Fwd: from Ed Mendoza & Margo Tamez

[John Howe]

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>Hello Central Coast Permaculture:
>
>We are the stewards of De Las Manos Farm in southern Arizona.  We practice
>dryland permaculture, wwhat we call 7th generation farming.  Some of you
>may have had a chance to hear Ed speak, and discuss related issues with
>both of us at the Bioneers in San Rafael back in late October.
>
>We have been called to the central California area for family matters on
>February 19, and are at this timetrying to organize a small speaking tour &
>poetry reading for the two of us either the week before or after the 19th
>to subsidize our travel, lodging and food for our family.  Attached you
>will find biographical notes and blurbs on each of us by some friends who
>support our work.
>
>We need people in the central coast areas to assist our efforts at the
>local levels, to make contact with organizers, arts/cultural/ecology
>centers whose audiences & communities would benefit from our visit.  We
>would like to visit San Luis Obispo, Ventura, Santa Barbara and any other
>suggested communities by you recipients.
>
>Bios:
>
>Ed Mendoza is a gardener.  He currently practices his extensive knowledge
>of dryland permaculture techniques at the O'odham O'oidak project at the
>Gila River Indian Community in Sacaton, AZ, where he is the farm manager.
>He also has developed unique practices on the farm he and his wife
>co-steward, De Las Manos south of Maricopa, AZ.  A 3 acre plot of land,
>surrounded by Arizona's cotton industry on all sides, it has become a true
>oasis among the Arizona permaculture communities.  Mendoza is currently
>working on his first book dealing with the rape and destruction of soils in
>the west.  He has authored essays for the tribal newspaper, and Herbs For
>Health (Interweave Press).  Hugh Lovell, biodynamics guru at the Union
>Agricultural Institute, has described Ed Mendoza's soil and restoration
>practices as "ingeniously innovative."
>
>Margo Tamez is the co-owner and full-time operator of De Las Manos Farm
>where she stewards the day to day life on the family farm with her
>children, and apprentices.  She home-schools small ones and also trains
>local community members in her state in building natural and recycled
>shelters that work with land and people.  She currently teaches workshops
>on earthen walls & earth plasters.  In addition she is an award winning
>poet whose work has appeared in American Poetry Review, Cimarron Review,
>Hawaii Pacific Review The Americas Review, The Peace Review as well as
>numerous anthologies of Native peoples.  Terry Tempest Williams says of her
>work: "Margo Tamez has a voice that rises from the soil which she holds in
>her hands as clenched fists.  Her poetry is fearless, her stance within her
>community courageous.  She is a poet of organic grace.  Whether it is the
>tenderness of
>holding her daughter in her arms or the toxic weight of growing cotton in
>the desert, her eyes are directed toward  environmental justice and the
>healing that comes from telling the truth.  I am so grateful I have found
>Margo
>Tamez' writings."
>
>Send all inqueries, suggestions and organizing tips for the Ed & Margo tour
>to:
>tnafa-az at casagrande.com
>or p.o.box 733, maricopa,az 85239
>(520)568-3509
>
>PO Box 733
>Maricopa, AZ  85239
>(520)568-3509
>tnafa-az at casagrande.com 
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