[Scpg] Few Spaces left sign up soon/SAT Mar 10/Urban Homesteading Workshop with Author Rachel Kaplan

Wed Mar 7 20:52:21 PST 2012

Workshop on March 10, Few Spaces left sign up soon:

Santa Barbara Permaculture Network & Fairview Gardens Present:
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Urban Homestead Design Lab~Workshop
for Property Owners & Renters
with Author Rachel Kaplan
Saturday, March 10, 2012
  Noon-4pm
  Cost  $75
Location: Center for Urban Agriculture at Fairview Gardens

Do you seek homegrown sustainability that matches 
your values but don't live in the country?  Eager 
to start homesteading in your urban or suburban 
lot?  Wondering how to begin when you rent in the 
city? Learn about the different elements that 
make up an urban homestead and how to put them 
together in whatever space you have.  Explore 
homestead designs that review the limitations and 
opportunities of both your land & lifestyle.

Join Rachel Kaplan, author of Urban Homesteading: 
Heirloom Skills for Sustainable Living, on 
Saturday, March 10, Noon-4pm, at Fairview 
Gardens, for an exciting workshop that teaches 
the skills of urban homesteading with working 
models for affordable, abundant, and beautiful ways to live.

TOPICS WILL INCLUDE: Introduction to Urban 
Homesteading • Urban Farming • Soil Building • 
Garden Design • Animals • BeeKeeping
Kitchen Skills • Medicine • Water •  Energy • 
Natural Building • City-Care • How-to Projects 
for the Small-scale Homestead • Basics in Urban Permaculture

Rachel Kaplan has been gardening in and around 
urban environments for more than 20 years, and 
belongs to a family of farmers and gardeners from 
both the East & West coasts.  She is a 
psychotherapist and educator, and offers 
consultation with a permaculture focus for 
businesses, non-profits, schools & community 
groups.  Kaplan has Master Degrees in both 
Inter-disciplinary Arts and Counseling 
Psychology, and is a certified permaculture 
designer.  She lives in Northern California on her homestead Tiny Town Farm.

The event takes place on Saturday, March 10, Noon 
- 4pm, at Fairview Gardens, Goleta, CA, 93117.
  $75; reservations required.  For more info & to 
register: 
<mailto:Sharon at FairviewGardens.org>Sharon at FairviewGardens.org , 805-967-7369.
http://www.fairviewgardens.org/2011/11/25/urban-homestead-design-lab-for-property-owners-and-renters/

Additional Info:

Urban Homesteading: Heirloom Skills for Sustainable Living, by Rachel Kaplan
   http://urban-homesteading.org/ ; Gives every 
day people the tools they need to live more sustainably, in small and big ways

Grow Your Own Way Benefit Event/Friday March 9, 5-9pm:

PUBLIC TALK & BOOKSIGNING with Urban Homesteading Author Rachel Kaplan
At the Grow Your Own Way Benefit for the Food 
Bank  of Santa Barbara County's New Food Growing Program
Location: Trinity  Episcopal Church
1500 State Street  Santa Barbara, CA 93101
Benefit Donation $20 ($5 for Students, Activists 
& Seniors-fixed income, includes raffle ticket)

Grow Your Own Way Benefit Event Program Schedule:
5pm-6:30pm Meet & Greet:
3 Chefs provide hors d'oeuvre from local growers and producers; Silent Auction
6:30pm Opening Program: with Erik Talkin, 
Director, Food Bank of County of Santa Barbara Food Bank
& Oscar Carmona, Grow Your Own Way  Food Program Manager
7:15-8:30pm Keynote Speaker: Rachel Kaplan, Author,
Urban Homesteading: Heirloom Skills for Sustainable Living
8:30pm Raffle: Winner Announcements

Grow Your Own Event contact:
Carla Rosin Event Coordinator; 805-816-8188, crosart05 at yahoo.com
www.foodbanksbc.org, & www.sbpermaculture.org
A Community Service provided by Santa Barbara Permaculture Network Non-Profit

"GROW YOUR OWN WAY",
         "LA COMIDA CRECE EN CASA"...
~A NEW Food Growing Program for the Food Bank of Santa Barbara County
This  program is designed to empower some of the 
1 in 4 people across the County of Santa Barbara 
the Food Bank serves, to take a new perspective 
on their role in the food system. Growing some of 
your own food not only provides a healthy 
addition to your diet, it gets you out of the 
role of a passive consumer and gets you thinking about what else is possible.

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