[Scpg] TONIGHT!/April 13 7pm/Toby Hemenway @ Faulkner Gallery SB Library/Redesigning Civilization Permaculture's Vision

Fri Apr 13 06:28:44 PDT 2012

Hey everyone, a rare chance to hear Toby Hemenway!

It's been more than 10 years since Toby Hemenway 
has been in Santa Barbara, when Santa Barbara 
Permaculture Network organized a book tour for 
his then brand new book "Gaia's Garden: A Guide 
to Home-Scale Permaculture".  Toby is one of the 
only permaculture authors whose book actually 
describes and has plants from our own bioregion 
(West Coast USA, instead of subtropical Australia 
or England).   In the audience will also be 
another premier permaculture teacher & designer, 
Larry Santoyo.  He, along with others, will be a 
guest speakers at Toby's upcoming six week 
Permaculture Design Course (PDC) at Fairview 
Gardens, starting May 26.  (more info about PDC below)

The Center for Urban Agriculture at FAIRVIEW GARDENS Presents:

Redesigning Civilization:
Permaculture's Vision for a Just and Sustainable World
With Toby Hemenway
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Friday April 13, 2012
7-9:30pm
Santa Barbara Central Library, Faulkner Gallery
$10-$20 suggested donation

~This lecture in memory of long time Fairview 
Garden supporter & Board Member Selma Rubin ~

         I t's no secret that our society has 
become unsustainable.  Modern agriculture, 
industry and finance all extract more than they 
give back, and the Earth is starting to show the 
strain. How did we get this way, and what can we 
do to help our culture get back on track?

Join internationally known author, permaculture 
teacher, and designer Toby Hemenway, for an 
evening talk on Friday, April 13, 7-9:30pm, that 
will give insight into why our culture has become 
fundamentally unsustainable, and how the 
ecological design approach called permaculture 
offers powerful tools for the design of 
regenerative systems, with fair ways to provide 
food, energy, and human livelihoods, while 
sharing the planet with the rest of nature.

Toby Hemenway is a permaculture designer and 
teacher who has taught permaculture courses 
around the globe. He is the author of Gaia's 
Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture, which 
for the last eight years has been the worlds best 
selling book on the ecological-design approach 
known as permaculture. The expanded 2nd edition 
of the book was named one of the top ten 
gardening books of 2010 by the Washington Post, 
and won the 2011 Nautilus Gold Medal 
Award.  Hemenway has a degree in biology from 
Tufts University, working for many years as a 
researcher in genetics and immunology.  Growing 
dissatisfied with the direction biotechnology was 
taking, he discovered permaculture, and a career 
change followed.  He has been on the faculty of 
the Portland State University, and was a 
scholar-in-residence at Pacific University.  His 
writing have appeared in many magazines such as 
Whole Earth Review and Natural Home, and he is 
the past editor of the Permaculture Activist 
(1999 to 2004).  Hemenway lives in Sebastopol, 
California, where he is tending a two-acre food 
forest amid seven acres of redwoods and bay laurels.

Beginning in May, 2012,  Toby Hemenway will be 
teaching a 6 weekend series permaculture design 
course at Fairview Gardens, an urban educational 
farm in the heartland of Goleta Valley. He will 
be joined by guest permaculture teachers 
throughout the course, which will focus on 
holistic tools for creating food, water, and 
energy security, building healthy communities and 
economies. Participants can chose to attend the 
entire series and earn a Permaculture design 
certificate or take part in specific lectures from the series.

The evening talk takes place on Friday, April 13, 
7pm-9:30pm, 2012, at the Faulkner Gallery at the 
Santa Barbara Central Library, 40 East Anapamu 
Street, SB, 93101. $10-$20 suggested donation. No 
reservations required. More info: (805)967-7369, 
<mailto:Sharon at fairviewgardens.org>Sharon at fairviewgardens.org .

Sponsored by:
The Center for Urban Agriculture at Fairview Gardens
<http://www.fairviewgardens.org/>http://www.fairviewgardens.org/
Event co-sponsors: Santa Barbara Permaculture Network

More Info:

Toby Hemenway website:
<http://www.patternliteracy.com/>http://www.patternliteracy.com/

Six weekend Permaculture design course at 
Fairview Gardens: May 26-27, June 23-24, July 
28-29, August 25-26, September 22-23, October 
27-28. For more info: 
<http://www.fairviewgardens.org/2011/11/27/permaculture-design-course-weekends-may-%E2%80%93->http://www.fairviewgardens.org/2011/11/27/permaculture-design-course-weekends-may-–-oct/ 

Permaculture Teachers teaching with Toby Hemenway:
Brock Dolman, Director of Occidental Arts and 
Ecology Center's Water Institute 
<http://oaec.org/brockdolmanbio>http://oaec.org/brockdolmanbio; 
Warren Brush, Executive Director, Quail Springs 
Permaculture 
<http://www.quailsprings.org>http://www.quailsprings.org; 
John Valenzuela, Cornucopia Food Forest Gardens; 
Larry Santoyo, Director of EarthFlow Design, 
www.earthflow.com; and Michael Becker, 
award-winning educator, Hood River, Oregon.

UPCOMING FAIRVIEW EVENTS:

TOBY HEMENWAY talk – April 13
Introduction to Bee Keeping – April 15
Eating as a Vegetarian  - April 19
Plant Your Spring Garden – April 28
Wild Fermenting – April 29
Spring CSA AND Spring AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAM!

The Center for Urban Agriculture at Fairview Gardens
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeCSIpnAXwM
The Center for Urban Agriculture at Fairview 
Gardens is a California non-profit organization 
that was established in 1997 to preserve and 
operate Fairview Gardens, the historic farm where 
our products are grown. Founded in 1895, Fairview 
Gardens is considered by some to be the oldest 
organic farm in southern California, and is now 
preserved in perpetuity through an agricultural conservation easement.

Fairview Gardens is situated in the midst of a 
growing suburban community in coastal southern 
California, surrounded on all sides by tract 
homes, shopping malls, and suburban 
thoroughfares. As a highly visible agricultural 
parcel in a dense suburban environment, Fairview 
Gardens plays a unique role in the community, 
providing its neighbors with food, educational 
and cultural events, open space and a connection 
to the land. The farm also demonstrates the 
economic viability of small farm operations, and 
the potential of small, regional farms to feed their communities.

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