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
Santa Barbara Permaculture Network
(805) 962-2571
P.O. Box 92156, Santa Barbara, CA 93190
margie@sbpermaculture.org
www.sbpermaculture.org
"We are like trees,
we must create new leaves, in new directions, in order to grow." -
Anonymous