[Sdpg] HAUTE TIME SUMMER IN THE CITY @ Path to Freedom Sunday August 29, 2004

Fri Aug 27 08:01:16 PDT 2004

HAUTE TIME SUMMER IN THE CITY @ Path to Freedom Sunday August 29, 2004

Come learn about PERMACULTURE!!!! Yes, that's right, Permanent 
[agri]CULTURE!!!! In the city and around the world New Zealand born Robina 
McCurdy, one of the world's most renowned permaculture experts, will be 
leading workshops and hosted at Path to Freedom (an urban homestead) in 
Pasadena on Sunday, August 29th and then again in Tlholego Ecovillage, 
South Africa, from November 8-13 with NextAid and Youth with a Vision.

Please come support these grass roots organizations and learn how you can 
help create a more sustainable future for our planet and our children!! You 
will be sure to walk away with a strong desire to make a difference in the 
world around you.

Presenter: Robina McCurdy of Earthcare Education
Aotearoa, New Zealand
www.pathtofreedom.com/robina

DESIGN IN PARTNERSHIP WITH NATURE - a permaculture workshop ( 9am - 4:30 pm)

Introduction to permaculture design principles, tools and process, and 
applying these to needs of the land, specifically to identify, enhance and 
create sacred spaces, restore areas need of healing and balancing, and to 
protect and create wildlife habitat. Limit to 24 participants.

Workshop fee: $135 - $65 (income based sliding scale) Email or call to 
register.

Deposit of $50 required by Tuesday Aug 24 (includes slideshow entry)

Food: workshop participants - bring food to share as combine meal for lunch 
and also for dinner (if staying for slideshow presentation)

Followed by:

PERMACULTURE GARDENS AROUND THE PLANET - a slideshow presentation followed 
by discussion ( 7 pm ).

Examples of different environments around the world where dedicated 
gardeners, using methods appropriate to their conditions, have produces an 
abundance of organic food, while creating nature havens of beauty and harmony.

Slideshow entry: $12 - $5 (income based sliding scale). This evening is 
free to workshop participants.

REGISTER & PAY NOW! @
www.pathtofreedom.com/outreach
631 Cypress Ave.
Pasadena, Ca. 91103
(626) 795-8400

PERMACULTURE WORKSHOP IN TLHOLEGO ECOVILLAGE - SOUTH AFRICA NOVEMBER 8-13

Led by New Zealand born permaculture expert Robina McCurdy, along with Paul 
Cohen, founder of the Rural Educational Development Corporation, kids from 
Youth With A Vision (YWAV), their caretakers, and others, will explore the 
fundamentals of permaculture design, specifically addressing issues of 
rural development. The curriculum will include a combination of the 
following workshop topics and tailored to our group: The Instant Organic 
Garden, Sustainable Landuse Facilitation Techniques, The Holistic 
Goal-Setting Process, and Sustainable Social Organization. Cost for the 5 
day workshop including room and board for yourself, while subsidizing a 
teen from YWAV is $750. For more information, contact Lauren Segal at 
lauren.segal at nextaid.org

Robina is a New Zealander who also identifies herself as a planetary 
citizen. She is co-founder / resident / trustee of Tui Land Trust & 
Community and founder / trustee of the Institute for Earthcare Education 
Aotearoa. She is a state and Steiner trained primary school teacher, and 
has a Permaculture Diploma in Trusteeship, Media and Education, and 
qualifications in Seed Technology. For three decades Robina has been 
engaged in broadscale community development, and for the past 18 years in 
permaculture design and teaching, organic growing, the development of 
environmental educations resources and the creation of participatory 
processes for decision making and collective action. She has taught and 
applied these powerful community-building methods with households, 
neighborhoods, schools, farms, ecovillages, and bioregions, in Aotearoa/New 
Zealand, Australia, South Africa, Ireland, Brazil and USA.Robina was the 
originator/coordinator of Golden Bay's 'PLANET Organic' a year-long 
vocational training in community-scale sustainable landuse design, 
management and facilitation. Throughout her life, she has worked with 
minimal resources to bring about significant changes in the lives of 
people. their communities and their environment. Consequently, human 
capacity building is one of Robina's special skills - inspiring, guiding 
and offering specific tools and techniques for people to access their 
gifts, develop their potential, build their resourcefulness and live their 
dreams. http://www.planetorganic.org.nz/

Path to Freedom is an urban homestead and living resource center founded in 
2001 in Pasadena, California, to educate individuals and families on how to 
integrate sustainable living practices and methods into their daily lives. 
The focus is on: organic gardening, permaculture, solar cooking, composting 
and other back-to-basic, sustainable technologies and practices relating to 
the home environment. Path to Freedom strives to inspire individuals to 
"think globally, act locally" by motivating them to live a simpler and more 
fulfilling life. The objective is to live as sustainable as possible in an 
urban environment. www.pathtofreedom.com