Cultivating Health and Connection Through Gardening
Dates: Two Weekends - March 24-26 and April 1-2, 2023
Location: Camp 4, Santa Ynez, CA
-Workshop Limited to 10 Participants-
What is a Resilience Garden?
Resilience gardens work with ecological systems to produce nutritious food, fiber and medicine using local resources and knowledge. They build food security and cultivate health and connection between humans and the land.
During this 5-day training-of-trainers workshop, attendees will be trained in the process of design, implementation, and management of resilience gardens. Participants will come away with a deeper understanding of the ecological principles and related tools and techniques on how to apply them. The intention is to prepare participants to be ready to teach others about this unique way of growing food, fiber, and medicine. Learn from facilitators, Tom Cole and Warren Brush, who are bringing forward this collaborative learning platform from their international Permagarden program.
Discover why soil and water health is critical in building resilience
Learn how to design food systems to work with ecological patterns
Integrate traditional tribal knowledge of plant varieties
HOSTED BY WHITE BUFFALO LAND TRUST & THE SANTA YNEZ CHUMASH ENVIRONMENTAL OFFICE
ABOUT OUR FACILITATORS
Thomas Cole has spent more than 25 years in sustainable agriculture, livelihoods, community development and humanitarian response work. Presently based in Santa Barbara, he has many years field experience across Sub-Saharan Africa- with significant time in Mozambique, Uganda and Ethiopia.
His focal areas are in urban agriculture, food production system design, post-conflict recovery, organic horticulture, agricultural extension, permaculture, natural resource management and food security. He spends much of his spare time in these countries climbing the odd mountain and researching succulent plants, primarily aloe, euphorbia and sansevieria.
Warren Brush is a global resilience design consultant, educator, lecturer and storyteller. He has worked for over 30 years in agroecological education and regenerative system design for communities, private and public organizations, households, farms, and conservation properties worldwide. He is co-founder of Quail Springs Permaculture, Wilderness Youth Project, True Nature Design Consulting and is an advising founder of the Permaculture Research Institute of Kenya. Warren was also a member of the USAID’s TOPS team where he helped to develop the Resilience Design Framework and currently working as a consultant for the USAID Food for Peace funded SCALE award.
His efforts with youth globally has spanned working with former child soldiers in West Africa, teaching organic gardening skills with refugee families, inspiring inner-city youth to discover their inherent gifts, to developing unique education programs to inspire nature connection and the expression of their true nature.
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