Hi Everyone, this is the
first event in a series of 3 great programs we have coming up in
March, don't miss it, Jerome Osentowski is really kind of a genius, been
at greenhouse design for over 30 years. this isn't your dad's
backyard greenhouse...
Also stay tuned for Carbon
Farming
evening talk with Darren
Doherty on March 10, and on March 14, the Santa Barbara Premier of
POLYFACES, a documentary about Joel Salatin & the renowned
Polyface farm in Virginia demonstrating some of the best regenerative
agriculture practices for over 30 years. We will send out
additional event announcements, but you can also follow our Santa Barbara
Permaculture Network events on facebook at:
https://www.facebook.com/Santa-Barbara-Permaculture-Network-200013020012596/
The Forest Garden Greenhouse
Talk & Book Signing
with
Jerome Osentowski
of the Central Rocky Mountains Permaculture Institute (CRMPI)
Sunday, March 6, 2016
6:30pm - 8:30pm, Donation $5
Ayni Gallery, 216 State St, SB
This book will fundamentally
change the conversation about growing food indoors
The Details:
Join author Jerome Osentowski
as he shares his newly published book The Forest Garden
Greenhouse-How to Design & Manage an Indoor Permaculture
Oasis, in an evening
talk on Sunday, March 6, describing how to bring a forest
garden indoors.
For roughly 200 years, greenhouses have been a mainstay of the market
garden and nursery trades. But the possibilities of these indoor gardens
to transform our homes and our lives remain largely unrealized. In this
groundbreaking book, Jerome Osentowski, one of North America’s most
accomplished permaculture designers, shows how to bring a forest
garden indoors, even on unlikely terrain and in cold climates, using
near-net-zero technology.
The Forest Garden Greenhouse advocates a unique approach to indoor
agriculture using permaculture design concepts that take season extension
into new and important territory, whether you’re growing food or
medicinals for your family or commercially.
Osentowski, director and founder of Central Rocky Mountain
Permaculture Institute (CRMPI), farms at 7200 feet on a steep, rocky
hillside in Colorado. At this mountaintop site, Osentowski (along
with architect and design partner Michael Thompson) has been designing
and building revolutionary greenhouses that utilize passive and active
solar heat storage technologies via what they call the “climate
battery.” This cutting-edge, subterranean air-circulation system
pushes hot, moist, ambient air from the greenhouse during the day through
a network of buried perforated tubes, storing heat and humidity in the
soil, to be retrieved again during cold nights. This remarkable
technology creates tropical and Mediterranean climates at high altitudes
and in cold climates (and everywhere else).
In addition to learning how to create their own climate battery, readers
will receive in-depth information about: the fundamentals of design and
construction of greenhouses of various sizes; capturing energy and
ventilation; bed layout and soil building techniques; the secrets of
successful companion planting; the use of microclimates within and around
the greenhouse, and more.
Whether your goal is simply to extend the growing season by a few weeks
or to build a year-round tropical greenhouse, this book’s detailed
drawings, photos, and profiles of successful greenhouse projects on all
scales will be an invaluable resource.
Jerome Osentowski is a forager and permaculturist with roots in rural
Nebraska. The director and founder of Central Rocky Mountain
Permaculture Institute and a permaculture designer for thirty years,
he has built five greenhouses for himself and scores of others for
private clients and public schools. He makes his living from an
intensively-cultivated one acre of indoor and outdoor forest garden and
plant nursery, which he uses as a backdrop for permaculture and
greenhouse design courses. Among his accomplishments is hosting the
longest-running Permaculture Design Course in the world. He currently
lives in a passive solar home he built at 7200 feet above Colorado’s
Roaring Fork Valley.
The evening talk takes place on Sunday, March 6 6:30pm-8:30pm,
Donation $5 (no one turned away for lack of funds) at the
Ayni Gallery (across from the
Amtrak Station) 216 State St, Santa Barbara CA, 93101,
no reservations required. For more Info, (805)962-2571,
margie@sbpermaculture.org,
www.sbpermaculture.org, Books Will be for sale, and available for
signing by the author.
Santa Barbara event Facebook page
https://www.facebook.com/events/547059822138169/
Additional Resources:
Central Rocky Mountain Permaculture
http://crmpi.org
The Forest Garden Greenhouse How to Design and Manage an Indoor
Permaculture Oasis By Jerome Osentowski
http://www.chelseagreen.com/the-forest-garden-greenhouse
Episode 1606: The Forest Garden Greenhouse Interview with Jerome
Osentowski, founder of Central Rocky Mountain Permaculture Institute
http://www.thepermaculturepodcast.com/2016/episode-1606/
(805) 962-2571
P.O. Box 92156, Santa Barbara, CA 93190
margie@sbpermaculture.org
http://www.sbpermaculture.org
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