South Coast Permaculture Guild Contacts and other Organizations of Interest

South Coast Permaculture Guild  Margie Bushman sbpcnet@silcom.com 805-962-2571
Santa Barbara Permaculture Network:  Margie Bushman sbpcnet@silcom.com 805-962-2571
Ojai Permaculture Guild: Dave White        artdetour@mac.com   805-646-9809
Central Coast Permaculture Guild: Rob Kimmel  zigge@aol.com  805-438-5745
San Diego Permaculture Guild: San Diego Economic Conversion Council sdecc@igc.org (619) 298-8879
Cal Poly Student Farm in SLO:Alexis Pouillon   sustclub@calpoly.edu
                                Hunter Francis    wfrancis@calpoly.edu
Long Beach Organics: Paul Racko         pracko@earthlink.net  562-438-9000
Southern East Sierra: Tom Drummond                                       760-377-5011        
Pc Institute of Southern Cal: Bill Roley                DrRoley@aol.com       949-494-5843
Santoyo&Associates                              dotcalm@fix.net          800-469-5857
LA EcoVillage: Lois Arkin                       crsp@igc.org             213/738-1254
Permaculture Activist Website                   http://www.metalab.unc.edu/pc-activist
Permacultura    http://www.tortuga.com/permacultura/spanish/QueEsPermacultura.htm

Hi everyone

August 2000 Newsletter Content:
1) List of Aug  2000 Events, Road trip to visit Ojai Permaculture Sites, Solar Fest,
2) List of Future Events, Mushrooms Workshop , Workshop with Dr. Bill Mollison founder Permaculture
3) Perma News   ON Line Permaculture Course
4) List of interesting Websites, Eco soul and PRI newcomer guides to Permaculture
5) Subscribe to South Coast, Central Coast, San Diego Permaculture Guild Listserves
6)Please send listings and events for next email news by Aug 25 to lakinroe@silcom.com

1. August Events
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August 5 Saturday  9AM  Ojai Permaculture Guild Learn to Build with straw bales
High Winds ranch in the Upper Ojai
Hands-on opportunity - completion of two walls - come to watch or
help (bring gloves) Refreshments will be served
Please RSVP to Jim and Sarah Rush, 525 3064

August 6 Sunday SLIDESHOW PRESENTATION AND TALK AT 7:30 PM  KEN FLAME AND RAVEN
FROM TWIN OAKS AND ACORN COMMUNITIES IN LOUISA, VIRGINIA
Location Los Angeles Eco-Village  117 Bimini  Los Angeles CA 90004 in the lobby
Cost donation $5
Ken is an Urban and Regional Planner who has over 10 years of community
living experience. Flame is on the board of the Federation of Egalitarian Communities and
has lived at Acorn for five years.Raven has lived at Acorn for over three years, working on a variety of
activities.
Acorn and Twin Oaks are members of the Federation of Egalitarian
Communities <www.thefec.org>, a network of 12 intentional communities
which embrace four principle values: income sharing, egalitarianism,
nonviolence, and cooperation. FEC communities hold their land, labor
and other resources in common, and are committed to equality, ecology,
and participatory government. The network was founded in 1976. Our
three guests will share slides, stories, and dialogue with us
Potluck Dinner at 6:30 pm  contact for details***
Please RSVP to: Lois Arkin, 213/738-1254 or <crsp@igc.org> for directions
Space is limited!

Aug 12-13 Sat/Sun Roadtrip to Permaculture Sites and others interesting sites in Ojai Ca
Roadtrip Trip is free
This will be a two day trip to Ojai with camp over swim and Potluck supper Saturday with a visit to Ojai Farmers Market on Sunday morning. The visits will include a suburban Permaculture site, Happy Valley School tour with Dave White showing how the site has grown and integrated Permaculture teaching at the school and plantings that are producing food that are slowly working there way into the school kitchen and more, a working organic farm of Steve Sprinkel is on the same site, also the Full Circle Farm an amazing site that has  high levels of social living and interaction plus gardens grey water systems and weaving the natural surroundings and plant life into a community. Next a food forest site which in so productive with trees and annuals and a slowly developing site nearby that shows how reading the landscape and interacting with the strong forces of nature is so important to vision how a Permaculture site develops.. Also Tom Baldwin site which again shows how a important social interaction are to the functioning of a site where we will end up Sunday afternoon for a gathering which includes art and music and more. this is also a site with an amazing food forest developing.
Contact Wes Roe lakinroe@silcom.com at 805-964-1555

Fri thru Sun Aug 11-20 Natural Buildings
Summertown, TN, The Farm Community.

