Tour: Water Harvesting in a Permaculture Paradise

Saturday, September 11th, 10am-4pm, $45

Please register by visiting www.dailyacts.org or calling 707.789.9664

In this tour we will visit two incredible sites and inspiring, visionary leaders. We’ll demonstrate how soil building, earthworks, water harvesting and landscape design are all critical components of water conservation. First, we’ll visit The Permaculture Neighborhood Center. We’ll meet Erik Ohlsen of Permaculture Artisans, a member of the Daily Acts Homegrown Guild, who rapidly transformed what was once an asphalt and gravel lot into an eco-oasis. Erik will walk us through this abundantly budding food forest featuring water–harvesting systems that recharge aquifers and store water in the landscape. The tour will highlight a variety of techniques, including terraces, seasonal pools, ponds, swales, slow moving waterways, and much more. These terra-forming techniques also build topsoil, stop erosion and catch sediment before it moves downstream.

Next we’ll visit the inspiring Occidental Arts & Ecology Center, an 80-acre nonprofit education center, organic farm & nursery, and water institute. Brock Dolman, one of the most well respected teachers of watershed health and hydro-literacy, will amaze us with his fountain of knowledge. We will explore gardens containing over 3,000 varieties of heirloom annuals and 1,000 varieties of edible, medicinal, and ornamental perennials.

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