Forwarding pl. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: urban leaves <[email protected]> Date: 15 February 2010 09:04 Subject: 3 hour workshop on Seed Saving and Gardening techniques at MNP on Saturday, 27th February, 2 pm to 5 pm -- to be conducted by Deepika, Pebble Garden, Auroville
Dear friends and vegetable gardeners, URBAN LEAVES an Initiative of Vidya Varidhi Trust, works in the area of urban farming and sustainable food issues. Urban Leaves is organizing a 3 hour workshop at *MNP on Saturday, 27th February, 2 pm to 5 pm -- to be conducted by Deepika, Pebble Garden, Auroville* Throughout this year of soil building (a.k.a. Amrut Mitti making), various questions, concerns and issues have arisen. Our search for answers has brought many wonderful people and learning down our garden paths. This time around, at MNP on Saturday, 27th February, 3 pm to 6 pm*, *Deepika from Pebble Garden, Auroville will share with us her practical wisdom on vegetable gardening. In this 3 hour informal workshop we will learn skills and techniques most useful for vegetable gardens. Circle garden is an intensive design method ideal for small spaces (and equally suitable/ adaptable for large ones.) This, along with soil preparation techniques, companion planting and other plant maintenance tips will widen the range of possibilities for our gardens. Also, given the additional breathing time to sensitize and prepare ourselves against Bt Brinjal and other GM food, we have also asked Deepika to share tips on seed selection and seed saving. *ABOUT DEEPIKA & BERNARD (PEBBLE GARDEN, AUROVILLE):* Deepika has been working with Bernard since 1994 to regenerate 6 acres of severely eroded land, in Auroville, T.N. This wasteland now has a vibrant forest, eleven water bodies, a fruit tree area and a garden of 500 sq metres which is home to 90 hardy plant varieties ideal for home gardening. Pebble Garden has been created without any bio-inputs from outside, only with biomass grown in situ, no animal manure, no purchased soil or compost, no hired labour and only with small voluntary donations from individuals. Among many other research pursuits, Bernard has been working since 2007 to re-create terra preta – a soil that actually grows. Deepika runs a home based seed exchange initiative called ‘A Garden for Everyone' - a way of extending and sharing pebble garden with others. Deepika Kundaji & Bernard Declercq may be contacted at: [email protected]<http://us.mc508.mail.yahoo.com/mc/[email protected]> Fee for the workshop is Rs.200/- per head. Cheques favoring ‘Vidya Vaaridhi Trust’ may be couriered to Uday Acharya at Vidya Varidhi Trust, A-101 Mani Bhavan, 11th Road, Chembur Mumbai 400071. Contact No: 9833663108 We have kept the workshop fees as low as possible. Further subsidization is available to those who need it and anyone who can contribute more is invited to support others' participation or future work. Please contact Uday Acharya on 9833663108 for further assistance All are requested to carry their own drinking water to avoid plastic and buying water. Please register your name with : Jyoti [email protected] Contact No: 9819444905 or Neesha [email protected] <[email protected]> contact no: 2643 7205 at the earliest. Please pay fees in cash or cheque. Cash may be directly paid to Jyoti at Chembur or Neesha at Bandra A whole day workshop covering these techniques in detail will be held at Van Vadi on 28th Sunday . A separate email about the same has already been posted earlier.Those interested , do refer the same. Warm Regards For Urban Leaves Preeti -- With regards, J.M.Garg ([email protected]) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' Image Resource of more than a thousand species of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged alphabetically & place-wise): http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg For learning about Indian Flora, visit/ join Google e-group- Efloraofindia: http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix?hl=en.
