Toby Hemenway Workshops

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

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.

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.

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.

Visit Meetup - Eastern Pennsylvania Permaculture Guild for more information and to register.