Home Scale Permaculture: Interview with Toby Hemenway
https://vimeo.com/20834989
In this interview we discuss permaculture, industrial agriculture, and
the reality of the current food system.
Specifically:
-Home scale permaculture
-The open loop of industrial agriculture
-The toxic BT Gene which is heavily used in Industrial Agriculture
-Urban Agriculture
-How to work with nature instead of against it
-The future of food production
-Much more!
The
Center for Urban Agriculture at FAIRVIEW GARDENS Presents:
Redesigning Civilization:
Permaculture's Vision for a Just and Sustainable World
With Toby Hemenway
Friday
April
13, 2012
7-9:30pm
Santa Barbara Central Library, Faulkner Gallery
$10-$20 suggested
donation
~This lecture in memory of long time Fairview
Garden supporter & Board Member Selma Rubin ~
I t's
no secret that our society has become unsustainable. Modern
agriculture, industry and finance all extract more than they give back,
and the Earth is starting to show the strain. How did we get this way,
and what can we do to help our culture get back on track?
Join internationally known author, permaculture teacher, and designer
Toby Hemenway, for an evening talk on Friday, April 13,
7-9:30pm, that will give insight into why our culture has become
fundamentally unsustainable, and how the ecological design approach
called permaculture offers powerful tools for the design of
regenerative
systems, with fair ways to provide food, energy, and human livelihoods,
while sharing the planet with the rest of nature.
Toby Hemenway is a permaculture designer and teacher who has taught
permaculture courses around the globe. He is the author of Gaia's
Garden:
A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture, which for the last
eight years has been the worlds best selling book on the
ecological-design approach known as permaculture. The expanded 2nd
edition of the book was named one of the top ten gardening books of
2010
by the Washington Post, and won the 2011 Nautilus Gold Medal Award.
Hemenway has been on the faculty of the Portland State University, and
was a scholar-in-residence at Pacific University. He has presented
at conferences and universities across the continent. Hemenway lives in
Sebastopol, California, where he is tending a two-acre food forest amid
seven acres of redwoods and bay laurels.
Beginning in May, 2012, Toby Hemenway will be teaching a 6
weekend series permaculture design course at Fairview Gardens, an
urban educational farm in the heartland of Goleta Valley. He will be
joined by guest permaculture teachers throughout the course, which will
focus on holistic tools for creating food, water, and energy security,
building healthy communities and economies. Participants can chose to
attend the entire series and earn a Permaculture design certificate or
take part in specific lectures from the series.
The evening talk takes place on Friday, April 13, 7pm-9:30pm, 2012,
at
the Faulkner Gallery at the Santa Barbara Central Library, 40 East
Anapamu Street, SB, 93101. $10-$20 suggested donation. No reservations
required. More info: (805)967-7369,
Sharon@fairviewgardens.org
.
More Info:
Toby Hemenway website:
http://www.patternliteracy.com/
Six weekend Permaculture design course at Fairview Gardens: May
26-27, June 23-24, July 28-29, August 25-26, September 22-23, October
27-28. For more info:
http://www.fairviewgardens.org/2011/11/27/permaculture-design-course-weekends-may-–-
oct/
Permaculture Teachers teaching with Toby Hemenway:
Brock Dolman, Director of Occidental Arts and Ecology Center's Water
Institute
http://oaec.org/brockdolmanbio;
Warren Brush, Executive Director,
Quail Springs Permaculture
http://www.quailsprings.org;
John Valenzuela, Cornucopia Food Forest Gardens; Larry Santoyo,
Director
of EarthFlow Design,
www.earthflow.com
; and Michael Becker, award-winning educator, Hood River,
Oregon.
UPCOMING FAIRVIEW EVENTS:
TOBY HEMENWAY talk – April 13
Introduction to Bee Keeping – April 15
Eating as a Vegetarian - April 19
Plant Your Spring Garden – April 28
Wild Fermenting – April 29
Spring CSA AND Spring AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAM!
The Center for Urban Agriculture at Fairview Gardens
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeCSIpnAXwM
- The Center for Urban Agriculture at Fairview
Gardens is a California
non-profit organization that was established in 1997 to preserve and
operate Fairview Gardens, the historic farm where our products are
grown.
Founded in 1895, Fairview Gardens is considered by some to be the
oldest
organic farm in southern California, and is now preserved in perpetuity
through an agricultural conservation easement.
- Fairview Gardens is situated in the midst of a
growing suburban
community in coastal southern California, surrounded on all sides by
tract homes, shopping malls, and suburban thoroughfares. As a highly
visible agricultural parcel in a dense suburban environment, Fairview
Gardens plays a unique role in the community, providing its neighbors
with food, educational and cultural events, open space and a connection
to the land. The farm also demonstrates the economic viability of small
farm operations, and the potential of small, regional farms to feed
their
communities.
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