3-day Geoff Lawton Workshop | Bay Area | Aug8-10 Greetings Permaculture Friends,
On Aug 8 10 Geoff Lawton will be back in the Bay Area for a 3 day workshop. In a rare collaboration between the worlds top permaculture designer, an international humanitarian and spiritual leader, and two dynamic tree planting organizations; this course is launching the reforestation of 150-acres of compacted clay hills, the "harvesting" of millions of gallons of rainwater into the landscape, and the restoration of a delicate ecosystem. In this 3-day course, world-reknowned Permaculture designer Geoff Lawton will teach on-the-ground permaculture strategies in the context of a 150-acre reforestation and orchard expansion project at the MA Center in Castro Valley, CA. The course will include several of Geoff's famous slideshows and hands-on participation in creating a water-harvesting, food forest on grassy, clay hillsides. Students will walk the landscape with Geoff and learn how to site small ponds, build swales, design keyline systems, stabilize the landscape, and take an ecological approach that transitions from "planting trees" to "designing eco-systems". Learn More > <http://www.commonvision.org/programs/courses/upcomingcourses/upcomingcourses>http://www.commonvision.org/programs/courses/upcomingcourses/upcomingcourses .php Course Includes: Ecosystems approach to Tree Planting Hands-on Earthworks for water catchment (with excavator on-site) Hands-on Food-Forest Development On-site permaculture consultancy Rainwater Harvesting Design Dynamic Slideshows Keyline Design Camping in a Eucalyptus forest Morning Yoga Asanas Organic Vegetarian meals GEOFF LAWTON is director of the Permaculture Research Institute of Australia, a master of haresting rainwater in the landscape, and a frequent co-teacher with Bill Mollison. He has been invited by governments, NGOs, businesses, and communities in 27 different countries to teach, restore damaged ecosystems, and direct sustainable design projects. The MA CENTER is the US headquarters for the activities of international humanitarian and spiritual leader Mata Amritananda Mayi, known as Amma. Amma's humanitarian projects include free food and clothing programs, charitable hospitals, hospices, disaster relief programs, free homes for the poor and the needy, medical camps, orphanage, schools, educational institutions, and the preservation of nature. > Learn more about Amma GREENFRIENDS is Amma's international environmental initiative that has planted a half million trees throughout India and the world in the past decade. COMMON VISION has reached more than 40,000 students across California with a program that has planted over 3,000 fruit trees in urban public schools over the past five years. Now Common Vision has expanded their tree planting to include large scale reforestation. Most recently, 20 city-dwelling-volunteers, planted 1500 pine trees in the national forest in one weekend!" Learn More > <http://www.commonvision.org/programs/courses/upcomingcourses/upcomingcourses>http://www.commonvision.org/programs/courses/upcomingcourses/upcomingcourses
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