More Upcoming Workshops!

Earth Day SF @ Civic Center

Rising Roots will be hosting a workshop space within the Permaculture and DIY area of the event.

A Mobile Ecology Center and Permaculture Design Lab will host workshops throughout the day including Transforming Space: Permaculture and Direct Action.

Earth Day SF is a free event on April 20th at Civic Center Plaza in San Francisco


Join us again for Whole Earth Festival @ UC Davis quad, CA; May 10th through 12th, 2013

Whole Earth Festival:   http://wef.ucdavis.edu

Saturday, May 11th, 12 - 1 pm Transforming Space: Permaculture and Direct Action

Saturday, May 11th, 3 - 4 pm Drum Along with Thunderground Collective

Sunday, May 12th, 3 - 4 pm Permaculture Design Lab

Join Ryan Rising of Rising Roots Design at Lucidity Festival for the Mobile Ecology Center and Permaculture Design Lab, as well as a facilitated discussion on Transforming Space: Permaculture and Direct Action.

http://lucidityfestival.com/workshops/ryan-rising/

Scheduled Workshops

• Mobile Ecology Center & Permaculture Design Lab
  Day: Friday, Saturday, Sunday | Duration: 3 min. | Location: Family Garden

  The Mobile Ecology Center is a space that can be created anywhere at anytime and consists of blankets and tapestries and snacks; a full library of books on ecology, permaculture, organic gardening, and holistic arts and sciences, and a seed library of hundreds of species of organic and heirloom seeds. The Permaculture Design Lab allows you to put what you learn from the discussions, workshops, and books into practice and offers an array of tools, drawing boards, paper, pencils, rulers, & stencils. Draw a design for your imagined garden, select edible, medicinal, and other useful species, analyze how the elements will move through your landscape, and take your plan home to create space. A certified permaculture designer will be on hand to guide you through the process and answer questions.

• Transforming Space: Permaculture and Direct Action
  Day: Sunday | Duration: 60 min. | Location: Family Garden

  Transforming Space: Permaculture and Direct Action will be a discussion about transforming urban space. From liberating busy city streets to allow the human movement of dance, to emancipating the earth below our feet for growing food, this conversation will explore the many ways in which we can create environments that foster community, ecology, and vitality, right in the concrete jungle. Come here stories from the occupy farm, renegade festivals, the struggle to save neighborhood gardens, and politically-active tent cities, and share some of your own. We'll talk about future plans for a regional Village Building Convergence and the creation of greenhouses, plant nurseries, urban farms, and accessible kitchens in each and every square mile of the places we inhabit."

Workshop Locations

• Family Workshops

Lucidity Festival will be held at Live Oak Campground in Santa Barbara, April 12-14, 2013

http://lucidityfestival.com

Rising Roots participates in 1 Billion Rising: Dance Through the Streets for a Culture of Consent

We will gather at Dolores Park between 11am and 1pm to listen to live bands and DJs, share food, and make signs. At 1pm we will dance our way through the Mission calling on people to leave work and school in a global strike against rape culture. When we reach 16th and Mission we will cover the ground with art and inspirational messages and dance in the streets. We will then continue to Civic Center/City Hall where we will join the flashmob and other festivities. 

We are coming together for a healing process and creating space that fosters both joy and sadness, love and anger, art and action.  We will be calling for people to leave their schools and workplaces as we pass by buildings in San Francisco and join this global strike against rape culture.  We stand for a culture of consent.  

We will gather at Dolores Park between 11am and 1pm to listen to live bands and DJs, share food, and make signs. At 1pm we will dance our way through the Mission calling on people to leave work and school in a global strike against rape culture. When we reach 16th and Mission we will cover the ground with art and inspirational messages and dance in the streets. We will then continue to Civic Center/City Hall where we will join the flashmob and other festivities. 

https://www.facebook.com/events/343246352456261/

http://www.onebillionrising.org/page/event/detail/startarising/4jjgg

www.onebillionrising.org

www.herrising.org


Find us throughout the day by searching:
#MissionRising
#1BillionMission
or follow
@RisingRoots
on twitter



11am - 1pm @ Dolores Park (18th and Dolores)
*DJ RyuRy:
https://www.facebook.com/ryanryury

*DJ Subversive / Ian Bender
https://www.facebook.com/ian.bender.127?ref=ts&fref=ts

*Craig Rouskey Music
https://www.facebook.com/crouskey?fref=ts

*Thunderground Collective
https://www.facebook.com/thundergroundcollective?fref=ts

