This looks like a really great local event for permaculture fans!
Sponsored by Permaculture Across Borders, Tri-State Food Not Lawns, and our friends at Neighborhood Energy Network.
Celebrate with us as we launch Permaculture Across Borders, a globally-focused permaculture non-profit. PAB’s aim is to provide technical expertise to further the practice of sustainable and integrated practices that create permanent abundance. We commit to using local knowledge, to connecting people to resources, and to training teachers and leaders of regenerative development in their communities and countries. We commit to listening to and giving you a place to share your knowledge.
Presentation by Geoff and Nadia Lawton on Greening the Jordan Desert
Introduction to Permaculture Across Borders
Sunday, May 6, 2007 11 am-1 pm6th Street Community Center
638 East 6th Street (between Avenues B and C)Donation requested (funds raised will be matched up to $1,000 to support the Jordan Permaculture Project)
contact: Janice Smart smartjuanita@earthlink.net
He concluded that with the widespread use of conventional
agriculture and the mechanisation of our food production, 70% of the world’s soils have been destroyed and 40% of our water has been contaminated.
In the spring they are broken down enough that we just turn them in with a spade or a trowel.
Never wanting to run from challenge however this study set about trying to get a realistic
picture of what it means to be a smallholder today.