Friday, February 25, 2011 at 6:00PM A community picnic on Memorial Day found a cadre of Manzanita Village neighbors enjoying a shady day at Goldwater Lake in Prescott. Potlucks make partying easy and those who come early or stay late have the added enjoyment of a hike around the lake.
Friday, February 25, 2011 at 5:33PM 2010 was a outstanding year for gardening and canning efforts in Manzanita Village. Peach and plum trees took the prize with their remarkable yields. Community members worked together to preserve the summer fruits and vegetables. Village members enjoyed peach salsa, plum sauce and jam, peach butter and applesauce well into fall and winter.
Friday, February 25, 2011 at 5:12PM Camping at a nearby campground found Manzanita Villagers in a relaxation mode with no meeting nor work party waiting. Hiking, snoozing, dog walking, playing games, eating, reading and visiting were the order of the day. At night, when the campfire died down and the snacks disappeared, villagers made their way to their various campers, tents and truck beds and one couple even crawled into bed in the back of their Prius!
Saturday, February 19, 2011 at 2:41PM Manzanita Village brings major permaculture experts to host its orchard garden workshop this spring. Nationally known Toby Hemenway, at the forefront of permaculture development, and T. Barnabas Kane, highly regarded local enviro-design landscape architect, converge on April 9 and 10 in Prescott’s Manzanita Village to conduct a two day workshop.
Many people in this area are hungry to move from environmental theory to transforming their landscapes hands-on. Manzanita Village, a cohousing community, has the opportunity to share sustainability design with the community.
Manzanita Village has already facilitated two popular water catchment/permaculture workshops for the Prescott area.
Toby Hemenway, newly relocated to Prescott this year, out of Portland, Oregon, and author of the best-selling permaculture book, Gaia’s Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture, will facilitate. His extremely busy spring schedule involves numerous workshops in many states and venues.
T. Barnabas Kane, Principal of TBKA Landscape Architecture firm, developing “rehabitation design,tm” contributes in-depth exploration of native soils and terrains. His many successful ventures embrace the question: How do nature and structures co-exist and how can they in a way that is mutually enhancing?
The Manzanita Village location adds unique elements. This community is more than a Home Owners Assocation. Members create frequent meals together, work in the gardens, landscape and plan entertainment events.
Manzanita Village is Prescott’s representation of a growing international trend, and one of four Arizona cohousing communities. It offers opportunities for many who are seeking a return to neighborhoods with enhanced community life.
The workshop invites outside participants. Village members will provide lunch both days in their Common House. The cost is $125. Saturday morning begins with Mr. Hemenway and Kane presenting permaculture theory and practice.
Participants next move out onto the terrain to actually develop a food forest culture with permaculture’s layering: fruit trees, food-bearing bushes, annual vegetable plantings, all developed within the berm and basin pattern most appropriate for the hilly terrain.
For more information and to register contact: Kris Holt of Manzanita Village at (928)227-1895, or gaiasfoodforest@me.com. Also check us out on facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Manzanita-Village-Gaias-Food-Forest/143045212424353.
Saturday, February 19, 2011 at 10:39AM Manzanita Village is sponsoring a workshop for the benefit of the local community.
Gaia’s High Desert Garden: Permaculture Workshop for Prescott, AZ, with Toby Hemenway: nationally known author of Gaia’s Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture and Barnabas Kane: local expert, principal of TBKA Landscape Architecture, “rehabitation by design.”
$125 includes workshop and meals both days.
For more information and to register, contact Kris (928) 227-1895 or gaiasfoodforest@me.com