[Lapg] Transform Your Lawn Into A Food Forest!

[Living Mandala]

Dear Friends,

Please help us spread the word about this upcoming weekend offering in  
the S.F Bay Area with the Food Forest Across America Campaign intended  
to ignite a fire of inspiration and action to transform lawns, parks,  
gardens, private residences, public places and empty spaces into  
thriving edible landscapes that are beautiful, regenerative, and  
produce an abundance of delicious, locally grown food!

-Jay Ma

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Transform Your Lawn Into a Food Forest!

Hands-on Training to Design and Implement Edible Landscapes

November 6 - 8  (all weekend or any one day)

Berkeley, CA

For More Info & Registration Visit LivingMandala.com




In Association with

Food Forests Across America Campaign


Including

PERMACULTURE, FOOD FORESTS, SHEET MULCHING, SOIL BUILDING, MUSHROOM  
INOCULATION, DESIGN TOOLS, SWALES & EARTHWORKS, WATER ON THE  
LANDSCAPE, PLANTING & MULCHING, AND MUCH MORE!


Course Description

In an uncertain economy and changing world, local food security is an  
essential element to becoming sustainable in this emerging Green  
Economy. This course is a community offering by the Food Forests Food  
Forests Across America campaign. Food Forests Across America is a  
loosely affiliated group of permaculture designers organizing around  
the initiative to transform lawns, parks, gardens, private residences,  
public places and empty spaces into thriving edible landscapes that  
are beautiful, regenerative, and produce an abundance of delicious,  
locally grown food! Our intention with this course is to inspire a  
Food Forest revolution in Berkeley and the surrounding Bay area  
cities. This weekend course immerses participants in the hands-on  
reality of designing & co-creating a food forest on a typical small  
urban landscape. During this weekend course, participants will learn  
through hands-on experience how to transform their yard into a  
thriving edible landscape.


What is a Food Forest Garden?

Imagine a forest where every single tree is dripping with fresh fruits  
and ripening nuts... every shrub is packed with delicious berries, and  
every other plant is a medicinal herb, culinary spice, or beautiful  
edible flower. Tubers and root crops are abundant underfoot, gourmet  
mushroom logs sprout in the shade, and hardy kiwi vines climb back up  
through the layers of this multi-functional forest of food. Food  
forests are diverse gardens modeled after natural ecosystems designed  
to mimic the way a forest thrives and regenerates. A forest  
continuously nourishing all elements in the system and produce a vast  
diversity of outputs, but requires little or no inputs to sustain  
itself. By recognizing the self-supporting, mutually beneficial  
relationships of the elements in a forest - from tall trees, smaller  
trees, shrubs, herbs, ground covers, vines, nitrogen fixers,  
insectaries, fungi, animals, and more, the food forest garden designs  
a similar system but replaces the components that are in a common  
forest with species that are preferred edibles and more useful for  
humans. The forest then becomes a Garden of Eden, in which edible or  
useful plants are found from head to toe, where something in season is  
always ready to eat, and the system requires little or no maintenance  
to sustain and regenerate indefinitely.


Tuition & Registration

This course is a very modestly priced at $65 for the entire weekend,  
or $30 per day. You may come for the entire weekend or any of the  
three days. Space is limited.
Please register on-line at www.LivingMandala.com


Transform Your Lawn Into a Food Forest

For additional support services on food forest and permaculture design  
and implementation email: forestgarden at livingmandala.com


Become a Sponsor

We are seeking sponsor of this workshop in Berkeley and the Food  
Forests Across America Campaign at large in the form of plants, drip  
irrigation supplies, garden supplies, garden tools, media exposure,  
and monetary resources.


Benefits of Becoming a Sponsor

Along with supporting an amazing initiative responding to some of the  
most crucial issues of our time in local food security,  
sustainability, and climate change, sponsors of the campaign and the  
upcoming workshop in Berkeley will receive exposure through our  
website, marketing materials, and general public outreach including  
radio appearances and other press coverage. Nurseries and irrigation  
supply stores who donate plants, tools, irrigation supplies, or other  
materials will get great exposure to a target market of interested  
workshop participants and eager to go home and transform their own  
yards into edible landscapes. We will refer people who attend the  
workshop to buy materials from our sponsors.

To become a sponsor please email: forestgarden at livingmandala.com or  
call 707-634-1461


Food Forests Across America Campaign.

Food Forests Across America is a loosely affiliated group of  
permaculture designers organizing around the initiative to transform  
lawns, parks, gardens, private residences, public places, and empty  
spaces into thriving edible landscapes that are beautiful,  
regenerative, and produce an abundance of delicious, locally grown  
food! Members of this group or permaculture designers are actively  
organizing workshops, projects, and initiatives installing food forest  
gardens around the country. Food Forests Across America appeared on  
Visionary Culture Radio in April of 2009, at Harmony Festival in June  
of 2009, and at Earthdance in September 2009 showcasing a  
demonstration food forest garden, giving interactive tours, and  
hosting a panel discussion of permaculture designers. Food Forests  
Across America is seeking to raise money to build a website to more  
closely link together our work and the work of other permaculture  
designers and food foresters around the country. Our intention is to  
showcase and promote food forests workshops and projects, and to  
powerfully inoculate this initiative into the culture at large. Join  
the campaign for local food security and learn how you can help to  
transform gardens, lawns, parks, and empty spaces into thriving edible  
landscapes that are beautiful, regenerative, and produce an abundance  
of delicious, locally grown food!

For more information visit: http://www.livingmandala.com/Living_Mandala/Community_Projects.html
Find Food Forests Across America on Facebook
email: forestgarden at livingmandala.com


Food Forests Across America on Visionary Culture Radio - Wed, Oct 28th!



Wed, Oct 28th, 7:00 pm PST

Call In :: 646-649-1957
Or Log In or Listen On-line :: www.visionarycultureradio.com

Tune into Visionary Culture Radio with host Laura Fox on Wednesday,  
Oct 28 for a show on Food Forests Across America with guest  
permaculture teachers from the east to west coasts of the U.S.

Special Guests Include:

Trathen Heckman - Exucutiver Director - Daily Acts
Jay Ma - Co-Founder, Director of Programs & Development - Living Mandala
Marisha Auerbach - Founder & Director - Herb 'n Wisdom
Ethan Roland - Founder & Director - AppleSeed Permaculture
Devin Slavin - Founder - Grow Food Party Crew


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