2011, Summer: Herbal Body, Intro Workshop
Special Workshop: Herbal Body Kit
Sunday, August 28 4-7pmJoin us for a fun and relaxing summer evening making homemade, premier-quality body care products. For a sliver of the cost of normal shelf products, we will be creating blends utilizing simple, organic, safe ingredients suited to your own personal skin care needs. You’ll get to take home the products you make, along with the knowledge to keep on making more! You will receive a brief background on creating herbal preparations as well as special backyard herbs suitable for use on your beautiful, glowing body. Most of class is hands-on on crafting products with like-minded participants.Did you know that everything that comes into contact with our skin, such as moisturizers, perfumes, and haircare products gets absorbed into our bodies? Learn to make your own healthy, rejuvenating skin care kit complete with: body balm, masque, scrub, hydrosol, and more!Please come prepared to make and sample our creations.
Introduction to Permaculture
Saturday, August 27 10am-12noon Caitlin Bergman, Instructor $25 Arboretum members/$28 non-members TO REGISTER: 626.821.4623 / jill.berry@arboretum.org Join our exciting, interactive lecture and hands-on demonstrations as we learn how to create a food forest in our own backyard. Have you ever wondered why growing your own
vegetables can be so difficult? Learn to work like nature, not against it. Discover a quickly growing revolution in sustainable gardening where overlooked materials become free resources, yields increase, work is minimized, and the mutual support between people and the local environment is restored. This seminar will give participants an understanding of the key concepts involved in Permaculture and you’ll get to bring home seedballs too! Dress comfortably.
Class will be held at:
The Los Angeles Arboretum & Botanic Garden
301 N Baldwin Ave
Arcadia, CA 91007
Spring 2011 Permaculture Design Course (PDC) –SOLD OUT!
8 Sundays and 2 Saturdays, April-May 2011 8:30am – 6:30pm BONUS: Students attend 2-Day Soil Foodweb Intensive with Dr. Elaine Ingham, PhD (April 16-17), INCLUDED!
COURSE DATES: 8 Sundays and 2 Saturdays, (April: 3, 10, 16, 17, May: 1, 8, 15, 22, 28, 29). 8:30am-6:30pm
TUITION: $1200 ($200 non-refundable deposit due by March 2011. $1,000 tuition due the on or before the first day of class.) Includes bonus 2-day Soil Foodweb Instensive with Dr. Elaine Ingham. Also includes catered lunch, tea, and snacks.
Soil Foodweb Intensive with Dr. Elaine Ingham
Whether you’re growing in planters or backyards, understanding the Soil Foodweb is a critical component to unlocking the yield barrier, allowing your gardens to thrive beautifully, while eliminating disease and pests.
Do you know the optimum bacteria: fungi ratio for YOUR plants? Every plant is different.
Introduction to Permaculture
Feb. 27, 2011 9:30 am-12:30pm $25/members $28/non-members Los Angeles Arboretum & Botanic Garden To REGISTER: Please call: (626) 821-4624 or email jill.berry@arboretum.orgCreate a layered food forest in your own backyard by working with nature, not against it. Discover a growing revolution in sustainable gardening where overlooked materials become free resources, yields increase, work is minimized, and the mutual support between people and the local environment is restored.
Participants will gain an understanding of the basic concepts in permaculture. Ecological solutions such as composting in place and soil-contouring to conveniently replenish nutrients and reduce irrigation will be covered.
We’ll also do some hands-on permaculture gardening as we tour the Permasphere and learn the ins and outs of the fascinating practices and easy annual maintenance involved in this kind of garden. Be sure to bring water, gloves, and a hat!
• Caitlin is a Certified Permaculture Designer & Educator, holds a degree in Botany, and is a Soil Foodweb Advisor. She has also served as the Arboretum’s Permaculture Garden Curator.
Fall 2010 Permaculture Design Course (PDC) –SOLD OUT!
This course is fun and applicable real world experience, giving participants a solid foundation in permaculture design. Our work changes lives as it changes the Earth.
An environment of support and unity between classmates is fostered, which will enable collaboration in design projects and a strong network of fellow designers.
COURSE FEE: $200 non-refundable holds deposit due by September 13th deducted from $1200 tuition. Be sure to sign up early as course is limited to 30 registrants.
Instructors:
To Register please call: 626.821.4624
Joshua Tree Yin-Style Introduction to Permaculture
Saturday, June 26, 2010
Enjoy a weekend in the heat and under the stars while we gather in and look around to see how we can transform even the desert with techniques utilized in permaculture. Not only will we turn out to see what nature is doing, but of equal importance will we look at each other as both community and individual.
How can we bring permaculture into everything? Find out on 6/26.
Please contact 626.278.9299 for more details. Limited seating.
Rain and Greywater Harvesting Workshop
Saturday, May 22, 2010; 10am – 12pm$22 members/$25 non-members
Solve your thirsty yard’s needs through passive resources like rain, runoff, and recycled domestic tap. Water is becoming more precious. Design your surroundings utilizing concepts in permaculture and reap the benefits for years to come. We’ll cover simple, sustainable methods to store water right where you want it so it’s available through the seasons. All techniques utilize materials on hand and simple installation methods.
