It's Earth Day!
Join us in Alameda park, where Santa Barbara Permaculture Network
will be in the Live Green Section, booth #538, and next
to the Santa Barbara Food Alliance at #539. We are on the East
Section, same side of the park where the Food Court is, in the
middle of the block on Santa Barbara Street, between Sola &
Micheltorena streets.
Back to the Roots! this years Earth Day theme. Did you
know that some of the CEC "roots" were right next to the
current Earth Day festival site at Alice Keck Memorial Gardens, in
earlier days the El Mirasol Polyculture Farm. From 1971 to 1974
an experimental urban farm operated in the heart of Santa Barbara with
things like beekeeping, chickens, a biodigester, 600 tons of organic
matter composted annually, remarkable! Ultimately, the SB
Museum of Art, owners of the land, had plans to sell the land, and the
farm had to close. Stop by our booth and read the rest of the story
in "Agriculture in the City" published by the CEC in 1976
describing this wonderful project- we were fortunate to have someone find
it recently and share it with us.
Come by and visit, have your lunch, we have a table between the two
booths just for that purpose, we'd love to see you.
And thanks to the CEC for continuing to host this amazing community event
where once a year we can all meet and greet, share time and projects, see
what the rest of our community is up to.
(805) 962-2571
P.O. Box 92156, Santa Barbara, CA 93190
margie@sbpermaculture.org
www.sbpermaculture.org
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