Learn to build a "Nebraska Style" strawbale cabin, basic techniques of cob construction, timber frame, wattle and daub, stone, mud plasters, earth floors, living roofs, domes and compressed arches, rammed earth and earthbags, and other examples of the natural bldg revolution. Instructors: Joe Kennedy, Howard Switzer, Albert Bates.
Course fees ($800) include tuition, meals, and lodging. Prices, dates and instructors subject to change. $50 discount for payment a month in advance or for registering a friend. Non-refundable deposit to register. Contact us for scholarship or work-trade arrangements.
Meals at the training center generally include 3 gourmet vegan meals (breakfast, lunch and dinner) and beverage and fruit breaks each full course day.
About The Farm
The Farm is one of the largest and best known intentional communities in the U.S. Located on 1750 wooded acres in south central Tennessee, it is home to approximately 200 persons today. Founded in 1971 with a spiritual commitment to simple living and self-reliance, The Farm has pioneered a wide range of social and physical technologies appropriate to low-cost, high satisfaction community living. This tradition of entrepreneurship and progressive social change is embodied in Your Inn at The Farm. The Inn provides comfortable accommodations for participatory training in all aspects of village design and social organization for planetary transformation. The surrounding Farm community offers examples of solar building design, micro-enterprise, mushroom cultivation for food, medicine and bioremediation, large scale composting and garden production, and regenerative hardwood forest management.

Our courses will be useful for people with varying levels of experience, from backyard gardeners and self-build homebuilders to design and educational professionals.

Natural Buildings Course
Ecovillage Training Center
P.O. Box 90, Summertown TN, USA 38483-0090
* Phone 931-964-4474
* Fax: (country code +) 931-964-2200
* Email: ecovillage@thefarm.org
* http://www.thefarm.org/etc/

August 16th Wednesday  7pm Santa Barbara CA Organic Garden Club
The Joys of Organic Gardening: Practical Tips for New and Experienced Gardeners
Gildea Center/Community Environmental Council at 930 Miramonte Drive
A new local group, the Santa Barbara Organic Garden Club, met for the first
time on July 12. The group hopes to support the efforts of all gardeners in
our community as they "say no to poisons." Everyone from the patio-gardening
organic novice to more experienced organic gardeners and professional
land-tenders is welcome.
For more info or to get on our e-mail list so you'll hear about upcoming
Contact Linda or Larry at 563-2089. LBUZZELL@aol.com

Sat Aug 26 10am-4pm. From Farm to Classroom
Fairview Gardens at the Center for Urban Agriculture co sponsored Community Environmental Council
A workshop for Teachers, Parents-Volunteers and Community members free
For Info and to register call Tara Ezrahti at the CEC 805-963-0583 ex 115

Sat/Sun August 26 & 27 SolFest 2000,
Real Goods Solar Living Center in Hopland, CA.
A solar and good living fair hosted by the non-profit
Institute for Solar Living, featuring speakers Ralph Nader, and Julia
Butterfly Hill, plus Saturday evening dance concert. Over 40 workshops
on green living and renewable energy, tours, kid’s activities,
outrageous entertainment, exhibitors and great food and drink. For more
information, call 707-744-2017, or check the web at www.solarliving.org.