SayPermaculture! Unveils THE PERMASPERHE @ LA Garden Show
April 30 to May 2 The Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic GardenSaturday, 2pm: Caitlin Bergman, Permaculturist at The Arboretum
Enter the Permasphere: Portal to Permaculture / Ayres Hall
Come drink from an oasis of possibilities that looks at nature through the lens of a global revolution in sustainability. With innovative landscape design and the nourishing of resilient ecosystems in our own backyards, difficulties become opportunities and scarcity blossoms into abundance. Create harmonious habitats that are productive gardens teaming with lush soil –“food forests” rich in fruit trees, fragrant herbs, shrubs, vegetables, vines, and flowers. Caitlin is a Certified Permaculture Designer, consultant and educator, and a horticulturist and permaculturist at The Arboretum.
Special tours of Permasphere, a new pilot garden project
Permasphere, a cool new pilot project demonstrating the principles and practices of permaculture, will be opened to the public for the first time for guided tours during the LA Garden Show, April 30 to May 2 at the Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic Garden.
Friday, April 30
11:00am; 1:00pm; 2:00pm
Saturday, May 1
10:30am; 11:30am; 1:30pm; 3pm
Sunday, May 2
11:30am; 2pm; 3pm
What’s permaculture?
It’s sustainable land use design that harmoniously blends land and people. The word permaculture was coined from “permanent,” as in sustainable or long lasting, and “culture,” as in both people culture and agriculture. The goal is to establish and nourish diverse, productive and resilient ecosystems that, like those found in nature, thrive on their own.
Permasphere presents an oasis of possibilities by looking at nature in a wildly new way. Jump through lily pads and enter the portal of paperbark, bamboo and giant Burmese honeysuckle. Explore winding pathways through a food forest bursting with fruits, flowers, roots, fragrant herbs, vegetables, vines, and fertilizing shrubs. All this sustained with rain water.
The pilot project is a work-in-progress by Caitlin Bergman, Arboretum staff and Leigh Adams and Ray Cerino, volunteers.
Topanga Earth Day- SayPermaculture! Workshop
Saturday, April 17 1:30 pmhttp://www.topangaearthday.org/Guest%20Speaker.html
Pasadena City College SP Permaculture Garden Unveils
Tuesday, April 6, 2010 Noon-2pm
Noon -1 pm Calloway Plaza (in front of Shatford library)
-Welcome by Associated Student representative Jaime Hammond
-Dr. Jacobs, vice president to introduce Mayor Bogaard
-Mayor Bogaard, opening remarks
-Dr. Bradbury-Huang, President of PCC board of trustees to present garden
sign to Allen Dooley
-African story, Baba the story teller
-Iranian dance by Robyn Friend
-Professor Griffith, architect program
-Song by Jared Burton
-Closing by Seeds of Change President Brett Shears
-Zeke the Sheik and Captain Sunshine
1 -2 pm
Reception at Circadian
Introduction to Permaculture (Part 2)
Sunday, March 7, 2010 9:30am-12:30pm $22 members/$25 non-membersJoin our exciting, interactive lecture and hands-on demonstrations as we continue learning how to create a sustainable food forest in our own backyard. We will cover the real things you need to know to get your permaculture garden up and running including: permaculture tricks of the trade, edible plants, soil contouring, design, as well as how to use widely available, overlooked resources as the means to ecological solutions, garden stability, and abundant productivity. Be sure to bring your gloves. Newcomers welcome!
Please call 626.821.4623 to reserve your spot. The Arboretum 301 N Baldwin Ave, Arcadia, CA 91007Valentines’ Day Mushroom Fair
Sunday, February 14 10am – 4pmBring your Valentine and come check out the 26th Annual Mushroom Fair, hosted by our good friends the Los Angeles Mycological Society (LAMS). But wait– Not only will you get to learn how to grow mushrooms and see a fantastic collection on display, our Valentine, Author and Mycologist Paul Stamets will be here in person giving a lecture on “How Mushrooms Can Save the Planet” at 2 pm.
If you happen to already have an engagement that doesn’t happen to involve mushrooms on Valentines’ Day, be sure to catch up with LAMS for one or two of their Valentine Mushroom Forays on Friday and Saturday morning at 9am.
Permaculture Workshop: Lasagna Mulching & Seedballing
Saturday, January 30, 2010 10am-1pm $22 members/$25 non-members;Whether you’re smiling at the title or find yourself intrigued, be sure to clear your schedule for this workshop! You’ll be glad you did as you come away with two incredibly productive and versatile techniques to use everywhere imaginable. From creating natural raised beds just outside your door to covering the back forty, sheet mulch and seed balls are all you need to bring to life extremely beautiful, low-maintenance, low-cost gardens. Using what you have on hand or can source locally is true sustainable gardening. Please bring gloves, water for drinking, and seeds to create one-of-a-kind seedballs, with an emphasis on edibles and medicinals. Cover crop seeds will be supplied.
Instructor Caitlin Bergman is both a certified permaculture designer and a garden curator at The Arboretum.
Please call 626.821.4623 to reserve your spot.
The Arboretum 301 N Baldwin Ave, Arcadia, CA 91007 Meet in the Rotunda. Workshop will be held outside the Propagation Nursery.Permaculture Lecture, Pasadena City College
Wednesday, January 20, 2010 4:30pm Room E220Welcome as we go through an introductory 1-hr talk about permaculture to educate and bring support to PCC’s growing sustainability movement.
Learn about PCC’s own permaculture garden brought to you by Prof. Ling O’Connor, donations from students and faculty, design by SayPermaculture! Please join us for this talk and then in the garden as we break ground at the end of the month.
