[Scpg] Upcoming Events and Radio Interview available

[Quail Springs]

Greetings!  
We're in the midst of our second Permaculture Design Course at Quail Springs, with Darren Doherty 
and another group of amazing students from our region and a few from around the country.  
There were a few requests to make Darren's interview with Sustainable World Radio KCSB 91.9 FM 
from October 5th available on our website, so we've done just that.  
Go to http://ent.groundspring.org/EmailNow/pub.php?module=URLTracker&cmd=track&j=168984345&u=1680341 to hear Darren Doherty (Australian Keyline and 
Permaculture Designer and teacher) and Guner Tautrim (6th generation land steward in the 
Gaviota area at Orella Ranch) speak with Jill Cloutier of Sustainable World Radio...

UPCOMING EVENT 
Mon. Oct 22, 6:30 pm Water for Every Farm FREE TALK 
with Darren Doherty Keyline and Permaculture Designer
Montgomery Hall at New Cuyama Recreation Center 
Highway 166 in New Cuyama next to "The Cuyama Buckhorn"
Tea and cookies will be served 
Contact Kolmi -info at quailsprings.org, http://ent.groundspring.org/EmailNow/pub.php?module=URLTracker&cmd=track&j=168984345&u=1680342 
 
see http://ent.groundspring.org/EmailNow/pub.php?module=URLTracker&cmd=track&j=168984345&u=1680343 for more courses with Darren Doherty


Another upcoming event hosted by the SB Permaculture Network at La Casa de la Raza, not to be 
missed, see below for details...
SANTA BARBARA PERMACULTURE NETWORK 
Presents:
Food, Culture, & Future Generations 
With Ed Mendoza 
Native American Farmer, Poet & Permaculturist 
Saturday, October 27, 2007, 6:30-9pm 
 
Food & Music, Raffle 
La Casa de la Raza, Santa Barbara, CA
The evening event takes place at La Casa de la Raza, in Santa Barbara, CA, 601 E. 
Montecito St, on Sat, Oct 27, 6:30-9pm. Food, Music & Fundraising raffle for 
Permaculture de Aztlan projects with Indigenous Communities in North, Central & 
South America. Sponsors are Santa Barbara Permaculture Network & La Casa de la 
Raza. Donations welcome. For more information, please call (805)-962-2571 
margie at sbpermaculture.org , http://ent.groundspring.org/EmailNow/pub.php?module=URLTracker&cmd=track&j=168984345&u=1680344
Eduardo (Ed) Mendoza (Xikano-Nahuatl), farmer, author, activist, and Director of Indigenous 
Permaculture de Aztlan, comes to Santa Barbara to speak about his experiences in California and 
Mexico, growing food and growing culture.
A Santa Barbara native, Ed has been growing gardens since he was a boy, learning from his father. 
Working in the fields picking crops while in high school and college, he later graduated from Cal Poly 
San Luis Obispo, with a degree in Agricultural Science. He learned about growing blue corn from Mexico 
from his adopted grandfather, the late Rafael Guerrero, one of the founders of D-Q University in Davis, 
California.
In 1993 Mendoza became an agricultural advisor for the Traditional Native American Farmers 
Association and started to train in Permaculture (PERMAnent agriCULTURE), a design system based on 
ecological principles for creating sustainable human environments. He worked for the Gila River Indian 
Community, establishing an aquaculture and farming program to teach young juveniles about 
traditional crops. Ed helped establish the Casa Blanca Growers Cooperative which grows mostly 
traditional organic crops. He has also been part of the Permaculture teaching team for Indigenous 
Permaculture ( http://ent.groundspring.org/EmailNow/pub.php?module=URLTracker&cmd=track&j=168984345&u=1680345) teaching at the annual Indigenous Permaculture 
Design Course in Sante Fe, New Mexico.
The purpose of Indigenous Permaculture de Aztlan is to assist indigenous nations in North, Central and 
South America learn the means to be economically self sufficient and to respect culture and ceremony, 
and restore lands for future generations. Part of the vision is to encourage youth to go to these countries 
to help, learning through cultural exchange.
Recently Ed Mendoza has traveled to Belize and Guatemala to teach about permaculture and the 
importance of growing and saving traditional seeds. He has worked with a coalition of traditional 
growers that traveled to Italy for an International Slow Foods Conference, learning farming methods 
from around the world. He has been invited to Columbia, Thailand and Argentina to demonstrate 
sustainable farming techniques, and will be going to Baja, California to teach a workshop on rainwater 
harvesting, while participating in a mesquite bean harvest with the Seri Indian community. 
Mendoza recently won a place in the Writers Place contest for his poem, As the Peaches Come, and has a 
newly finished manuscript titled Mud & Blood. He reads regularly at Art in the Alley in Casa Grande, 
Arizona and has read in New York and in New Mexico. Poems are about family, love, the streets, the 
desert, growing food, life and prayer. He is currently writing a novel and is doing research on his families 
history in Mexico and California. Ed is a respected member of his community and considered a 
ceremonial leader and regularly participates in Sun Dance, Native American Church and other 
ceremonies.


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