An Evening with Toby Hemenway, author of Gaia's Garden

Don't miss this opportunity to hear the guru of permaculture
and author of Gaia's Garden speak on "Turning Your Yard into a Permaculture Paradise".

Tickets: $22 through Eventbrite- click here or $25 at the door. A book signing begins at 5:30pm. (Discount for Foothill students - see Eventbrite link)

Toby Hemenway is the author of Gaia’s Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture, which was awarded the Nautilus Gold Medal in 2011, was named by the Washington Post as one of the ten best gardening books of 2010, and for the last eight years has been the best-selling permaculture book in the world. Toby has been Scholar-in-Residence at Pacific University, an adjunct professor at Portland State University, and has taught over sixty 72-hour permaculture design courses. He has presented lectures and workshops at major sustainability conferences such as Bioneers, SolFest, and EcoFarm, and at Duke University, Tufts University, University of Minnesota, University of Delaware and many other educational venues. His writing has appeared in magazines such as Natural Home, Whole Earth Review, and American Gardener. He has contributed book chapters for WorldWatch Institute and to several publications on ecological design. He moved to Portland, Oregon in 2004, and spent six years developing urban sustainability resources there. Toby and his wife now live in Sebastopol, California.

This event is sponsored by the Environmental Horticulture and Design Program at Foothill College, and Common Ground Organic Garden Supply and Education Center.