[Community_garden] Urban Gardening and Permaculture Course in New York City

[Moonshae]

Quote: "Should NYC rely on food shipped from thousands of miles away?  
Or should we prepare for higher transportation costs by growing more  
of our food in or near the City? Toby Hemenway, author of “Gaia’s  
Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture,” will describe how  
permaculture design can be applied to meet urban food needs within  
city limits, eliminating the use of fertilizer, imported water, and  
long distance trucking."

Urban Gardening and Permaculture with Toby Hemenway & Hancock  
upcoming course
Posted by Geoff Lawton on the January 11th, 2007

We are holding another permaculture all-day seminar in Manhattan  
Sunday, January 28th and information is included. I have included a  
book list gathered at the event.

I have also attached information from Hancock Permaculture on our  
upcoming modular permaculture course beginning first weekend in  
February. Please contact me if you are interested. You can find more  
information at http://www.hancockpermaculture.org or
contact me by return email.

There are other courses planned for spring in our region which will  
be announced at this event.

Urban Gardening and Permaculture
with Toby Hemenway
Sunday, 28 January 2007 - 9:30 to 4:00.
General Theological Seminary, 175 Ninth Avenue,
Manhattan at 20th Street.
FREE ($15 donation appreciated to help with speaker costs)

Learn how to make urban gardening easier, and how urban gardeners in  
Los Angeles and Portland are creating ecologically sustainable  
gathering spaces using rooftops and water collection and turning  
lawns into gardens.

Should NYC rely on food shipped from thousands of miles away? Or  
should we prepare for higher transportation costs by growing more of  
our food in or near the City? Toby Hemenway, author of “Gaia’s  
Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture,” will describe how  
permaculture design can be applied to meet urban food needs within  
city limits, eliminating
the use of fertilizer, imported water, and long distance trucking.

After obtaining a degree in biology from Tufts University, Toby  
Hemenway worked as a researcher in genetics and immunology. Toby’s  
dissatisfaction with the direction taken by biotechnology led to his  
interest in the ecological design approach to sustainable landscapes,  
homes, and workplaces known as permaculture. After spending ten years  
creating a rural permaculture site in southern Oregon, Toby is now  
developing urban sustainability resources in Portland, Oregon He  
teaches at Portland State University and consults and lectures on  
ecological design throughout the country.
http://www.patternliteracy.com/

SPONSORS: Neighborhood Energy Network
http://www.neighborhoodenergynetwork.org/
Peak Oil NYC
http://www.oilawareness.meetup.com/36
Hancock Permaculture Center
http://www.hancockpermaculture.org/

Acknowledgment: Meeting facilities have been donated by the General  
Theological Seminary.

For More Information:
loisnen at yahoo.com

PLEASE FORWARD THIS INFORMATION TO OTHERS WHO MAY BE INTERESTED.


Sunny Lam

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him to find it  
within himself.  (Galileo)




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