[Southern California Permaculture] Wed 7 PM PERMACULTURE AT PINE RIDGE RESERVATION with Koreen Brennan /near Carpinteria

Tue Jul 8 13:26:37 PDT 2014

PERMACULTURE AT PINE RIDGE RESERVATION
Wednesday, July 9 7 PM
Loren Luyendyn House 4528 Casitas Pass Rd Ventura Ca 93001/near 
Carpinteria (more directions below)
Bring refreshments or snacks to share.

Learn about the projects happening at PIne Ridge that are really 
making a difference!
To contributed to our campaign at 
<http://www.gofundme.com/ac3gyw>http://www.gofundme.com/ac3gyw

Pine Ridge reservation has long been one of the poorest counties in 
the United States. Living conditions are harsh, yet many tribal 
members continue to try to better their lives and the lives of others.

Pine Ridge is an extreme food desert, meaning that healthy food, or 
even any food, is not available within walking or public transport 
distance for most people. The closest organic produce is found 100 
miles away for many tribe members. Grocery stores on the reservation 
are full of processed white flour based food. Diet related heart 
disease and adult and juvenile diabetes are at epidemic rates (60% 
diabetes for adults), and average age of death for a male Lakota is 
age 48, for women, 52.

Some try to grow their own vegetables and fruits, but weather is 
extreme, with hail the size of golf balls in July, freezes or snow 
occasionally reported in June or August, powerful, hot, drying winds, 
and temperature extremes from 115 F in summer to as low as -50 F wind 
chill in winter. Pests such as grasshoppers invade en masse on a 
regular basis. It can be very challenging to grow food on the 
reservation. The area is called the "Badlands" for a reason.

Housing is also a huge problem, with sometimes 20 people living in 
one household. Some families live in RV's with holes in them, and 
there has been black mold discovered in the walls of federally 
provided housing which makes people sick. Every year, people freeze 
to death in their own home because of lack of insulation, and 
inadequate heating. The hand that has been delivered to the Lakota 
has not been a fair one, and we want to help remedy that.

Oglala Lakota Cultural and Economic Revitilization Initiative 
("OLCERI") 
<http://www.olceri.org/our-projects>http://www.olceri.org/our-projects 
is a Lakota-run organization dedicated to demonstrating resilient 
solutions for living and surviving on Pine Ridge reservation. Grow 
Permaculture is a partner organization, collaborating to create 
resources to address the most severe situations on the reservation - 
the essentials of life: food, water, shelter, and energy. We are 
asking your help with a project that can make a difference for a lot 
of people.

We will be building a prototype experimental passively cooled and 
heated greenhouse at a permaculture demonstration site on the 
reservation that is designed to meet the specific needs and lifestyle 
of the Lakota, and address the challenges of the harsh climate.

Our desire is to empower locals to create their own resilient and 
self-reliant future so we will incorporate education into this 
project. In addition to training Lakota in greenhouse building, we 
will build a number of Little Free Libraries to install in the towns 
of Pine ridge. Pine Ridge has NO public libraries! We have gotten a 
number of permaculture, natural building and similar books donated, 
and have partnered with an organization that is working to provide 
7000 books that we can access for this program.

A professional natural builder will be traveling to the reservation 
this August, and we are slated to do as much building as we can on 
these two projects - we have the expertise and the personnel to pull 
it off - we need your funding help to meet our goal this August.

Pine Ridge reservation is the home of Wounded Knee, Little Big Horn, 
Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, Sun Dances and sweat lodge; living in 
harmony with big land, and developing a warrior spirit.

At this event, you will hear about the history of permaculture 
efforts at Pine Ridge, stories about the Lakota approach to 
permaculture, what our challenges and accomplishments have been, and 
what the future looks like!

DIRECTIONS
message me Loren Luyendyk lorenluyendyk at hotmail.com  for more 
info  or call 805-452-8249
Loren Luyendyn
4528 Casitas Pass Rd
Ventura Ca 93001

Directions
"Exit 84 Hwy 150 to Ojai Lake Casitas" from US 101
Drive 6.1 miles towards Ojai
When you see the signs for the Casitas Valley Farmstand get ready
Driveway is on the right with split rail fence and metal gate
Number on fence is 4620 (also several real estate signs)
Once you enter take immediate left down dirt driveway to the white 
house at the end
Call Loren at 805-452-8249 for directions

Bring refreshments or snacks to share.

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(805) 962-2571
P.O. Box 92156, Santa Barbara, CA 93190
margie at sbpermaculture.org
www.sbpermaculture.org

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