Urban Homestead Skillshare Festival May 26

Homestead Skillshare Festival Sponsored by Bay Area Community Exchange A festival to educate, inspire and spread sustainable living and self-sufficiency skills Sat, May 26th from 10am-6pm Hayes Valley Farm, 450 Laguna Street, San Francisco, CA 94102 Live bands! Alma Desnuda (folk) will be headlining with Fog City Brewers (blue grass), Lea Grant (folk) and Nicco Tyson (African). Learn how to backyard compost, create an urban garden, grow fruit trees, raise chickens, grow herbs for medicine, create cohousing, cultivate oyster mushrooms & more! There's something for everyone! 40 Scheduled Workshops! Cohousing * Urban Power Foods * Soil Fertility * Worm Bins and Composting* Gift Circles * Qi Gong * Chickens * Ducks * Bike-Powered Machines * Cob Ovens * Urban Composting * Urban Gardening in the Bay Area * Container Gardening * Homestead Design Lab * Fruit Trees * Seed-saving * Food Preservation * Wine-making * Disaster Preparedness * Beginning Herbal Medicine * Herb Growing * Teas & Tincture-making * Bee-keeping & Pollination * Making Community Meetings Fun * Solar Ovens * Mushroom Cultivation * Soap-making * Cheese-making * Candle-making * DIY green cleaning * Natural Health and Beauty * Activist Communication Skills * Water Catchment * Place-making and more! Tenative schedule here. Open space discussion during dinner from 5-6pm. Tickets: You may do one of the following: 1) If you are a current BACE Timebank member, you can donate 2 hours to Hayes Valley Farm through the Timebank. To pay Hayes Valley Farm in hours, please log into your Timebank account, then search in the search box for Hayes Valley Farm and under their logo, click "give credit", enter number of hours and "Homestead Festival". 2) You can bring cash at the door or pay on Eventbrite by credit card in advance. Kids 15 and under are free, families welcome! No refunds. Presenters and Sponsors: The BACE Timebank, Hayes Valley Farm, SF Permaculture Guild, Cohousing California, SF Urban Agriculture Alliance, PODER (SF), Occupy SF Sustainability Working Group, the Institute for Urban Homesteading, Transition SF, KitchenGarden SF, SF Bee-Cause,Just One Tree, the Connection Action Project, SF Free School, Ohlone Herbal Center, Planet Drum, Shoe Shine Wine, Urban Permaculture Institute, Connection Action Project, Rock the Bike, Briones Self-Sufficiency and Urban Homesteading Circle, Taproot Medicine, Mushroom Maestros, Canticle Farm, Tatiana Florentina Craft Almendral, Institute for Urban Homesteading, SF Bee-Cause, Kitchen Garden SF, SF Seed Library, Alemany Farm, Living Earth Structures, Urban Homesteading Institute, Ohlone Herbal Center, Mira Luna, Gabriel Cole, Jennifer Fernandez, Apryl Uncapher, the San Francisco Milk Maid, Alpha Lo, David Glaser, Urban Worm, Just One Tree, Chong Kee Tan. Please contact mira@sfbace.org for more info. Food: Arizmendi on Valencia, Rainbow Grocery Cooperative. Limited food will be available on site. Stay for dinner for a benefit for the Timebank. Thanks to Shareable.net our media sponsor.   Do you have a great Timebank Story? We want to hear it. Write to us at timebankinfo@sfbace.org and we will post it to our new blog - sfbace.org. The next Timebank Volunter meeting is on Wed. May 9th at 8pm, Noisebridge 2169 Mission St. 3rd floor SF. For meeting announcements, click on the "Calendar of Events" link on the right side of the home page, follow our Twitter feed @timebanksf, join the volunteer listserv, or contact timebankinfo@sfbace.org. The Bay Area Community Exchange Timebank is a free, regional online directory and accounting Timebank that encourages community self-help by facilitating exchanges of services and goods through trading equal hour credits. Through the Timebank, we are building a better system, a community caring network that rewards people for helping and supports an abundance of services so that everyone's needs get met regardless of their place in the socioeconomic strata. It seems like a simple act, but every time you share your skills or ask for help, a thread of relationship and trust is woven through our social fabric. This fabric is our future, it's our security blanket. Help us weave it together. Post an offer or a request today and search the directory for things you might need or might be able to offer. Thanks! This is our Timebank! Grow with us! Love, The Timebank Collective Visit the BACE Timebank today Visit the BACE Timebank on Facebook. @timebanksf