Offered: March 14th, 2009
Location: Malibu Creek SP, Malibu, CA
Instructors: Jim Lowery, Mary E. Brooks
In our study of wilderness skills, we have learned a lot from the “plant people” as well as the native peoples who used them for shelter, food, clothing, tools and medicine. When you make baskets, bows, arrows, rope, smudges and firemaking apparatus among many other things from plants, you begin to know not only their names, but their personality and how and where they grow.
In this one-day class, you will get to know intimately the local plants with multiple uses as you work on projects including making cordage and processing and preparing edible plants. This class combines the perspective of the survivalist with that of the ethnobotanist. A thorough written summary of local plant uses which we have prepared is included.
CommonVision's Fruit Tree Tour Planting Party & Fundraiser
Offered: March 15th, 2009 9-4pm
Location: Westside Permaculture Farm, Malibu, CA
Instructors: Joan Stevens, Taylor Arneson, Sean Jennings and special guests
Edible Forest Gardening is the conscious application of the principles of ecology to the design of home scale gardens that mimic forest ecosystem structure and function, but grow food, fuel, fiber, fodder fertilizer, "farmaceuticals," and fun.
This workshop will offer an overview exploration of forest ecology, site analysis and assessment, the design process, and interaction with some of the lesser known plants that can comprise 'perennial polycultures' in forested biomes. This workshop is open to all.
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