you will rotate between the 3 groups.
But before that happens Clare Apana will take us through the Hawaiian technique of Ho`oponopono.
We will all learn and practice this technique throughout the day. Next you will be go to your perspective groups.
The Garden and Cooking Group, you'll either be preparing Lunch or Dinner
You'll work in the Garden with Routh tending the garden, learning our special farm techinique of how to speak and listen to the plants while you weed, seed or harvest. Learn to appreciate nature on a whole new level so that you feel you are in an interpersonal and integral part of nature. Later we will gather food for our next meal.
The Healing Hands of Clare Apana
Clare uses Heller body work techniques to release emotional stagnation and body traumas from your muscles that prevents you from fully achieving optimum health and the use of your body.
Your weekend includes an individual “Up Close and Personal” 45 minute session with Clare and a 45 minute detoxing technique.
Talking with Tia
In small groups you will meet with Tia for more up close and personal time to discuss personal issues. You will go through exercises that assist you when you leave and can make individual appointment for later sessions.
Our Weekend Wellness Workshop is designed to give you the knowledge and tools to achieve optimum health for you and your family. By taking back your health and learning how to obtain true wellness.
o Learn to take back your health which may allow you to lessing your doctors visits and better your current health
challenges
o Learn Non-invasive, safe, easy to use bioenergetic techniques to achieve physiological balance.
o Learn how to make a small garden to grow your own food.
o Make Food meaningful, healing and fun for the whole family to part-take in.
o Learn the power of thought.
The scientific fields of quantum physics, biology & biochemistry have all made exciting discoveries about the interconnectedness of the human body, and these discoveries have led to new and profoundly effective rebalancing techniques that have measurable/ quantifiable results that are measurable in your thoughts, intentions, food, health, and overall flow of life.
We relish the opportunity to share our techniques with you all.
Maximum 10 people: $800.00 Pre-registration required. Flyer
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