[Scpg] correction re. food forest project in Santa Barbara
LBUZZELL at aol.com
LBUZZELL at aol.com
Mon Dec 13 08:21:22 PST 2010
Correction:
I'd like to also acknowledge that the entire project started as a Santa
Barbara City College student group project in ENVS 200 [Environmental Studies]
Projects in Sustainability under Dr. Adam K Green, Assistant Professor,
Environmental Studies Program Coordinator and Director of the SBCC Center for
Sustainability. The students who worked with the church, chamber of
commerce, permaculture groups, and the Mesa newspaper put in a huge effort to get
everyone on board and initiate the effort.
Unfortunately this information wasn't fully included in the Santa Barbara
News-Press article.
Apologies for any misinformation. We're huge fans of Adam, his students
and all their good work,
Linda
In a message dated 12/12/2010 1:51:54 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,
LBUZZELL at aol.com writes:
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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