Hi All,

Welcome to our listing of upcoming classes scheduled for Summer-Fall, 2011.  All ages and levels of experience are invited.  Please feel free to contact us with any questions and let others  Please let us know if you have any questions and feel free to send this info to everyone who might be interested!

Upcoming Courses:
1. 
Fall 2011 Permaculture Design Course (PDC) 
2. 
Special Workshop: Make an Herbal Body Kit
3. Discovering the Soil Foodweb, with Dr. Elaine Ingham -LA DATES & Worldwide Webinar
4. Introduction to Permaculture & Seedball Workshop
5. Public Talk:  Gardening Like the Forest, Dave Jacke
6. Workshop:  Gardening Like the Forest, Dave Jacke

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Fall 2011 Permaculture Design Course (PDC) 
Registration Deadline: Sept. 12  Absolutely no sign-ups past this date.  Limited seating; first come, first serve basis

Sept.-Nov. 2011
Every other weekend
8:30am-5:30pm

Join us in our 3rd PDC, as always with a stellar line-up of teachers - Back by popular demand!  
Please register early as course fills quickly.

This hands-on PDC unites theory with practical applications. Our transformative, 80-hour curriculum prepares individuals to become pro-active ecological designers, and covers the following topics:

• Permaculture Principles and Ethics • Rapid Soil Rehabilitation • Designing with the Patterns of Nature • Water Harvesting • Food Forests • Regenerating Resilient Communities • Animal Systems  • Aquaculture • Renewable Energy Solutions • Homesteading

During our last PDC, we designed a premier permaculture garden for our client, the CEO of the LA Arboretum.  Join us this fall as we install the garden, and design future projects!

The course provides the crucial foundation in systems thinking that enables individuals to play an active role in holistically regenerating our landscapes, food systems, and communities.  An environment of support and unity between classmates is fostered to promote collaboration and a strong network of fellow designers.

Taught by experts in the  field, you will get a deep understanding of permaculture from a scientific background.

INSTRUCTORS:
Elaine Ingham, PhD,  Chief Scientist, The Rodale Institute, Soil Foodweb
Dave Jacke,  Award-winning author of Edible Forest Gardens
Warren Brush,   Quail Springs Learning Center
Caitlin Bergman,  SayPermaculture!, Sweet-Soil, Soil Foodweb
Owen Hablutzel,  Permacuture Research Institute USA
Adam Wolpert,  International Communities, Occidental Arts & Ecology Center (OAEC)
...and more!

DATES:
September 24 & 25
October 8 & 9
October 22 & 23
November 5 & 6
November 19 & 20

8:30am-5:30pm

LOCATION:
The Los Angeles Arboretum & Botanic Garden
301 N Baldwin Ave
Arcadia, CA 91007

TO REGISTER: 626-821-4623 / Jill.Berry@Arboretum.org
FULL DETAILS:  http://www.SayPermaculture.com 

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Special Workshop: Make an Herbal Body Kit
Sunday, August 28th
4-7pm
$60 members / $65 non-members
Caitlin Bergman, Instructor

Seating Limited; Pre-Registration Required
Please call 626.821.4623 to register or email jill.berry@arboretum.org
Click here to view flyer

Join us for a fun and relaxing summer evening making homemade, premier-quality body care products. For a sliver of the cost of normal shelf products, we will be creating blends utilizing simple, organic, safe ingredients suited to your own personal skin care needs. You’ll get to take home the products you make, along with the knowledge to keep on making more!

You will receive a brief background on creating herbal preparations as well as special backyard herbs suitable for use on your beautiful, glowing body. Most of class is hands-on on crafting products with like-minded participants.

Did you know that everything that comes into contact with our skin, such as moisturizers, perfumes, and haircare products gets absorbed into our bodies? Learn to make your own healthy, rejuvenating skin care kit complete with: body balm, masque, scrub, hydrosol, and more!
Please come prepared to make and sample our creations.

LOCATION: 
The Los Angeles Arboretum & Botanic Garden
301 N Baldwin Ave
Arcadia, CA 91007

FULL DETAILS:  www.SayPermaculture.com

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SweetSoil & The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens Present:
Discovering the Soil Foodweb, with Dr. Elaine Ingham, PhD

October 22-26, 2011
Los Angeles, CA

Whether you're growing in planters or backyards, Discovering the Soil Foodweb will unlock the yield barrier, allowing your gardens to thrive beautifully, while eliminating disease and pests.  If you are looking to save money for yourself and clients, or want to make the move towards sustainability, this workshop is for you.

Give your plants biology to increase green growth, flowers, and veggies, while increasing moisture retention in the soil from 30-50% and save hundreds of dollars on fertilizers, herbicides, and pesticides by working with your biological workforce.  Do you know the optimum bacteria:fungi ratio for your plants?  Every plant is different. 

