Written by Natasha Blum | 06 May 2012

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This week's permaculture class focused on climate. Jay shared an incredible resource, The National Audobon Society's Field Guide to Weather in North America. Fascinating and beautiful, it covered everything from wind flow to cloud formation and natural light phenomena, like Aurora Borealis (above).  I can see why people tend to collect these. There is so much information available to help us understand our environment, it seems the only way to retain it all is to spend some time re-learning regularly. Neuroscientists out there, any solutions to enlarging memory space?

We work through the issues close to home, too. Like why the wind tunnels, i.e. Fell and Oak, seem to be coming at us with a vendetta between 4–7 p.m. just about everyday. And what it feels like to be in a vortex. (A little volatile, I must say, unless you are the lucky one in the eye of the storm).

Join us as we make sense of this beautiful world with Jay every Sunday in class in our permaculture classroom oasis.

Photo: Dick Hutchinson