South Coast Watershed Alliance's "Great Friday"!!!
Location: Santa Barbara CA County Courthouse Sunken Gardens Time: 12:00 PM
Contact Name: Misty  Gonzales Email: misty.gonzales@gte.net
For anyone interested in exploring broader social and environmental issues related to this bio-region,SCWA's
bioregional group will meet the last Friday of each month ("Great Fridays") For now these informal brown-bag lunch meetings will be held at the County Court House sunken Gardens at 12:00 noon.
        We'll discuss "community", "sustainability' and "bioregionalism' for this community- which includes business people, students, academia, seniors, trades people, fishing and AG folks , artists, environmentalists and non environmentalists alike. Through this process we hope to rebuild our community, instill hope, celebrate diversity(human and plant&animal) and begin to protect and rebuild our commons. in this group's discussions so far we see this broad bioregionalism discussion as a way to preserve social networks, connectivity and "roots" to the community and environment.

2. Future events
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Food for Thought: Discussion Groups at the Farm
A Great Program offered by Center for Urban Agriculture at Fairview  Gardens Goleta CA
Join us on one night of each month in the living room of the historic
farmhouse- or on warm nights, around a bonfire under the stars-as we
host informal discussions groups where members of the community come
together to talk about issues relating to food and agriculture.

TIME: 7:00-9:30 pm
Request donation $5.00 per session , to cover the costs of refreshments
and materials. Participation will be limited to 40 people
Mondays September 18 Water , October 16 Energy and fuels ,November 13 Globalization , Dec 4 Soil
At Center for Urban Agriculture at Fairview Gardens .598 North Fairview
Ave. Goleta CA 805-967-7369 fax 805-967-0188 Email fairviewg@aol.com

A Permaculture Design Course for Farmers
August 28 - September 8, 2000
Tiptonville, (Lake County) West Tennessee
This certificate course is intended for farmers or those wanting to
farm with an emphasis on the mid-South and Mississippi Delta
regions. Four of America's most experienced permaculture and
sustainable agriculture teachers will facilitate this exciting event.
Lake County, Tennessee, is one of the most fertile agriculture regions
in the nation - the area teems with wildlife - but is challenged by the
social, economic and ecological dilemmas of conventional agriculture.
Together we will design a new future for this 4,000 acre
eight-generation family farm on the banks of the Mississippi River.
With organic production for over ten years, now, the Donaldson family
is ready to take it to the next level. This is a great opportunity to
learn how landscape design and whole farm planning can make
farming healthy, environmentally responsible, and profitable again.
We will explore the links between farmers, land, and community and
learn how we can mend the tattered fabric of rural America.
Scholarship funds are available and minority farmers in particular are
encouraged to enroll.
Instructors: Peter Bane, Eric Kindberg, Chuck Marsh, Larry Santoyo,
Cost: $550 includes tuition, camping, meals and materials, $100
deposit required to register, $50 discount for full payment by July
15th.
Contact: Chris Donaldson, c/o Silvertop Farms,Rt 1, Box 345,
Tiptonville, TN 38079, 901-253-8028, info@donaldsonfarms.com

Sat/Sun September 9 & 10, 2000 Mushrooms, Permaculture, & Bioremediation
David Bynum Winery 8075 Westside Rd Healdsburg CA 95446
Cost $350 (both days)  $225 (one day)
Featuring Paul Stamens with Tom Alexander of Bemushroomed, and Charmoon Richardson of
Wild About Mushrooms

Learn how to integrate mushroom cultivation into Permaculture gardens
and land restoration projects within the context of a three-acre
Mediterranean Food Forest garden. Hosted by Davis Bynum winery and
Sonoma Permaculture, this knowledge packed weekend course will introduce
participants to several extremely talented mushroom authorities,
permaculturists, and chefs.
Saturday will feature Paul Stamets of Fungi Perfecti, author of *Growing
Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms*. Paul will discuss both the integration
of edible and medicinal mushrooms into Permaculture gardens, and the
application of higher fungi to habitat restoration & bioremediation
(restoring health to polluted land). Lunch will feature the talents of
Nit Bynum, who will prepare Thai-California cuisine incorporating crops
gardened on-site. The day will end with light foods and a tasting of the
Bynum's award-winning wines.
On Sunday, Tom Alexander of Bemushroomed, and Charmoon Richardson of
Wild About Mushrooms, will discuss building and operating a small-scale
mushroom cultivation laboratory. There will be a demonstration of
procedures for growing oyster mushrooms, which includes each participant
making & taking home a oyster mushroom kit, which will produce mushrooms
within weeks. In addition, there will be a session devoted to
inoculation of oak logs and wood chips with several varieties of gourmet
& medicinal mushrooms. Relevant educational materials will be provided.
Lunch will include a mushroom cooking demonstration & mushroom-filled
meal. Thanks to Sonoma Permaculture Michael Collins
Register now. Participation will be limited to allow for individual
contact with the instructors.
CHECKS TO: Wild About Mushrooms
MAIL TO: Permaculture Weekend PO Box Forestville CA 95436
INFORMATION: Charmoon Richardson 707-887-1888 mycopermwebtv.net

