Albany, NY-Urban Permaculture Workshop - June 5-7

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*Cracking the Pavement: Ecological Design for Urban Homesteads
*June 5-7, 2009

164 Chestnut Street, Albany, NY
with Dave Jacke, Scott Kellogg and Keith Zaltzberg
workshop fee $150-200 sliding scale

This weekend workshop offers urban dwellers a survey of ecological design, direct experience with home-scale permaculture design, as well as sharing creative ideas for urban homesteading.

Learn how to grow food in small spaces while healing damaged soils, collect wasted resources for productive reuse, and create beautiful outdoor living rooms at the same time!

Participants will engage with issues of urban sustainability through observation, discussion, design exercises, and hands-on implementation of an ecological design in a city garden. Join us for two days and go home with practical possibilities and a sense of how to embody them on your own site.

Lead instructor Dave Jacke is the primary author of the award-winning two-volume book "Edible Forest Gardens" and a student and practitioner of ecological design for more than two decades.

Scott Kellogg is co-author of "Toolbox for Sustainable City Living: A Do-it-Ourselves Guide". Scott is the primary instructor for R.U.S.T. - The Radical Urban Sustainability Training, an intensive weekend workshop in urban ecological survival skills.

Keith Zaltzberg, a founding member of the Regenerative Design Group in Greenfield, MA, is an energetic ecological designer who draws on his experiences as an organic farmer and Permaculture teacher to create beautiful and productive landscapes.

For more information or to register contact:
Alice Oldfather
aliceoldfather@gmail.com
518.366.1711