Transition Saint Clair Shores: Permaculture Food Forests

Transition Saint Clair Shores will host its next event on Thursday July 12th, 2012 at 6:30pm at the Lakeshore YMCA in Saint Clair Shores.
Meet in the Basement of the Childcare Center.


It's not the soil itself - it's the soil life that is the most important element. - Geoff Lawton


This 80 minute-long film starts with a class in forest ecology, structure and pattern, with the first 20 minutes or so of the film being Geoff talking in front of a whiteboard to a permaculture course, explaining how forests are layered, and why we need to think of establishing forests in terms of time, looking, as nature does, at the creation of a forest being something that happens through a series of ‘waves’ of plants, with initial short-lived ground covering nitrogen fixers, supported by slightly longer living nitrogen fixing shrubs, making way, over time, for larger trees and then for the final overstorey, the productive trees, whether they be fruit, nut, timber, fibre or whatever.
    
Call Steve Kiluk @ 586-871-2587 for further details.