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[Wesley Roe and Santa Barbara Permaculture Network]

The Permaculture Neighborhood Center - Permaculture Artisans,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=8YHLmByKpts

www.permacutlureartisans.com - Erik Ohlsen takes you on a tour of an 
edible oasis he created on a 1/3 acre asphalt lot, encouraging you to 
think about sustainable living for small-town and suburban life. In the 
face of drought, fire, peak oil, energy depletion, soil depletion and 
more, what can you do to live a more eco-friendly life?

The Permaculture Neighborhood Center - Permaculture Artisans,


It's hard to believe this magical permaculture food forest used to be an 
asphalt parking lot 3 years ago. Fruits, vegetables, berries, medicinal 
and cooking herbs all flourish here in abundance.

Welcome to The Permaculture Neighborhood Center in Sebastapol, CA, where 
a group called the Permaculture Artisans transformed this space.

Founder and owner Erik Ohlsen proudly describes the vision: "A 
neighborhood center that can not only support the food and medicine 
needs of the community, but be a gathering place to learn about how we 
can take urban lots - asphalted, cemented, pesticide ridden lots - and 
turn them into edible oases."

The group incorporated soil fertility systems, roof water catchment and 
other innovative permaculture techniques. They created "water abundance 
by design", by creating a pond to circulate water and to attract 
beneficial insects and other creatures to the environment. They have 
grafted living trees together to create "fences".

Take the tour in this video and pick up a wealth of information on 
permaculture techniques for how to resurrect abundant plant life from a 
dead parking lot space. With this design approach, nature takes it's 
course and each year you "do" less and less, while more and more grows. 
This video shows us it's possible!

--Bibi Farber

For more information, visit www.permacultureartisans.com