[Lapg] Thanks everyone for helping to Organize the 2013 3rd Southern California Permaculture Convergence happening this weekend in San Diego (SOLD OUT)
Wesley Roe and Santa Barbara Permaculture Network
lakinroe at silcom.com
Thu Mar 7 05:53:50 PST 2013
Thanks everyone for helping to Organize the 2013 3rd Southern California
Permaculture Convergence happening this weekend in San Diego (SOLD OUT)
http://socalconvergence.org/#
Thanks everyone for helping to Organize the 2013 3rd Southern California
Permaculture Convergence happening this weekend in San Diego (SOLD OUT)
HERE is the History and thank you San Diego Permaculture Guild Organizers
Claudia F, Marianne West, Alden Hough, Ann Hough, Michelle Bernson,
Diego Footer, Rashid “Ra” Gilanpour
The Southern California Permaculture Convergence is a collaboratively
organized event involving multiple individuals who usually come from and
represent multiple organizations, all joining forces to organize the
Convergence. Members of the Convergence Organizing Team work mostly on a
voluntary basis to serve the greater community.
Each Convergence, a new bio-region and new organizers step up and become
involved on the Organizing Team, and help ensure the Convergence is
carried forward and weaving together the great Southern California guild.
Some of the key organizers who have been involved in previous
Convergences include Wesley Roe, Margie Bushman, Kolmi Majumdar, Warren
Brush, Joan Stevens, Sean Jennings, Mary Jennings, Joey Soto, and Rashid
“Ra” Gilanpour. Some of the key organizations who have been involved in
the past include Quail Springs, Santa Barbara Permaculture Network, and
the Los Angeles Permaculture Guild.
Claudia F – Claudia is the organizer of the San Diego Permaculture
Meetup. When she does not have her hands in the dirt, she usually has
them in some sort of trouble. She started dreaming up plans for world
domination way before she received her PDC. If you see her around, give
her a high 5 to keep her on her toes.
Marianne West - Marianne is the co-organizer of the San Diego
Permaculture Meetup group and the organizer of the Lemon Grove Organic
Edibles Garden Club. She is a Yoga Teacher, Master Composter, PDC
graduate, Community Activist, Writer, but currently spends most of her
time exploring and facilitating the Gerson Therapy for her husband and
self. This is a nutritional therapy healing cancer and many other ailments.
Alden Hough – Garden Manager and Instructor, Sky Mountain Institute.
Alden spent six years working and traveling in Asia. That experience
made him want to live a simple life and treat the Earth as if it really
mattered. Alden is a graduate of the internationally renowned Center for
Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems program at the University of
California, Santa Cruz. He is committed to organic gardening practices,
regenerating the soil, and social justice. Programs take place at their
seven acre demonstration garden and focus on hands-on training covering
such areas as soil regeneration, water harvesting, and sustainable
living, permaculture practices, helping others to develop organic
gardens and localize food sources, and backyard food networking and
information sharing. He has incorporated wild foods into his diet for
many years.
Ann Hough – Managing Director, The Escondido Creek Conservancy. Ann
moved from the UK in 2007 after a 25 year career working as an
Operations Manager for Lloyds Bank both in the UK and in India. Her
observations of the damage to the environment caused by globalization
while in India caused her to change career paths and devote her energies
to ‘right living’. She is a practitioner at Deer Park Monastery and
lives with her husband, Alden, in Harmony Grove. In her spare time she
helps Alden to run Sky Mountain Institute, a non-profit whose mission is
to connect people with nature and teach them to live more sustainably.
Michelle Bernson – Landscape Designer & Consultant, Edge + Element
Design. Michelle is a transplant from Washington State where she
received her Bachelor’s in Landscape Architecture. She has spent the
last three years promoting conversion of traditional landscape into
edible or native plantings. She currently works as a designer and
permaculture consultant.
Diego Footer – Owner / Operator, Permafornia. Trained as an engineer,
currently working in resource investments, Diego has always had an
interest in gardening and growing plants. He has a passion for
acquiring, promoting, teaching, and putting into practice all of the
knowledge that is out there to make our future truly sustainable with
ultimate abundance. He is a member of the California Rare Fruit Growers
and started a local permaculture group. He is currently in the process
of converting his suburban property into a cash-flowing permaculture
mini-farm using a variety of permaculture principles – polyculture,
microswales, greywater, chickens, and food forests. He took his PDC with
Larry Santoyo in Los Angeles.
Rashid “Ra” Gilanpour – Development / Outreach / Media, Living Mandala.
“Ra” as he is known by most, is a previous co-organizer of the 2011
Southern California Permaculture Convergence, and most recently a
co-lead producer of the 2012 Northern California Permaculture
Convergence. He currently works with Living Mandala helping to further
enhance the success of the permaculture movement by producing high
quality permaculture events, permaculture media, and educational trainings.
To Contact Specific Members of the Organizing Team, or if you wish to be
involved in helping organize a future convergence please email:
info at socalconvergence.org
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