VbC Needs Forum Feb. 16th 6-8pm at the Kellog-Hubbard Library
We are currently looking for projects to highlight and support for VbC 2010. Please contact us for an RFP to bring to the Needs Forum on Feb 16th.
For the VbC_final.pdf click here. This is a flyer for the event.
For the VbCProjectsRFP_1.23.doc click here. This is the request for proposals.
August 14-22, the greater Montpelier area will come alive with a community-wide celebration of sustainable living, practical homesteading skills, and visions of a more resilient local community. The VbC is 9-day event filled with hands-on education in permaculture design and construction, ecological building, and public art that will extend and celebrate the Great Reskilling of our communities embodied in these projects. All projects are built through collaboration and the commitment of a neighborhood to strengthen itself.
The VbC is a volunteer run grassroots organization. Most events are free and open to the public.
Each day of the week will focus on our basic needs and how we can create more resilient patterns as we transition into new relationships with economy, ecology, and community. Projects are geared towards developing strong local relationships, social capital, place-making, ecological design, and supporting our local economy. In these changing times, we support the vision of “Transition Towns”: developing our city and bioregion as a network of interconnected and resilient village centers.
Here are some samples of the 34 projects and workshops from the VbC09 schedule:
Build an Earthen Oven in Adamant * Help Install a Rain Garden at Hunger Mountain Coop * Absorb Local Wisdom Through Elder Stories * Discover Home-Scale Mushroom Culture * Tour Some Stellar Gardens in Your Neighborhood * Learn More about Natural Building * Build Your Plant Propagation Skills * Walk Your Neighborhood and Tune in to Wild Edible and Medicinal Plants * Find out What it Takes to Make a Root Cellar * Get Introduced to Nonviolent Communication * Raise Your Voice in a Community Songshare * Bring an Instrument and Jam out with Fellow Transitioneers
Thank you to our 09 sponsors:
Northeast Grassroots Environmental Fund – Transition Montpelier – Winooski Valley Permaculture Collective
Transition Worcester, The Capitol City Grange, Trinity Church and the Lamb Abbey.
Want to get involved? Have questions? Send one of the organizers a line using the contact form below!
For questions during the event, call Ben Graham 802-454-1167