Locations for the 2015 Permaculture Design Course
In order to create the opportunity for participants to learn from the San Luis Obispo County Community and Land, each Saturday Session will be hosted at a different site around the county. Effort has been made to pair each unique location with the topic of that day's class.
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- Session 2 - Design Basics: Methods, Applications, Patterns, Zones, Elements
Date: TBA
Location: Kathryn Santoyo’s Home & Gardens
Date: TBA
Location: Kathryn Santoyo’s Home & Gardens
Description: Kathryn's upwardly mobile home is located on a private cattle ranch in the limestone hills of Arroyo Grande. When she first arrived at the approximately 3/4 acre site in the fall of 2004, it was completely barren, except for a patch of chaparral and oak woodland in a steep corner of the lot and, had been used as a dump site for tons of asphalt and sand years before. She brought in truckloads of woodchips, mushroom compost and other local organic matter to boost soil fertility and, according to a design by Larry Santoyo, an orchard was laid out on contour with urbanite terraces and, a front garden with water-harvesting spiral fractal beds was built as well. The site features greywater gardens, extensive use of recycled/repurposed materials (such as the carport chicken coop) and an evolving palette of edible and useful plants suited to drought conditions.
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Date: TBA Location: Central Coast Salmon Enhancement (CCSE); 229 Stanley Avenue; Arroyo Grande, CA 93420; Phone: (805) 473-8221 Description: CCSE ( http://www.centralcoastsalmon.com/ ) is committed in helping our community to strengthen, protect and understand our watersheds and their fisheries. We believe through education and engagement, we can ensure that our natural resources continue to support the ecological, recreational and economic needs of our community. CCSE seeks viable solutions for maintaining healthy fish, healthy watersheds and healthy communities.
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Date: TBA Location: Centrally Grown; 7432 Exotic Garden Drive; Cambria, CA 93428 Description: Centrally Grown ( http://centrallygrown.com/ ) is a neighborhood of sustainably-conscious spaces- a market, a restaurant, and a garden built on the philosophy that healthy people build healthy communities.
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Date: TBA Location: Passive Solar, Straw-Bale Home of Ken Haggard and Polly Cooper and their San Luis Obispo Sustainability Group office, 16550 Oracle Oak Way, Santa Margarita, CA, 93453; 805-438-4452 Description: Ken Haggard and Polly Cooper are licensed architects, educators, and solar pioneers who have designed more than 300 buildings and seen more than 200 built. Ken and Polly were awarded the American Solar Energy Society Passive Solar Pioneer Award in 1996. They have been leaders in both passive solar architecture and the rediscovery of straw bale building.
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Date: TBA Location: “A Place to Grow” Business Office and Fabrication Facility; 445 B Prado Road, San Luis Obispo, CA, 93401; 805-704-1155 Description: “A Place to Grow” ( http://recycledgreenhouses.com/about-us ) is an environmentally friendly company, owned and operated by the husband and wife team- Sean and Dana O’Brien, that creates greenhouses, and other unique outdoor spaces out of recycled and reclaimed materials, keeping these materials out of the landfill and re-purposing them into functional art. Each outdoor structure is as unique as the reclaimed materials used to build it.
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- Session 7 - Technologies: Appropriate Technology, Resource Reuse & ReSkilling
Date: TBA
Location: Home of Karyn & Rob Kimmel and their Tread Lightly Farm, 16834 Walnut Avenue, in Garden Farms; Atascadero; CA 93422
Date: TBA
Location: Home of Karyn & Rob Kimmel and their Tread Lightly Farm, 16834 Walnut Avenue, in Garden Farms; Atascadero; CA 93422
Description: Rob and Karyn Kimmell raise their own fresh eggs, honey, herbs, heirloom vegetables, fruit, and nuts. Known as Tread Lightly Farm, their less-than-an-acre plot is based on permaculture principles that work with nature. Rob is also extensively involved with feral bee rescue and removal, keeps several hives behind his home, builds custom top-bar hives and helps other sustainable backyard beekeepers get started with bees.
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Date: TBA Location: Oak Creek Commons Cohousing Community; 635 Nicklaus St; Paso Robles, CA 93446; 805-591-9646 Description: Oak Creek Commons ( http://www.oakcreekcommons.org/ ) is a family-friendly cohousing neighborhood in Paso Robles, California that supports community living and respects the environment. Cohousing communities are small-scale neighborhoods in which the residents play an active part in the creation, design and operation of the neighborhood. People choose this lifestyle to have ongoing supportive relationships with their neighbors and to partake in the benefits of shared resources while enjoying the privacy of their own homes.
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Date: TBA Location: San Luis Obispo Grange Hall; 2880 Broad Street, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401; (805) 543-0639 Description: The San Luis Obispo (SLO) Grange Hall is a grass-roots, community service organization that supports and advocates for a healthy community, family farms, local economies, cultural diversity, public education, the arts, and a variety of charitable causes. For example, the SLO Grange Hall supports the work of the SLO Farmer’s Market, Slow Money, Seed Exchange, Hope Dance Films, and Permaculture Guild.
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- Session 10 - Completion: Final Project Design Presentations & Celebration
Date: TBA
Location: San Luis Obispo Grange Hall; 2880 Broad Street, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401; (805) 543-0639
Date: TBA
Location: San Luis Obispo Grange Hall; 2880 Broad Street, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401; (805) 543-0639
