[Scpg] Common Vision Fruit Trees and School Tour 2005 coming to Santa Barbara Thurs March 10 Thurs. 8:30-2pm

[Wesley Roe and Marjorie Lakin Erickson]

Common Vision Fruit Trees and School Tour 2005 coming to Santa Barbara 
Thurs March 10 Thurs. 8:30-2pm 		
Fruit Trees For Schools Tour Planting Day and Celebration Monte Vista 
School Santa Barbara
By getting students and their teachers in touch with the Earth by planting 
fruit trees we create a catalyst to transform the schools in California 
into physical models of sustainability. Fruit trees begin to help transform 
social paradigm of scarcity to abundance.
Part of a Larger Tour of in California Schools Organized by 
www.commonvision.org 	
Common Vision Fruit Trees and School Tour 2005 coming to Santa Barbara 
Thurs March 10 Thurs. 8:30-2pm

The complex cultural diversity of the Unites States from often scattered, 
distant origins has created a feeling of rootlessness in today?s society. 
Ideas of indigenous cultures, North American and beyond, are rarely 
integrated into the way we provide food for ourselves, educate our 
children, and care for our land. Today we find the Earth bruised and the 
very fabric of our culture unweaving. Fruit Tree Tour is a Common Vision 
project empowering urban youth through collective effort.
Common Vision is a solution-focused nonprofit organization whose mission is 
to cultivate ecological awareness and respect for the Earth while 
generating social and environmental changes towards sustainable lifestyles. 
This Spring, Common Vision embarks on Fruit Tree Tour 2005. This 20 city, 
40 school, 70 day tour travels the length of California, from San Diego to 
Willits. Earth educators load four recycled vegetable oil powered vehicles 
with 1000 fruit trees in preparation for a day-long program at each school. 
The integration of West African agricultural drumming and ceremonial tree 
planting is intended not only to change the landscape of the urban 
educational experience but also to deepen the connection of the students to 
their own environment.
Students work in intimate groups with facilitators to prepare the ground 
and trees for planting. Facilitators engage students in dialogues around 
key ecological and cultural concepts such as nutrient cycles and 
interconnectedness. The long-term goal is to develop relationships with 
schools and work with them in the future to create multi-layered food 
forest gardens.
The students? participation in creating a food forest at their own school 
provides space for stewardship. Students are able to generate value in 
their community and a nutritious, local food source. The Fruit Tree Tour 
strives to merge ancient rhythms and modern urban education to create an 
experience that integrate concepts of ecology with the traditions, music, 
and art of cultures that live or have lived in harmony with the Earth.
www.commonvision.

The Tour will visit our region Thurs March 10 Thurs. 8:30-2pm Monte Vista 
School 730 N Hope Avenue Santa Barbara March 10 Thurs. 8:30-4pm Call Judy 
Sims 687-5333, hjsims at earthlink.net to let her know you are coming and to 
donate funds to help with project 	
See also:
http://www.commonvision.org
http://www.sbpermaculture.org