[Scpg] Forest Gardening Nov 14-16 in Los angeles 2003

[Wesley Roe and Marjorie Lakin Erickson]

Edible Landscaping, Forest Gardening and Agroforestry for Sustainable
Communities

November 14-16, 2003
Friday 14, 7-10 Yo Sun University Lecture
Saturday & Sunday 9-4 Venice High School  Workshop

Agroforestry is a land management, stewardship techniques of using
multi-story trees, shrubs, ground cover, root crops and vines within a 
confined areas.
This highly diversifies perennial farming system uses  the principles of a
mature forest to build many functions into a community farming system. 
Alleviating
a need for synthetic fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides by replacing
natural biological functions and the activities of diversity. For thousands of
years ancient cultures produced their foods, medicines and other daily
necessities in agroforestry systems linking perennial and annual gardens. 
Many of the
wild jungles of today are actually over-grown gardens of ancient peoples
Agrforestry is a process of on-site resource production, based on perennial 
crops
that mimic the structure of a forest system.

Forest Gardening is the cultivation of complex long-lived polycultures that
yield food, fiber and medicine for community uses. This is a synthesis of
agroforestry techniques with domestic economy. This powerful paradigm 
offers the
world hope for the increased food security, ecological restoration and a new
economics.

As the petroleum dependence of the global economy topples us towards a
permanent state of war, no more pressing issues presents itself than food , 
water
and energy security. This is home-grown well being for home land security..
Forest Gardening in the backyard has been a community success. Institutions,
public parks, school yards and golf courses can grow edible parks and 
plazas that
could impact healthier people and a planet with agroforestry techniques. These
designs  are on the  cutting edge of a 10,000 year old technology.

Teaching Team
Dr. William Roley, Director Permaculture Institute of Southern California
Steve Gates, Living Systems
Tom Del Hotel, Fruit Tree Expert
George Patton Master Landscaper
David King, Garden Master Venice Learning Garden

Contact Living Systems 310-936-1128 or Permaculture Institute 949-494-5843
for more information

Cost: Friday night lecture $10 donation; Sat & Sun $25 per day; entire
workshop $50
     Work trade scholarships are available Hosted by Living Systems


Learning Garden
Venice High School
Nov 14-17, 2003


Friday November 14,  7-10 PM

7:00-7:30 Introduction to Learning Garden and its Community Steve Gates
7:30- 8:30 Agroforestry Systems Around the World Bill Roley
8:30 – 9:30    Discussion of Food Forests and Edible Landscaping
9:30 – 10:00  Networking and Needs Assessment of Why you are Here

Saturday November 15, 9 AM – 4 PM

     9:00-9:45 Garden Tour and Learning Center Plan
         David King, Garden Master of Learning Garden
Professor UCLA Botanist and Yo San University
"Gardening on a budget"

     9;45-11:30  Elements of Agroforestry and Ecological Landscaping

             What does Nature Do?

         Soils and Microbes ( FBI, Fungus, Bacteria and Insects)
         Composting or Mulching
Nitrogen and Phosphorus Cycles
         How to select and plant an edible landscape
         Adding Herbs and Shrubs: Guilds
         Seeding grown covers and Herbs

     11:30- 12:30 Practicum
             Sheet Mulching, Composting,
Green Manure- Cover Crops and  Seed Innoculations

     !2:30 – 1:30 Food from Gardens that Feed the Soul
Pests are a constant companion in conventional farming practices. Forest
Gardening insects are either beneficial or they have been virtually vanquished
suing BioIslands .

     1:30 - 3:00 Forage Farming, Vertical Mulching and Permaculture

     3-00- 4:00 Hands on Planting your Favorite Trees, Herbs and Veggies







Sunday November 16,  9-4 PM

     9-10 Am Tom Del Hotel, Pacific Tree Nurseryman and Landscape Designer
Guilds of Herbs, Fruit Trees, and Vegetables


10-12 AM  Planting Systems Practicum
               Neighbors in the Garden: fish, frogs and birds
               Cars and the Public

     12:00 – 1:00 Lunch and Networking

     1:00 – 2:30 PM Finding Tools to Build Your Integrated System

     2:30 – 4:00 Where to go from Here, Internships, and Future Projects