Cricket Suess
https://www.facebook.com/Suessical?fref=ts

DJ Domitrio

1pm-4pm: Dance Through the Mission

4pm: One Billion Rising: San Francisco City Hall
http://www.onebillionrising.org/page/event/detail/startarising/4jvwj

5:30pm: One Billion Rising Bay Area Flash Mob
http://www.onebillionrising.org/page/event/detail/startarising/wrg4

                                                                    ###

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Ryan Rising 
201-388-2367 
RootsRhizing@GMail.com

ONE BILLION RISING: (Dance Through the Streets for a Culture of Consent) 

(Mission Rising) JOINS GLOBAL CAMPAIGN - ONE BILLION RISING - TO STOP VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS

February 14, 2013 to be V-Days Largest Day of Action Ever

February 14, 2013, Mission Rising: On February 14, 2013, at 11a.m., Mission Rising will join with activists around the world for ONE BILLION RISING, the largest day of action in the history of V-Day, the global activist movement to end violence against women and girls.

ONE BILLION RISING began as a call to action based on the staggering statistic that 1 in 3 women on the planet will be beaten or raped during her lifetime. With the world population at 7 billion, this adds up to more than ONE BILLION WOMEN AND GIRLS. On February 14, 2013, V-Days 15th anniversary, Mission Rising will join activists, writers, thinkers, celebrities, and women and men across the world as we express their outrage, demand change, strike, dance, and RISE in defiance of the injustices women suffer, demanding an end at last to violence against women. 

When we started V-Day 14 years ago, we had the outrageous idea that we could end violence against women, said Ensler. Now, we are both stunned and thrilled to see that this global action is truly escalating and gaining force, with union workers, parliament members, celebrities, and women of all backgrounds coming forward to join the campaign. When we come together on February 14, 2013 to demand an end to violence against women and girls it will be a truly global voice that will rise up. 

We will gather at Dolores Park between 11am and 1pm to listen to live bands and DJs, share food, and make signs. At 1pm we will dance our way through the Mission calling on people to leave work and school in a global strike against rape culture. When we reach 16th and Mission we will cover the ground with art and inspirational messages and dance in the streets. We will then continue to Civic Center/City Hall where we will join the flashmob and other festivities.

# # #
About One Billion Rising
One in three women on the planet is raped or beaten in her lifetime. That is ONE BILLION WOMEN violated. One billion daughters, mothers, grandmothers, sisters, lovers and friends. On 14th February 2013, V-Day's 15th Anniversary, we are inviting ONE BILLION women and those who love them to WALK OUT, DANCE, RISE UP, and DEMAND an end to this violence. ONE BILLION RISING will move the earth, activating women and men to dance across every country. V-Day wants the world to see our collective strength, our numbers and our solidarity across borders. Join V-Day and ONE BILLION RISING today and SAY NO to violence against women and girls. To sign up and learn more, visit www.onebillionrising.org

About V-Day
V-Day is a global activist movement to end violence against women and girls that raises funds and awareness through benefit productions of Playwright/Founder Eve Ensler's award winning play The Vagina Monologuesand other artistic works. In 2012, over 5,800 V-Day benefit events took place produced by volunteer activists in the U.S. and around the world, educating millions of people about the reality of violence against women and girls. To date, the V-Day movement has raised over $90 million and educated millions about the issue of violence against women and the efforts to end it, crafted international educational, media and PSA campaigns, reopened shelters, and funded over 14,000 community-based anti-violence programs and safe houses in Democratic Republic of Congo, Haiti, Kenya, South Dakota, Egypt and Iraq. Over 300 million people have seen a V-Day benefit event in their community. V-Day has received numerous acknowledgements including Worth Magazine's 100 Best Charities, Marie Claire Magazine's Top Ten Charities, one of the Top-Rated organizations on Philanthropedia/Guidestar and Great Nonprofits. V-Day's newest campaign is ONE BILLION RISING which will culminate on 021413 with a global action worldwide. www.vday.org

To learn more about V‑Day (Mission Rising), call (201) 388-2367 or e-mail the organization at RootsRhizing@gmail.com. To learn more about V‑Day and its campaigns visitwww.vday.org

# # #

https://www.facebook.com/events/343246352456261/

http://www.onebillionrising.org/page/event/detail/startarising/4jjgg

www.onebillionrising.org

www.herrising.org

Find us throughout the day by searching:
#MissionRising
#1BillionMission 
or follow
@RisingRoots
on twitter

11am - 1pm @ Dolores Park (18th and Dolores)
*DJ RyuRy: 
https://www.facebook.com/ryanryury

