NorCal Resilience Network

NorCal Resilience is excited to be supporting Canticle Farm's Encuentro de Abundancia, a pop-up gathering to share the gifts of spring - seedlings, seeds, herbal medicine, ferments, sourdough starters, handmade crafts, and more community-made abundance! We’ll be out front of 1977 Harrington Ave, Oakland, on Saturday May 8th from 1pm - 6pm. There will be a tour of Canticle Farm at 3pm, a discussion on the gift economy at 4pm, and an open mic at 5pm! Masks required and plenty o...f space for social distancing. We welcome the Resilience Hubs leadership training participants to this in-person skill share! In the spirit of the gift economy, you are invited to both bring and receive offerings. We know you all have gifts that can support the wider community to live in deeper reciprocity with the land, to avoid buying new things, to boost our collective resilience. If you’d like to bring a home/garden made gift, a healing modality, or something that requires table space let us know (email Robin at [email protected] by May 5th). We will also be accepting monetary donations for our neighborhood apothecary and food distribution efforts (you can also donate any time here: canticlefarmoakland.org) Bonus invitation! On Sunday May 9th we will have a special creek-tending Mother's Day work party at 11am, you are welcome to join us for this weekend of Canticle Farm festivities! Please RSVP to [email protected] if you’d like to join. See more

Please write a letter and call CA leaders asking them to support this important bill to fund resilience hubs!!

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The NorCal Resilience Network is thrilled to be supporting this exciting event happening tomorrow (April 10th), 4-6 pm. Let us come together in a multigenerational, multiethnic, and multi-faith space for community healing from Environmental Trauma. The event will include a presentation from Congresswoman Barbara Lee and Healing Circles & Community Breakout Rooms facilitated by students, clergy, and others. Presented by MOBILIZE BERKELEY and Co-Hosted by Berkeley Black Ecumenical Ministers Association, Green The Church, NorCal Resilience Network, Transition Berkeley, and UC Berkeley SERC. Register here: https://www.greenthechurch.org/registration-page-b26b0208..

Sharing this event happening this weekend to support a creek restoration! Please RSVP if you are interested: [email protected] join Canticle Farm and permaculturalist Nik Bertulis for a long weekend of creek restoration and earthen building. The East Bay used to be home to many free-flowing open creeks, that were crucial habitat for birds, fish and amphibians, as well as part of the natural cycle of water from the hills to the Bay. Restoring this tributary to th...e Peralta Creek is our part in a broader vision of watershed restoration here in Huichin, Lisjan Ohlone territory. We will be moving approximately 60 yd. from on top of a buried creek and using the earth to make a hyper adobe bench and shed. Sat, Sun we need ~10 volunteers each day for terraforming basins, wetland terraces, creek channel etc. There is plenty of space for social distancing and we do request folks wear masks whenever within 10ft of one another. Bring work boots, gloves, work clothes, strong back and lunch/water. Please RSVP to [email protected] to confirm your place, or if you have any questions See more

Join us for a daylong conference featuring some of the most exciting voices in the resiliency, transition, and permaculture movements. We are excited to welcome Kat Steele (Orcasong Institute), Maggie Seeley (Transition US), Mark Lakeman (City Repair), Sheridan Noelani Enomoto (NorCal Resilience Network), Kelli Rose Pearson (The Reimaginary) and other voices to help us envision, build, and plan for what it means to move forward in a more just and resilient way in these time...s. Stay tuned for more details and to register here https://www.orcasonginstitute.org/events/resilienceandrepair We will be posting our daylong schedule in the coming days!

NorCal Resilience would love your support on Giving Tuesday! Your funds will help this tiny (but mighty) nonprofit to thrive - raising funds for resilience hubs, capacity building and our shift to BIPOC leadership, among many other programs we are working on!

Resilience Hubs leadership training intro meeting coming up! Nov. 18th, 4-5:30. Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/resilience-hubs-leadership-tra

Please join the Indigenous Solidarity Working Group for a community conversation rethinking our individual, community and cultural practices around the Thanksgiving holiday. How do we best practice our decolonial values around the "Thanksgiving" holiday? What new rituals and practices may we need to create? How do we honor gratitude and abundance at this time while simultaneously holding the brutal history of colonization in the Americas? How do we bring our families, love...d ones, and communities together around shifting our culture and practices? We invite deep inquiry, and open ourselves to the possibility of leaving with more questions than answers. We hope you can join us. REGISTER HERE https://www.eventbrite.com/e/rethinking-thanks-taken-ticket

Learn about our upcoming leadership training~ 4-5:30 pm on Nov. 18th.

Join our relatives over at PLACE for their exciting new class series: Plant Profiles!! Launching tomorrow! This is the first class in the series Plant Profiles, led by Sage Sherlock. This class dives deep into Pokeweed which is a tall growing native, mostly toxic plant with vibrant berries and many specific uses. Sage is a nutritionist with a focus in herbalism, recently moved to Coast Miwok land.