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Kenneth Ayars
ALT’s 18th Annual Meeting
Thursday, January 31, 2008 at 6pm-8pm
Ken came to Portsmouth, Rhode Island in 1972. Graduating
from URI with a BS in Zoology and a BS in Agriculture in 1983, and an MS in
Agriculture 1985, he has been with the Rhode Island Division of Agriculture
since 1987 in various capacities involving pesticide regulation, farmland
protection and farm ecology issues. Appointed Chief of the Division of
Agriculture in 1998 he has focused in particular on farm viability initiatives
and farmland protection. He will be discussing the state of agriculture in Rhode
Island, the importance of local agriculture, and the critical role land trusts
play in the farm viability equation. . Space is limited,
so click here to RSVP to attend.
Tchin
Miantonomi Memorial Park, Newport, RI
Saturday, May 24, 2008 at 4pm-6pm
Tchin is a nationally known, multi-award winning,
multitalented Blackfoot/Narragansett artist. He was born in Norfolk, Virginia
and lived in rural Virginia and Rhode Island where he received his early
schooling. He attended the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New
Mexico and graduated from Rhode Island School of Design with a Bachelor of Fine
Arts Degree. He is an accomplished metalsmith, author, flutemaker, educator,
lecturer, folklorist, musician, entertainer and clothes maker, as well as a
great father to his four beautiful daughters. Tchin will do a traditional Native
American storytelling and flute playing presentation about the Earth. . Space is limited,
so click here to RSVP to attend.
Tom Wessels
Greenvale Vineyards & Oakland Forest and Meadow Preserve, Portsmouth, RI
Saturday, September 13 at 9am-1pm
Tom Wessels is an ecologist and founding director of the
master’s degree program in Conservation Biology at Antioch University New
England. He is former chair of the
Robert and Patricia Switzer Foundation that fosters environmental leadership
through graduate fellowships and organizational grants. Tom has been conducting
landscape level workshops throughout the United States for over 30 years. His
books include: Reading the Forested Landscape, The Granite Landscape, Untamed
Vermont, and The Myth of Progress: Toward a Sustainable Future. Tom’s
presentation, based on his work Reading the Forested Landscape, will start at
Greenvale Vinyards and end with a walk through the Oakland Forest and Meadow
Preserve. It introduces people to approaches used to interpret a forest’s
history while wandering through it. Using evidence such as the shapes of trees,
scars on their trunks, the pattern of decay in stumps, the construction of stone
walls, and the lay of the land, it is possible to unravel complex stories etched
into our forested landscape. This process could easily be called forest
forensics, since it is quite similar to interpreting a crime scene. . Space is limited,
so click here to RSVP to attend.
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