November 7, 2009 at MILAGRO ALLEGRO COMMUNITY GARDEN in Highland Park
 
Ecoliteracy is about learning to understand the language of place, and it’s fundamental to greening your home and community while saving money, water, energy and time. It is the foundation of all beautiful organic gardens that grow with little or no fertilizer or chemical pesticides and with less maintenance and water than conventional gardens. Learning to be ecoliterate it is easier than you might think!

If you are creating your garden or landscape from scratch, revamping your garden, and/or are tentative about how or where to start, this workshop is perfect for you. If you are looking for ways to integrate sustainability into your life and landscape, this introductory workshop will help you reset your framework so that the content from organic gardening, greener living, and Permaculture classes are easier to integrate into your life.

Being firmly rooted in a sense of place is the only saving grace to the disconnection, ecological alienation, and anomie that haunts the psyches of people today. You can't be grounded (literally) if you're not willing to become vested; if you're not vested, you're a tourist pretending to be a citizen. To become vested, you have to be willing to cultivate relationships with your surroundings and neighborhood, which includes the human and nonhuman elements in toto, hence becoming ecoliterate is getting to the root of changing yourself and society with the intent and objective of leaving this Earth in better stead environmentally than the way we all found it. Authentic sustainability entails attunement with earth’s systems and cycles – the sources of our collective survival, well-being, and wealth as a species. Humans appropriate all of the material means of their sustenance and economic activity from the planet. Ecology trumps economy – it always has and always will.

Two professional ecological designers will be teaching the very same skills that they use in the regular practice of their work. Wendy Talaro of Fruits to Nuts and Steve Hernandez of NativeScape Development Corp. will lead workshop participants in a systematic way through the process of site analysis/landscape reading and landscape project management within the urban/suburban context.

Attendees are expected to complete assigned homework prior to the workshop. There will be a potluck lunch on-site to facilitate networking and community building, so please bring your business cards and a dish or snack to share.

Saturday, November 7, 2009 9am - 6pm
Cost: $40

Register today!
Pre-register by November 3 by sending a check to the instructor, Wendy Talaro P.O. Box 7478; Torrance, CA 90504
or via PayPal to basil_gardens@hotmail.com
 
Class size is limited; Bi-lingual Spanish/English instruction
Late registrants will be accepted on a space-available basis
More info: 310-329-5719 or 818-302-9699
 
Garden and Workshop Location: 115 S. Ave 56, LA 90042
One block SE of Figueroa; Behind the Highland Theater
www.hpgarden.org