Spring 2009
Hand-on Ecological Design
Series in Downtown Santa Barbara
with Leif H. Skogberg and other local guest speakers
Three more Saturdays: May 9, June 13 & June 27
10:00 am to 4:00 pm (NEW TIME)
1611 Olive Street
Donations Only (suggested $25)
Join us next Saturday May 9th as we continue to evolve a beautiful
1/3-acre downtown Santa Barbara lot into a model of urban sustainability
using permaculture and ecological design as our guide.
Part 1 – Water Harvesting Earthworks on Saturday April 112th, was
a great success and was an absolutely earth-moving fun in the sun
day. Now, with the initial earthworks nearing completion, we are
ready to do some serious soil building, living sponge creating, fertility
enhancing .
The next course (Part 2) coming up this weekend will cover various
strategies for enriching soil fertility, including: composting,
vermicomposting, sheet mulching, cover cropping, no-till farming, guild
planting and more.
Part 2 - Building Healthy Soil
Guest Speaker:Â Eric Lohela, City of Santa Barbara
"Compost Guy"
Saturday May 9
10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Learn abbout the secret life of soil and how to improve soil fertility
through composting, mulching, cover cropping, guild planting, and more.
Students will participate in lecture, discussion and hands-on exercises
based on a variety of organic gardening methods used to improve soil
structure and fertility, increase humus content, and enhance ecological
diversity. Course includes material from "Gaia's Garden: A
Home-scale Guide to Permaculture" by Toby Hemenway.
Part 3 - Solar Design for Home & Garden
Guest Speaker:Â Shawn Jacobson, Solar Energy Consultant and
Designer
Saturday June 13
10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Explore solar energy in a whole new light. This class will cover solar
applications for homes including Photovoltaic (PV), passive solar and
solar greenhouses, as well as how to design a garden in relationship to
the sun. Students will participate in lecture, discussion and hands-on
exercises to illustrate simple techniques for solar heating, cooking, and
cooling, as well as small scale applications of PV integration.Â
Garden/landscape design strategies to maximize solar resources and
exposure will also be covered.
Part 4 - Natural Material & Construction
Guest Speaker: TBA
Saturday June 27
10:00 am – 4:00 pm
>Discover your innate building skills working with natural material
and age-old technologies, used in modern applications. Learn how to
create healthy indoor environments using all natural non-toxic material
like wood, clay, sand and straw. This course will focus on simple
techniques for using natural material like cob, straw bale and light-clay
straw to retrofit existing structures to be more energy efficient, have
improved indoor air quality and enhanced aesthetics.Â
Advanced registration is requested. Thank you! ☺
For more information or registration, email:
LeifSkogberg@gmail.com, or
call (805) 886-6251
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Santa Barbara Permaculture Network
an educational
non-profit since 2000
(805) 962-2571
P.O. Box 92156, Santa Barbara, CA 93190
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www.sbpermaculture.org
"We are like trees,
we must create new leaves, in new directions, in order to grow." -
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