[Lapg] Live Interview Fri Oct 26, 3-4pm KCSB 91.9 FM Food, Culture, & Future Generations with Ed Mendoza, Native American Farmer, Poet & Permaculturist

[Santa Barbara Permaculture Network]

E Syncretic Revolution  Radio Program (public Affairs and Music 
program KCSB ), Fridays 3-4 pm  Oct 26 with host Marcelino  Sepulveda 
interviews Ed Mendoza,  Native American Farmer, Poet & Permaculturist

KCSB 91.9 FM in Santa Barbara, California. Also, streaming live on 
www.KCSB.org.


Interview with Ed Mendoza Eduardo(Ed) Mendoza (Xikano-Nahuatl), 
farmer, former Board member Native Seed/Search , 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.

KCSB 91.9 FM in Santa Barbara, California. Also, streaming live on KCSB.org.

Come  and support ED's work by attending the event below. 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.
Food, Culture, & Future Generations
With Ed Mendoza
Native American Farmer, Poet & Permaculturist

                                         Saturday, October 27, 2007, 6:30-9 pm
Food, Music & Raffle
La Casa de la Raza, Santa Barbara, CA



         Eduardo(Ed) Mendoza (Xikano-Nahuatl), farmer, former Board 
member Native Seed/Search , 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 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.

         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




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