Permaculture: Creating A Food Forest

From TreeHouse –

Learn how you can turn that lifeless soil into an abundant food forest!

Join Alissa and Jonathan from Festival Beach Food Forest for a presentation about permaculture and how to change a landscape into an abundant food forest. Forest gardening draws on the indigenous wisdom of our ancestors with the primary goal of increasing biodiversity and enriching the soil. Festival Beach Food Forest is a non-profit organization that helps maintain a seven layer food forest, open to all, in the heart of the city. Its mission is to grow edible forest gardens on public lands to nourish, educate and inspire.

Refresh yourself with juice courtesy of JuiceLand while you learn about permaculture!

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About the presenters:

Jonathan serves as the board president of the Festival Beach Food Forest.  He has been involved with the Food Forest for 3 years and assisted in the creation and finalization of the parks improvement agreement with the City of Austin.  He has a Permaculture Design Certificate from PermaEthos, participates in a CSA program, has backyard chickens, and is an aspirational gardener.

Alissa is an aspiring student of permaculture design. She received her Permaculture Design Certificate from the Austin Permaculture Guild and is a second year volunteer at Festival Beach Food Forest. She also studied Regenerative Farm Design at Integrated Acres under industry leading educators Darren and Lisa Doherty. Alissa loves to encourage those around her to reconnect to Mother Nature.