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Saturday, May 14, 10 am -1pm

 

A tour and class will be held in the Santa Barbara garden of Larry Saltzman and Linda Buzzell, who have designed and maintained a backyard food forest in their yard for over 10 years . The garden contains over 100 trees, mostly fruit but with some nut and edible-seed-bearing trees as well.  You will learn how to create a garden that is abundant in healthy food and provides a healing nature refuge right in your own backyard.

 

After a tour of the garden, there will be a class on backyard food forest design and permaculture principles. Among the topics covered will be living mulch, composting in place, natural succession, water conservation, rain water capture, stacking and layering.

 

Larry, who will teach the class, co-chairs the Permaculture Guild of Santa Barbara; Linda, a psychotherapist, is the co-editor of Ecotherapy: Healing with Nature in Mind (Sierra Club Books 2009).  They both have certificates in Permaculture design and are active in promoting sustainable lifestyles in Santa Barbara in a variety of ways. They co-founded the Santa Barbara Organic Garden Club and in 2008 were dubbed "Local Heroes" by the Santa Barbara Independent.