Fri/Sat/Sun Sept 8,9,10 Urban Agriculture Workshop
At Fairview Gardens Goleta Ca
Cost $190 (Scholarships available)
        There is a common misconception that food for our society must be grown on large, industrial farms, far from the places where most of us live and work- but this is no longer the case. in the most unlikely places, under some of the most challenging environments, urban dwellers are establishing economically viable farms.
        The two day workshop will provide specific training on acquiring land, capitalizing, setting up, growing and marketing from a small scale urban plots. these programs will provide clear directions and a "tool kit" for how to begin.
Presented by the Center for Urban Agriculture at Fairview Gardens and the Collective Heritage Foundation
(Bioneers)
Contact Lois Lipman Collective Heritage Institute,  901 West San Mateo, Suite L, Santa Fe , NM 87505
Phone 505-968-1644 Fax 505-986-0366

Sept17th, The First California Organic Festival !!! 11:00 am, closing at 5:00 PM
Oak Park in Santa Barbara CA
The festival visitors will celebrate the wonders of various organic products,
listen to music and get inspired by our wonderful guest speakers at the first
annual California Organic Festival located at Oak Park in Scenic Santa
Barbara - only an hour and half away from Los Angeles:
The California Organic Festival ---organized by PAAC -Pesticide Awareness &
Alternatives Coalition Contact Information: Drora --Tel (805) 685-4881 or
(805) 455-3827 or Julie (805) 963-1625 (Leave a message) --- P.O. Box 22144,
Santa Barbara, California 93121-2144. http://www.islandseed.com/orgfest.html

Tues/Wed/Thurs October 10-12, 2000 Workshop by Dr. Bill Mollison, the founder of Permaculture
Northwest Louisiana Commerce Center - Minden Louisiana
Cost $350 before 9/1 after $395  Lodging $20 for workshop with Bill Mollison
Includes 3 lunches and welcoming dinner Tues
I would like to invite you to a 3-day workshop by Dr. Bill Mollison,
the founder of Permaculture, October 10-12, 2000 in NW Louisiana. His
course precedes a Permaculture Design Certificate Course offered
October 16-28 by Geoff Lawton, appointed Director of the Permaculture
Research Institute by Mollison in 1997. These events will mark the
beginning of the demonstration center being established at this site.
Internationally renowned teacher and author of seven books, Dr.
Mollison, called the Father of Permaculture, is stepping out of
retirement to teach a three-day Permaculture course at the Northwest
Louisiana Commerce Center.
http://www.nwlcc.com
Permaculture Design Course Oct 16-28 with Geoff Lawton
$795. before 9/1 after $995 lodging $60  includes 3 meals a day
This course supports efforts to develop a North American demonstration
of sustainable agriculture and commerce at the deactivated Louisiana
Army Ammunition Plant, where plans are under way to renovate the area
using Permaculture practices.
Total package for 3 day workshop and Permaculture Design Course $1000 by 9/1 after $1200 lodging $75
Send checks to
Northwest Louisiana Commerce Center
2618 York Ave
Minden, Louisiana 71055  Att Kathy Craft
Questions contact Kippy Clark 303-247-18000

