[Lapg] Darren Butler’s Systems Gardening Introductory Course in Oct, 2012

[C. Darren Butler]

Darren Butler’s Systems Gardening(tm) Introductory Course:
Core Ideas and Methods for Resilient Urban Agriculture

Based on the breakthrough material presented with Scott Kleinrock at
the 2011-12 Urban Ecosystem Agriculture course at the Huntington
Botanical Garden

For more info and to sign up:
http://ecoworkshops.com/ecoworkshops/courses-and-workshops/2012-systems-gardening/

Discover the amazing gardening perspective and methods that you may
have expected but were never taught at your Permaculture Design Course

Together we relax, breathe, and ease slowly into soil flocculation

Be a better feedback loop

Two weekend options in October, 2012:
Oct 14 and 28, 9:00am to 4:00pm – Urban Permaculture House, Mar Vista
near East Blvd and Washington Pl
$145 registration fee ($15 discount to $130 if payment in full is
received by Thurs 10/4/12)

Oct 20-21, 9:00am to 4:00pm – Diamond Bar
$145 registration fee ($15 discount to $130 if payment in full is
received by Wed, 10/10/12)

Systems gardening synthesizes systems theory; ecosystem ecology; soil
ecology; our long, rich gardening-and-agricultural heritage; and
Darren Butler’s decades of experience and exploration of ecofriendly,
organic gardening to provide new perspectives, information, methods,
ideas, and insights.

Presented in an accessible teaching style for all gardeners, from
beginning to expert.

Darren Butler has brought inspiration, humor, breakthrough ideas, and
revolutionary practical methods about gardening and many other topics
to thousands of students since 2005.

We anticipate a life-changing, garden-changing, and sold-out course.

Examples of topics covered in the course:
- Indigenous agricultural and land-management practices in California
and what we can learn from them
- Why standard permaculture methods for growing food and standard food
forestry fail in Southern California and what works better here
-  Systems theory, ecosystem ecology, and soil ecology; and how they
can transform our gardening practices, our understanding of gardens,
and our communities
- Specific practical methods and information for implementing Systems
Gardening(tm) in Southern California, including appropriate
food-producing species from weeds to trees, rethinking the balance of
wildness and maintenance, redesign for Systems Gardening(tm), and
seasonality in a systems garden
- And much more

Your garden is part of the mind of nature. Integrate with the genius of Earth.