March 10, Mon, Potluck Dinner with Common Vision Tree Planters 6:00pm Orella Ranch ,
West of Goleta

An evening celebration to welcome Common Vision once again to our community

Celebrating the Transformation of Concrete Jungles into Urban
Fruit Tree Forests by Tree Planting at Schools in California

The evening will include a potluck dinner (please bring food to share, utensils and cups) , drumming & storytelling,  with all donations going to the group to help raise funds for the trees and the 2008 Fruit Tree Tour.

It is the Fifth  Annual California Common Vision FRUIT TREE TOUR, taking place from February 20-April 25 2007, celebrating the transformation of concrete jungles into urban orchards ( www.commonvision.org ). Thirty volunteer earth educators from northern California, travel to schools from Los Angeles to San Francisco in the largest known vegetable oil-powered caravan: six vehicles, including three busses. The all volunteer crew travels as a nomadic community visiting schools to plant 1000 fruit trees with urban youth. The three month tour is divided into day-long programs at each school featuring cultural story-telling, West African agricultural drumming, earth-conscious hip-hop, and hands-on involvement in the stewardship of the students school yard.

Common Vision infuses public schools and spaces with inspiration, infrastructure, and experience to support solution-focused environmental education for urban youth. Common Vision facilitates hands-on projects with students and community leaders that serve to retrofit public schools and spaces into models of sustainability.

DIRECTIONS:
Orella Ranch is located 15 miles north bound (actually west) of Goleta, 20 miles northbound of Santa Barbara.  From either of the above take US 101 north to Refugio Road. 

FROM SOUTH: Exit and take a right and then an immediate right.  Take this unmarked “frontage road” approx. 1.5 miles until you see signage (POTLUCK) .  It will be a gravel drive way on your left hand side.

.FROM NORTH:  take Refugio Road exit and follow the road under the freeway and take your first possible right onto the un marked “frontage road”.  As above go approx. 1.5 miles and look for signage. 

Please contact 805-962-2571 and margie@sbpermaculture.org for more info about potluck