Seminar Dates: September 18, 2024 9:45 AM
Seminar Cost: $45 Register for Seminar
Seminar Description:
Permaculture landscape design, heralding a sustainable future, embrace a no-till ethos, preserving soil integrity and fostering ecological balance. This design yields multifaceted environmental benefits, from biodiversity promotion to carbon sequestration and water conservation. Tailored to diverse climates, permaculture exemplars include, colorful drought tolerant plants, nutritional edibles, and an environment for wildlife. Yet, challenges arise when chemicals infiltrate low-irrigation zones, leading to plant harm known as phytotoxicities. Combatting this, cultural practice solutions ensuring these landscapes thrive with improving the environment, embracing harmony between human necessities and nature.
Learning Objectives:
1. How this design will make landscapes sustainable
2. Healing the earth
3. What to do to avoid phytotoxicities
Dane Shota
Dane S. Shota has over 20 years experience at Orange County Nursery Inc. dealing with bare root, container and box trees involved interacting with orchards, landscape architect and contractors and the nursery industry. Being an in-house Certified Arborist, his job was to diagnose why viable trees die after being planted. Since most of the problems is in the soil and cultural practices, most of his emphasis has been ways of dealing with soil with cutting edge technology and troubleshooting in the landscape in order to show clients results. Cal Poly Pomona, Horticulture Graduate, minor in business and interned at Monrovia Nursery.