*DJ Subversive / Ian Bender
https://www.facebook.com/ian.bender.127?ref=ts&fref=ts

*Craig Rouskey Music
https://www.facebook.com/crouskey?fref=ts

*Thunderground Collective 
https://www.facebook.com/thundergroundcollective?fref=ts

Cricket Suess
https://www.facebook.com/Suessical?fref=ts

DJ Domitrio

1pm-4pm: Dance Through the Mission

4pm: One Billion Rising: San Francisco City Hall
http://www.onebillionrising.org/page/event/detail/startarising/4jvwj

5:30pm: One Billion Rising Bay Area Flash Mob
http://www.onebillionrising.org/page/event/detail/startarising/wrg4

###

Harvesting Roots and Rooftop Terracing

These roots were harvested from the Permaculture Army house garden in Berkeley November 11, 2012.  Roots can be a bountiful harvest well into the fall with medicinal and nutritive properties.

Roots Risen - Top: Burdock root; Left: Jerusalem Artichoke; Right: Oca

Burdock Root, or Arctium, has a taproot that is eaten as a vegetable.  The immature flower stalks can also be eaten and are harvested in late spring before flowers appear.  Burdock is considered medicinally as a diuretic, diaphoretic, and blood purifying agent.  

Jerusalem Artichoke, knows as Helianthus Tuberosus, is a sunflower species known for its perennial edible root tuber.  Roots can be eaten raw, cooked, or made into pasta.  The plant is a prolific grower and will spread from where it is planted.

Oca, or Oxalis Tuberosa, is a perennial with edible tubers.  The roots are crisp when raw or starchy when cooked.  

All these roots can be harvested in mid-late fall and the Jerusalem Artichoke can be transplanted to new gardens by breaking off and planting a piece of the root beneath the soil.

One root node was brought to the rooftop gardens at Make Harmony Kitchen and Community Center in the Bayview/Hunter's Point district where it was planted with kale starts from the Gill Tract Farm.  The community center is working with others to host a meeting about food justice within the neighborhood Tuesday, November 13th at Boudreaux's Cafe on 3d Street between Revere and Quesada.  The working group plans to bring together projects already happening in the district to increase food sovereignty and community resiliency and start some new initiatives toward greater self-sufficiency and community interdependence.  

A quick way to terrace a sloped roof with repurposed wood, and even the old nails!

Rising Roots and Space Transformers built these terracing platforms on a sloped concrete roof at Make Harmony Kitchen.  The terracing allows for greater even growing surface and the sloped roof drains to a gutter that can be intercepted with water collection barrels to reuse water draining from the planters and to catch rain water that falls on the roof.  A cob oven is also in the design phase and will function as a wood-fired oven for baking breads outside of the kitchen.  Cobb is a mixture of sand, clay, straw, and water that is like adobe, resistant to fire, and a great conductor of heat.  

Check out this page on how to turn a pallet into a vertical garden!

http://lifeonthebalcony.com/how-to-turn-a-pallet-into-a-garden/

Travel and land-based education

Rising Roots Design spent the summer of 2011 establishing a native perennial forest garden at Prospect Rock Permaculture, in Johnson VT.  This 40-acre farm and educational center is an alluvial floodplain along the Lamoille River, and the purpose of this project was to establish perennial root systems along the river edge to reduce soil loss and control erosion, while encouraging successional regrowth of a forest ecology.  Hundreds of useful and edible shrubs and trees were planted, including Sugar and Silver Maples, Bur Oak, Chestnut, Hazelnut, Black Locust, Red, White, and Italian Alders, Hawthorn, Gooseberry, High and Low bush Blueberry, Hardy Kiwis, Beach Plums, and more.

For pictures of this project, as well as the yurt-raising and construction, check out and like our facebook page!  Rising Roots Design

Rising Roots also traveled to various music and arts festivals around the northeast to discuss event sustainability, set up compost and recycling centers, and teach workshops on composting and wild useful plant identification.  It was an educational blast! Check out more information and photos through links below!

Liberate VT, music, arts, and yoga festival
The Big Up 2011, Ghent NY

Rising Roots Design wins First Honorable Mention

A design created by Meagan Lynch from Rising Roots Design was announced as the First Honorable Mention for the Syracuse Community Permaculture Design Open Contest. The designs were submitted to the Alchemical Nursery to develop a Free Snack Garden for the Rahma Health Clinic in Syracuse, NY. For the complete story, please visit:
http://www.alchemicalnursery.org/news/370-edible-forest-snack-garden-design-chosen.html