[Scpg] Tue Nov 15 7pm/City Chicks!/Talk with Pat Foreman/shared with great humor the Power of Chickens in Urban environment...

Sun Nov 13 08:57:14 PST 2011

Santa Barbara Permaculture Network presents:

Emacs!

Book-signing & Talk with Patricia Foreman
Tuesday, Nov 15 , 7-9:30pm 2011
Santa Barbara Central Library, Faulkner Gallery
  Donation $10/$5 Students, Children Under 12 Free (no reservations required)

Read More:
         G ot Chickens?  A desire for 
sustainable, clean, wholesome food, and superior 
soil quality, has led more and more suburban and 
city dwellers to keep laying hens in their 
backyards and gardens.  Across America 
municipalities are allowing, and even 
encouraging, residents to keep laying hens within city limits.

         Join Patricia Foreman, author of City 
Chicks~Keeping Micro-flocks of Chickens as Garden 
Helpers, Compost Makers, Bio-recyclers and Local 
Food Suppliers, on Tuesday, November 15, 
7-9:30pm, for a talk and book-signing at the 
Santa Barbara Public Library, Faulkner Gallery, 
as she shares her humor, passion, and extensive 
knowledge about raising chickens in the cities and suburbs of America.

         There are many books on how to keep 
chickens, but City Chicks is the only one that 
tells you how to employ them.  Learn how to
employ a flock's skill set for insect and rodent 
control, weed abatement, fertilizer & compost 
creation, and as biomass-recyclers.  All this, 
and enjoy fresh, healthy eggs, that only travel a few feet from your kitchen!

         As we search for more integrated 
solutions for urban problems, we discover 
chickens may be the answer.  City Chicks explores 
the civic side of chickens as they help turn 
waste destined for landfills into food, 
fertilizer and compost.  A few hundred households 
keeping micro-flocks of laying hens can divert 
tons of yard and food waste from trash 
collection, saving municipalities thousands, even 
millions of tax dollars.  While Americans 
struggle with income loss and question 
unsustainable agriculture methods of commercial 
food production, home hen-keeping can feed 
families, while helping to eliminate our reliance 
on chemicals for farming, reducing oil-dependency and our carbon footprint.

         City Chicks goes on to explain why hens 
are not just utilitarian but fun and 
companionable, and can help build family and 
neighborhood bonds with grow-your-own food and 
bounty-sharing practices.  Locally produced 
nutritious food helps keep America strong and safe.

         Patricia Foreman graduated from Purdue 
University with degrees in Pharmacy and 
Agriculture.  At Indiana University's Graduate 
School of Public and Environmental Affairs she 
earned a Master of Public Affairs degree, with 
majors in Health Systems Administration and 
International Affairs. She completed the Virginia 
Master Gardener's program in 1999 and a 
Permaculture Design Course with Bill Mollison 1991.

         Pat has kept poultry for over 20 years. 
Her experience includes operating a small-scale 
farm raising free range, organic layers, broilers 
and turkeys. She keeps a backyard flock of 
heritage chickens.  Pat is also the co-author of 
"Chicken Tractor, Day Range Poultry, Backyard 
Market Gardening,  and A Tiny Home to Call Your Own".

         The event takes place on Tuesday, 
November  15, 7- 9:30pm, at the Santa Barbara 
Central Library, Faulkner Gallery, 40 E. Anapamu 
St, in downtown Santa Barbara.  Donation $10/$5 
students, no reservations required.  Event 
Sponsor: Santa Barbara Permaculture Network; 
Co-sponsors, the Permaculture Credit Union, 
Island Feed & Seed, SBCC Center for 
Sustainability, SBCC Students for Sustainability 
Coalition & the Santa Barbara Chapter Weston A. 
Price Foundation.  Books will be available for purchase at the event.

Sponsored by Santa Barbara Permaculture Network
   www.sbpermaculture.org
More info: 
<mailto:margie at sbpermaculture.org>margie at sbpermaculture.org, (805) 962-2571

Additional Info:

Workshop Sat Dec 10 9-1pm, at Fairview Gardens
with Patricia Foreman of City Chicks ~ Gardening with and for Chickens
Contact Fairview Gardens 
Goleta  <http://www.fairviewgardens.org>www.fairviewgardens.org

Sustainable World interview with Pat Foreman 
http://www.sustainableworldradio.com/Other_Podcasts.php

Patricia Foreman/Good Earth Publications 
Website 
<http://www.goodearthpublications.com>http://www.goodearthpublications.com

Chicken Whisperer Backyard Poultry and 
Sustainable Lifestyles Talk Show 
<http://www.chickenwhisperer.net/>www.chickenwhisperer.net/ .

Patricia Foreman Book Tour Nov. 14-Dec 20 CA, AZ 
,NM/Tour Organizer Santa Barbara Permaculture 
Network <http://www.sbpermaculture.org>www.sbpermaculture.org
Official tour sponsor, Permaculture Credit Union 
<http://www.pcuonline.org/>www.pcuonline.org

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(805) 962-2571
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margie at sbpermaculture.org
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