2011 Fall: Garden Like the Forest with Dave Jacke
Public Talk- Gardening Like the Forest: Home-Scale Ecological Food Production
Friday, Oct. 7th, 7-9 pm
$20 members / $25 non-members
Los Angeles Arboretum & Botanic Garden
301 N Baldwin Ave
Arcadia, CA 91007
This is the introduction to a 2-day Workshop, Oct. 8-9 (see details below)
BONUS: Fall 2011 Arboretum Permaculture Design Course Students take this course FREE!
Healthy forests maintain, fertilize, and renew themselves, naturally. Wouldn’t you like to grow an abundant food-producing ecosystem like this in your back yard? You can! Edible forest gardens mimic the structure and function of natural forests through all their stages of developmentwhile growing food, fuel, fiber, fodder, fertilizers, farmaceuticals, and fun. We can meet our own needs and regenerate healthy ecosystems at the same time!
This talk introduces the vision of forest gardening, some scientific background, a few living examples, and a sampling of perennial edibles you can use in your own garden. We’ll also touch on ecological principles that lie at the core of forest garden design, and apply equally well to how we might design human social systems.
Workshop- Gardening Like the Forest: Steps To Ecological Gardening
Saturday, October 8th, 8:30-5:00
Sunday, October 9th, 8:30-3:30
$195 includes Public Talk (10/7)
Los Angeles Arboretum & Botanic Garden
301 N Baldwin Ave
Arcadia, CA 91007
BONUS: Fall 2011 Arboretum Permaculture Design Course Students take this course FREE!
Ecosystem agriculture attempts to mimic the structure and function of natural communities in food-producing ecologies. This workshop explores the vision, theory, design, and practice of ecosystem agriculture. Lectures, field observations, and experiential classes will reveal the nature of ecosystem architecture, social structure, underground economics, and succession. Participants will draw conclusions from these experiences, developing practical design principles, practices, patterns, and processes for garden design and management. You will leave this workshop with an increased ability to design your own backyard food-producing ecosystems. The cost of the weekend workshop includes the Friday night lecture, which will lay critical groundwork for these two days.
Dave Jacke, primary author of the award winning two-volume book Edible Forest Gardens, has studied ecology and design since the 1970s, and has run his own design firm—Dynamics Ecological Design—since 1984. An engaging and passionate teacher of ecological design and permaculture, Dave has designed, built, and planted landscapes, homes, farms, and communities in the many parts of the United States, as well as overseas. A co-founder of Land Trust at Gap Mountain in Jaffrey, NH, he homesteaded there for a number of years. Dave holds a B.A. in Environmental Studies from Simon’s Rock College and a M.A. in Landscape Design from the Conway School of Landscape Design.