[Scpg] Backyard Food Forests

Wed Sep 26 13:30:16 PDT 2007

The Santa Barbara Organic Garden Club presents
Backyard Food Forests Applying Permaculture principles to your garden
Sat October 20th from 10:00 AM to 12:00 Noon.? RSVP to lbsaltzman at aol.com and you will receive directions to the event.

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Today's Topics:

   1. Celebrating the Maya Forest as a Garden Saturday, October 13,
      2007 from 11 am to 4 pm, Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History,
      Farrand Hall (Wesley Roe and Santa Barbara Permaculture Network)
   2. City Repair/Mark Lakeman Autumn 2007 Presentation Tour CA &OR
      (Wesley Roe and Santa Barbara Permaculture Network)

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Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 06:59:15 -0700
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Subject: [Scpg] Celebrating the Maya Forest as a Garden Saturday,
    October 13, 2007 from 11 am to 4 pm, Santa Barbara Museum of Natural
    History, Farrand Hall
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,Celebrating the Maya Forest as a Garden
Meet the Mayan Forest Gardeners from El Pilar!
Presented by ESP-Maya, a 501c3 non-profit organization, with SBMNH
At the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, Farrand Hall
Saturday, October 13, 2007 from 11 am to 4 pm

The Original PermaCulturists

The Maya have long been exalted for their 
architectural and artistic grandeur. Towering 
temples dominating grand open plazas remain the 
enduring evidence of their power.  Keen observers 
of natural phenomena, their priests studied the 
heavens, making accurate celestial predictions 
with precise mathematics. The Maya were also 
superb gardeners. They domesticated their wild 
jungles and tropical landscape and established 
their cities based on forest gardens.
This powerfully effective art, architecture, and 
agriculture was, amazingly, established without 
the aid of wheels and plows or the draft animals, 
or even heavy metals like iron. Rather than being 
constrained by this, the Maya were able to create 
a productive landscape that provided thousands of 
years of growth and development. This is 
supremely evident in the remarkably diverse and 
sophisticated development of their landscape. 
Well-known plants that we rely on today were part 
of the Maya diet: the sun trilogy of maize, 
beans, squash; basic vegetables such as tomato 
and chile; fibers such as cotton; condiments like 
allspice tree and achiote bush; and the important 
shaded delicacies of chocolate and vanilla.
Tailored to the local geography, the Maya 
cultivated the forest as a garden for thousands 
of years. Today the Maya forest is dominated by 
these useful plants, nurtured by traditional 
farmers of the region who grow a wide array of 
food, medicine, and spice as well as materials 
for construction and home utensils.   Their 
forest gardens provide nourishment for their 
families, maintain the soil fertility, secure water, and clean the air.

Come and meet them!
Join Us and Discover the World of the Maya  Past and Present
? Where did the ancient Maya live?  ? What are we 
doing to protect the Maya heritage?
? How can we learn from the Maya Forest Garden?
These are some of the fascinating question we 
will cover in our panel discussion
At Fiesta El Pilar.
?       Beloved local landscape designer Lori Ann 
David will moderate a celebration of the tropical Maya forest past and present
?       Archaeologist Anabel Ford will introduce the Maya world
?       A panel of local and international 
experts will explore traditional landscapes.
?       Maya forest gardeners from El Pilar 
Belize  Master Gardener Alfonzo Tzul, Traditional 
Healer Beatrice Waight, and Young Entrepreneur 
Lucas Medina will discuss how they conserve and prosper in the Maya forest
?       Learn about Chumash landscapes 
traditional Chumash Healer Adelina Padilla
?       Explore how traditional knowledge can 
contribute to our own lives and landscapes.

Music by El Son del Pueblo ? Food and Drinks ? Booths
Suggested contribution: $25-$100
Contact info:  Anabel Ford 805 893 8191/ford at marc.ucsb.edu
www.marc.ucsb.edu/elpilar/brass/phome.shtml

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Subject: [Scpg] City Repair/Mark Lakeman Autumn 2007 Presentation Tour
    CA &OR
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City Repair/Mark Lakeman Autumn 2007 Presentation Tour CA &OR

Event Calendar:

* Saturday, Sept 29, 7:30pm- New College of
California,
   Santa Rosa, North Bay campus

* Sunday, Sept 30, Workshop with New College Students,
   Contact New College for more information.

* Monday, October 1st, 6-9pm, for Willits
   Economic Localization Initiative, Willits Community
   Center, Willits, CA.

* Tuesday, October 2nd, Regenerative Design & Nature
   Awareness School with Jon Young & Penny Livingston,
   near San Gregorio, Evening Presentation,
   at 415-868-9681.

* Wednesday, October 3rd, Esalen Institute at Big Sur,
   Daytime workshop and evening community-wide
   presentation.

* Thursday, October 4th, in Santa Barbara:
   - Noon-1pm, "Nuts and Bolts of City Repair", Public
     Library, Faulkner Gallery.

   - 7:45pm, "The Village Lives" Presentation, Public
     Library, Faulkner Gallery.

* Saturday, October 6th, UCLA Planning School,
Graduate
   Student Conference, Presentation and Workshop in the
   Field. Call Ava at 818.939.9205

* Tuesday, October 9th, 7-9pm, Soulutioneers 2007
   Speaker Series, 1950 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley.

* Wednesday, October 10th, 6:30-8pm, An Architects,
   Designers, and Planners for Social Responsibility
   Event, Pacific Energy Center 851 Howard Street.

* Thursday, October 11th, Evening Event, in Point
   Reyes, Time and Location TBD.

* Alternate Date:
   Friday, October 12th, 6-9pm, for Willits
   Economic Localization Initiative, Willits Community
   Center, Willits, CA.

* Monday, October 15th, 7-9pm, Lost Valley Educational
   Center, near Eugene, Oregon. From Interstate 5
   driving south: Take exit 188A (Highway 58) towards
   Klamath Falls. After 8.7 miles, turn right onto
   Rattlesnake Road. After 3.7 miles, turn right onto
   Lost Valley Lane. Continue .9 mile, then turn right
   into driveway at LVEC sign.

City Repair Project
www.cityrepair.org

As both an organization and a larger movement, The
City Repair Project inspires and guides the
transformation of the grid infrastructure of the
typical American city into a vital social commons. The
multidisciplinary nature of City Repair defies
categorization. Similar to Permaculture design, it has
become a national movement for social and ecological
restoration operating in a landscape characterized by
isolation and compartmentalization. The project takes
Fritjof Capra's 'Tipping Point' as a model for
paradigm change by intentionally focusing upon
intersections in space and time. City Repair is
directly reclaiming those intersection points,
converting spaces of collision into places of
convergence, and opening the field for what
automatically happens when people reunite with their
Place: everything.

This presentation compares the historic settlement
patterns of village societies with the dominant forces
of Western colonization as a context for describing
City Repair's work. As revealed through this visually
stunning event, the multidisciplinary culture of City
Repair combines architecture, urban planning,
anthropology, community development, public art,
permaculture and ecological design in projects that
transform space and transfer power to local levels.
The presentation is chronological, proceeding from the
most elementary and accessible project scales to
enormous visionary collaborations involving thousands
of people. Each project restates the same essential
principles of localization, community participation
and placemaking, but the forms always change and grow.
As an overall movement, each project builds upon
previous successes to manifest larger and larger
impacts.

Through a restorative process in which citizens
re-imagine and literally re-build their own commons,
City Repair is engendering relationships that
revitalize the fabric of our local community within
the existing context of social isolation.  By
re-asserting localized village patterns in the city
grid, City Repair establishes both the physical and
social foundation for sustainable culture.

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