[Scpg] Saturday July 17th, 10 am/Mayan Food Forest Talk/Santa Barbara City College East Campus, Room EBS 309

[Margie Bushman, Coordinator, SBCC Center for Sustainability]

   WHAT: THE  MAYAN FOOD FOREST: Ancient wisdom for modern sustainable food
systems
WHEN: On  Saturday July 17th, 10 am - noon
WHO: UCSB  archeologist Dr. Annabel Ford who works with the Maya at El
Pilar Forest Garden  Network in Belize
WHERE: Santa Barbara City College East Campus,  Room EBS 309 (Earth and
Biology Sciences Building)
FEE:  free
CONTACT: Larry Saltzman 805  451-4168 
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Renowned UCSB archeologist Dr.  Annabel Ford will share exciting new
research and understandings of how  traditional Mayan food forestry offers
important clues and inspiration for  building truly sustainable 
modern food supply
systems. "We often think  of the rainforest as untouched by humans, or
'virgin forest,'" she says."In  reality, it can be understood as the garden of
the ancient Maya: the product of  millennia of management by forest gardeners
who cultivated the cycle of milpa,  forest garden, and forest. In fact, 90%
of plants in the forest are useful to  humans, indicating considerable human
influence. The Maya Forest remains the  second most biodiverse place in the
world (the Amazon forest is the first). The  legacy of the ancient Maya
forest gardeners is continued by the Maya farmers of  the El Pilar Forest
Garden Network."

The Maya were and are master  agriculturalists whose exquisitely-designed
Food Forests can teach all of  us about sustainable agriculture. Dr. Ford
works with the modern Maya  at El Pilar and has also excavated at the 
site. She
has established that the  Mayans have been engaged in food forestry for at
least 8,000  years.

Directions: parking is free on the weekends,  drive to the right of  the
kiosk at the main entrance/East campus, and that parking continues to the
right of the kiosk all the way to the top of the stadium which overlooks the
ocean.come early to find parking and the classroom

traveling North:
Merge onto US 101 North toward SB,  27.1  miles
Take Bath st. exit, exit 97, .2 miles
Turn slight right onto Bath  street, .1 miles
Turn left onto West Haley st., .1 miles
Turn left onto  Castillo st., .2 miles
Turn right onto W Montecito st/CA-225. Continue to  follow CA-225 , .3 miles
721 Cliff is on the left

traveling South:
merge onto US-101 South
take the Castillo st exit,  exit 97, toward Harbor
turn right onto Castillo st.
Turn right onto W  Montecito st/CA-225. Continue to follow CA-225 , .3 miles
721 Cliff is on the  left

Larry Saltzman





Santa Barbara Permaculture Network
    an educational non-profit since 2000
(805) 962-2571
P.O. Box 92156, Santa Barbara, CA 93190
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order to grow." - Anonymous


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