Interested in learning more about permaculture? Taken the Permaculture Design Course?  Whether you're new or experienced in permaculture, you're invited to...

A LOCAL PERMACULTURE MINI-CONVERGENCE AND POTLUCK

When: Thurs Oct 15, 7-9 pm

Where: Holy Cross Church auditorium, 1740 Cliff Drive, Santa Barbara  

Cost: Free, plus free parking in large church parking lot.

Hosted by: the Santa Barbara Permaculture Guild. Contact lbuzzell@aol.com for more info.

Theme: What can permaculture accomplish in Santa Barbara County? The importance of applying permaculture on a local basis.

Who: open to everyone who's interested in permaculture or who has taken the PDC

Potluck: We'll start with our potluck and once we have our food on our plates we'll begin our discussion as we eat. Please bring food or drink to share plus your plate, utensils, cup etc.

Topics we'll discuss include:

* How is permaculture doing in Santa Barbara County? 

* The number of folks in our area who have now studied permaculture or taken the PDC is rapidly growing.  How can we harness this new energy/community resource?

* Share your ideas and what you're doing or hope to do locally to put permaculture into practice.

* What are your needs and let's see if together we can help meet them.

* What are your resources, so others know who to talk to.

* Global permaculture and local permaculture: how do they interact?

* Women in permaculture - a brief report on the recent Quail Springs convergence.

Then we'll break up into Forums to discuss what's going on with food, building and invisible systems (e.g. transition) in our area, and report back to the whole group.