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NewsVisit our Blog or Facebook for more detailed news and announcements! 10.20.2012Fall is in full swing and the weather is cooling off in Florida. This fall Simple Living Institute will be tabling at Central Florida VegFest and Winter Park Harvest Festival. Please volunteer to help man our outreach tables. Our organization is only as great as the people involved who contribute their valuable time and efforts to our mission of educating people about sustainable living practices. We are also currently looking for new board members to help "steer" the organization and help us maximize our impact in the community. Please contact is if you are interested in helping in an organizational capacity as a volunteer or board member.07.18.2012We had a great panel of experts to discuss seed saving at our Organic Growers Meeting. Panelists included Tom Carey of Sundew Gardens, Nick Francisco of Blodgett Gardens, Hayri Lawrence of Nurturing Nature, Jonathan Winfrey of Organic Sanctuary, and Russ Rice of Backyard City Slickers. The panelists discussed practical information on how to plant seeds and how to save seeds. Were getting ready for our Annual Seed Exchange next month in August and looking for volunteers to help out with the seed sorting to prepare for the exchange. Extra volunteers are also needed at the Seed Exchange event on Wednesday August 15th at 7pm. View our Organic Growers Meeting page for more info and to view our Seed Exchange Guidelines.04.23.2012Summer is almost here and the peaches are ripening! Come to our free Organic Growers Meeting held every month on the 3rd Wednesday from 7-9pm at Leu Gardens. Our May speaker will be teaching us about Growing Peaches and we hope to have our local peach grower come with their peach harvest to sell. Were also getting ready for the Winter Garden Harvest Festival where Simple Living Institute's educational partners will be giving free gardening workshops on topics including worm composting, cover crops, plant propagation, square foot gardening, and growing fruits for Florida.03.17.2012Spring has sprung! Join Simple Living Institute for this years spring gardening season to help at our Garden Start-up event at the Apopka Family Learning Center where we will be helping to install a new garden bed. Were also getting ready for Earth Day! Join us at the Earth Day celebration at Lake Eola Park and help volunteer to man our booth.01.02.2012Happy New Year! It is time for all members to renew your membership for 2012 - please visit our membership renewal page to renew online or by mail. Not yet a member? Join now! Membership is the best way to support our efforts. We are a 501c3 non-profit, and your membership dues may be tax-deductible.
11.29.2011Our Central Florida Local Food Guide is fresh off the presses! Pick your copy up at any of our events - see our calendar for upcoming dates and locations, or download the electronic version (.pdf) now. The Local Food Guide is also available bundled with the December issue of Edible Orlando Magazine at select locations; please contact us to learn more!09.30.2011The fall 2011 Permaculture Design Course is in full swing! Twelve students converged at Econ Farm to begin a journey into “permanent agriculture”. The first class begun with an outdoor meditation led by Richard Powell, Tia Meer introduced permaculture principals and ethics and co-instructor Summer Singletary introduced biomimicry. The day culminated in the building of a spiral herb garden. The second class delved into Broadscale Site Design with input from co-instructor Natasha MacIntosh. Learn more and connect on our Permaculture page.06.28.2011We are in the final stages of completing the Central Florida Local Food Guide. The Guide is a comprehensive directory of farms, farmers’ market and community gardens for six east Central Florida counties (Brevard, Lake, Orange, Osceola, Seminole and Volusia). Publication of the Guide was made possible by the following sponsors: Our Vital Earth, Winter Park Harvest Festival, Winter Park Health Foundation, Simply Well, and three Central Florida Unitarian Universalist churches; First Unitarian, University Unitarian Universalist and Mosaic. We welcome you to attend our Organic Growers Meeting on July 20, 7 p.m., at Leu Gardens to hear details from Project Director Andrew Landis.06.15.2011This spring our first Permaculture Design Course was taught in Orlando with Bradford White and Terry and Tia Meer at the Econ Farm. The first round of permaculture graduates have named themselves the Bootyberry Guild and formed the Orlando Permaculture Guild. Check for our meet ups on the The Orlando Permaculture MeetUp Group Check out the YouTube video of our Spring 2011 Permaculture Design Course videotaped by John VonMutius, videographer and author of the blog With Respect to Food. Learn more and connect on our Permaculture page. 4.23.2011Happy Earth Day! Our precious Earth is very delicate and valuable to us. Do something to help the Earth to celebrate Earth Day. Some suggestions from Simple Living Institute:Be conscious of your impacts on the Earth. Grow a garden. Plant a tree, Turn off lights when not in use. Use rain barrels to help conserve water. Use reusable containers. Reduce, ReUse, Recycle. Send us your Earth Day tips and resolutions! Together we can make a difference. 3.14.2011Spring is abound! Simple Living Institute helped with the garden start up at the Orlando Day Nursery in partnership with Disney, KaBoom, I.D.E.A.S. and other community organizations. Over 200 people attended, it was a huge success! Tom Carey of Sundew Gardens, spoke at our Organic Growers meeting, one of the take-aways was "just get started gardening with what you have". We are participating in many community awareness events. Visit us on Saturday at Eco Orlando at the Fashion Square Mall with CBS Radio Orlando (Mix 105.1, 105.9 Sunny FM and 102 Jamz). Sunday we will be at the Orlando Junior Academy's "Open Garden" event where Stephanie Syson, Gray's Garden, is going to talk about gardening. Remember to visit our events pages frequently to check all the new and exciting happenings. Earth Day is just around the corner and Simple Living Institute will be out enjoying the weather stop by and say Hello!!! If you are interested in Simple Living Institute participating in YOUR upcoming event contact us now.1.31.2011Spring is here! (In Florida at least) Time to get planting in the garden. Come to our Seed Exchange to trade or buy seeds, 50 cents a pack. We will have gardening experts at each table and a great variety of Florida specific seeds. If you are bringing seeds to trade please prepackage them in small envelopes have a minimum of 25 seeds per pack.12.1.2010The Winter Park Whole Foods store has selected us as the non-profit to be the recipient of their 5% Day in December. Shop and support Simple living Institute, Inc. on Wednesday December 8th between 8am and 10pm. we will be on site tabling and presenting gardening and cooking demonstrations from 11am to 7pm. Stock up on bulk foods and staples and do your holiday shopping at Winter Park Whole Foods on December 8th! Funds raised will be used for our programs.View older news updates. |
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