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Home Scale Permaculture: Interview with Toby Hemenway https://vimeo.com/20834989 In this interview we discuss permaculture, industrial agriculture, and the reality of the current food system. Specifically: -Home scale permaculture -The open loop of industrial agriculture -The toxic BT Gene which is heavily used in Industrial Agriculture -Urban Agriculture -How to work with nature instead of against it -The future of food production -Much more! The
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Redesigning Civilization: Permaculture's Vision for a Just and Sustainable World With Toby Hemenway  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 ~ 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 been on the faculty of the Portland State University, and was a scholar-in-residence at Pacific University. He has presented at conferences and universities across the continent. 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, [email protected] . Sponsored
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More Info:The Center for Urban Agriculture at Fairview Gardens http://www.fairviewgardens.org/ Event co-sponsors: Santa Barbara Permaculture Network Toby Hemenway website: 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-–- oct/ Permaculture Teachers teaching with Toby Hemenway: Brock Dolman, Director of Occidental Arts and Ecology Center's Water Institute http://oaec.org/brockdolmanbio; Warren Brush, Executive Director, Quail Springs Permaculture 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
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