LBO's Movie Night - Friday, Jan. 28 at 7pm

[Paul n Shelley]

Dear friends;

I hope you will support Long Beach Organic and its programs by attending
the following event.

See you there!

Paul Racko
Long Beach Organic


Long Beach Organic invites you to a special screening of "Forest
Gardening"

Some thirty years ago, Robert Hart had a vision of planting a small
food-producing forest, which could fulfill the needs of a healthy diet
and at the same time create a beautiful and ecologically sound
environment. His ideas, based on tropical "home gardens", combine
maximum productivity with minimum labor. Hart's garden serves as a model
of what can be achieved in any backyard.

This 48 minute film explores Hart's practical and philosophical ideas,
and goes on to look at two other projects inspired by the principles of
forest gardening:

• On a windy plot in Cornwall, England, Ken Fern has set up a farm that
could influence the human/plant relationship for generations to come.
Fern grows 1,500 species of useful perennial plants (and has cataloged
5,500 more on a database). His goal is to create a garden that satisfies
a variety of needs --  above all, enjoyment.
• Meanwhile in a suburban setting, Mike & Julia Guerra have created a
tiny garden that produces an inspiring bounty of food. Working as little
as 2 hours  per week, they grow produce for six months of the year by
combining the techniques of permaculture design, forest gardening, and
organic growing.

Anyone looking for small-scale, practical solutions to world problems
will find this video both helpful and inspirational.

Also Showing!
Creating Communities that Work
A fifteen-minute video capturing the highlights of sustainable community
development in the USA, it's an excellent tool to help introduce your
community to the principles of sustainable development.

Friday, January 28th at 7 pm
at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Long Beach
5450 E. Atherton Street

Donations on a $3-5 sliding scale will be accepted at the door. 
All proceeds to benefit Long Beach Organic & its programs.

For more information contact:
Long Beach Organic at (562) 438-9000
On the Internet at http://longbeachorganic.org


-- 
"Immoral governments tolerate desertification and land-salting,
concreted highways and city sprawl, which take more good land
permanently out of life production than the loss of territory to a
conqueror. Immorality of this nature is termed "progress" and "growth"
to confuse the ignorant and to supplant local self-reliance for the
temporary ends of centralised power."

- Bill Mollison, Permaculture: A Designer's Manual