This outstanding day starts full-on with Brock Dolman at the Occidental Arts & Ecology Center, an amazing 80-acre nonprofit organizing and education center, organic farm and home to the intentional community, Sowing Circle.
Into its second decade, this organization has consistently addressed environmental, social and economic crises with innovative, practical solutions, style and beauty. Witty and reverent, Brock Dolman, Director of OAEC’s Permaculture, Basins of Relations, and Wildlands Biodiversity Programs, will satiate you with his wealth of knowledge and pepperings of natural history, wildlife biology, native California botany, watershed ecology, habitat restoration and regenerative human settlement design. We’ll meander through gardens containing over 3,000 varieties of heirloom annuals and 1,000 varieties of edible, medicinal and ornamental perennials.
Having become more literate with the landscape, we’ll head to Sunrise Ridge Gardens where Erik Ohlsen will guide us through this 7-acre garden sanctuary. Erik designed it to emphasize diversity with energy efficiency and showcase heirloom fruit, berries, and lavender. Beauty, functionally and good stewardship underlie the carefully arranged swales and channels that minimize erosion and maximize percolation of runoff into the ground. Erik Ohlsen, owner of Permaculture Earth Artisans, is a Permaculture designer, teacher and community organizer.
At the end of the day, you’ll be full up with the delightful possibilities for life in flow with nature.
Location:
Occidental Arts and Ecology Center (OAEC)
15290 Coleman Valley Road
Occidental, CA
This outstanding day starts full-on with Brock Dolman at the Occidental Arts & Ecology Center, an amazing 80-acre nonprofit organizing and education center, organic farm and home to the intentional community, Sowing Circle.
