Urban Agriculture Workshop

Saturday, March 13

Detroit Public Library Main

3:00-4:00 p.m.

Presented by The Greening of Detroit

http://www.greeningofdetroit.com/

"Yoking the Local Food Movement to Small Scale Meat Producers: Challenges in Translating Urban-Rural Identities"

The Year of the Environment lecture series featuring Scout Calvert (Library and Information Science)

Friday, March 12, 12:30pm in Room 2339, Faculty/Adminstration Building, Wayne State University, Detroit. 

Flyer attached here

Permaculture is an efficient and sustainable system of agriculture.  Crops are grown in clusters, often mixed together or placed in terraces one above the other. By carefully selecting the plants and their placement, the waste from one becomes the fertilizer for the next.

Permaculture not only provides high yields from smaller plots, it is good for renovating land that has been neglected or overfarmed.

Permaculture exists in force in South Africa. The Tlholego Ecovillage is situated on 120ha (300 acres) of land outside Rustenburg in the Northwest Province of South Africa.  Attached directly below is a Powerpoint presentation detailing the vertical garden collaborative of Lift Africa Technologies and the communities of Jane Furse and Orange Farm.

Vertical Garden PPT