Community Calendar

The Co-op is hosting a gardening discussion:

Thursday, March 11 from 6:30pm to 8:30pm
in the Martin Luther King Jr. auditorium
of the main Santa Monica Public Library.

Garden Event - for apartment dwellers and homeowners alike. Learn different techniques for sustainable gardening, and growing your own food! Admission is free!

About the Speakers
Margaret Oakley plants, cultivates and sustains edible and native gardens, drawing from permaculture, biointensive and biodynamic growing methods. These approaches to land use promote long-term sustainability and strive to mimic natural systems. Dinner Table Gardening creates beautiful living spaces that nourish people and celebrate nature.
Margaret Oakley
www.dinnertablegardening.com/

Darren Butler is a Consulting Arborist, Ecological Landscape Designer, and Landscape Consultant. He teaches and speaks frequently throughout California at conferences and events. From 2007 through 2009 he served on statewide Advisory and Steering Committees for all Master Gardener programs in California, influencing the outreach efforts of 4,500 Master Gardeners and the many California residents they serve each year. He has appeared on several episodes of "Weekend Gardening" for a large international television audience as an expert horticulturist and landscaper, on NPR radio, in newspapers, and in other national and local media. He has taught dozens of courses and workshops to thousands of students on gardening, horticulture, sustainability, permaculture, design, landscaping, irrigation, and related topics in a wide variety of venues. He works as a consultant and designer for a variety of clients from celebrities and nonprofit organizations to extraordinary everyday citizens, and volunteers hundreds of hours per year primarily to promote sustainable practices and to help low-income people grow and eat more nutritious food. His many landscape-related certifications and licenses include ISA Certified Arborist and Permaculture Design Certificate.
Darren Butler
darren@pobox.com
(818) 271-0963
www.EcoWorkshops.com