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Hello
Welcome to the monthly Quinta Update for February. This month:
- Gathering Update: Which gatherings still welcome applications?
- Quinta Community Call: Doubtfull Forms - Darwin's Origin of Species
- Cook Along: Can Cabbage be sweet (and taste good)? Let's try it!
- Queer Permies Café: Capture and Store Energy
- Book Club: Summer will show
- Quinta Update: Last Month at the Quinta
- Volunteering: Available Dates
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But first: Can you guess which Quinta-related term (and related to Quinta's January Update) is this?
Thanks to Nathalie for the rebus! The solution will be in next month's newsletter!
Last month's solution was: Queer Ecology!
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Quinta Community Call
Thursday, 16 February @ 19:30 UTC
Doubtful Forms - Darwin’s Origin of Species what we think we know, and what we might have missed….
Darwin’s book grew to be a “theory of everything” of its time, challenging the orthodox fixed view of nature at the time. Frequently misinterpreted, and maligned the Book and Darwin’s work provides a framework for thinking about the natural world, and the impact it had tells us much about societies reaction to radical ideas.
With Tom Blower: Tom grew up with a deep fascination with the natural world. Graduating from Oxford with a degree in Zoology, Tom participated in expeditions to the deserts of India and the rainforests of Borneo. He has continued to learn supplementing his working career with further qualifications in Environmental Sciences, Adult Education & Development. He has lived and worked in Asia, the Middle East, London, and Sussex, where he currently lives. A qualified executive coach, Tom helps people change through dialogue, experience and sharing insight. In all things he has tried to understand how systems work through balancing certainty with possibility and variability. Key to his understanding of the world around us has been the framework of evolution – the causes of what is, and the emergence of what could be.
Link to join the meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85806832782?pwd=Q0prcUYzQXlYbFh1bHk2ZTB2eldoQT09 |
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Cook Along:
Sugary Cabbage, trust me!
Tuesday, 21 February @ 18:30 UTC
The Food Pod invites you to an evening of celebrating seasonal produce from the Quinta - wherever you are in the world! We will prepare a meal together (see ingredients below) and then enjoy it together.
Winter is definitely cabbage season. We have red, white and leafy cabbages galore at the Quinta. So for this CookAlong and Quinta meal, we chose to prepare white cabbage!
To join, buy the ingredients listed below. On the day, we will then connect over Zoom to cook the meal together. After that we eat the prepared food together ... and enjoy some Quinter company for the meal!
Ingredients for February:
1 white cabbage (approx 600g)
1 onion
300g pasta (lasagne sheets work best, but farfalle is also great)
cumin
sugar
salt & pepper
The ingredients are for roughly 2 portions.
Register and join here:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMrduqsqTMuGtzVp8VPiBFHZ2Ynfbmt_gwq
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Queer Permies Café
Monday, 13 February @ 18:00 UTC
Join us to explore, co-create and learn from each other at our monthly queer* permies get-together. This month we will explore the second permaculture principle: Capture and Store energy. How can we bring it to life and what it means to us? How can we apply permaculture principles to both our practice on the land and in life?
Register and join here:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZElcequpzMrGdVFByeNhAGsQkdGj2gC_e_4
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Book Club
Monday, 27 February @ 19:30 UTC
At the February Book Club we will be talking about Summer will show, by Sylvia Townsend Warner.
In March we will be talking about The Rose King (Der Rosenkönig) by Werner Schröter, which is filmed in Portugal. And in April our book of the month will be Neil Bartlett's Address Book
Register and join here:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcocOqvrDksHNWLiy3T7Zb3y_l9lNoHM6pi
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January at the Quinta
January was a busy month at the Quinta. We planted, cleared, prepared, cooked and had lots of fun. Find out what all happened by reading the January Update here.
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Volunteering: Available Dates
The next dates for volunteering at the Quinta are:
4-12 April - Bed preparation in the vegetable garden
1 - 5 May - Preparation for the gatherings
N.B. there are building works going on at the main house which may mean some disruption.
For more information and more available dates please see here: https://quintaproject.org/volunteering/. |
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