Joelee Joyce

DAWN SouthWest

6570 W. Illinois Tucson, AZ 85735
Tel: 520 624 1673
email: dawnaz@earthlink.net

Please see our website at http://www.caneloproject.com/dawn and also at http://www.greenbuilder.com/dawn

Please see our series of classes available through Pima Community College non-credit Community Education series each semester. You can find these classe in the Pima Community College Activities booklet or go to www.pima.edu - then to community education - then to non-credit classes. Our classes are in the ‘do it yourself’ section of non-credit. Or call (520) 206-4500 for more information or to register at PCC.

We currently offer classes in gardening, shade structures, clay ovens, natural paints and plasters, and water harvesting.

DAWN SouthWest in Tucson, Arizona, a resource center for permaculture and natural building, continues its evolution as a permaculture demonstration site, including small structures built of natural materials, water harvesting systems, swales and raised pathways to help restore the desert and grow food; also see graywater & composting techniques, water gardens with their own watery ecosystems making an oasis in the desert; see an earthen bread oven and ramadas for rest and relaxation. NEW activities: with the help of friends, neighbors and local gardeners, includes native food gardens that are beginning to be a reality.

We like to provide learning experiences for all ages and interests in sustainable methods of building, gardening and living sustainably. We welcome visitors to come and browse the library, spend a day playing with cob, earthen plasters and clay paints, or water harvesting and land restoration. PERMACULTURE “Brunch”/OPEN HOUSE & MUD DAYS are held once a month (4th Saturdays - call to sign up, get times & directions). Join a workshop & experience the joys of creating small, natural buildings that reflect the owner/builder’s touch in appearance and form. We offer printed & video resources as well as natural building materials for plasters, paints and other enhancements for your site.

We continue to try to form partnerships, bringing together individuals who have the intent to build a more sustainable world, who would like to build connections and be more than each of us can be individually; and do more than each of us can do alone; we hope to provide a place where people can meet and try out old and new techniques to build a more sustainable world.

We offer opportunities for internships and work exchange for workshop participation. Call 624 1673 or email dawnaz@earthlink.net If you want updates on our workshops, events and activities that we sponsor and produce, and that of others who carry forth this spirit of cooperation and caring in this area, send your name, address and email and you will receive announcements (~quarterly or when major changes occur) - another free service from our resource center!

Support from partners and friends makes it possible to realize the vision of building relationships and weaving connections to the earth. DAWN = Developing Alliances with Nature. Special thanks for the generosity and talents of Athena & Bill Steen of The Canelo Project and all those who have been here and helped in a generous and kind way to make it all possible. Your energies are evident and you have left signs of your desire to learn how to build a more sustainable world, and what remains is indicative of your generous spirit, as indelible as the handprints on the earthen walls. Also thanks to Bill Christensen, webmaster extraordinaire for http://www.greenbuilder.com/dawn
This is your invitation to join in creative and thoughtful activities that teach permaculture strategies: a way to live on the earth that takes care of the earth, people, and can produce a surplus to share. There will be a conscious effort made to introduce ways of thinking about the design of an entire site, while building and gardening and conserving water and other resources. If this interests you as well as the fun of learning how to build beautiful,creative, natural, low-cost extensions of the earth, please do sign up and plan to have fun while building sustainably! We will also schedule special workshops for your group or organization Please call or email to arrange & allow 60 days lead time.

Work exchange and interns/residential stays welcome! Work exchange hours will be needed before, during and after the workshop so please contact us early for arrangements to be mutually agreeable. Interns will be longer term and can include exchange for workshops. Contact us for details. Please note: you can purchase natural paints & building materials, re-cycled materials & other resources and supplies at DAWN SouthWest; available for workshop participants at discounted prices.

Mark your Calendar! DAWN SouthWest OPEN HOUSE Fourth Saturday of Each Month (except December): Permaculture Brunch (BYOB) - GET DOWN TO EARTH/ MUD DAY! Site: SW Tucson, call to sign up! Get your hands in the mud and try out some earthen plasters on walls made of straw bales, adobe & cob. See demonstrations and get some hands-on experience: MUDDING FUN (EARTH PLASTERS), DESERT GARDENING, WATER HARVESTING, LAND RESTORATION PROJECTS, INCLUDING AFFORDABLE BUILDINGS & SMALL STRUCTURES WITH STRAW BALE ADOBE, & COB. Please note hours: 10 am - 2:00 pm (earlier hours in warmer weather) EMAIL OR CALL TO SIGN UP & GET DIRECTIONS. 520 624 1673 or dawnaz@earthlink.net Donations for materials, time & effort appreciated.

UPCOMING WORKSHOPS - SPACE STILL AVAILABLE - PLEASE SIGN UP SOON! Workshops forming on demand…If you don’t want to wait, call to get on waiting list for special workshops not yet on the schedule!!! Get on the emailing list for immediate updates: send your full name, address and private email address to dawnaz@earthlink.net to sign up.

Other workshops: If you indicate an interest, we may be able to get enough signed up for a special workshop that you don’t see here! Send email, keep in touch.

JOIN OUR FREE EMAIL LIST: For updates & final schedule, contact us, or sign up for our email announcements. Send your name, address & email address to dawnaz@earthlink.net

Joelee Joyce
DAWN SouthWest
6570 W. Illinois
Tucson, AZ 85735
Tel: 520 624 1673
FAX: 520 882 8676 email: dawnaz@earthlink.net
http://www.caneloproject.com/dawn
also http://www.greenbuilder.com/dawn
Developing Alliances with Nature - Sustainable Living for a Better World
traditional Haida Indian saying: “We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.”