Devin,
I live at a perfect location in downtown Santa Barbara.
We already have some aspects in place...small garden plot, trees (peach, orange, tangerine) grape vines.
We want to plant non-thorn variety of black berry vines, dwarf apple trees, maybe some nut trees, expand on garden, etc.
We have a single source washing machine that can be grey water plumbed, etc.
We already have a good off the roof rain gutter system that can be routed to the soil or cisterns or both.
We’re two blocks from the court house on a quiet one way street (Equestrian Ave.).
What do you think?
Markus Stringer, MPH
(805) 679-3680
on 7/16/10 10:52 AM, Johnny Sacko at johnnysacko@mac.com wrote:
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From: Devin S <devinfromheaven@gmail.com>
Date: July 16, 2010 10:28:04 AM PDT
To: scpg@arashi.com <mailto:scpg@arashi.com>
Subject: [Scpg] Know anyone in SB who wants a front or backyard Food Forest by Aug. 1?
Hey there!
I'm in the planning phase of coordinating a workshop in Santa Barbara on Aug. 1, with SB Grow Food Party Crew.
We are looking for a client who wants to take advantage of an EXTRAORDINARY offer to transform their front or backyard (both?) into an Edible Oasis for roughly $1500 including materials (depends on scale of project). This would include professional design by myself, and implementation of (hand-scale) Water Harvesting Earthworks, Food Forest, Veggie Garden and Drip Irrigation, during the workshop on Aug. 1. I estimate this service to be worth $5000+ in the traditional landscape world for Design + Implementation.
Yes, I know this sounds near impossible to do it all in less than a day, but I have done too many of these to count! The biggest catch is we have to move on it NOW because the workshop is in two weeks - which is actually just enough time to set this up and do it well!
Please email me directly or call if you are interested in receiving this service or know anyone who does. I may not be able to respond until Monday, but we will be selecting a site hopefully by Tues. July 20.
And lookout for more info on the Workshop itself - coming early next week. We are going to need a large turnout to pull this off!
Best,
DS