As our loyal readers know, the city of Ojai adopted an updated exterior light ordinance in August 2013, and the Coalition has been helping the city with outreach to residents. Recently, the focus has turned to businesses.
Summer Food Preservation Series
Summer Food Preservation Series
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Saturday, July 26 – Fermenting with Michelle Dohrn
Course and teacher information here.
Saturday, August 16 – Canning with Christa Bandringa
Course and teacher information here.
Saturday, September 6 – Dehydrating with Risa Horowitz
Course and teacher information here.
All demonstration courses will be held 10:45 am to 1 pm in the Meiners Oaks area, and space is limited to 18 attendees per class.
OVGC Members
– $35 per course / $90 for all 3 courses
Non-members
– $40 per course / $105 for all 3 courses
July e-News on Stands Now
• Food Preservation Series Starts July 26
• First Five Businesses to Receive Dark Sky Award
• Green Living Home Tour & Show Calling for Sponsors, Exhibitors and Sites
• Meet Dulanie Ellis Our Food News Editor
Read e-News Here
August e-News on Stands
• Food Preservation Series: Course #2 Canning on August 16
• Waking Up to Water
• Green Living Home Tour & Show Calling for Sponsors, Exhibitors and Sites
• Help Wanted
Read e-News Here
Do You Know Dulanie Ellis, Editor of our Food News?
This month we’re honoring a longtime activist in Ojai’s local food movement, Dulanie Ellis. Dulanie shares, “my passion for food and agriculture developed as a result of moving to Ventura County and falling in love with the farmland. I realized if we weren’t careful and if we didn’t protect it, we would lose this rural quality of life.”
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Thursday, Sept 11: Restoring Nature with Regenerative Agriculture
Restoring Nature with Regenerative Agriculture: Creating Resilient Farms, Landscapes and Communities
An evening presentation and panel discussion with Darren Doherty and John Roulac.
Thursday, Sept. 11 – 7:00 to 9:00 pm
Ojai Valley Woman’s Club – 441 E. Ojai Ave.
Sponsored by 
with support from The Ojai Foundation, Center for Regenerative Agriculture and Santa Barbara Permaculture Network.
Ojai is pleased to host Darren J. Doherty (left) and his Regrarians 2014 World Tour with a Thursday night community presentation and a regenerative agriculture professional development course at the Ojai Foundation.
Joining Darren Thursday will be John Roulac, founder and CEO of Nutiva,
speaking on the future of carbon farming. Learn about the direct link of climate change, oceans as a store house of carbon, acidification of oceans, and how organic farming and pasture systems store carbon in our soils.
Panelist
Darren J. Doherty, Bendigo Farmer and Developer
Steve Bennett, Ojai Valley County Supervisor Representative
Mary Bergen, Ranch Manager and Avocado Grower
Connor Jones, Permaculture Farmer
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Food News Summer Edition
Advancing the growing, purchasing, and preserving of local organic food
• Food News Goes Quarterly
• Fermentation Festival
• Ojai Food Co-op Update
• Take Action to Save Bees
Read Your Food News Here
Saturday, Sept 20: Ojai Creek Cleanup Day
VALLEY RESIDENTS INVITED TO JOIN IN ANNUAL OJAI CREEK CLEANUP DAY
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On Saturday, September 20, from 9 A.M. through noon, the Ojai Valley Green Coalition invites the public to join them and the Ventura Countywide Coalition for Coastal and Inland Waterways. That morning, participants will remove and record litter from Ojai Creek running through Libbey Park. Ojai volunteers are asked to sign in at 8:45 A.M. at the Libbey Park lower tennis court parking lot off S. Montgomery St. in Ojai.
Please wear sturdy shoes and we recommend bringing your own gloves. We will provide rubber gloves.
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