[Scpg] new food forest project in Santa Barbara

[LBUZZELL at aol.com]

In the "Faith and Values" section of the Santa Barbara News-Press on Sat.,  
Dec 11, 2010, a 2 page article by Ted Mills was published: "Garden of Eden: 
Mesa  church plants to turn small plot of land into community bounty".   
Unfortunately the article is behind a subscriber wall, but the jist is that 
Holy  Cross Church, on the Mesa in Santa Barbara, California, now has a new  
permaculture food forest called "Mesa Harmony Garden" which is "set to become 
 several things: a way to feed those in need, an exciting example of 
permaculture  and a gift from a local church to the Mesa community."  
 
The project involves church members (including Holy Cross priest, Father  
Ludo DeClippel, deacon Randy Saake and the area bishop), local business  
people, Santa Barbara City College, and Permaculture Guild of Santa Barbara  
members.  The food from the garden will be harvested by the local Food Bank  
and will feed those in need.
 
Permaculture guild member Loren Luyendyk, a local permaculture designer and 
 teacher, put in three days carving out the earthworks for the project, 
which  will have 300 fruit trees on berms above swales, and will include a 
banana  circle. Guild co-chair Larry Saltzman and other guild members have  been 
involved in the food forest design, fruit tree choices and land  
preparation as well. Permaculture guild, garden club, church  and community members, 
plus SBCC students were all active in the digging  and fruit tree planting.
 
Project members hope that this story will inspire other faith groups in our 
 community to transform their extra land into community gardens and food 
forests.   

Linda  Buzzell
Member,  Communications Team
Permaculture Guild of Santa Barbara
_www.permacultureguildsb.org_ 
(http://www.permacultureguildofsantabarbara.blogspot.com/) 
lbuzzell at aol.com (805)  563-2089

"...the greatest change we need to make is from consumption  to production, 
even if on a small scale, in our own gardens. If only 10% of us  do this, 
there is enough for everyone. Hence the futility of revolutionaries who  have 
no gardens, who depend on the very system they attack, and who produce  
words and bullets, not food and shelter."
~ Bill Mollison, co-creator of the  Permaculture concept


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