[Ccpg] Upcoming Events and Radio Interview available

[Quail Springs]

Greetings! 

We're in the midst of our second Permaculture Design Course at Quail
Springs, with Darren Doherty and another group of amazing students from our
region and a few from around the country. 

There were a few requests to make Darren's interview with Sustainable World
Radio KCSB 91.9 FM from October 5th available on our website, so we've done
just that. 

Go to www.quailsprings.org/news
<http://ent.groundspring.org/EmailNow/pub.php?module=URLTracker&cmd=track&j=
168984018&u=1680346>  to hear Darren Doherty (Australian Keyline and
Permaculture Designer and teacher) and Guner Tautrim (6th generation land
steward in the Gaviota area at Orella Ranch) speak with Jill Cloutier of
Sustainable World Radio...

 

UPCOMING EVENT 

Mon. Oct 22, 6:30 pm Water for Every Farm FREE TALK

With Darren Doherty Keyline and Permaculture Designer
Montgomery Hall at New Cuyama Recreation Center
Highway 166 in New Cuyama next to "The Cuyama Buckhorn"

Tea and cookies will be served
Contact Kolmi -info at quailsprings.org, www.quailsprings.org
<http://ent.groundspring.org/EmailNow/pub.php?module=URLTracker&cmd=track&j=
168984018&u=1680347> 

see www.permaculture.biz
<http://ent.groundspring.org/EmailNow/pub.php?module=URLTracker&cmd=track&j=
168984018&u=1680348>  for more courses with Darren Doherty

 

 

Another upcoming event hosted by the SB Permaculture Network at La Casa de
la Raza, not to be missed, see below for details...

SANTA BARBARA PERMACULTURE NETWORK
Presents:

Food, Culture, & Future Generations
With Ed Mendoza
Native American Farmer, Poet & Permaculturist
Saturday, October 27, 2007, 6:30-9pm

Food & Music, Raffle
La Casa de la Raza, Santa Barbara, CA

The evening event takes place at La Casa de la Raza, in Santa Barbara, CA,
601 E. Montecito St, on Sat, Oct 27, 6:30-9pm. Food, Music & Fundraising
raffle for Permaculture de Aztlan projects with Indigenous Communities in
North, Central & South America. Sponsors are Santa Barbara Permaculture
Network & La Casa de la Raza. Donations welcome. For more information,
please call (805)-962-2571 margie at sbpermaculture.org ,
www.sbpermaculture.org
<http://ent.groundspring.org/EmailNow/pub.php?module=URLTracker&cmd=track&j=
168984018&u=1680349> 

Eduardo (Ed) Mendoza (Xikano-Nahuatl), farmer, author, activist, and
Director of Indigenous Permaculture de Aztlan, comes to Santa Barbara to
speak about his experiences in California and Mexico, growing food and
growing culture.

A Santa Barbara native, Ed has been growing gardens since he was a boy,
learning from his father. Working in the fields picking crops while in high
school and college, he later graduated from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, with a
degree in Agricultural Science. He learned about growing blue corn from
Mexico from his adopted grandfather, the late Rafael Guerrero, one of the
founders of D-Q University in Davis, California.

In 1993 Mendoza became an agricultural advisor for the Traditional Native
American Farmers Association and started to train in Permaculture (PERMAnent
agriCULTURE), a design system based on ecological principles for creating
sustainable human environments. He worked for the Gila River Indian
Community, establishing an aquaculture and farming program to teach young
juveniles about traditional crops. Ed helped establish the Casa Blanca
Growers Cooperative which grows mostly traditional organic crops. He has
also been part of the Permaculture teaching team for Indigenous Permaculture
( www.indigenous-permaculture.org
<http://ent.groundspring.org/EmailNow/pub.php?module=URLTracker&cmd=track&j=
168984018&u=1680350> ) teaching at the annual Indigenous Permaculture Design
Course in Sante Fe, New Mexico.

The purpose of Indigenous Permaculture de Aztlan is to assist indigenous
nations in North, Central and South America learn the means to be
economically self sufficient and to respect culture and ceremony, and
restore lands for future generations. Part of the vision is to encourage
youth to go to these countries to help, learning through cultural exchange.

Recently Ed Mendoza has traveled to Belize and Guatemala to teach about
permaculture and the importance of growing and saving traditional seeds. He
has worked with a coalition of traditional growers that traveled to Italy
for an International Slow Foods Conference, learning farming methods from
around the world. He has been invited to Columbia, Thailand and Argentina to
demonstrate sustainable farming techniques, and will be going to Baja,
California to teach a workshop on rainwater harvesting, while participating
in a mesquite bean harvest with the Seri Indian community. 

Mendoza recently won a place in the Writers Place contest for his poem, As
the Peaches Come, and has a newly finished manuscript titled Mud & Blood. He
reads regularly at Art in the Alley in Casa Grande, Arizona and has read in
New York and in New Mexico. Poems are about family, love, the streets, the
desert, growing food, life and prayer. He is currently writing a novel and
is doing research on his families history in Mexico and California. Ed is a
respected member of his community and considered a ceremonial leader and
regularly participates in Sun Dance, Native American Church and other
ceremonies.

 

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