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Congratulations on arriving and the work you are going to do. I live here in 
Santa Barbara right next to Goleta and thank you for the work you are doing.  
I agree with your assessment of the importance of keyline in The U.S.
 
Larry Saltzman 
 
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From: darren@permaculture.biz
To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
Sent: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 7:56 AM
Subject: Re: [permaculture] PR/ Keyline Design & Sustainable Agriculturewith 
Darren Doherty, Santa Barbara CA April 21-May 4 2007




G'day,

I trust that this greets you and all well.

Greetings from Goleta CA where my family and I have just arrived from
Argentina this morning in readiness for the 1st of our Keyline Design
Courses - the 6 day event here at Orella Ranch just north of Goleta right on
the coast. Very nice spot and perfect for Keyline Design.

Geoff Lawton and I have talked about running similar courses in Australia to
those I am doing in the US this year. These will be delivered either later
in 2007 but more likely into 2008. My, and Allan Yeomans strategy with the
US is that here is where, from a Greenhouse sequestration perspective, the
greatest impact of Keyline will be felt. As such we need to get it on the
board with as many broadacre farmers as possible in as short a time as
possible. 

To this end the 6 day course we are running is a train the trainer course
that with some tinkering will be a Keyline Design version of the very
successful Permaculture Design Certificate Course model. Allan and I have
discussed that this was a missed opportunity with Keyline way back when -
that it didn't have a training program or syllabus as such - instead there
was a reliance on the various Keyline books as extension materials. To this
end Abe Collins (Carbon Farmers of America) and I have discussed further
developing the syllabus I've come up with as part of their extension program
for a bigger roll out - again with a focus on the agricultural sector -
which please correct me if I am wrong (and I will exclude my and a few
others activities), has not been a target market for the Permaculture
movement in Australia or indeed the US. This also ultimately builds in my
own obsolescence into Keyline training in the US as is appropriate. 

The Keyline Plow itself needs a tractor to pull it - a bit more than a
humble toyota hilux or similar....that said some of the obscenely
underutilised "monster trucks" (that's what my kids call them) here in the
US might with the appropriate tyres do the job...

I am assuming that the Keyline Plow on display at the Easter Show was Peter
& Laney's? Would have been nice if they could have worked up the ovals too!

 

Yours and Growing,

 

Hooroo,

Darren Doherty
www.permaculture.biz




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