[Scpg] correction re. food forest project in Santa Barbara

[LBUZZELL at aol.com]

Correction: 
 
I'd like to also acknowledge that the entire project started as a Santa  
Barbara City College student group project in ENVS 200 [Environmental Studies] 
 Projects in Sustainability under Dr. Adam K Green, Assistant Professor,  
Environmental Studies Program Coordinator and Director of the SBCC Center for 
 Sustainability. The students who worked with the church, chamber of 
commerce,  permaculture groups, and the Mesa newspaper put in a huge effort to get 
everyone  on board and initiate the effort. 
 
Unfortunately this information wasn't fully included in the Santa Barbara  
News-Press article.
 
Apologies for any misinformation.  We're huge fans of Adam, his  students 
and all their good work,
 
Linda
 
 
In a message dated 12/12/2010 1:51:54 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
LBUZZELL at aol.com writes:

 
 
In the "Faith and Values" section of the Santa Barbara News-Press on  Sat., 
Dec 11, 2010, a 2 page article by Ted Mills was published: "Garden of  
Eden: Mesa church plants to turn small plot of land into community  bounty".  
Unfortunately the article is behind a subscriber wall, but the  jist is that 
Holy Cross Church, on the Mesa in Santa Barbara, California, now  has a new 
permaculture food forest called "Mesa Harmony Garden" which is "set  to 
become several things: a way to feed those in need, an exciting example of  
permaculture and a gift from a local church to the Mesa community."   

The project involves church members (including Holy Cross priest, Father  
Ludo DeClippel, deacon Randy Saake and the area bishop), local business  
people, Santa Barbara City College, and Permaculture Guild of Santa Barbara  
members.  The food from the garden will be harvested by the local Food  Bank 
and will feed those in need.
 
Permaculture guild member Loren Luyendyk, a local permaculture designer  
and teacher, put in three days carving out the earthworks for the project,  
which will have 300 fruit trees on berms above swales, and will include a  
banana circle. Guild co-chair Larry Saltzman and other guild members have  been 
involved in the food forest design, fruit tree choices and land  
preparation as well. Permaculture guild, garden club, church  and community members, 
plus SBCC students were all active in the digging  and fruit tree planting.
 
Project members hope that this story will inspire other faith groups in  
our community to transform their extra land into community gardens and food  
forests.  

Linda  Buzzell
Member,  Communications Team
Permaculture Guild of Santa Barbara
_www.permacultureguildsb.org_ 
(http://www.permacultureguildofsantabarbara.blogspot.com/) 
lbuzzell at aol.com (805)  563-2089

"...the greatest change we need to make is from  consumption to production, 
even if on a small scale, in our own gardens. If  only 10% of us do this, 
there is enough for everyone. Hence the futility of  revolutionaries who have 
no gardens, who depend on the very system they  attack, and who produce 
words and bullets, not food and shelter."
~ Bill  Mollison, co-creator of the Permaculture concept


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