[Scpg] Save the date! Mon Oct 10, 7:30-9 pm EDIBLE FOREST GARDENS

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Mark you calendars! A wonderful opportunity to celebrate both  the one year 
anniversary of Mesa Harmony Garden and learn from a premier Edible  Forest 
garden author. Hope you can join us.



Contact: Margie  Bushman
Coordinator, SBCC Center for Sustainability
(805) 965-0581, ext.  2177, email, sbpcnet at silcom.com

SBCC Center  for Sustainability presents:


Edible Forest Gardens with Dave Jacke
Evening  Talk

A Fundraiser for Mesa Harmony Garden
Monday, Oct 10, 7:30-9 pm  2011
Santa Barbara City  College, West Campus, Fe Bland Auditorium
$15 garden supporter/$10general/$5  Students

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J oin the SBCC Center for  Sustainability as it hosts a Fundraiser for Mesa 
Harmony Garden on Monday,  October 10, 7:30- 9pm, with special guest Dave 
Jacke, author of "Edible  Forest Gardens".

Healthy forests maintain, fertilize, and renew  themselves, naturally. 
Wouldn’t you like to grow an abundant food-producing  ecosystem like this in 
your back yard? You can! 

Edible forest gardens  mimic the structure and function of natural forests 
through all their stages of  development and grow food, fuel, fiber, fodder, 
fertilizers, and fun. They can  meet our own needs and regenerate healthy 
ecosystems at the same  time.

Dave Jacke's talk introduces the vision of forest gardening,  including 
scientific background, a few living examples, and a sampling of  perennial 
edibles you can use in your own garden. Jacke will also touch on  ecological 
principles that lie at the core of forest garden design, and apply  equally 
well to how we might design human social  systems.

Dave Jacke is the primary author of the  award winning two-volume book 
Edible Forest Gardens. He has studied  ecology and design since the 1970s, and 
has run his own design firm Dynamics  Ecological Design, since 1984. An 
engaging and passionate teacher of ecological  design and permaculture, Dave has 
designed, built, and planted landscapes,  homes, farms, and communities in 
many parts of the United States, as well as  overseas. He is a co-founder of 
Land Trust at Gap Mountain in Jaffrey, NH, and  holds a B.A. in 
Environmental Studies from Simon’s Rock College and a M.A. in  Landscape Design from the 
Conway School of Landscape Design.  -

Mesa Harmony Garden is a food forest in the  making, started by a group of 
students in the Projects in Sustainability class at Santa Barbara City 
College, who wanted to see a community  garden on the Mesa. Located and supported 
enthusiastically by Holy Cross  Catholic Church who leased the land to the 
group, the project engages members of  the business community, church 
parishioners, student volunteers and neighbors.  In addition to teaching 
sustainable living, it has an intent to ultimately  provide food for the needy with 
the Santa Barbara Food Bank's Backyard Bounty  program. Along with many other 
food producing plants, over 100 trees have been  planted so far, 300 are 
planned, with the local permaculture community providing  knowledge and food 
forest expertise. 

Mesa Harmony Garden celebrates its  one year anniversary, October, 2011.


Honored at the evening program will be those whose efforts have made  Mesa 
Harmony Garden a reality:  
Jan Cross, who with other SBCC Projects in Sustainability class members  
conceptualized and initiated the food forest garden project  
Adam Green, Director of the Center for Sustainability and instructor for  
the Projects in Sustainability class  
Father Ludo DeClippel, Pastor, Holy Cross Church  
Randy Saake, Holy Cross Deacon and Treasurer, Mesa Harmony Garden  
Josh Kane, Mesa business community member, President, Mesa Harmony Garden  
Hugh Kelly Vice President, Mesa Harmony Garden  
Larry Saltzman, food forest expert & advisor, implemented permaculture  
design for the garden  
Loren Luyendyk, permaculture designer and teacher, designed and did  
earthworks for berms and swales on a Bobcat  
Doug Hagensen, program manager for the Santa Barbara County Backyard  
Bounty Program 



Members of the Mesa Harmony Garden will be  available to answer questions 
about their evolving food forest in the courtyard  before the talk begins.


The event takes place on Monday,  October 10, 7:30 - 9pm, at the Fe Bland 
Auditorium, SBCC West Campus, 721  Cliff Dr, SB 93109. Admission $15 garden 
supporter/$10 general/$5 students,  no reservations required. The event is 
sponsored by the SBCC Center for  Sustainability. 

SBCC Center for  Sustainability
_http://sustainability.sbcc.edu

_ (http://sustainability.sbcc.edu/) Contact:  sbpcnet at silcom.com, (805) 
965-0581, ext 2177




More Info:

Mesa Harmony  Garden

_www.mesaharmonygarden.org

_ (http://www.mesaharmonygarden.org/) Dave Jacke/Edible  Forest Gardens
_http://www.edibleforestgardens.com/

_ (http://www.edibleforestgardens.com/) Workshop at  the LA Arboretum
Gardening Like the Forest: Steps To Ecological  Gardening
October 8th & 9th, 2011
Los Angeles Arboretum & Botanic  Garden
_http://www.arboretum.org/index.php/news/




_ (http://www.arboretum.org/index.php/news/)
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