The Eastern PA Permaculture Guild and The Delaware Center for Horticulture present TWO workshops by Toby Hemenway, author of the classic Permaculture book, "Gaia's Garden."

"Gaia's Garden is simply the best permaculture book ever written, and is in the running for best gardening book ever written. No one should be without it."

—Sharon Astyk, author of Depletion and Abundance: Life on the New Home Front
Here is what other reviewers have to say about Gaia's Garden (now in it's second edition).

Participants may take one or both workshops.

Public:
$35/individual workshop
$60 for both

Members of the Eastern PA Permaculture Guild (EPPG) or Delaware Horticulture Center (DHC):
$30/individual workshop
$50 for both

Meals will be available for an additional $10 (details below).

Workshop Descriptions:
Permaculture and Garden Design for Small Yards: - 10:00AM - 1:00PM
Permaculture, an approach to ecological design, helps us create life-filled gardens that not only provide food for people, but habitat for wildlife, carbon sequestering, biodiversity, natural soil building, beauty and tranquility, and a host of other benefits. This workshop will cover the basics of permaculture design, and will give you plenty of ideas and practical tools specifically for urban and suburban yards. You'll learn how to combine food and habitat plants, water harvesting, energy-reducing landscape and building techniques, and much more to create a backyard ecological paradise. a many-layered garden of fruit and nut trees, perennial and annual vegetables, flowers, and wildlife habitat. The class will give you both the theory behind ecological garden design and as well as practical information, including which plants to use, where to start, and what to expect as your food forest grows.

Designing the Urban Food Forest: - 2:00PM - 5:00PM
How does permaculture apply to urban and suburban places? Though land may be limited, cities are rich in other resources, especially social capital. This workshop will show how to find, harvest, and integrate the many resources in our cities in sustainable ways, including getting access to land for gardening, creating business guilds and networks, learning the pattern language of the city, creating public space in neighborhoods, and building urban ecovillages. We will focus on the urban forest, and the design of edible food forests for city and suburban lots.

Meals:
$10/person

• Everything will come directly from farmers, from within 50 miles and be seasonal, chemical free and cruelty-free to the greatest extent possible.
  
• The meal will be vegetarian, but not necessarily vegan (it may contain egg &/or cheese), and beverages (coffee, tea, water, etc.) will be provided.
  

Participants can pay by credit card or with a Paypal account:

AM workshop; regular non- member price = $35
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PM workshop regular non-member price = $35
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BOTH workshop 9/26 regular price = $60
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EPPG/DCH MEMBER am workshop = $30
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EPPG/DCH MEMBER pm workshop = $30
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EPPG/DCH MEMBER BOTH workshops = $50
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LUNCH OPTION= $10
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Refunds will be issued through September 5th, 2010.

Please see our Sept. 27 event page for an opportunity to attend a presentation and book signing by Toby Hemenway @ Swarthmore College!

Toby Hemenway's BIO:
Toby Hemenway is the author of the first major North American book on permaculture, Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture, and an adjunct professor at Portland State University. He is also Scholar in Residence at Pacific University.
After obtaining a degree in biology from Tufts University, Toby worked for many years as a researcher in genetics and immunology, first in academic laboratories including Harvard and the University of Washington in Seattle, and then at Immunex, a major medical biotech company. At about the time he was growing dissatisfied with the direction biotechnology was taking, he discovered permaculture, a design approach based on ecological principles that creates sustainable landscapes, homes, and workplaces. A career change followed, and Toby and his wife spent ten years creating a rural permaculture site in southern Oregon. He was associate editor of Permaculture Activist, a journal of ecological design and sustainable culture, from 1999 to 2004. His current project is developing urban sustainability resources in Portland, Oregon, where he now lives. He teaches permaculture and consults and lectures on ecological design throughout the country. His writing has appeared in magazines such as Whole Earth Review, Natural Home, and Kitchen Gardener. He is available for workshops, lectures, and consulting on a wide variety of topics related to permaculture, ecological design, Peak Oil, local food systems, and other subjects.