Lemon Grove Public Library
3001 School Lane, Lemon Grove, CA

Chelsea Green author Jerome Osentowski will talk about and introduce his new book, The Forest Garden Greenhouse: How to Design and Manage an Indoor Permaculture Oasis. Jerome, one of North America’s most accomplished permaculture designers, and director and founder of Central Rocky Mountain Permaculture Institute, presents a new approach to a very old horticultural subject. He shows how bringing the forest garden indoors is not only possible, but doable on unlikely terrain and in cold climates, using near-net-zero technology. Different from other greenhouse design and management, Osentowski advocates for an indoor agriculture using permaculture design concepts—integration, multi-functions, perennials, and polycultures—that take season extension into new and important territory.