The EcoCalendar is a comprehensive listing of Bay Area environmental and social justice classes, workshops, exhibits, tours, films, and events. To receive a bi-weekly email version of the Eco-Calendar, send a note to calendar@ecologycenter.org.
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| Saturday, August 21, 2010 |
| Fruit Tree Guilds and Food Forests |
Learn how to create a food forest in your yard. Fruit tree guilds have a central element (fruit tree or nut tree), mulch plants, nitrogen fixer, nutrient/dynamic accumulators, insectaries for beneficial insects, vine layer, mushrooms and the soil food web. The fruit tree guild is a way of blending certain categories like edible, ornamental, artistic and functional. The food forest is on a larger scale. There are seven layers of the food forest; the canopy layer, the understory, the shrub layer, the herb layer, the ground cover layer, the vine layer and the root layer. Come see how you can put these in action in your yard at this summertime workshop. Taught by Christopher Shein. Please specify when registering if ASL interpretation is requested, (at least 10 working days in advance).
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10am - 1pm. |
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EcoHouse, 1305 Hopkins St., (enter via garden entrance on Peralta), Berkeley. |
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$25 general, $20 EC members, no one turned away for lack of funds. |
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510-548-2220 x239, register@ecologycenter.org. |
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Wheelchair accessible. |
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