[Southern California Permaculture] Don't Miss It!/Sun MAR 6/The Forest Garden Greenhouse/Talk & Book Signing/Ayni Gallery

Sun Feb 28 16:25:42 PST 2016

Hi Everyone, this is the first  event in a series of 3 great programs 
we have coming up in March, don't miss it, Jerome Osentowski is 
really kind of a genius, been at greenhouse design for over 30 
years.  this isn't your dad's backyard greenhouse...

Also stay tuned for Carbon Farming evening talk with Darren Doherty 
on March 10, and on March 14, the Santa Barbara Premier of POLYFACES, 
a documentary about Joel Salatin & the renowned Polyface farm in 
Virginia demonstrating some of the best regenerative agriculture 
practices for over 30 years.  We will send out additional event 
announcements, but you can also follow our Santa Barbara Permaculture 
Network events on facebook 
at: 
https://www.facebook.com/Santa-Barbara-Permaculture-Network-200013020012596/

The Forest Garden Greenhouse
Talk & Book Signing
  with
Jerome Osentowski
  of the Central Rocky Mountains Permaculture Institute (CRMPI)
The Forest Garden Greenhouse

Sunday, March 6, 2016
6:30pm - 8:30pm, Donation $5
  Ayni Gallery, 216 State St, SB

  This book will fundamentally change the conversation about growing 
food indoors

The Details:

Join author Jerome Osentowski as he shares his newly published book 
The Forest Garden Greenhouse-How to Design & Manage an Indoor 
Permaculture Oasis, in an evening talk on Sunday, March 6, describing 
how to bring a forest garden indoors.

For roughly 200 years, greenhouses have been a mainstay of the market 
garden and nursery trades. But the possibilities of these indoor 
gardens to transform our homes and our lives remain largely 
unrealized. In this groundbreaking book, Jerome Osentowski, one of 
North America's most accomplished permaculture designers, shows how 
to bring a forest garden indoors, even on unlikely terrain and in 
cold climates, using near-net-zero technology.

The Forest Garden Greenhouse advocates a unique approach to indoor 
agriculture using permaculture design concepts that take season 
extension into new and important territory, whether you're growing 
food or medicinals for your family or commercially.

Osentowski, director and founder of Central Rocky Mountain 
Permaculture Institute (CRMPI), farms at 7200 feet on a steep, rocky 
hillside in Colorado. At this mountaintop site, Osentowski (along 
with architect and design partner Michael Thompson) has been 
designing and building revolutionary greenhouses that utilize passive 
and active solar heat storage technologies via what they call the 
"climate battery." This cutting-edge, subterranean air-circulation 
system pushes hot, moist, ambient air from the greenhouse during the 
day through a network of buried perforated tubes, storing heat and 
humidity in the soil, to be retrieved again during cold nights. This 
remarkable technology creates tropical and Mediterranean climates at 
high altitudes and in cold climates (and everywhere else).

In addition to learning how to create their own climate battery, 
readers will receive in-depth information about: the fundamentals of 
design and construction of greenhouses of various sizes; capturing 
energy and ventilation; bed layout and soil building techniques; the 
secrets of successful companion planting; the use of microclimates 
within and around the greenhouse, and more.

Whether your goal is simply to extend the growing season by a few 
weeks or to build a year-round tropical greenhouse, this book's 
detailed drawings, photos, and profiles of successful greenhouse 
projects on all scales will be an invaluable resource.

Jerome Osentowski is a forager and permaculturist with roots in rural 
Nebraska. The director and founder of Central Rocky Mountain 
Permaculture Institute and a permaculture designer for thirty years, 
he has built five greenhouses for himself and scores of others for 
private clients and public schools. He makes his living from an 
intensively-cultivated one acre of indoor and outdoor forest garden 
and plant nursery, which he uses as a backdrop for permaculture and 
greenhouse design courses. Among his accomplishments is hosting the 
longest-running Permaculture Design Course in the world. He currently 
lives in a passive solar home he built at 7200 feet above Colorado's 
Roaring Fork Valley.

The evening talk takes place on Sunday, March 6  6:30pm-8:30pm, 
Donation $5 (no one turned away for lack of funds) at the Ayni 
Gallery (across from the Amtrak Station) 216 State St, Santa Barbara 
CA,  93101, no reservations required.  For more Info, (805)962-2571, 
<mailto:margie at sbpermaculture.org>margie at sbpermaculture.org, 
www.sbpermaculture.org, Books Will be for sale, and available for 
signing by the author.

Santa Barbara event Facebook page 
<https://www.facebook.com/events/547059822138169/>https://www.facebook.com/events/547059822138169/

Additional Resources:

Central Rocky Mountain Permaculture <http://crmpi.org>http://crmpi.org

The Forest Garden Greenhouse How to Design and Manage an Indoor 
Permaculture Oasis By Jerome Osentowski
<http://www.chelseagreen.com/the-forest-garden-greenhouse>http://www.chelseagreen.com/the-forest-garden-greenhouse

Episode 1606: The Forest Garden Greenhouse Interview with Jerome 
Osentowski, founder of Central Rocky Mountain Permaculture Institute
<http://www.thepermaculturepodcast.com/2016/episode-1606/>http://www.thepermaculturepodcast.com/2016/episode-1606/

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