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FFW 2016: Campus Tree Tour & Planting

Sponsored by:
Sustainability & Environmental Affairs
Location: Franklin Environmental Center Meet on the front porch of the Franklin Environmental Center (FEC) for the very popular Campus Tree Tour led by passionate Middlebury horticulturalist and tree expert Tim Parsons. This year, FEC is focusing on the theme Urban Innovations, Sustainable Solutions, which will include exploring connections between urban and rural. As part of the tour, Tim will explain why he manages our rural Vermont campus as an urban forest. Stick around after the tour for a tree planting, complete with hot cider and fresh local donuts.

Middlebury College

Free
Open to the Public

Addison County Candidates Forum with Small Farms and Food Producers

Sponsored by:
Sustainability & Environmental Affairs
Hosted by ACORN, Tandem and Middlebury College This Forum provides the opportunity for small farms and local food producers in Addison County to share the issues that are currently affecting them with the candidates who are running for office in November. The candidates will have a chance to introduce themselves and their platform briefly so that the public can speak to candidates from their legislative district The purpose of the forum is to encourage a supportive environment for small food and farm businesses in Addison County.

Kirk Center

Open to the Public

A Workshop for Change-makers: Connecting Earth & Community & Self

Sponsored by:
Sustainability & Environmental Affairs, Environmental Studies, and OFFICE OF SUSTAINABILITY INTEGRATION
Students, Join us for 2 hours at the farm in a workshop of experiential practices based on Joanna Macy’s “Active Hope” & “Work that Reconnects” To fruitfully commit oneself to such huge tasks in social and environmental change requires many tools. We must learn and practice ways to enrich and empower our inner selves, and go forth hopefully with intention. RSVP preferred but you can come either way sessercalvi@middlebury.edu A van will be meeting at ADK 6:15 if you do not want to walk to farm or if it is raining we will drive to Hadley Barn.

Hadley Barn

Zero Energy School Design Presentation

Sponsored by:
Sustainability & Environmental Affairs
The students in Zero Energy School Design will be presenting the results of their winter term effort to design a Zero Energy Elementary School in Middlebury, VT. We will present floor plans and site drawings as well as renderings and any of our programmatic ideas. We will discuss how the building ties in with the community and why Zero Energy is an important design goal. We will be entering our design in the Department of Energy’s Race to Zero student design competition.

Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103

Open to the Public

FFW 2017: Campus Tree Tour & Planting

Sponsored by:
Sustainability & Environmental Affairs
Location: Franklin Environmental Center (meet on Front Porch)

Join us at the Franklin Environmental Center (FEC) for the very popular Campus Tree Tour led by passionate Middlebury horticulturalist and tree expert Tim Parsons. As part of the tour, Tim will explain how he manages our rural Vermont campus as an urban forest. Stick around after the tour for a tree planting and enjoy hot cider and fresh local donuts. Meet on the front porch of FEC.

Middlebury College

Free
Open to the Public
Image of a garden with mountains in the background

Shmita: Learning Spiritually and Agriculturally from the Sabbatical Year

Sponsored by:
Sustainability & Environmental Affairs, Charles P. Scott Center for Spiritual and Religious Life, and NEW PERENNIALS PROJECT
The shmita, or sabbatical year, is a year of rest for the land and an economic resetting for society that occurred every seven years in the ancient Jewish calendar. Join us as Grace Oedel, Executive Director of Northeast Organic Farming Association of VT, Danielle Stillman, Rabbi and Associate Chaplain at Middlebury College, and Remi Welbel ‘22, co-founder of Zumwalt Acres Farm discuss the ways that shmita can be applied today and what lessons are available from thinking about cycles of rest for the land and for ourselves.

The Knoll

Open to the Public