INTRODUCTION TO PERMACULTURE
WORKSHOP

Lakeside Community Center, San Diego
Sunday, May 26
12:30 - 4:30

The beginning of this new century is a good time to reflect upon our lifestyles and to take mindful actions. This fun and interactive workshop will introduce you to a way of sustainable thinking, design, and living that can be applied to your home, workplace, farm, or community. This system is permaculture - it means permanent agriculture, or permanent culture. It utilizes ideas and technologies that are ancient, modern, and futuristic. You will learn the basics of how to cook with the sun, how to see "waste" as "surplus", how to grow your own food, and how to begin to think about re-designing your own place so that it functions as a "cultivated ecosystem".

Cost: $25 per person
Instructor: Jane Higginson (619) 668-3104, janehigginson@earthlink.net

This four hour introductory workshop is in anticipation of holding an 80 hour long Permaculture Basic Design Course which will lead participants to a Certificate of Permaculture Design. The Basic Design Course will be held at various locations in and near San Diego County this summer and/or fall. Instructors are anticipated to include:
* Jane Higginson, Diploma of Permaculture Design and Master of Regional Planning. Jane is a former Peace Corps Volunteer, Adjunct Faculty at Prescott College, and has taught and implemented permaculture design in the US and Latin America. She is director of Archelonia Permaculture.
* Nader Khalili, Architect. Nader is Director of Cal-Earth Institute of Earth Art and Architecture in Hesperia, and author of several books including, "Ceramic Houses and Earth Architecture: How to Build Your Own".
* Marcia Boruta, Director of the San Diego Permaculture Center.
* Mike Connoly, Environmental Protection Agency of the Campo band of Kumeyaay Indians.
* Cindy Sund, owner/manager of Walter's Aquatic Plants.