[Scpg] Monday Oct 10/Edible Forest Garden Event with Author Dave Jacke/Mesa Harmony Garden Celebration

Sat Oct 8 07:13:35 PDT 2011

Join us for this special event, that celebrates the wonderful 
collaborative energies of students, institutions, and community 
members, to achieve something really innovative, a food forest garden 
model that takes a bit of urban space, and creates food abundance by 
mimicking natures own perennial polyculture design.  We are extremely 
fortunate to have author Dave Jacke, one of the premier authorities 
on forest gardening in North America, share his knowledge and wisdom 
with us all at this evening talk.

All admission fees to the event will be donated to Mesa Harmony 
Gardens, in honor of the garden's one year anniversary. Please join us!
Emacs!

  $15 garden supporter/$10general/$5 Students
Fe Bland Auditorium, SBCC West Campus, 721 Cliff Dr, SB 93109
http://sustainability.sbcc.edu
(no reservations required)

More Info:
Contact: Margie Bushman
Coordinator, SBCC Center for Sustainability
(805) 962-2571,  email, sbpcnet at silcom.com

SBCC Center for Sustainability presents:

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Edible Forest Gardens with Dave Jacke
Evening Talk
A Fundraiser for Mesa Harmony Garden
Monday, Oct 10, 7:30-9 pm 2011
Santa Barbara City College, West Campus, Fe Bland Auditorium
  $15 garden supporter/$10general/$5 Students

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         Join the SBCC Center for Sustainability as it hosts a 
Fundraiser for Mesa Harmony Garden on Monday, October 10, 7:30- 9pm, 
with special guest Dave Jacke, author of "Edible Forest Gardens".

Healthy forests maintain, fertilize, and renew themselves, 
naturally.  Wouldn't you like to grow an abundant food-producing 
ecosystem like this in your back yard? You can!

Edible forest gardens mimic the structure and function of natural 
forests through all their stages of development and grow food, fuel, 
fiber, fodder, fertilizers, and fun.  They can meet our own needs and 
regenerate healthy ecosystems at the same time.

Dave Jacke's talk introduces the vision of forest gardening, 
including scientific background, a few living examples, and a 
sampling of perennial edibles you can use in your own garden.  Jacke 
will also touch on ecological principles that lie at the core of 
forest garden design, and apply equally well to how we might design 
human social systems.

         Dave Jacke is the primary author of the award winning 
two-volume book Edible Forest Gardens.  He has studied ecology and 
design since the 1970s, and has run his own design firm Dynamics 
Ecological Design, since 1984. An engaging and passionate teacher of 
ecological design and permaculture, Dave has designed, built, and 
planted landscapes, homes, farms, and communities in many parts of 
the United States, as well as overseas.  He is a co-founder of Land 
Trust at Gap Mountain in Jaffrey, NH, and holds a B.A. in 
Environmental Studies from Simon's Rock College and a M.A. in 
Landscape Design from the Conway School of Landscape Design. -

         Mesa Harmony Garden is a food forest in the making, started 
by a group of students in the Projects in Sustainability class at 
Santa Barbara City College, who wanted to see a community garden on 
the Mesa.  Located and supported enthusiastically by Holy Cross 
Catholic Church who leased the land to the group, the project engages 
members of the business community, church parishioners, student 
volunteers and neighbors.  In addition to teaching sustainable 
living, it has an intent to ultimately provide food for the needy 
with the Santa Barbara Food Bank's Backyard Bounty program.  Along 
with many other food producing plants, over 100 trees have been 
planted so far, 300 are planned, with the local permaculture 
community providing knowledge and food forest expertise.

Mesa Harmony Garden celebrates its one year anniversary, October, 2011.

Honored at the evening program will be those whose efforts have made 
Mesa Harmony Garden a reality:
Jan Cross, who with other SBCC Projects in Sustainability class 
members conceptualized and initiated the food forest garden project
Adam Green, Director of the Center for Sustainability and instructor 
for the Projects in Sustainability class
Father Ludo DeClippel, Pastor, Holy Cross Church
Randy Saake, Holy Cross Church Deacon, and Treasurer, Mesa Harmony Garden
Josh Kane, Mesa business community member, President, Mesa Harmony Garden
Hugh Kelly Vice President, Mesa Harmony Garden
Larry Saltzman, food forest expert & advisor, implemented 
permaculture design for the garden
Loren Luyendyk, permaculture designer, swales and berm system 
implementation & design
Jon Pearl, practical support & expertise and gift of plants
Doug Hagensen, program manager for the Santa Barbara County Backyard 
Bounty Program

Members of the Mesa Harmony Garden will be available to answer 
questions about their evolving food forest in the courtyard before 
the talk begins.

The event takes place on Monday, October 10, 7:30 - 9pm, at the Fe 
Bland Auditorium, SBCC West Campus, 721 Cliff Dr, SB 
93109.  Admission $15 special garden supporter/$10 general/$5 
students, no reservations required.  The event is sponsored by the 
SBCC Center for Sustainability.

SBCC Center for Sustainability http://sustainability.sbcc.edu, 
sbpcnet at silcom.com, (805) 962-2571

More Info:

Mesa Harmony Garden
www.mesaharmonygarden.org

Dave Jacke/Edible Forest Gardens
http://www.edibleforestgardens.com/

Workshop at the LA Arboretum
Gardening Like the Forest: Steps To Ecological Gardening
October 8th & 9th, 2011
Los Angeles Arboretum & Botanic Garden
http://www.arboretum.org/index.php/news/

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