Until recently, we have only understood the chemical aspect of plant relationships.  Dr. Ingham describes the inseparable relationship between microbes and plants in a friendly, easy-to-understand way.  Find out how to make your plants healthy in any setting by increasing soil biology, nature's true gift for healthy plants.  Join us!  Get a jump on productivity in your farm or garden setting.  


Elaine Ingham, PhD is Chief Scientist at The Rodale Institute.  She is recognized around the world as the leader in soil microbiology and research of the soil foodweb.  Elaine is an energetic, down-to-earth speaker who explains what life in the soil is all about.

TO REGISTER:     www.LASweetSoil.Eventbrite.com
Sign-up for full course or individual days.

Day 1 & 2:  Intro. to the Soil Foodweb 
Day 3:  Compost Technology 
Day 4:  Compost Tea Technology 
Day 5:  Light Microscope Training

LOCATION:
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens
1151 Oxford Rd.
San Marino, CA 91008

FULL DETAILS:  http://www.Sweet-Soil.com
QUESTIONS:   (415) 699-0916  /  cait_bergman@yahoo.com

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Introduction to Permaculture & Seedball Workshop
Saturday, August 27
10am-12noon
$25 Arboretum members/$28 non-members
Caitlin Bergman, Instructor
 
Join our exciting, interactive lecture and hands-on demonstrations as we learn how to create a food forest in our own backyard.  Have you ever wondered why growing your own vegetables can be so difficult?  Learn to work like nature, not against it.  Discover a quickly growing revolution in sustainable gardening where overlooked materials become free resources, yields increase, work is minimized, and the mutual support between people and the local environment is restored.  This seminar will give participants an understanding of the key concepts involved in Permaculture and you’ll get to bring home seedballs too!  Dress comfortably.
 
LOCATION: 
The Los Angeles Arboretum & Botanic Garden
301 N Baldwin Ave
Arcadia, CA 91007

TO REGISTER:  626.821.4623 / jill.berry@arboretum.org 
FULL DETAILS: http://saypermaculture.com/events/

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Public Talk-
Gardening Like the Forest: Home-Scale Ecological Food Production
Friday, Oct. 7th, 7-9 pm
$20 members / $25 non-members
Dave Jacke, Instructor

BONUS: Fall 2011 Arboretum Permaculture Design Course Students take this course FREE!

Healthy forests maintain, fertilize, and renew themselves, naturally. Wouldn’t you like to grow an abundant food-producing ecosystem like this in your back yard? You can! Edible forest gardens mimic the structure and function of natural forests through all their stages of development while growing food, fuel, fiber, fodder, fertilizers, farmaceuticals, and fun. We can meet our own needs and regenerate healthy ecosystems at the same time!
 
This talk introduces the vision of forest gardening, some scientific background, a few living examples, and a sampling of perennial edibles you can use in your own garden.  We’ll also touch on ecological principles that lie at the core of forest garden design, and apply equally well to how we might design human social systems. 
  
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Workshop-
Gardening Like the Forest: Steps To Ecological Gardening
Saturday, October 8th, 8:30-5:00
Sunday, October 9th, 8:30-3:30
$195 includes Public Talk (10/7)

BONUS: Fall 2011 Arboretum Permaculture Design Course Students take this course FREE!

Ecosystem agriculture attempts to mimic the structure and function of natural communities in food-producing ecologies. This workshop explores the vision, theory, design, and practice of ecosystem agriculture. Lectures, field observations, and experiential classes will reveal the nature of ecosystem architecture, social structure, underground economics, and succession. Participants will draw conclusions from these experiences, developing practical design principles, practices, patterns, and processes for garden design and management.  You will leave this workshop with an increased ability to design your own backyard food-producing ecosystems.  The cost of the weekend workshop includes the Friday night lecture, which will lay critical groundwork for these two days.
 
 
Dave Jacke, primary author of the award winning two-volume book Edible Forest Gardens, has studied ecology and design since the 1970s, and has run his own design firm—Dynamics Ecological Design—since 1984. An engaging and passionate teacher of ecological design and permaculture, Dave has designed, built, and planted landscapes, homes, farms, and communities in the many parts of the United States, as well as overseas. A co-founder of Land Trust at Gap Mountain in Jaffrey, NH, he homesteaded there for a number of years. Dave holds a B.A. in Environmental Studies from Simon's Rock College and a M.A. in Landscape Design from the Conway School of Landscape Design.

LOCATION: 
The Los Angeles Arboretum & Botanic Garden
301 N Baldwin Ave
Arcadia, CA 91007

TO REGISTER: 626-821-4623 / Jill.Berry@Arboretum.org
FULL DETAILS: http://SayPermaculture.com
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Hoping many of you can join us!
Caitlin

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Caitlin Bergman
Permaculture Designer, Consultant, & Educator

Project Manager, Sweet-Soil

Soil Foodweb Advisor

ph: 626-278-8299