What’s Happening with the Kaw Permaculture Collaborative?
During 2010 at least four of our members have initiated projects that have involved collaborative efforts from members of our community.
In May Steve Moring, Maryam Hjersted and Charles NovoGradac were awarded a USDA/SARE farmer- rancher group grant to create demonstration and teaching sites for application of agroforestry and the creation of edible forest gardens.
At Maryam Hjersted’s Prairie Lovesong Farm we are creating a food forest from an old dairy pasture.
At Steve Moring’s Vajra Farm we are transforming an early-succession brush and patch mosaic woodland into fruit and nut tree food forest.
At Charles NovoGradac Fruit and Nut tree farm (aka “Chestnut Charlie’s”), we are teaching our permaculture students how to plant saplings, graft, prune and care for mature producing trees.
In the Kansas City Area, Daniel Dermitzel of the Kansas City Center for Urban Agriculture has received a conservation fellowship from the Audubon Society to create a forest garden system.