iEat Green - Guest Ryan Rising and Alexa Levy

Ryan Rising is a community organizer, facilitator, and permaculture educator based out of the San Francisco Bay Area and co-founder of the Permaculture Action Network.

After a decade of local organizing around direct action, food justice, ecological design, and community living, Ryan organized the Permaculture Action Tour with music producer The Polish Ambassador in the Fall of 2014. Ryan has since co-organized over 93 Permaculture Action Days throughout 26 US states, bringing hundreds of people together at a time, to take hands-on action building greenhouses, rainwater catchment systems, perennial food gardens, and regenerative systems at more than 100 different community spaces including public food forests, urban farms, and indigenous food sovereignty projects.

Ryan co-founded the Gill Tract Community Farm, which produces tons of organic food annually that is distributed for free around the Bay Area, and the Omni Commons, an urban commons and community center in Oakland, CA. Ryan also co-facilitates the Democratic Grantmaking Process of the Thriving Resilient Communities Collaboratory, organizes with the NonProfit Democracy Network, consults for Ecosystem Restoration Camps, works on a regenerative land trust, and teaches courses and trainings on social permaculture, community organizing, and facilitation.

 

Alexa Levy is an educator, public school teacher, permaculturist, organizer, and artist.

In various positions, she has dedicated her life to working with underprivileged youth as a facilitator of learning, offering them tools to becoming their best self. She started a Permaculture & Restorative Justice program at Claremont Middle School in Oakland, where together she and her students learn about growing food, art, creating regenerative systems, current events, and social justice, all while practicing restorative justice. Alexa has been exploring alternative avenues of education in search of piecing together an “Educational Utopia” where justice and compassion are at the forefront.

Alexa has taught in over seventy public schools, knowing thousands of children by name in New York City and Oakland, California. 

Alexa is part of the California BioRegional Crew and serves as one of its “double links” into the Core Crew. Alexa is also part of the Media Working Group and Fundraising Working Group. She especially loves organizing Permaculture Action Days, facilitating youth workshops, and offering workshops in Permaculture Action Hubs at festivals.  

Apple Cobbler
(no nuts)

Preheat oven to 425*
To make a large pie or oblong casserole dish
For 10-12 people
Filling-
Approx. 15 organic apples, peeled, cored and sliced thin
½ cup honey
1 tbs. lemon juice
1 Tbs. organic corn starch
1 Tbs. cinnamon
Topping
1 cup flour
2 cup oats
1 cup organic brown sugar
2 teaspoons cinnamon
1 cup safflower or org. canola oil
For Filling:
Peel, core and slice the apples, and put in large mixing bowl. Dissolve the 1 Tbs. of corn starch in a small
bowl with the 1 Tbs. of lemon juice. Pour over apples. Add the honey and cinnamon, and mix well..
Spray bottom of pan with oil. Pour apples into pie pan or casserole dish
To make Cobbler topping
Combine all ingredients in a bowl and Sprinkle on top
To Finish:
Bake at 375* for 50 minutes , or until juices bubble thru top and apples are soft. (check by inserting a
fork into the apples)