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  • From: Laura Dvorak <lauradvorak@hotmail.com>
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  • Subject: [permaculture] **Permaculture Workshops with Toby Hemenway: Building Perfect Garden- Soil (July 19) and Designing a Food Forest (Aug. 2)**
  • Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 02:20:02 -0400






****PLEASE PASS ALONG THIS EXCITING INVITATION!****



Learn from world-renowned permaculture expert Toby
Hemenway at Tryon Life Community Farm’s (Portland, OR) inspiring
sustainability education
center!


Building Perfect Garden Soil (July 19)

This full-day workshop will begin by showing exactly what makes up a
perfect garden soil for growing sturdy, healthy plants that lets gardeners
avoid
pest and disease problems. We'll look at the key players in fertile gardens:
the marvelous creatures that build our soil, and we'll learn how to keep them
happy and abundant. We'll also see how to make great compost, and cover many
other techniques for soil building, such as sheet mulch, compost teas, cover
crops, and more.


Designing a Food Forest (Aug. 2)

Food forests are life-filled places that not only provide food for
people, but habitat for wildlife, carbon sequestering, biodiversity, natural
soil building, beauty and tranquility, and a host of other benefits. This
workshop will cover the basics of designing, planting, and maintaining a
many-layered woodland garden of fruit and nut trees, perennial and annual
vegetables, and flowers.


Each workshop runs from 10 am- 5 pm, and costs $60 (or register for both for
$100). Pre-registration is required. For
workshop details and registration information, visit www.tryonfarm.org,
email workshops@tryonfarm.org
or call 503-245-3847.


About Toby Hemenway:

http://patternliteracy.com

Toby Hemenway is the author of the first major
North American book on permaculture, Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale
Permaculture, and an adjunct professor at Portland State University. He is
also
Scholar in Residence at Pacific University.


After obtaining a degree in biology from Tufts University, Toby
worked for many years as a researcher in genetics and immunology, first in
academic laboratories including Harvard and the University of Washington in
Seattle, and then at Immunex, a major medical biotech company. At about the
time he was growing dissatisfied with the direction biotechnology was taking,
he discovered permaculture, a design approach based on ecological principles
that creates sustainable landscapes, homes, and workplaces.


A career change followed, and Toby and his wife spent
ten years creating a rural permaculture site in southern Oregon. He was
associate editor of Permaculture Activist, a journal of ecological design and
sustainable culture, from 1999 to 2004. His current project is developing
urban
sustainability resources in Portland, Oregon, where he now lives. He teaches
permaculture and consults and lectures on ecological design throughout the
country. His writing has appeared in magazines such as Whole Earth Review,
Natural Home, and Kitchen Gardener, and he is on the board of directors for
TLC
Farm.





  • [permaculture] **Permaculture Workshops with Toby Hemenway: Building Perfect Garden- Soil (July 19) and Designing a Food Forest (Aug. 2)**, Laura Dvorak, 06/25/2009

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