[Scpg] Sat JUL 13/Event in Support of SBCC Student Indiegogo Permaculture Garden Campaign/The Vegetable Gardener's Guide to Permaculture with Christopher Shein from Merritt Community College

Wed Jul 10 20:40:32 PDT 2013

A book signing event with Christopher Shein at Santa Barbara City 
College on July 13, is in support of a student initiated online 
indiegogo fundraiser for a proposed Permaculture garden on the SBCC campus.

Please join us to learn  more about this edible, ecological garden, 
to be located in front of the Culinary Arts Department.  SBCC 
Culinary Arts Department Chair, Randy Bublitz, and Food Services 
Director Marc Sullivan just returned from the Permaculture Your 
Campus conference at University of Massachusetts Amherst, where they 
have an award winning quarter acre garden in front of their main 
dining hall.  Attendees from campuses across the country came to the 
conference to learn how they might emulate on their own campuses.

  Booksigning & Evening Talk with
Christopher Shein
author of
The Vegetable Gardener's Guide to Permaculture
Emacs!

a fundraiser for proposed SBCC Permaculture Garden

Saturday, July 13, 6:30pm, $10
Event Location: SBCC Fe Bland/BC Forum, West Campus

All proceeds go to the Indiegogo fundraiser campaign initiated by 
SBCC Students! ~ Goal $10,000
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/build-a-permaculture-garden-at-santa-barbara-city-college?browse_v=old_no_dropdown

Any gardener can be a positive asset to the interconnected web of life
  ~ Christopher Shein
         O n Saturday, July 13, Santa Barbara Permaculture Network 
hosts a book signing event with author Christopher Shein and his 
newly released book, The Vegetable Gardener's Guide to Permaculture, 
as a fundraiser to support Santa Barbara City College students and 
their online campaign to raise funds for a Permaculture Garden at 
Santa Barbara City College (SBCC).

Inspired by an event earlier in the year at SBCC with Ryan Harb from 
the University of Massachusetts Amherst, whose Permaculture Your 
Campus garden project won national recognition with a Champions of 
Change Award at the White House in 2012, students attending the 
workshop decided they wanted to create something similar at SBCC.

The proposed permaculture garden would be located in front of the 
SBCC Culinary Arts Department.  Both the SBCC Permaculture Design 
Course class & the Projects in Sustainability class have already 
created designs for the garden, with input from the Culinary Arts 
program, who will use produce from the garden.

On a statewide booktour organized by Santa Barbara Permaculture 
Network, Christopher Shein stops by SBCC to support the students & 
share experiences of the permaculture garden & food forest at Merritt 
Community College in Oakland, California, where he teaches.

Prior to creating his book, Christopher spent 20 years in the East 
Bay as a garden designer applying permaculture design principals to 
build public and private sustainable gardens and food forests with 
his landscape business, Wildheart Gardens.  With students, he founded 
the Permaculture Demonstration Garden at Merritt College in Oakland 
11 years ago to show ideas for sustainable food gardens as applied in 
California's dry summer climate.  More than 700 students have helped 
create a wildly productive food forest.

The Vegetable Gardener's Guide to Permaculture is an inspiring, 
easy-to-follow, information packed guide that is designed to help 
readers transform their home & community gardens into productive food 
forests that will feed them for years to come.

Permaculture is an ancient, but cutting edge technology, that employs 
design strategies that work with nature, instead of relying on back 
breaking work, fertilizers, herbicides, and pesticides.  The 
permaculture gardener uses methods that build healthy soil, smothers 
weeds, and promotes plant life, while recycling waste products from the garden.

The evening talk & book signing takes place on Saturday, July 13, 
6:30-9pm at the Fe Bland/BC Forum, at the Santa Barbara City College 
West Campus, in the 800 block of Cliff Drive, SB, 93109. $10, no 
reservations required.  Author signed books available for sale at the event.

Sponsored by:
Santa Barbara Permaculture Network
www.sbpermaculture.org

Co-Sponsors: SBCC Center for Sustainability & SBCC Environmental 
Horticulture Program

MORE INFO:

UMass Amherst Permaculture Initiative (permaculture garden project 
that won White House Champions of Change Award)
http://www.umassdining.com/sustainability/permaculture

Merritt Community College:
http://www.merritt.edu/

Wildheart Gardens:
http://wildheartgardens.com/

Go here to make a donation to the online Indiegogo "Build a 
Permaculture Garden At Santa Barbara City College" fundraising campaign:
goal of the indiegogo campaign is $10,000, deadline, Mon July 22, 
2013, 11:59pm PT:
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/build-a-permaculture-garden-at-santa-barbara-city-college?browse_v=old_no_dropdown

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