[Scpg] SCPG Video Discussion Group Meeting/July 17/6:30pm Santa Barbara Ca

[Wesley Roe and Marjorie Lakin Erickson]

SCPG Video Discussion Group  Meeting/July 17/6:30pm

Hi Everyone-

Doug Richardson will be our host for this month's SCPG meeting.  Doug used 
to own the Seaside Banana farm in La Conchita before the devastating 
landslides in the 1990's.  He now heads up the Environmental Horticulture 
Dept at SB City College.  It is very generous of Doug to share his home 
with us, and as a token of gratitude we will be giving Doug a subscription 
to the Permaculture Activist, as we will do for all future hosts.  Feel 
free to bring along a dollar or two to help with this gesture, also 
flowers, fruits, or vegetable from your own gardens, sharing abundance with 
the hosts who are sharing with us.

Directions to Doug's house:

439 Lambert Rd (located between Summerland & Toro Canyon Rd area)

Drive south from Santa Barbara on the 101 freeway until you reach the 
Padaro/Santa Claus Lane exit.  Turn left at the exit stop sign and travel 
under the freeway.  Make a right onto Via Real, traveling south until you 
see Lambert Road on your left.  Go approx. 1/2 mile up Lambert Rd, making a 
left at the fork.  Drive slowly, go through a two column gate.  House is 
tan color with lots of banana trees all around.

Our video selection for this months discussion group will stray slightly 
from the Bill Mollison design course series, as we will be spending more 
time outside touring this interesting site.  For this reason we chose a 
shorter video, which features permaculture designer and teacher Joel 
Glanzberg, and artist and permaculturist Roxanne Swentzell as they build 
their strawbale house and the Flowering Tree permaculture site, on the 
Santa Clara Pueblo in New Mexico.  On just over 1/8 acre they have created 
a lush, cool food forest, on what had once been a hot wind blown & 
compacted site in the high desert, used mainly for parking. We are excited 
to share this video, as we just met Joel at the Build Here Now event we 
attended in New Mexico, and as a result SB Permaculture Network hopes to 
bring him to Santa Barbara next winter to teach a Patterns course with 
co-teacher Tim Murphy, both known for their expertise in teaching this 
fascinating but sometimes hard to grasp subject.

If you have any questions, please call 962-2571 before Thursday noon.

See you at the meeting!
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UPCOMING EVENTS
Aug. 7 Thursday, 7pm ECO FILM Night Permaculture in the Austrian Alps
Santa Barbara Main Library, Faulkner Gallery Donation $3
Presented by Santa Barbara Permaculture Network
In the mountainous region of Lungau, Austria, a Garden of Eden has been 
created. Sepp & Veronika Holzer farm the Krameterhof (www.krameterhof.at), 
one of the largest permaculture systems in Europe without the use of any 
pesticides or fertilizers.
For more info: (805) 962-2571/ e-mail: sbpcnet at silcom.com /Cosponsored by 
S.B. Hopedance
www.sbpermaculture.org