( Please see below information and respond about your attendance by October 1, 2018. Lunch will be served during meeting. Please respond to email fay707@hotmail.com) 

Seeing Connections, Healing the Earth

October 7, 2018

11 am – 2 pm

Location:

Falaha Center for Spiritual Agriculture

259 Sugar Loaf Mountain Rd

Chester, NY 10918

Speaker: Aysha Venjara

Founder, Falaha Center for Spiritual Agriculture

As a keen observer of nature and long-time gardener, Aysha Venjara’s connection to the natural world was apparent from early childhood. Just ask her mother. Formally trained as a medical illustrator and designer, scientific researcher, and editor, she thrives in a world of minutiae, fixed proportion, and structure.

Aysha grew up right here in the Hudson Valley and moved to Ossining about 10 years ago after completing her graduate studies at New York Medical College in Valhalla. She has spent the last 5 years training in regenerative farming techniques, biodynamic agriculture, and permaculture design, including volunteering at the Stone Barns Center for Food & Agriculture and Hilltop Hanover Farm, and community gardening in Ossining.

In 2016, Aysha became the steward of a beautiful piece of land in Chester, NY, 3.5 acres of a former biodynamic dairy farm, and a 1950’s barn, lovingly converted into a home by a designer and musician couple, Martin and Laura Schnur. Aysha is currently working on creating a homestead/farm and is the founder of the Falaha Center for Spiritual Agriculture, an organization dedicated to growing faith, family, and fun through farming.

The Falaha Center was born out of a calling to both protect and share the gifts of the land and the home, most especially at a time when our connections to the earth, and one another, are under constant assault.

Agenda:

11-11:30 | Presentation: Aysha will be speaking about seeing connections in nature, and how we have a unique ability, and obligation, to help heal the earth

11:30- 12:30 | Lunch and discussion

12:30 – 1:30 | Activity 1: Making Lactobacillus serum

Lactobacillus serum is a versatile natural preparation that has a multitude of household and farm uses. And it all starts with something many of us do on a daily basis: washing rice grains! Participants each take home a quart mason jar of serum.

1:30 – 2:00 | Activity 2: Property walk

Guided tour of property with discussion of permaculture principles in action.