[Southern California Permaculture] Aloha Syntropica Regeneration Agroforestry Workshops/August 20-25 2017-Part 1, August 27-31 2017-Part 2 Hawi, North Kohala, Hawaii

Tue Jul 11 15:19:36 PDT 2017

http://www.alohasyntropica.org/

Aloha Syntropica™—Regeneration Agroforestry Workshops

August 20–25, 2017—Part 1, August 27–31, 2017—Part 2

Hawi, North Kohala, Hawaii

These workshops will show you how to grow diverse and rich food forests by
working with nature’s own strategies for abundance. By combining training in
natural succession, species selection, design, implementation, and
management together with hands-on experience on an active farm, you will
gain new skills and knowledge that will transform the way you understand and
practice agriculture.

The workshops integrate multiple approaches to make regeneration of lands
feasible both ecologically and economically. What you will learn can be
applied at any scale, from home landscapes to any size farm, forest, or
conservation project.

Workshop highlights

Extensive curriculum that can save you years of self-study and trial and
error.

Learn practical design techniques that you can apply.

Optimize beneficial natural processes in agriculture.

Gain perspective on a wide range of agroforestry approaches.

Evaluate benefits both environmentally and economically.

Experience techniques in hands-on field exercises.

Apply to production agroforestry, forestry, and conservation.

Share time and exchange ideas with like-minded people.

Participate in a regeneration revolution.

Recommended for

Those who wish to transform their ability to integrate plants in space and
time in agroforestry to regenerate land in productive and profitable ways,
including farmers, gardeners, ranchers, land managers, home owners, systems
thinkers, conservationists, educators, environmental planners, and policy
makers.

Topics covered

Principles of agroforestry

Syntropy—nature's regenerative collaboration

Planting and management strategies

Site analysis and design

Crop selection

Plant biology and soils

Economic analysis

Takeaways

Hands-on experience with regenerative agriculture systems: establishment and
maintenance

Ability to design and develop agroforestry systems with short-, medium- and
long- term crops

How, when, and why of management interventions

Strategies for early cost recovery and long-term profitability

The workshops will be intensive, covering both theory and practice of
regeneration agroforestry

Workshops include

An immersive experience, life changing for many participants

Personalized training in both theory and practice

Vegetarian meals

Residential camping with rustic comfort facilities (or you can book your own
accommodation in a nearby recommended hotel)

Very full days of learning and interacting with like-minded people.

Cost

August 20–25, 2017—Part 1: $1195 ($1125 before July 21)

August 27–31, 2017—Part 2*: $1195 ($1125 before July 21)

Parts 1 & 2: $1995 ($1895 before July 21)

Early registration discount for payment before July 21

* Part 2 requires Part 1 attendance or permission from the trainers

Aloha Syntropica™ fosters regeneration agroforestry based on syntropy
through research, education, demonstration, and community engagement.
Syntropy is the ability of life to generate complex order, accumulate
energy, and create more life through nature's interconnected dynamics of
collaboration. Aloha Syntropica™ is a collaborative project of FARM Center
and Agroforestry Net with partners Hawaii Homegrown Food Network and Agenda
Götsch.

Workshop presenters (clockwise from upper left): Craig Elevitch, Neil Logan,
Sophia Bowart, and Special Guest Presenters.

Craig Elevitch is a preeminent teacher of sustainable human agroecosystems
in the Pacific. For more than two decades, Craig has been living, teaching
and writing about agroforestry. He directs Agroforestry Net, a nonprofit
educational organization, dedicated to empowering people in agroforestry and
ecological resource management. The organization’s internationally
recognized publications and workshops have guided thousands in becoming
proficient in ecological food production, agroforestry, and reforestation.
Craig has facilitated over 120 workshops in the Pacific, with over 6,000
producers and resource professionals participating since 1993. His
agroforestry publications have garnered millions of downloads since 2000.
These include Agroforestry Guides for Pacific Islands (2000), Traditional
Trees of Pacific Islands: Their Culture, Environment, and Use (2006),
Specialty Crops for Pacific Islands (2011), and Agroforestry Landscapes for
Pacific Islands: Creating abundant and resilient food systems (2015), all of
which promote diverse agricultural systems that are environmentally and
economically sustainable.

Neil Logan is an agricultural innovator, drawing inspiration from
agro-successional restoration, ethnobotany, mycology, permaculture, and
numerous other fields. For the past 16 years, Neil has developed practical
strategies, inspired by the work of Ernst Götsch, whom he first studied with
in 2001. Together with his wife Sophia Bowart, he has been refining
practical strategies for diverse agricultural production systems that can
recover the costs of establishment within a few years. Neil has worked on
projects in many different ecosystems around the globe, including in Hawaii,
Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, New Zealand, and Canada.
He is currently co-managing Mohala Lehua Farm and FARM Center and authoring
several publications about agroforestry and Kiawe (Prosopis limensis) in
Hawaii. Neil is a dynamic orator, teaching agroforestry, mycology,
permaculture, horticulture, and herbalism for over 16 years. His capacity to
impart big picture as well as practical perspectives to diverse audiences is
one of his greatest strengths.

Sophia Bowart had a dream of transforming an open pasture into a
food-producing regenerative ecosystem. She leveraged her background in
non-profit development and sustainable business management to pioneer Mohala
Lehua Farm in Hawi, Hawaii in 2006. Today, Mohala Lehua is still a rare
example of regeneration of degraded pasture lands in Hawaii. Together with
her husband Neil Logan, she has authored and presented on sustainable
sandalwood agroforestry systems demonstrated at their farm. Sophia has
worked to promote the Buy Local/Eat Local Campaign and the Hawaii Alliance
for a Local Living Economy (HALE). Her passions for the economics of
sustainable agriculture have inspired her to co-found FARM Center, which is
dedicated to the recovery and vitalization of our planet's varied forest
ecosystems, by protecting healthy watersheds and cultivating biological and
cultural diversity. She has a knack for processing raw products from the
farm into delicious and nutritious fare. In 2016, FARM Center in
coordination with Agroforestry Net, brought Ernst Götsch to Hawaii in order
to bring Syntropic Agriculture—Regeneration Agroforestry to the Pacific.

Special guest presenters

Additional teachers will complete the training team, giving participants a
full, well rounded experience.

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