permaculture

[Wesley Roe and Marjorie Lakin Erickson <lakinroe@silcom.com>]

SANTA BARBARA PERMACULTURE NETWORK  and 
SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE RESOURCE CONSORTIUM

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Presents:
Keyline Design & Sustainable Agriculture
with Darren Doherty from Australia
Free Talk * Thurs May 3, 7pm
Cal Poly University San Luis Obispo, Building 8, Room 123


        Keyline Design a design system that 
restores and regenerates landscapes, applicable 
to both rural and urban areas. It is a unique 
combination of water conservation and soil 
building, with great appeal to both farmers and 
ranchers, as it has the ability to build and 
regenerate degraded soils rapidly, and sees the 
use of grazing animals as beneficial to this 
process. Water harvesting strategies employed by 
Keyline Design provide drought-proofing for 
farms.  Based on th work of P.A Yeomans and his 
book Water For Every Farm, A Keyline Plan, an 
important work describing a set of principles and 
techniques based on a holistic approach that 
works with natural patterns to restore and 
increase the depth and fertility of the soil, 
while increasing its water holding capabilities, 
using a special cultivation technique using the 
Keyline plow, to infiltrate water into the soil 
efficiently and hold it on the land as long as 
possible.   The term Keyline comes from the 
reference to a “keypoint” on the watershed, which 
is the interface between collection and 
distribution of water on the landscape, where 
ridge meets the valley.  Keyline is a philosophy 
and technique that doesn’t pit the needs of 
farmers against environmentalists trying to 
protect wildlife and fish habitat, and with 
carbon sequestering techniques used, helps to 
address aspects of global warming and climate change.

        Darren Doherty is an Australian Keyline 
Designer, Developer & Manager and Australian 
Approved Keyline Design™ Farm Planning 
Consultant, .  He has designed and developed over 
1100 properties across four continents working 
most recently in Vietnam, on land projects for 
Mars Inc, owners of Seeds of Change. His 
remaining time is spent managing a working 
research & demonstration farm in Southern Victoria, Australia.

        The event takes place on May 3 Thurs , 
7-9m pm, Cal Poly University San Luis Obispo 
Building 8, Room 123  (This is in the 'BRAE' Ag 
Engineering Bldg.) Located on N. Perimeter Drive 
next to the police station (just up the hill from 
the main library) Visitors must purchase a 
parking permit ($4 at entrance) Map of campus can 
be found 
at: 
<http://www.calpoly.edu/cpmaps/>http://www.calpoly.edu/cpmaps/ 
The event is free, no reservations are required.


Event sponsors are Santa Barbara Permaculture 
Network, Yeomans Plow Company, Nutiva Foods, 
Quail Springs Permaculture Farm, Orella Ranch, 
Earthflow Design Works, Island Seed & Feed 
Nursery and Sustainable Agriculture Resource 
Consortium (SARC). For more information, visit 
Upcoming Events at www.sbpermaculture.org, or 
email  margie@sbpermaculture.org, phone, (805) 
962-2571. SLO contact for Lecture,  SARC "Hunter 
Francis" <wfrancis@calpoly.edu>  805756-5086


Keyline Design Workshops in California:

May 4, Fri, One Day Keyline Design Workshop , San 
Luis Obispo, CA, CANCELED NO SIGN UPS

Santa Barbara Permaculture Network
(805) 962-2571
P.O. Box 92156, Santa Barbara, CA 93190
margie@sbpermaculture.com
www.sbpermaculture.org

"We are like trees, we must create new leaves, in 
new directions, in order to grow." - Anonymous

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