Charlotte Anthony Victory Gardens for All
Charlotte has been gardening and farming for 50 years. She took her PDC at the time of Hurricane Katrina (2005) and realized that permaculture was the language for what she had been doing for most of her life -- observing the earth, the weather and plants and adjusting what she did accordingly. Lifelong she has had a desire to serve and after learning about permaculture felt that permaculture had the answers for the most of the world’s problems. She and her team helped create more than 650 gardens in people’s yards with a pay it forward system. Permaculture was used to enhance the soil and great yields with minimum imputs were gotten in these first year gardens, especially with microbe innoculations. She helped people create food forests in Oregon and California. She was on the board of the Northwest Permaculture Association and helped put on the Northwest Permaculture Convergence, twice.
Workshop:
Living In Our Ecosystem
When I heard Toby Hemenway's video Why Agriculture Can Never Be Sustainable, it explained so much to me. As a multigenerational farmer, I imbibed the lessons of living in the ecosystem early in my life. I have participated in community with plants, soil biology, animals etc. I did not really understand until this video what is blocking most people from participating in our ecosystem. It is simply that we live in a culture where our minds are our masters, and one thing our minds seem to dictate is that we are outside of nature, separate from her and need to control her. Our minds could be very good servants for a life in which we all participate together in creating opportunity for functioning ecosystems.
At this point in time, it is crucial that we learn how to work with what I call the community of all beings to live in and restore our ecosystems.
This workshop is about specific techniques to get connected in our gardening and in our lives in general with nature.