Black Oaks Center for Sustainable Renewable Living

Grow Your Own Medicine

2011-02-28T14:22:00.000-08:00

Grassroots Herbal Healthcare Presents

Grow Your Own Medicine:

30 Herbs that Anyone can Grow Anywhere

to Treat an Array of Maladies

William Siff, L.Ac, Herbalist

Goldthread Farm & Apothecary of Conway Mass.

Medicines cost too much?

Want to get well naturally without drug side affects?

Want to learn how to grow your medicines?

Want to learn the healing properties of herbs from seed to harvest?

herbalist, acupuncturist, students, gardeners

the novice & the healers

don't miss this first in a series of workshops on bringing plant medicines back to the people

Saturday March 19, 2011

2-5 p.m.

$25 for student & $50 for adult donations

proceeds go towards Black Oaks Center Rotating Apprenticeships and Seeds for a Future $80,000 Challenge

Whitney Young High School

211 South Laflin Street

Chicago, Illinois 60607-5397

seats are limited so register now!

To register follow the these steps:

1. click on comments for this blog post.

2. Type in your name and any specific interest you would like to have addressed during the workshop

3 confirm you registration by donating at least $25 of you are a student of the healing arts and $50 for adults who are not students

click: http://www.blackoakscenter.org/donate

William Siff is an experienced herbalist and acupuncturist. He treats patients and make medicines using his knowledge of Chinese, Folk and Aryuvedic Medicine. He holds a Masters Degree from the Southwest Acupuncture College. He is nationally certified as a Chinese Herbalist and is a professional member of the American Herbalist Guild.

Goldthread is a medicinal herb farm, apothecary and educational center with a distillery, seed sharing and herbal CSA to make herbal healthcare community based, affordable, accessible, organic and sustainable. To learn more about Goldthread Farm and Apothecary, Community Projects and Internships go to http://www.goldthreadapothecary.com/

2008-01-30T12:43:00.000-08:00

Oil scarcity has snuck up on us, I jest drop my son off at school today as a parent we all like to have our children prepare for the future. But the future that I'm looking at as it unfolds before mean as one that I'm not sure how to prepare my son for. How do we educate our children for a future that has less resources than I grew up with. This is a powerful article about oil crisis and the impact it is going to have on my life and if you are looking forward this something that I think we all need to stop a consider on how we going to address the problem on a personal, family, community or your business level.http://www.mbtmag.com/articlexml/ln.html

In 1970 the club of Rome identified the problem we are facing and name it"The world problematiu".

The real problem is growth: growth in human numbers, growth in human activities, growth inherent consumption. The problem is that we have not invested in the system that sustains life. The collapse of community is because we have not invested in resource to improve the quality of our lives.

The problems are interlocked, trying to fix one problem makes the other ones worse.
The perfect storm consists of three converging storm fronts:
1. Ecological collapse, driven by the depletion of natural resources and climate change.
2. Energy shortages, driven by Peak oil and natural gas.
3. Economic destabilization driven by American debt loads and a complex and unstable and unsustainable global financial system.

The question is how do we move forward in a way that would sustain our personal and family and community life in the face of all crises that are happening and unfolding as we look at world.

Let's talk everybody what are we going to do how I going to live how do we move forward personally family in a business.

Peak everything.

2008-01-15T18:59:00.000-08:00

Life beyond tomorrow, today I read a wonderful article.
The title of the article is called Peak everything. It's amazing how today the CEO of General Motors has publicly stated that Peak oil is here and that we need to start making electric car's. The world that I live in each day does not allow me enough time the leisure to look up for my survival mode and see the broader problems that are facing my family, and community. The resource depletion does occur in all the resources from water, land, air, oil and natural gas, are starting to show in the world on a day-to-day basis. I think this is a great article please read.www.richardheinberg.com/musletter/185.

I have developed a deeper understanding of the problem that we all are facing in the not-too-distant future of i hop that you also gain some insight and how we can begin to change and prepare our families and our self .

Thank you
Fred

Black Oaks Winter Newsletter

2008-01-07T10:15:00.000-08:00

The Black Oaks Winter Newsletter has just been released!

Please click on the link below to download the pdf file.
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Prosperous way down

2008-01-05T07:57:00.000-08:00

Hi everyone
I think that we have the solution , how we can address climate change and resource depletion by going back and looking at what our grandparents use to combat the challenge of World War II.

So take a look at this article and this attachment and give some feedback because they are great too and we need to look at.http://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/200707/ecology.asp I feel that this is something we can talk about that the next meeting this month of January 2008.

Thank you
Fred Carter

Great Lake record Lows

2008-01-02T17:49:00.000-08:00

Awaken

Hello everyone one.

This is Black Oak's first article on his blog. I like everyone to respond and give me feedback and their opinion about this article ,just imagine if Lake Michigan water levels drop 50 to a 100,feet what impact would that have on lifestyle here in Chicago.http://www.environmentreport.org/story.php3?story_id=3812