3.Perma News
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Fifth Annual Permaculture Design Course Online Begins September 10, 2000
Elfin Permaculture's fifth Annual Permaculture Design Course Online will begin at the Sept. 10, 2000.
The in depth course runs 5-6 months, depending on class needs. The course includes at home reading assignments, instructor's "lectures" distributed via email, email class discussion of current themes and student projects, a number of special student reports, and a permaculture design completed by each student. Successful completion of all course requirements leads to certification as an entry- level permaculturist.
For more information request the course protocol and reading list from
Elfin Permaculture at Permacltur@aol.com
For Mother Earth, Dan Hemenway, Yankee Permaculture Publications (since 1982), Elfin
Permaculture workshops, lectures, Permaculture Design Courses, consulting and
permaculture designs (since 1981), and annual correspondence courses via
email.
Copyright, 2000, Dan & Cynthia Hemenway, P.O. Box 52, Sparr FL 32192 USA
Internships. YankeePerm@aol.com

4. Websites of Interest
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Eco Soul is a California 501[c]3 non-profit corporation dedicated to
furthering education and research in environmentally-friendly hydrogen
fuel cell technology. The organization distributes the country's first
reversible fuel cell demonstration kit for wide-spread practical use.
"The kit's unique engineering demonstrates how fuel cells provide
virtually unlimited energy without pollution. They are being used in
high schools, universities and research laboratories across the nation
including the National Fuel Cell Research Center at UC Irvine. Visit
Eco Soul's website at www.ecosoul.org or call (714)
573-4955 for more information.

Permaculture Research Institute http://www.permaculture.org.au/
Tagari Farm, home to Permaculture Research Institute, is a
147 acre property designed by Bill Mollison featuring
extensive earthworks, an advanced food forest, bamboo,
aquaculture, and teaching facility.
Bill Mollison retired in 1998 and requested Geoff Lawton to
take over Tagari Farm. A management team of ten people
currently live on the farm, working in various capacities for
the Institute.
Permaculture doesn't have to be big and complicated, there
are a collection of guides to help the relative newcomer
implement permaculture projects listed on the webpage.
Email: pri@permaculture.org.au
Phone: +61 2 6679 3275 Fax: +61 2 6679 2018
Mail: PO Box 1, Tyalgum, NSW 2484, Australia

5.Listserves
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To get Up to Date Permaculture Ongoing Announcements for courses , events and posting of articles of interest try subscribing to our local Permaculture Listserves ccpg serves San Lois Obispo ,scpg serves Santa Barbara down and including Los Angeles, and sdpg serves San Diego area. Below are the instructions how to sign up
thanks to John Howe for setting them up
this works the same for each separate list:
central coast list(ccpg@arashi.com), south coast(scpg), and the san diego
list (sdpg@arashi.com)

TO SUBSCRIBE to this mailing listserve

send mail to: <Majordomo@arashi.com>
with the following command in the body of email message:
subscribe sdpg
There will be a return message requesting your confirmation/authorization
that you want to subscribe, so respond to it as requested.
TO UNSUBSCRIBE
use the word unsubscribe instead of subscribe as above
Hope this helps took me a few times to get it right

Please send listings and events for next email news by August 25 to lakinroe@silcom.com

Mail Address    South Coast Permaculture Guild and Santa Barbara Permaculture Network
                224E Figueroa ST #C
                Santa Barbara CA 93101

"What permaculturists are doing is the most important activity that any
group is doing on the planet. We don't know what details of a truly
sustainable future are going to be like, but we need options, we need
people experimenting in all kinds of ways and permaculturists are one of
the critical gangs that are doing that."
Dr David Suzuki geneticist, broadcaster
and international environmental advocate

Permaculture education includes principles and practices of
sustainable soil, water, crop, forest, architectural, business, and
finance systems ­ ethical investment, community loan support and small
business management.

Permaculture, from PERMAnent agriCULTURE, is an integrated system of
design including not only agriculture, horticulture, architecture and
ecology but also land access strategies and economic systems for small
businesses and communities.

Taken from the Latin, permanens, to endure or persist through time and
cultura, cultures - permaculture is an interdisciplinary design
science focused on sustainable system design. Sustainable systems are
defined as those that, over their lifetime, produce energy equivalent
to or in excess of what they consume.

Permaculture operates on three ethics: care of the earth, care of the
species and return of excess to the first two.