"How to Turn your Backyard into a Food Forest" on Wednesday, April 17 at 7 p.m

The Santa Barbara Organic Garden Club will present a free talk on "How to
Turn your Backyard into a Food Forest" on Wednesday, April 17 at 7 p.m. at
the Community Environmental Council Gildea Center at 930 Miramonte Drive in
Santa Barbara.
The featured speaker will be well-known permaculture landscape designer Larry Santoyo,
who will explain how it's possible to turn even a very small piece
of land into an ecologically rich "food forest" landscape, with recycled
natural materials, dwarf or full size fruit trees, useful herbs, perennials
and vegetables. Wes Roe, one of the organizers of the South Coast
Permaculture Guild, will moderate.
The co creator of permaculture Bill Mollison, who was recently declared
"Ecologist of the Century" in Australia, describes permaculture as the
"conscious design and maintenance of agriculturally productive ecosystems
which have the diversity, stability, and resilience of natural ecosystems"
and "the harmonious integration of landscape and people..."
Community Environmental Council Gildea Center at 930 Miramonte Drive Santa Barbara
The Santa Barbara Organic Garden Club
For more information lbsaltzman@aol.com or 805/563-2089

April 21 Sun 2002: Build a Backyard “Food Forest.” Santa Barbara
Create an integrated design to include color, scent, exotic edibles, attract birds and butterflies and hardscape elements like the herb spiral (see the spiral we made in the January workshop!) Learn how to apply permaculture design to your garden.
Part of a three part Permaculture Series Home Ecosystem: The Artistry of Ecology with Larry Santoyo Permaculture Teacher
Following Workshop Sunday, May 19, 2002: Garden Construction with Recycled and Natural Materials.
Cost $55 each contact Betsy Gallery at bgallery@cox.net (805) 963-2878

The Permaculture Monthly Video Discussion Group the next meeting will be Thursday May 9 7pm (location to be announced) in Santa Barbara Ca
This will be an interactive meeting showing video covering many parts of a lecture series on Permaculture Design by Bill Mollison one of the founders of Permaculture , audio tapes, other Permaculture Videos, slides and discussion each month.
For more info and directions contact Margie Bushman 962-2571 or email sbpcnet@silcom.com


INTERVIEW WITH BILL MOLLISON
In the 1960's and 70's Bill Mollison, and later with David Holmgren,
developed the concepts of permaculture, (derived from the words
"permanent" "agriculture" and "culture,"). In 1978 the seminal work
"Permaculture One" was written, with "Permaculture Two" to follow a year
later. By 1981 the graduates of the first permaculture workshop set out
to make a difference in the world. Since then, Mollison and countless
acolytes have spread permaculture principles throughout the world while
developing thousands of sustainable systems and creating a model for
ecological design and development.
Recently declared "Ecologist of the Century" in Australia, Mollison
conceives permaculture as the "conscious design and maintenance of
agriculturally productive ecosystems which have the diversity,
stability, and resilience of natural ecosystems." and "the harmonious
integration of landscape and people..." permaculture design he points
out, stems from "protracted and thoughtful observation rather than
protracted and thoughtless labour:" In short, its goals are energy and
water conservation, sustainable local food production and regional
self-reliance. As conceived by Mollison, permaculture is nothing less
than a "sustainable earth-care system" capable of providing our food,
energy, shelter, and other needs while conserving the world's resources.
On July 25, 2001 I was fortunate enough to have this conversation with
Bill Mollison as he visited our New Mexico Research Farm.


Below is the the two part Interview with Bill Mollison in the Seeds of Change e Newsletter

http://store.yahoo.com/seedsofchange/25enewsletter.html PART 1
http://store.yahoo.com/seedsofchange/26enewsletter2.html PART 2