Here's your last chance until Spring to get out to the Sequatchie 
Valley to hike in  our spectacular forest and tour our unique 
hand-crafted sustainable structures powered by solar electricity.  And 
you can learn to inoculate shiitake mushrooms too!  Our crafts gallery, 
Como Se LLama, will be open with staff artist-created glass jewelry and 
nature-based ceramics, as well as a special selection of books and CD's 
.  The holiday season is approaching and we have great gifts!  Gallery 
purchases benefit our non-profit programs.

The Sequatchie Valley Institute
Invites you to join our
OPEN HOUSE and/or "LUNCH AND A LOG" WORKSHOP
NOVEMBER 20, SUNDAY.

TOUR  10 AM CST (11 AM EST)
LUNCHEON 12:00 CST (1:00 EST)
WORKSHOP 1:30 PM CST (2:30 EST) to 4:00 (CST)

Tour our gardens and solar homes, learn the healthy benefits of 
shiitake mushrooms, and eat a hearty autumn luncheon that includes 
shiitakes!  We will teach you to inoculate oak logs with mushrooms.  
You'll take home an inoculated log that will produce nutritious and 
delicious mushrooms for up to 3 years!
Come for any or all of the events.  The tour and hike are free of 
charge.  The shiitake workshop is $30-45. sliding scale depending on 
income and includes a delicious hot home-cooked garden luncheon plus 
log.  If you come just for the tour and would like to join us for 
lunch, the cost is $6.00.  Come ready for hiking and using tools. Be 
prepared to shop in our gallery!
Sequatchie Valley Institute is located 45 minutes from UTC between 
Dunlap and Whitwell.  For more information, please call us at 949-5922, 
email [log in to unmask], or see our website, SVIonline.org.

Carol Kimmons, Education Director, Sequatchie Valley Institute
The Sequatchie Valley Institute is a non-profit organization whose 
mission is to offer society an opportunity to experience and learn 
about living in harmony with nature by providing:
- a dynamic model residence and learning center
- education, research, art, land conservation and restoration; and
- a vision for attaining a sustainable future


Carol Kimmons, Education Director
Sequatchie Valley Institute
Research and Education in Ecology and Sustainable Living
Rt. 1 Box 304
Whitwell, TN 37397
423 949-5922
Website:  svionline.org
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be lighted.