July 12, Friday 7pm, Ojai
Book-signing &Talk with Christopher Shein author of of The Vegetable Gardeners Guide to Permaculture ~Creating an Edible Ecosytem ~

Location: The Ojai Retreat, 160 Besant Road, Ojai, CA 93024
Contact : David Robert White , 805 390 0747, david@ojaicra.org
Sponsor: Center for Regenerative Agriculture, <http://ojaicra.org/ >


Come and learn how to create an edible ecosystem with Christopher Shein, author of "The Vegetable Gardener's Guide to Permaculture" 
https://www.facebook.com/events/477819718963120


Prior to creating his book, Christopher spent 20 years in the East Bay as a garden designer applying permaculture design principals to build public and private sustainable gardens and food forests with his landscape business, Wildheart Gardens. With students, he founded the Permaculture Demonstration Garden at Merritt College in Oakland 11 years ago to show ideas for sustainable food gardens as applied in California's dry summer climate. More than 700 students have helped create a wildly productive food forest. 

The Vegetable Gardener's Guide to Permaculture is an inspiring, easy-to-follow, information packed guide that is designed to help readers transform their home & community gardens into productive food forests that will feed them for years to come. 

Permaculture is an ancient, but cutting edge technology, that employs design strategies that work with nature, instead of relying on back breaking work, fertilizers, herbicides, and pesticides. The permaculture gardener uses methods that build healthy soil, smothers weeds, and promotes plant life, while recycling waste products from the garden.


MORE INFO:

Merritt Community College:
http://www.merritt.edu/

Wildheart Gardens:
http://wildheartgardens.com/
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Publisher Timber Press
http://www.timberpress.com/books/vegetable_gardeners_guide_permaculture/shein/9781604692709 

Permaculture Podcast interview with Christopher Shein 
http://www.thepermaculturepodcast.com/2013/christophershein/
You Tubes:
Permaculture at Merritt College with Christopher Shein 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tw78MfIFlM&feature=player_embedded