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August 2008
Public Access
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- Time:
- 9:00am - 3:00pm
- Description:
- Rochester Folk Art Guild Upper Hill Road Middlesex (off Rt. 364)
Selection, maintenance, demonstration and use of single bit axe, double bit axe, hewing axe, hewing dogs, crosscut saw, wedges, Swede saw, adz, bettle, froe and draw shave. After instruction and demonstration, participants will, using the above tools, fell a tree, buck the tree into log lengths, hew the logs into beams, and smooth the hewn logs with adz and draw shave. Participants may bring their own tools if they wish. Dress for the weather; bring a bag lunch. Marty Dodge is the present coach of the FLCC Woodsmen’s Team, a professional lumberjack, and Professor at FLCC.
Marty has built dozens of log structures. Please register ahead by contacting Marty Dodge at odgemc@flcc.edu or call him at 585-394-6991. Limited to 12 persons . Donations accepted.
- Time:
- 6:00pm - 8:00pm
- Description:
- South Wedge Farmers Market (SWFM), corner of Clinton Ave. S & Alexander St. Rochester
A roundtable discussion around key issues of sustainable community development and the individual, social, economic, and ecological health of our neighborhoods. Topics include: walking communities, social networking, community organizing and localized food systems. Facilitators are Chris & Vicki Hartman, cofounders/ co-managers of the SWFM, and Ben Munson, a member of the Wedge Planning Board and is organizer of a Wifi network in the Wedge to bridge and bring sustainable business to the neighborhood, who with his partner, Kristin Cox, shares a vision of an urban sustainable living center. Contact: Hartman’s at 585-546-7507 or chris@swfarmersmarket.org — Munson at 585-415-6330 benmunson@gmail.com — Donations accepted.
- Time:
- 6:00pm - 8:00pm
- Description:
- South Wedge Farmers Market Forum Tent Visioning and strategizing what such a Center might be with alternative building, energy, land use, food production, transportation and more.
Contact Alison Clarke at accompost@gmail.com
SWFM forum tent located at the corner of Clinton Ave. & Alexander Street, Rochester, NY
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