Edible Forest Gardens: Growing a Food Paradise with Jonathan Bates of Food Forest
Farm
Public Talk
Description: Want
to see an edible landscape full of abundance? Through images and discussion
enjoy a thriving edible forest garden that produces loads of fruits, roots,
shoots, greens, seeds, flowers, mulch, eggs, knowledge and fun. Come learn how
to use the plants (and other yields) from this permaculture paradise in your
own garden. With an introduction by Patty Love, owner of Barefoot Edible
Landscape and Permaculture, and Program Director of Rochester Permaculture
Center, a program of Seeking Common Ground.
Location: First Unitarian Church of Rochester,
220 Winton Road South
Date: Friday, June 22,
2012
Time: 6-7 pm — pre-ordered
plant delivery in lower parking lot
(order plants here: http://permaculturenursery.com/specialorder/)
7-9
pm—public talk followed by Q&A inside church in Gilbert Hall
Sliding scale
donation at the door:
$8 to $20
Bio: Jonathan runs Food Forest Farm, a source for
useful, edible, hard to find plants. He’s been studying, creating and
working with rural and urban gardens in the Connecticut
River Valley
for a decade, and is a co-designer and inhabitant of an edible forest garden in
Holyoke, MA.
He is excited to be building his first passive solar bioshelter greenhouse
spring 2012, and he will be publishing a book with Eric Toensmeier fall 2012,
“Paradise Lot: The Making of a
Garden Oasis in the City.”
Sponsored
by:
www.barefootpermaculture.com
and UUDig —A community garden project of the First Unitarian Church of
Rochester
Warmly,
patty love, MALS, PDC
Barefoot Edible Landscape & Permaculture - owner
patty AT barefootpermaculture.com
www.barefootpermaculture.com
Rochester Permaculture Center
- Program Director
www.rochesterpermaculturecenter.org
patty AT barefootpermaculture.com
http://www.meetup.com/RochesterPermaculture/
585.506.6505
PO Box 18212
Rochester, NY 14618
Please note: I live
a very full life, spending most of my time away from my computer and outdoors
working or with my family and friends. There may be times when I don't
respond right away to your important email. If you require my immediate
attention, please call 585.506.6505.
"My life's purpose
is gathering and sharing resources and information that regenerate my own and
others' abundant existence and vibrant well-being." patty love
"Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has
seen and thinking what nobody has thought." ~ Albert Szent-Giorgi, Nobel Laureate
"Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?" ~ Mary Oliver
